CENTREBOARD
RECORD ATTENDANCE AT REGATTAS
The 2015 / 2016 year has been very successful for the Centreboard division of RPAYC . We have seen record attendance from our sailors at regattas , National Titles , State Titles and also World Titles .
At home at our Club in Pittwater we have seen the Centreboard division very active each Sunday and generally have 16 Open Optimists , 11 Intermediate Optimists , 8 Green Optimists , 14 Laser 4.7s , 13 Laser Radials , 11 Laser Full Rigs and 7 29ers . That is up to 80 centreboard boats racing each week from RPAYC on Pittwater .
Winter training has seen up to 40 Optimists and Lasers rigging each Sunday morning from 7:30am for various training sessions with both the Club ’ s coaches and private coaches .
All our boat racks are full which shows the enthusiasm that Centreboard is experiencing at present .
Many of our sailors have attended overseas regattas in all classes in such countries as New Zealand , UK , Sri Lanka , Antigua , Italy , to name a few . And we have performed well . At home we have sailors competing in
NSW , QLD , VIC for various regattas .
Let ’ s hope the next twelve months is as good as the last . Following are reports from each of our centreboard classes .
DAVID TAYLOR
REAR COMMODORES
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