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R PAY C A C T I V I T I E S
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BURGEE EXCHANGE
NVR Yacht Club, 150 Year Anniversary,
Burgee Exchange
W
hile racing at Travemünde week I took a trip to
Hamburg to join the 150 Year Anniversary of
the NVR Yacht Club. They are one of our many
reciprocal Clubs worldwide.
I had the pleasure of joining the party for
the Cross Atlantic Race they held as part of the celebrations and
visiting the Clubhouse on the small but beautiful lake in the centre of
Hamburg that they frequently sail on.
I wished them congratulations on behalf of the RPAYC and
our members for their 150 year given that we had just had our
sesquicentennial celebration last year.
Andreas Christiansen. Chairman of NRV and I exchanged
burgees as part of the celebrations.
Big thanks to Kaspar Stubenrauch the President of the German
5.5m Association who invited me to the celebrations.
Written by Martin Cross
FUSION RACING TEAM
C
lare Costanzo and her team of
Sarah Parker, Ruby Scholten,
Jess Angus, Hannah Lanz
teamed up together as ‘Fusion
Racing Team’ a match racing
team of 5 girls, all Youth Development RPAYC
sailors. They are doing amazing things for
woman in sailing, already in 2018 we have
seen them take out the boys at the RSYS
Hardy Cup International Match Racing
Regatta where they made history being the
first all-female team as well as the first female
helm to win the regatta. The Hardy Cup
win set the ball rolling for Fusion Racing to
compete in top international events.
The Fusion Racing Team was selected
as one of only 5 teams to compete in the
GKSS Women’s Trophy held in Sweden. This
regatta was held alongside the Swedish Match
Cup which is an official event of the World
Match Racing tour. This was an amazing
opportunity for the team as they sailed the
exciting M32 catamarans against the very
best female sailors in the world.
And that’s a wrap for the GKSS Women’s
Trophy in Marstrand Sweden.
The last day off racing was tough and we
narrowly missed out on 3rd place. In a first to
get two wins, we won the first race and then
we were leading coming into the finish of the
second race and a misjudgement error cost us
the race and our damage deposit.
Although an unfortunate way to end
the regatta we sailed well beyond our own
expectations and learnt so much to take into
the next regatta.
As the youngest team to be racing against
some of the worlds best sailors was unreal,
some of these including world champions and
Olympic gold and silver medallists.
Massive thanks to everyone for your
support in the lead up to the event and all
the messages of support and encouragement
during the event!
Next for us is to head straight over to the
USA to join Club Coach Tom Spithill and
represent the RPAYC at the Governors Cup
at Balboa Yacht Club.
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YA C H T S M A N R PAY C
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Fusion Racing Team in
Marstrand, Sweden
Massive thanks to
everyone for your support
in the lead up to the event
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