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