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5TH MACAU INTERNATIONAL DINGHY REGATTA
weekend of medals for Hebe Dragons team
The end of June is traditionally one of the highlights of the
year for Hebe Haven Yacht Club, Aberdeen Yacht Club
and Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club sailors due to the Macau
Regatta. It is a casual event organised by the Associação
de Vela de Macau for various Hong Kong sailors to meet
their counterparts in different waters and on different boats.
It is also a social event with the parents and siblings getting
together during the now very popular Saturday night BBQ
and the lobby lounge of the former Westin Resort—now
called Grand Coloane Beach Resort.
This event could not be feasible without the support of all
the clubs. It is a huge amount of work to move all the boats
across. This year was no exception with one full 40’ container
per club which had to be loaded a few days before the event
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with all the Lasers, Picos, Fevas, Optimists and even two
safety boats—not to mention all the spare parts! A day before
the event, Alfred, Kevin (ABC) and Clement (RHKYC) were
already in position to offload the boats, set them up and be
ready for Saturday’s race. On Sunday afternoon, it was the
opposite but this time with the sailors. All the boats had to be
dismantled, stacked in order, readied for loading again in the
container and offloaded one more time in Hong Kong before
Wednesday’s training!
We never think of the logistics but, without such great
backstage effort, there would be no such event. A great
thanks to the three clubs and their staff for their hard work in
preparing this event—and a special tribute to Kevin Lewis and
Rob Allen who, five years ago, initiated this yearly competition.
This year’s team for Hebe Haven was comprised of sixteen
sailors and three adults divided into the following categories:
1. Laser Radial 1 – Jess Mihan
2. Laser Radial 2 – William Chan
3. Topper 1 – Shona Mihan
4. Stratos (Club team) – Sam Cooke / Max Turner / Grégoire
Bourrut Lacouture
5. Pico 1 – Lily Reid
6. Pico 2 – Zachary Blacker & Timothée Bourrut Lacouture
7. Pico 3 – Ian Duncan & Pei Tsun Yip
8. Pico 4 – Zoe Bruwer & Rose Duckworth
9. Optimist 1 – Arthur Hainz
10. Optimist 2 – Nicolle Scholer
11. Optimist 3 – Jasmine Scholer
12. RS Feva 1 – Antonio Franco & Nathan Turner
The support team was also very impressive with all the parents
(and siblings) enjoying a relaxing and lazy weekend around the
hotel’s swimming pool.
At 09.00 Saturday morning all the teams were ready to go and
were waiting for the competitor briefing before launching their
boats onto the South China Sea. This year, Macau did a great
job by bringing an International Race Officer who reminded
all our young sailors of the basic rules of sailing as well as the
meanings of various flags. This was welcomed by most as
apparently a lot of them do not know how to read them! Thanks
to his explanations, there were no more mistakes on the water.
Class flags: very easy as they all have the
boats logo!
Course 1: like a Japanese flag
Course 2: like a Japanese flag but blue
Course 3: like an upside-down French flag
Course 4: like a Danish flag with four
‘squares’
Course 5: a strange flag which is unlike
1, 2, 3 and 4!
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