Sailor · 2016–2025

Kent Ryan Costikyan

noroton yacht club 420 Optimist PHRF handicap

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Events: 12
Win rate: 0%
Podium rate: 42%
Typically beats: 77%
Best class ranking: #293

Biggest lift: Bill Nightingale
Longest-running crew: Cole Nightingale
Nemesis: Freddie Parkin
Best day: 14 Aug 2022
Signature result: 2nd of 49

Partnerships · 12 sailors

Cole Nightingale · Cole Nightingale, Kent Ryan Costikyan · 420 6events 0 wins together · 3 podiums · 0% win rate · 4 of 30 races won Beat 73% of the fleet together(+6 vs. without) · best 2nd · Jul 2019 – Jul 2021
Bill Nightingale · William Cole Nightingale · 420, Bemis - Club 420 3events 0 wins together · 1 podiums · 3 events · 3 of 20 races won Beat 91% of the fleet together(+27 vs. without) · best 2nd · Aug 2021 – Aug 2022
Jan Glinski · Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 0 of 10 races won Beat 0% of the fleet together · best 8th · Jun 2025 – Jun 2025
Suzanne Zaleski · Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 0 of 10 races won Beat 0% of the fleet together · best 8th · Jun 2025 – Jun 2025
Waldek Zaleski · Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 0 of 10 races won Beat 0% of the fleet together · best 8th · Jun 2025 – Jun 2025
Patrick Zaleski · Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 0 of 10 races won Beat 0% of the fleet together · best 8th · Jun 2025 – Jun 2025
Peter Hansen · Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 0 of 10 races won Beat 0% of the fleet together · best 8th · Jun 2025 – Jun 2025
John Malloy · Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 0 of 10 races won Beat 0% of the fleet together · best 8th · Jun 2025 – Jun 2025
Will Rains · Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 0 of 10 races won Beat 0% of the fleet together · best 8th · Jun 2025 – Jun 2025
Corey Guilfoyle · Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 0 of 10 races won Beat 0% of the fleet together · best 8th · Jun 2025 – Jun 2025

Lift shows how much better this sailor finishes with that partner aboard.

Rating history

— Helm rating, all classes · - - Crew rating, all classes

Event history · 12

Date	Event	Boat	Class	Role	Finish
23 Jun 2025	2025 Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race Week	Geronimo's Cadillac	PHRF handicap	Tactician	8th / 8
14 Aug 2022	2022 JSA CHAMPIONSHIPS LASER, LASER RADIAL, LASER 4.7, C420 & GIRLS CHAMPS	William Cole Nightingale	420	Crew	2nd / 18
17 Jul 2022	2022 Larchmont Jr Race Week	William Cole Nightingale	420	Crew	4th / 57
8 Aug 2021	2021 Chubb U.S. Junior Championships	William Cole Nightingale	Bemis - Club 420	Crew	4th / 20
12 Jul 2021	2021 Larchmont Junior Race Week	Kent Ryan Costikyan	420	Skipper	3rd / 45
4 Jul 2021	Commodore Law Trophy 2021	Kent Ryan Costikyan	420	Skipper	3rd / 9
30 Jun 2021	JSA Laser Standard and Club 420 Eastern Districts	Cole Nightingale	420	Crew	2nd / 17
5 Aug 2020	Masked Madness Laser & C420 Regatta	Cole Nightingale	420	Crew	6th / 9
5 Aug 2019	2019 JSA CHAMPIONSHIPS - C420, Laser, Laser Radial & Girls Champs	Cole Nightingale	420	Crew	5th / 37
23 Jul 2019	MYC OptiSail Regatta Area C with Green Fleet	Kent Ryan Costikyan	Optimist	Skipper	2nd / 49
2 Jul 2019	C420 & Laser Standard Eastern Districts	Cole Nightingale	420	Crew	6th / 11
15 Oct 2016	2016 Connecticut State Optimist Championship	Sea Surfer	Optimist	Other	43rd / 66

Ratings

Class	Rating	Rank	Impact
All classes Crew	204 provisional	#14846 band 7896–26386	—
420 Crew	246 provisional	#293 band 109–671	+18.4
All classes Helm	220 provisional	#17059 band 8206–32473	—

3 more classes, not yet ranked

420 · Helm · 15 races, 2 events · rating 187
Optimist · Helm · 9 races, 2 events · rating 2
Bemis - Club 420 · Crew · 8 races, 1 event · rating 63

Rank among sailors with a substantial record, all time. In brackets, the ranks this rating cannot be told apart from. Impact is the points of fleet beaten that this sailor adds.

Helm and crew

As helm	4 events	0 wins	beats 76%
As crew	8 events	0 wins	beats 68%

Positions: Tactician (1)

How they race

Closer	+5 pts	last race of an event vs. the rest
Comeback	−26 pts	the race after a bottom-half finish
Consistency	39%	100% = the same result every event
Big fleets	83%	of the fleet beaten
Small fleets	41%	of the fleet beaten

Head to head

Helm	Races	W–L
Caroline Lent	29	29–0
Helena Borcherding	24	17–7
Thomas O'Grady	22	18–4
Tyler Nash	22	8–14
Richard Sykes	22	5–17
Katherine Oliver	21	18–3
Braden Joyce	21	18–3
Merritt Seymour	21	20–1
Brendan O'Connor	18	16–2
Darius Fan	18	15–3
Freddie Parkin	18	3–15
Ian Lent	18	7–11

Most-beaten opponent: Caroline Lent (29–0).

Seasons

Year	Events	Beat
2025	1	0%
2022	2	94%
2021	4	87%
2020	1	38%
2019	3	79%
2016	1	35%

Boats

Cole Nightingale · 420 · 4 events · 2019–2021
William Cole Nightingale · 420, Bemis - Club 420 · 3 events · 2021–2022
Kent Ryan Costikyan · 420, Optimist · 3 events · 2019–2021
Geronimo's Cadillac · PHRF handicap · 1 events · 2025
Sea Surfer · Optimist · 1 events · 2016

Where they race

Darien, CT · 4 events
Greenwich, CT · 2 events
Larchmont, NY · 2 events
Greenwich, CT, USA · 1 events
Milford, CT · 1 events
Marblehead, MA · 1 events

Is this you?

Claim it to merge duplicates and remove results that aren’t yours. Changes apply at the nightly rebuild.

Crew rating across all classes: 204, #14,846.Helm rating across all classes: 220, #17,059. Compiled from public results; not an official ranking.