Centreboard News
By Dave Taylor & Steve Bryant
NSW YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS – GEORGES RIVER 16FT SKIFF SAILING CLUB
The NSW Youth Championships were held over the October long weekend at Georges River on Botany Bay. The event was for
the youth classes and we had Optimist Green, Optimist Intermediate, Optimist Open, Laser 4.7, Laser Radial and 29er sailors
attending. The first day on the Saturday was abandoned due to a strong westerly breeze that failed to abate. The second day on
the Sunday was delayed slightly waiting for breeze to fill in. Eventually the light norwester disappeared and a 10-12 knot ENE
Seabreeze enabled racing to be completed. On the final day there was another strong westerly breeze and all fleets but Opti
Green and Intermediate left the beach. The wind increased above most fleets’ safe wind levels and many classes only had one
race before AP over A was flown and all racing abandoned again.
In some of the fleets the results were very close with multiple count-backs required to separate placings. Results were:
Opti Green (13 entries)
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Iceberg – William Troop 8th
Opti Intermediate (31 entries)
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Whooshka – Cooper Bellingham 1st
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Silver Arrow – Bayley Taylor 4th (Equal 3rd)
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Niloc – Hugo Butterworth 20th
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Commando – Kye Williams 24th
Opti Open (50 entries)
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The Mighty Muppet – Daniel Links 3rd
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Sketchy – Fletcher Walters 5th (Equal 3rd)
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Optimized 2.0 – Morgan Wells 13th
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Far Out – Logan Cortis 15th
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Need for Speed – Oliver Gordon 16th
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Better Knot – Jono Tuite 19th
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Blossom – Olivia Williams 28th
Laser 4.7 (38 entries)
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Fusion – Boston Cortis 3rd
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Speedy – Nathan Bryant 6th
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Nemisis – Antony Hawke 11th
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On the Gas – Cameron Whiteside 12th
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Whooshka2.0 – Alexander Bijkerk 14th
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TBA – James Derry 17th
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Dream – Charlie Wells 24th
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Hakuna Matata – Tom Skinner 29th
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Free Bird – Charlotte Raftesath 30th
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Lunatack – Morgan Singleton 32nd
Laser Radial (20 entries)
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TBA – Jarrah Sheppard 13th
29er (17 entries)
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Smiling Assassins – Tash Bryant / Annie Wilmot 2nd
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Thurlow Fisher Lawyers – Zac Barnabas / Jesse Dransfield 12th
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Spike – Alister Read / Liam Rodgers 14th
OPTIMIST HONG KONG NATIONAL TITLES
Straight after the NSW Youth regatta, two of our Optimist Open sailors travelled to Hong Kong to compete in the Honk Kong
Nationals. There were many different countries there such as India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Macau, Taipei and China.
There were 90 competitors and several countries used this regatta as part of the selection for their worlds team. The whole
regatta was very light. The following were the results from our RPAYC sailors:•
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Fletcher Walters – 3rd
Daniel Links – 6th
OPTIMIST NEW CALEDONIA NATIONAL TITLES
Jono Tuite travelled to New Caledonia with the Australian Optimist Development Squad to compete in the New Caledonia
Optimist Nationals along with their coach Alison Dale. The first week was spent training against other countries and the second
week was spent racing in the regatta. Jono finished 15th out of 40 Optimists. Well done Jono.