WA Optimist sailors have been treated to three great regattas in the last month. The Ronstan Indian Ocean Classic held at Fremantle SC attracted 46 entries and 12 silver entries, including the top team from Singapore. Two weeks ago, the Royal Perth YC Optimist Cup had 39 entries. This weekend, the Junior Australia cup (31 entries) was raced on Perth Water in front of the city and added to the spectacle of the Australia Cup match racing event.    These three regattas were won by Sam, Nia and Lachy the three WA members of the Australian Optimist Team going to the Worlds in Langkawi at the end of the month  (Sam was the first Australian in the IOC).    Coach, Diego Figeruoa commented that conditions this weekend on Perth water, were very similar to those expected in Langkawi and the regatta had been excellent preparation for the team heading to the Worlds.  Results Junior Australia Cup  Results RPYC Optimist Cup   Results Ronstan IOC 

Congratulations to Lachy Gilmour 2010 WA State Champion.

The Caporn Young WA Optimist Championships were held over three days last weekend at Freemantle Sailing Club. The 82 sailors, ranging from 7 to 15 years of age were treated to strong offshore breezes all weekend. The Gold and Silver fleets completed 14 races in glorious  conditions, whilst the Bronze fleet sailed within the harbour enjoying a variety of racing, fun. games and swimming……..read the regatta Report

Results:  Gold  Silver  Bronze

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• Seven AOST sailors competed in the  IODA Asian Championship in Langkawi, Malaysia..   Read more…
• Read Diego Figueroa’s Report
• Link to event pictures http://gallery.me.com/yannvincent#gallery

The 2010 WA State Championship will be held on Saturday 27th February - Monday 1st March at Fremantle Sailing Club.  Entry fee includes a teeshirt and presentation dinner. Gold and Silver fleet racing will be accompanied by Bronze Fleet Activities.

Notice of Race

With 58 entries at the Royal Perth Mini Series, racing was always going to be exciting! Both the 31boat Gold fleet and 27 boat silver fleet achieved ten races over the weekend. The weather provided a mix of light conditions right through to a stomping sea breeze. The Gold fleet top three finished a point apart and congratulations go to Sam Blackburn for taking out the championship. This is Sam’s second WA ranking regatta win for this season. Doug Campbell and Lachy Gilmour pushed Sam to the last race for an exciting finish to the event.  The silvers, coached on the water by Kate and Jack demonstrated some great sailing and also hairy moments for the Gold fleet when the fleets intersected.  There is no doubt that some of these silvers are biting at the heels of the gold fleet and undoubtedly we will see them in the Gold fleet over the next few weeks / months.  Well Done to all who attended and to RPYC who put on such a great event.

Gold Fleet Results

Silver Fleet Results

Ragna Agerup from RFBYC,WA won the New Caledonian Nationals in Noumea Nov. 5th - Nov 8th.The regatta was held in ideal conditions in 15 to 25 knots of wind.Maia Agerup from RFBYC  finished third. Between them Ragna and Maia won 7 out of the 15 races.Racing was competitive with the both the NZ development team and a few of their other top 10 sailors in the fleet.For more information, pictures and results, please go to www.srcnoumea.canalblog.com   CLICK HERE FOR RESULTS  CLICK HERE FOR PICTURE

Congratulations to Lachy Gilmour, winner of the 2009 Indian Ocean Classic.  Hot on his heels was Thomas Blaauw, Doug Campbell third. The full results are available at www.fsc.com.au        click here to read report of IOC 

Nineteen Optimist sailors spent the first four days of the school holidays training at this years’ Westsail.  The training camp was attended by approximately 125 of the States best young sailors and around 90 of those stayed at the Point Peron Camp. Optimist coaches Diego Figueroa, Ryan Hannan and Kate Wearn were able to use the variety of conditions to provide the sailors with excellent coaching. Staying on the camp is not only part of the fun (especially morning fitness!) , but also allows the sailors to be part of the class debriefs, larger group lecture sessions  and probably most importantly to build friendships with the sailors from the other classes and get to know some of the other coaches in the State. Also involved were Belinda Stowell (Olympic Gold medallist) and Arthur Brett (Previously Aus Olympic Coach)  who pay particular interest to the development within the Optimist class.  The training was followed by the State Youth Championship. In the Optimists, the 7 race series had six different race winners demonstrating the increasing breadth in WA.  The overall winner was Sam Blackburn, second Lachy Gilmour and third Douglas Campbell. 

Sam Blackburn, Georgia Thompson, Maia and Ragna Agerup represented Australia in the European Championship in Slovenia. Ragna has written a great regatta report!  Read Ragna’s Report

Read their daily blog on www.optieuro.blogspot.com     Regatta website  http://www.sailpiran.si/eoc2009