Pumkin Bowl 2009

The Pumpkin regatta took place October 17-18th at West Van YC.

A real fall regatta with heavy rain, wind and even some sun shine. Over 200 sailors came from across BC, Alberta and Washington to participate. The most amazing fleet was the Opti fleet with over 70 racers competing!

It was quite a sight seeing all of them leave the docks!
Royal Van faired really well in the regatta.

In the light green fleet (first regatta ever) there were 24 racers. Tara Yuen won the whole fleet, followed by Nicholas Donaldson in 3rd, Max Cameron in 8th and Jamie Bennett in 12th.

This fleet sailed different reaching courses and had a great time. In the dark green fleet, Katrina McCallum was 2nd,Mikaela Frame was 10th, Dim Dimitrov 13th and Julia Ho 23rd. It was so much fun seeing these sailors race to the far away windward mark in the wind and the rain.

In the championship fleet, Alex Fritz won the entire event just like last year. In second was Lloyd Lyall who won the blue fleet. In second in the blue fleet was Andrew Moreno. Third in red was Graham Harney followed by Ellie Shaw in 7th, Jake Cullen in 8th and Hailey Linton in 9th. In the blue fleet was Eric Lyall 4th and Jim Donaldson 7th. In the white fleet ( 10 and under), Henrik Moberg-Parker was 3rd followed closely by Michael Mastracci in 5th and Dylan Cochran in 6th.

In the 420 class, Royal Van did great with Joren Jackson/Leif Pederson finishing second, Emma Toone/Alana Tacy in 3rd and Kia Meiklejohn/Elizabeth Hardy in 5th.

In the 29’er class, Sam Gustin with crew Ian Woodbury were 2nd.

In the Laser full rig class, Chris Tulip was 5th, Thomas Roehrl 6th, Sebastian Fritz 8th and John Tulip 12th.

The Radial class was big with 31 racers. Natalia Montemayor was 4th, Cameron Ho 5th, Joanna Moore 8th and Tony Henderson 11th.

A lot of fun and a great event for all our sailors.

Results:

http://www.wvyc.bc.ca/racing/pumpkinbowl/opti_results2009.html

http://www.wvyc.bc.ca/racing/pumpkinbowl/alpharesults_2009.htm

Pictures:

http://s899.photobucket.com/albums/ac199/WVYCsaildir/


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National Qualifying Regatta 2009

The NQR (Sport Carding from the CYA, read money) was held in Victoria October 1-4 for the Lasers and Radials (Men and Women).

We had a big group over for the event, with a number of sailors well in line for these Cards,(this was also a qulaifier for the youth worlds too).

The event started out a little slow on the Thursday with light wind and 2 races , the Friday saw even lighter wind and one race sailed.

Luke Ramsay (Lasers) and Jen Spalding (Radials) took the lead early in the event, and both never relinquished it.

The Saturday we say good breeze out of the north and we sailed 5 races, a very full day.

Abe Torchinsky in Lasers was now in a solid second and in Radials Isabella and Alanna vitery were well in the hunt, with Keamia Rasa just a hair off the pace.

The final day of racing saw again a good northerly with 3 races sailed and a 2nd drop coming into play.

In the end Royal Van was 1st, 2nd, 6th , 7th and 9th (5 in the top 10!) in the Lasers.

Alex Heinzman was 7th and earned another spot to the youth worlds next year in Turkey, (he competed in Brazil this past year).

In the Radials we had 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 6th

Results are @http://www.rvyc.bc.ca/results/1254704219.htm

Well done team!

We will have as many members of the National team as ever this coming year.

Names include- Mike Leigh, Luke Ramsay, Abe Torchinsky in Laser, Jen Spalding, Isabella Bertold, Alanna Vittery in Radial, John Romanko, in Finn, Zak Plasvic and Nicola Girke in boards.

An end to a successful year of competing for the Race Team, we head into the winter training season with our next trip in Miami in January.

Al

Fall Dingys Regatta 09

The team went over to Victoria for the annual fall dingy regatta September 26th and 27th. We had a big group this year with the Double Handed 420 team coming out in force.
Mark Patacky has a keen group that are training regularly on weekends and thursday evenings.

We also have a active 29er campaigning on the circuit, Sam Gusin and Ian Woobury, they've been busy getting good results in the Youth Champs and at CORK this past summer.

The Laser Team also had a big group, (14), with a number of sailors keen on using the regatta as a practice run for the upcoming NQR's regatta the following weekend.

The regattas had one light air race on the Saturday and then 5 good medium breeze races on the Sunday.

We won all the classes we entered and had top finishes as well in all the classes!

Joren Jackson and Dylan Sanderson 1st in the 420 class

Sam Gustin, Ian Woodbury 1st in the 29er Class

Luke Ramsay was 1st in the Laser Class,

Isabella Bertold 1st in the Radial Class,



Results are @ http://rvyc.bc.ca/results/1254100495.htm

Well done team!