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The weather was cold – really cold – this past weekend at the Club 420 U.S. Midwinters held at the U.S. Sailing Center in Jansen Beach, Florida, but the competition was hot – really hot. Sailing against stiff competition largely from the U.S. college ranks, Amy DesBrisay and Kate Thomas sailed hard in tough conditions but fell short of their goal of a top 50% of the fleet finish – a result that would have qualified them to sail more 2008 Canadian Olympian Mike Leigh in the Laser class and 2008 Paralympic Gold Medallist Paul Tingley in the 2.4 mR class both sailed to victory in in the Sail Melbourne Regatta in Melbourne, Australia in December and you will find below a link to the Sail Melbourne website with really good video of the final day of racing (along with good Aussie accents). Hosted by Sandringham Yacht Club, Melbourne, Australia, Sail Melbourne officially kicked off the second season of ISAF’s more In January and February of this new year, a contingent of Canadian sailors in various classes will be racing at designated class regattas in Florida with a view to being selected as Canada’s team for the ISAF Youth World Championship. The Youth Worlds will take place in July of this year. The Youth Worlds is ISAF’s longest running event, having been held every year since 1971. Over the past 10 years the Youth Worlds has grown in size and more Amy DesBrisay and Kate Thomas have accepted invitations to join Ontario Sailing’s new Ontario Development Team. This team, comprised of 4 Club 420 crews, 4 Radial sailors, 4 29er crews and 4 Laser full rig sailors will receive coaching through Ontario Sailing at development clinics and some funding for events. Amy and Kate are off to Jansen Beach Florida in February to sail in the Club 420 U.S. Midwinter Championships, the selection regatta for the 2010 Canadian Youth Team. In more Here is a link to a rules quiz…test your knowledge and learn some rules. Do the test once and then do it again every month until the racing season starts next year. By then you will be a rules junkie and a more confident sailor when you are back on the course. http://game.finckh.net/indexe.htm Rob Koci, who was this year’s winner of the Mid Ontario Radial class, spent two years preparing for the World Masters Championships held in Halifax this past September. Rob had set himself a goal of winning the Grand Master Radial Championship – to be the best in the World and recognized as such in Halifax. He threw himself into training and drove all over North America to compete. There was rarely a regatta that our team attended, from Ottawa to more This past weekend, members of the SLSC Race Team, instructors and past instructors took to the usually rough waters off Portsmouth Harbour in Kingston for the end of season grand finally Fall CORK regatta. This year Fall CORK was also Ontario Sailing’s Provincial Championships for Laser, Radial, Club 420, 29er and Optimist classes, capping off the Ontario Sailing 2009 season series. Well, although the competition was great, the winds were not CORKlike and the weekend turned out to be a more |
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