Laser Open National Championships 2015 - Mounts Bay Sailing Club Aug1st-7th
Gethin Owen and Iago Davies competed in the Open Laser NationalChampionships at Mounts Bay. Gethin entered the 4.7 and Iago entered the Radial class. Mounts Bay is an extremly picturesque tidal bay with the race course based between Penzance and Marazion. During the week all conditions were present from extremly windy days with 3m swells to light shifty tactical racing.
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Congratulations Gethin on being selected for the GBR Laser 4.7 summer squad.
The club welcomed the 420 class last weekend for their Winter Championships. Over 40 boats were entered including a significant Irish representation.
The event forms part of the selection series for British teams for the 420 European and World Championships during the summer of 2014.
Despite the weather forecast, the race committee succeeded in completing 4 races on Saturday under blue skies, with moderate winds but a big chop. The conditions proved challenging in terms of maintaining good boat speed.
At the end of the first days racing, Tim Riley and James Taylor led the way on a perfect 3 points with the Clwb Hwylio Pwllheli female team of Sarah Norbury and Mari Davies close on their heels in second with 5 points.
The 420 ranking series arrived at Hayling Island last weekend for the Spring Championships. 44 boats took to the water, including 4 Irish visiting crews. The Pwllheli Sailing Club girls (Mari Davies & Sarah Norbury) managed to repeat their paerformance from the previous qualifier in Pwllheli by again finishing as leading ladies in 3rd place overall, only 1 point behind the 2nd placed boys.
After the first two qualifiers the girls top the GBR ranking list with a total of 37 points. Their nearest rivals have 90 points- quite a lead going into the final qualifier which will be the RYA Youth Championships in Weymouth next month.
Registration for beginners between the ages of eight and eleven will take place at 5pm on Monday the 14th of April, at the Pwllheli Sailing Club. Members must be able to swim.
A warm welcome is extended to children and parents.
If you need more information phone Gwyndaf Hughes on 01758 613504.
Registration for experienced sailors, up to seventeen years of age will be at 6.30pm the same night.
After a week of tough racing in Weymouth, the news arrived that the girls had become British Champions in the 420 class and with it gained selection for the GBR team for the ISAF Youth Worlds, to be held in Portugal in June.
The week started in the best possible way with a bullet in race 1. The competition then heated up to create 2 days of tight racing.
The girls managed to hold onto the yellow leaders bibs from day one and on Wednesday were the most consistent boat out of the fleet of 44, posting three 2nd place finishes. This opened a 24 point lead over their closest rivals, which they defended through Thursdays racing.