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CLUB REPORTS
REAR COMMODORE
C
entreboard racing in the
Sesquicentenary year was a
great year for our Club. We saw
the Centreboard Division race
on the 150th Birthday with a
small marathon race around Scotland Island,
before joining in with the celebrations.
Each Sunday we saw around 50 Optimists
and Lasers racing out on Pittwater, and
RPAYC continued to be the most represented
club at regattas. Our Optimist sailors
retained the Beashel Trophy at the NSW
State Championships for the participation
pointscore, Gosford Travellers Trophy
Round, won the Club a B&G Chartplotter.
RPAYC held two Optimist Regattas/
Camps this year. First was the Opti Chicks
camp and sleepover for female Optimist
sailors. The girls enjoyed a day on Pittwater
on the Elliot 7’s, the Hobie Waves and their
own Optis, before sleeping overnight in the
Pittwater Room watching movies and eating
popcorn. The following day quite a few of
the girls stayed and raced in our normal
Sunday races.
In March, we ran the Pacific Boating
NSW Open and State Championships for
the Optimists. We had around 160 Optimists
attend the two-day event and the Club was
alive with young sailors. Green Fleet was
held in the Little Pond just off the club, while
Intermediate and Open Fleets raced on
a trapezoidal course setup in the Big Pond
north of Scotland Island. It was great to see
the Club work together with volunteers from
Yacht Racing and Centreboard to make the
event a success. The course teams managed
to set and rotate the trapezoid course after all
their training on the GPS units.
Next March we will be hosting the
NSW Laser Association for their Metro
Championships. This is a two-day event and
also will be held on trapezoidal courses. We
can expect 150 Lasers to attend this event.
Fletcher Walters and Daniel Links this
year dominated the Optimist scene with a
myriad of regatta wins at State, National and
World levels. Between the two sailors some of
the regattas they won were:
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CENTREBOARD
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Well done to all.
Our racing would never be
able to happen without the
numerous volunteers that
help each week to get the
sailors out on the water.
Thank you to all the parents
and volunteers that turn up
and help week after week.
We cannot run without you
all.
David Taylor
• Australian National Championships
• New Zealand National
Championships
• NSW State Championships
• Victorian State Championships
• Sail Melbourne and Sail Sydney
This year we had nine Optimist Sailors
qualify and be selected for the Australian
IODA national teams out of a possible 41
positions. To put this in perspective, the
whole of Victoria had 10 sailors selected
and RPAYC had nine sailors selected. Well
done to those sailors selected and we wish
you all luck in your international events.
The Centreboard Committee would
like to congratulate the following sailors
who have made national representative
teams or who will have been representing
the Club at international events:
Optimists
Worlds Cyprus – Fletcher Walters and
Daniel Links
North Americans Mexico – Jono Tuite
Asian Championships Myanmar – Olivia
Williams and Angus Renton
Development Squad Pattaya Thailand –
Cooper Bellingham
Australian Girls Squad Hong Kong – Eva
Attwood, Sienna Brown and Bayley Taylor
LASERS
Master Worlds Split Croatia – Stuart
Holdsworth
9ERS
49erFX Australian Sailing Team –
Natasha Bryant and Annie Wilmot
49er Australian Sailing Team – Jim Colley
and Shaun Connor
FINNS
Finn World Masters Spain – Matt Visser
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