Mandurah Offshore Fishing and Sailing Club
7th - 12th January, 2009

Preceded by a two-day Coaching Clinic (2nd - 3rd Jan) and the President’s Cup Regatta (4th - 5th Jan)

Reports are now available from both Sean Ott and Sam Gilmour who recently attended the World Championships Sardinia, Italy.

Click here to read Sean’s report
Click here to read Sam’s report

Thirteen excited Australian Optimist sailors from both the East and West coast made the trip to the 2007 Singapore National Optimist Championship. With 272 entries this was to be one of the biggest fleets for our young sailors to tackle.

A day to get the charter boats organised and get on the water for some training in an 8-knot wind that was fading fast gave the team a taste of the current and the aircraft that constantly flew overhead.
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A total of 16 Australians sailors drawn from five states competed this year at the New Zealand National Optimist Championship, at Napier on the south east corner of the North Island, including 12 members of the Australian Optimist Sailing Team.

The championship, conducted over Easter, drew 221 contestants of which 167 competed in the Open Fleet with the remainder in the Green Fleet. The 16 Australians were joined by sailors from Singapore and Noumea taking the overseas contingent to a total of 33 sailors. The regatta was held in unusually light wind conditions of less than 10 knots. These light conditions placed great importance on starting technique and boat speed skills.

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Following on from the success of the first Sail Melbourne Pacific Rim & Open International Optimist Championships, it’s on again at Mornington Yacht Club, followed by a training camp and then the 2008 Australian & Open Championships at Frankston Yacht Club in conjunction with the 2008 Australian Youth Championships.

So, 16 days of Optimistic FUN and all within 15 minutes drive. (more)

Racing was very competitive, at all ends of the fleet of 85 boats, including  2 sailors from PNG, one from sweden, and One from Queensland.
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