Monday, September 21, 2009

Fall Training

The summer season has come to a close and after one of the busiest ever the team is ready to into some solid blocks of training leading up to the National Qualifying Regatta for Lasers and Radials Oct 1 thru 4 in Victoria.

We have had decent weather for the first few weekend as well as the evening sessions.

The new team members meeting on Thursday September 10th went well and quite a number of new sailors came aboard in the Opti's , Double Handed (420's) and the Lasers.

Chris Cowan has taken over for Rob Douglas in the Optis and has some big shoes to fill as Rob had done an fantastic job raising the participation of the team to new heights!

Thank you Rob for all your efforts , you will be missed.

We look forward to great sucess with Chris doing his best to follow in Robs footsteps.

Of course Tine stays on working specifically with the highest performance sailors and the wet feet program she initiated.

Another note is that the double handed team seems to have reached critical mass and is going great guns with Mark Patacky at the helm.

The team took part in the Canadian Youth Championships this summer and is off to Victoria this coming weekend as well as a few more events of over the coming year .

Thanks Royal Van for all the support
Al

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