Squamish Training Camp

We had a good group come to Squamish for a 4 day camp this past week.

Alanna, Ryan, Ben, Alex, Chris, Mike, Kyle,Rick,Jaime and I sailed with Jen driving the coach boat and shooting Video.

We moved the boats from the Big trailer to the Opti trailer on Monday, and drove up Tuesday morning.

Tuesday we sailed in 15 to 20 kts and had a good session, Wed many did a double session and we had 20 kts in the first session and 15 in the second , over 6 hrs on the water.

Thursday was the epic day with winds approaching 30 kts and we sailed past Britania Beach with a long sail home at high speeds, 4hrs out there.

Needless to say we were tired and sailed a little shorter day on Friday , knowing we were going to have to load the trailer and head home.

All in all an excellent , exhausting camp , well worth the trip!
Were going to be ready for San Fran and the NA's .

Al

Isabella @ Youth Worlds Denmark

Day 1

Finally racing started at the 2008 ISAF Youth Worlds. The sailors were greeted by a weather forecast which stated rain and 15 increasing to 28 knots from the south, slowly going to the south west. After a great breakfast and a bus ride to the club, the sailors hit the water with their GPSs which are worth $400 each and are costing $500 a day per boat for transmission of information. All the data is sent to www.sportcasting.org where every move is tracked. What a great idea to follow the sailors and for talking about the races after. The coaches were put on 2 boats on the single handed course and I was able to get to the only boat which moved and had the ability to talk with the sailors. Isabella Bertold was in the top of the Laser Radial fleet all day. The waves downwind were challenging especially on the outer loop in that the angles and the direction were not easy to match with the wind direction. Isabella was in second and first around the whole course on the first race and ended up 3rd after a really close finish. A good solid start to the regatta. In the second start sailors were OCSed at the race committee boat end, but Isabella started 5th boat from the pin as the wind was backing. She led from start to finish to win the race. She is sitting in first and will sail with the yellow dot tomorrow. Isabella went straight to spin her legs out on the bike to prepare for the rest of the week racing. Today was to be the windiest day of the week and with gusts up to 38 knots, we are pretty sure that is the case. Day 2 at the 2008 ISAF Youth Worlds

Similar conditions to the first day. Southerly winds, huge waves and 10-15 knots of winds, increasing to 22 in the gusts and rain showers. The girls had first start and outer-loops today. Isabella had 2 tough starts where she started to windward of a sailor who pinched her out. Despite some tough first 200 meters , she sailed some excellent windward legs and finished in 6th and 7th today and is sitting in 2nd overall. Our single handed sailors are in top shape, ready for another 4 days of racing and all the training they have done over the past year is showing.

For complete results, please go to www.sailing.org

Mike wins again

Leigh from Canada wins Laser Europa Cup

On day five of the WARNEMUENDER WOCHE the sailors experienced showers and sunshine in turns. Increasing west winds up to six Beaufort challenged not only the Laser Europa Cup fleets. Canadian Mike Leigh snatched the title from leading Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Bernaz.

Results @ http://warnemuender-woche.com/eng/

Luke finished 11th

Way to go boys!

Al

Pictures From Sail West

Sail West Victoria

The team headed by ferry to Victoria for the three day Sail West Regatta.

Thanks to Mike and Sandra for pulling the Opti trailer over and Ken for pulling Jen's coach boat over.

Teams from all the Western Provinces were there.
We had 15 Lasers and 3 Opti's competing.

We sailed in light air on Friday and had good results from Ricky and Ryan in the Lasers.
Jaime and Alanna faired the best in the Radial .
Emily was the best in the Opti.

Saturday we sat on the water for the day , rafted up for most of the day and went in at 3.30 with no races sailed.

Sunday was better, we got 3 races in with Ricardo winning in the Laser and Alanna 2nd in the Radial and Thomas 2nd Jr in the Radial, Emily was 2nd in the Opti.

A successful regatta , well done to the whole team.
Results are found @ http://www.rvyc.bc.ca/results/1215393059.htm

Next stop is the advanced team goes to Squamish for high wind training this week.
Youths training camp with Jen Spalding coaching next week.

Tine , Jen and I coached the event .
Tine was out early on Sunday , on her way to the Youth Worlds to coach Isabella and the rest of the Canadian Team in Denmark.

Good Luck Isabella!

Al Clark