Monday, May 5, 2008

The Spring Dinghy Champs - Victoria

This past weekend, the team traveled to Victoria for the Spring Dinghy Champs, hosted by the Royal Victoria Yacht Club.

Saturday was light and a little bit rainy, with winds out of the North from the top of Cadboro Bay. The Lasers managed to get one race off, while all the other fleets on that course ended up abandoned for the day.
On the Opti course, there were 4 races held. They stayed out after the other fleets went in for the day and had 3 races in a southerly wind.

Sunday was another light day, with the wind starting out from the North, and throughout the day shifting right until it was coming from the south west. We managed to get 3 races off, in very light tricky conditions, with a strong current adding to the difficulty.
The Optis had 3 more races on Sunday, finishing up the regatta with 7 races.

Royal Van had a great showing with Ricardo Montemayor winning the Laser Full rig fleet, Diego Reyes winning the Laser Radial fleet, and Alex Shepard placed 1st in the 4.7's.

The results are posted at:
http://www.rvyc.bc.ca/results/1209944674.htm

We are back training at home now for a week or so, and then part of the team is off to Medemblik, Holland for the grade one event, the Delta Lloyd Regatta.

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