Laser National Qualifying Regatta 2011

The team of Recardo Montemayor , Alex Heinzman, Kyle Martin in Laser Standard and Isabella Bertold , Becky Power and Joanna Moore in the Radial arrived over the weekend of September 24-25 to St Margaret's Bay Sailing Club, Nova Scotia in preparation for one of the key regattas of the season, (Sport Canada carding - read money for training).

We had the truck and trailer with all our Lasers and coach boat at the club , left there after the Canadian Youth Sailing championships in August.

We trained for a number of days prior and then the racing started on the Wednesday carried thru till Saturday.
The regatta was run with windward leeward courses each day , 3 races most days with 4 on the Friday, and one on the final day.
We saw winds ranging from 8 to 18 knots and had a good series with the best Canadian Laser sailors fighting for the top spots.

Isabella had a fantastic series as the defending champion and kept the title with a sting of bullets. She is clearly the odds on favorite for the Olympic selection. Becky had an excellent series and finished 9th and Joanna sailed well and was 10th.

In the men's side our guys had good moments with Ric getting a 2nd and Alex 2 4ths in an early races , in the end Alex was 9th, Ric 10 and Kyle 16th

A solid showing for a developing team, were hoping the event will be @ Royal Van next year , finger crossed.

See results at http://smsc.ca/images/raceresults/2011cyayouths/results.html


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