Mids West 2012

Mids East 2012

The next stop on the regatta circuit in Florida was the Mids East regatta for Lasers , Clearwater Sailing Centre, February 23-26 , with training for 4 days prior.

We had a good group of 10 sailors come for the Championship.
Becky Power, Ellie Shaw, Natalia Montemayor, , Alex Fritz, Graham Harney , Alex Kroitzch, (Radial)
Kyle Martin, Ricardo Montemayor, Dominic Fritz (Laser)
and Jake Cullen (4.7)

Kyle , Ricardo and Alex H spent time prior to the team coming to train in Clearwater and the results were very fruitful .

We had two condo's rented and everyone got along well cooking at home and living together for the week. Thanks to Diana Shaw for chaperoning the biggest group.

The weather cooperated and we had good sailing all the days , with heavy winds for most of the regatta , needless to say very good bang for the buck for the group traveling a long way for some good competition . A highlight finish was Ricardo winning a race against some of NA's best laser sailors and finishing the regatta 7th overall.

All the team (this group was more of our developing sailors ) gained real good heavy weather experience against top North American sailors.

Results are at http://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=4658&show_sub_class=1

Thanks Clearwater Sailing Centre for all your hospitality! We'll be back next year.

Al

Miami OCR 2012

We decided once again to attend the winter regattas in Florida and California spanning from mid January to end of March.
The first is the Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, the toughest of the three events , where quite a few top sailors come from around the world to compete in the second of the Olympic Classes World Cup events.

Chris Cowan , our other Laser coach and I drove the big laser trailer to Miami on January 10th , arriving for training by mid month.

We had sailors in the Laser standard rig- Ricardo Montemayor , Kyle Martin and Alex Heinzman and Isabella Bertold and Becky Power in the Radial Class. This was the second event in the Laser/Radial Olympic trials.

Hunter Lowden in the 49'er class, Mike Leigh and Luke Ramsay in the 470 and Bruce Millar in the 2.4.

The regatta had a variety of conditions and tested the sailors each of the five days thru the week with the final day a 'metal" race consisting of the top 10 in each fleet , Hunter's team made the race and finished the regatta with an excellent result.

Isabella fought hard to win a berth to the Olympics but fell a little shy and ended 2nd overall for the Radial berth. Alex sailed a good event finishing well up in the gold fleet .

All of our sailors gained valuable experience and were happy to compete against some of the best in the world.