RVYC Opening Day 2010

This year’s opening day was a great success. All the sailors looked great in their yacht club whites, some even sailed past in them!

The weather couldn’t have been nicer and we had great turn out of race team members for this years sail past.

The lineup was lead by Kyle Martin in a 420 sailing with the junior vice commodore. Followed by a very large optimist team from wetfeet all the way up to senior opti raceteam. Next in line was the 4.7’s and the Lasers, followed by 3 420’s and finally Past junior commodore Chris Tulip brought up the rear of the line.

This was a great start to the upcoming season for the sailors. We are looking forward to a really great year ahead with lots of sailing and racing in 2010!

Spring Dingys 2010

It seemed a week before heading over for our semi anual event in Victoria that we would have a small group but ended up with 18 Lasers , 3 420's (6 sailors), one 29er and 11 Opti's.

35 sailors all getting on the ferry with parents boats and gear is a super turn out.

We had great weather this year, with a strong sea-breeze the first day and a rainy westerly the second. It felt like March , more than May on Sunday, but great to have wind both days.

For some of our older sailors , they are just finishing exams at UBC , so a few we haven't seen in weeks came out.

We had a number of very new Laser sailors making one of their first appearances in a regatta. This is part of a transition group coming up through the Opti fleet and entering the Laser group with the 4,7 and the Radial.

The Opti fleet is growing and seems very vibrant at the moment, Tine and Chris are doing a great job motivating their charges.

All in all success in all the fleets,

1st in 29er's,

3rd, 5th and 6th in the 420's,

2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th in the Laser,

2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th in the Radials

1st in 4.7 fleet

1st ,2nd ,4th ,5th ,8th ,10th in the Opti's

Results are at -http://www.rvyc.bc.ca/results/1272842043.htm

Al

Kitten Cup 2010

This past weekend the Team sailed the Kitten Cup, held at RVYC. Royal Van's biggest youth oriented event of the season.

On Saturday the sailors experienced really tricky conditions with a super shifty southerly. In the laser fleet, 5 races were sailed and with Jason Rhodes, Luke Ramsay, Al Clark, Alex Heinzemann and Kevin Grierson having a great day.

Kyle Martin, Thomas Rhoerl, Andy Wong and Ben Scott were also well in the hunt challenging the leaders at every opportunity. Sebastian Fritz and Alex Shepard showed their starting skills having great starts in almost every race of the event.

Sunday brought a light easterly wind, which lasted long enough for one race before completely dying off. It was another tricky race, which hinged on having a decent start and getting a good lane. Al Clark lead this race with Ben Scott coming in second and Alex Heinzemann coming in 4th.

We ended up with 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th in the top 10

In the radial fleet on Saturday 4 races were sailed, Dominique Fritz had a great day finishing top 3 in every race.

Cameron Ho, Natalia Monetemayor, Alex Kroitzch and Eric Servais sailed really well also. In the last race Cameron port tacked the fleet and lead for the rest of the race. Tony Henderson was well in the hunt, but ended up upside down a few times, which was hard to recover from. Gabe Frame also had some excellent starts, showing that all his hard work at training is really paying off.

On Sunday, the radials also only had one race. Natalia dominated, winning the pin and leading for the rest of the race. It was a close race after that with Cameron, Tony and Alex Kroitzch right in the race, finally finishing 2nd, 4th, and 5th respectively in the race.

We had 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th in the top 10.

The Opti fleet had a good weekend as well with 5 races over the 2 days. We had good success in both the blue and Red fleets. A total of 16 sailors came out. Our Opti team has a busy summer plan and it seems the young sailors are starting the season well.

1st in the Blue fleet and 1st , 2nd , and 3rd in the Red fleet.

Congratulations to all 46 sailors!

As a side note it was nice to see Rob Douglas back in town with his group from Comox.

Thanks go out to Rob Scott for all his efforts putting together another fun regatta for everyone.

Results are at-http://www.royalvan.com/racing_results.asp?TID=3&RID=139&SID=270&DID=2


Jen