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