The Pittwater Regatta

Congratulations go to the following placegetters in the Sailability Pittwater Regatta which was raced over the long weekend here at the club. 

2.4mR
Peter Russell         AUS 1121  1st    
Michael Leydon    AUS 46     2nd 
Mark Durnan        AUS47       3rd 

Liberty
Allan Jones          AUS 1067  1st 
Alyse Saxby        AUS 1213  2nd 
Nick Reed           “Freedom” 3rd 

The NSW Optimist Association ran their Travellers Trophy Series 1 at Georges River Sailing Club over the June long weekend, with invited classes of Laser Radial, Laser 4.7, 29ers, 420, Nacra 15, RS-X and Bic Techno, as well as the popular Optimist fleets.

Racing was held with two course areas for the fleets. Optis, Lasers and 420’s were on Course Area A, and 29ers, Nacra’s and boards were on Course Area B.

The wind was very light for this regatta ranging from 0 to 5 knots for most of the three days. Included abandoned races, timed out sailors, shortened races and races that ended as a driftathon in the tide. RPAYC was well represented in most of the fleets of the Optimist, Lasers, 29ers and Nacra 15’s. Full results can be found at the following link:- http://sailingresults.com.au/ScoreItV2/Public/Templates/Default/index.php?event_id=851

Results for RPAYC were:-

Optimist Intermediate

• Eliott Verhaeghe - = 3^rd

Optimist Open

• Eva Attwood – 5^th
• Markus Sampson – 9^th
• Walter Tuite – 10^th
• Olivia Williams – 11^th
• Albie Brown – 13^th
• Will Troop – 20^th
• Charlie Byford – 29^th
• Kye Williams – 32^nd

Laser 4.7

• Bayley Taylor – 5^th (with 2 race wins)

29er

• Ellis Merrit / Oscar Verity – 3^rd (with 1 race win)

Nacra 15

• Bella Green / Josh Whitten – 4th

Australian Optimist Asians Team

Also, Cooper Bellingham is currently racing in Singapore with the Australian Optimist Asians Team, and they finished 3^rd in the Nationals Teams Racing event. Next they will be racing in the Singapore National Championships starting Wednesday.

Being able to peak in a high performance regatta is every sportsman’s ultimate goal, the ability to fall back on your prior knowledge and training during the racing and not have to worry about making mistakes is where we all strive to be when starting an important event… To be the best in the world. Throughout our (Natasha Bryant & Annie Wilmot) season in Europe we have been working on a few things that we think will work in the long term, quite often this means that we may go backwards a little bit before we can make gains in the future. We are aiming to be at the top, to be the best in the world… but we know that won’t happen tomorrow.

Never before have we raced a regatta with every race ranging between 3 and 6 knots.... Genoa was a huge experience for us as we were tested in our light wind racing skills day after day! Although the results may not show it, we believe we’ve come a long way with our light wind sailing. It was an extremely tough week but a huge learning experience for us and a great training regatta for the Europeans in Weymouth.