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T
he NSW Youth Championship was
held over the October Long weekend at
Georges River on Botany Bay. The event
was for the youth classes with Optimist
Green, Optimist Intermediate, Optimist
Open, Laser 4.7, Laser Radial and 29er sailors attending.
Racing was abandoned on the first day due to a strong
westerly breeze that failed to abate. Racing was delayed on
day 2 whilst competitors and the OA waited for the wind
to fill in. Eventually the light norwester disappeared and
a 10-12 knot ENE seabreeze enabled racing to proceed.
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 fleet’s safe wind
levels and many classes only had one race before AP over
A was flown and all racing abandoned again.
DAVID TAYLOR
In some of the fleets the results were very close
with multiple countbacks required to separate placings.
Results for RPAYC were:
OPTI GREEN (13 ENTRIES)
Iceberg – William Troop 8th
O P T I I N T E R M E D I AT E ( 3 1 E N T R I E S )
Whooshka – Cooper Bellingham 1st
NSW YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP
Silver Arrow – Bayley Taylor 4th (Equal 3rd)
Niloc – Hugo Butterworth 20th
Commando – Kye Williams 24th
OPTI OPEN (50 ENTRIES)
The Mighty Muppet – Daniel Links 3rd
Sketchy – Fletcher Walters 5th (Equal 3rd)
Optimized 2.0 – Morgan Wells 13th
Far Out – Logan Cortis 15th
On the final
day there was
another strong
westerly breeze
and all fleets, but
Opti Green and
Intermediate, left
the beach.
Need for Speed – Oliver Gordon 16th
Better Knot – Jono Tuite 19th
Blossom – Olivia Williams 28th
LASER 4.7 (38 ENTRIES):
Fusion – Boston Cortis 3rd
Speedy – Nathan Bryant 6th
Nemisis – Antony Hawke 11th
On the Gas – Cameron Whiteside 12th
Whooshka2.0 – Alexander Bijkerk 14th
TBA – James Derry 17th
Dream – Charlie Wells 24th
Hakuna Matata – Tom Skinner 29th
Free Bird – Charlotte Raftesath 30th
Lunatack – Morgan Singleton 32nd
LASER RADIAL (20 ENTRIES)
Jarrah Sheppard 13th
29ER (17 ENTRIES)
Smiling Assassins – Tash Bryant/Annie Wilmot 2nd

Thurlow Fisher Lawyers – Zac Barnabas/
Je sse Dransfield 12th
Spike – Alister Read / Liam Rodgers 14th
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