Beaches NSW Optimist Championship – 181 sailors make it successful

by Adam Beashel on 27 Mar 2017

Beacheschb NSW Optimist Championship Adam Beashel

Over the weekend of 25th and 26th March, South Lake Maquarie Amateur Sailing Club (SLMASC) hosted 181 Opti sailors. Over 70 fantastic Volunteers from the club helped run a very successful championships both on and off the water. Great sponsorship was achieved through the generosity of Beaches and Rose property development at Catherine Hill Bay, The Bay Hotel, Boat crew gear, North Sails, Harken, Belly@ozsup, Bic Sports and Zhik.

The conditions were mostly light five - ten knot Easterlies with clearing skies through to great Sunshine, this was well welcomed following a bout of rather miserable rainy weather the east coast of Australia had just witnessed.

On the Friday evening over 40 keen sailors made the most of the opportunity to get a few practise races in and prepare for some classic lake sailing.

Boat 1575 is Daniel Links Overall NSW Opti champ for 2017 © Adam Beashel

From early morning Saturday the cars, boats, ribs, tents steadily rolled into the Lake side suburb of Sunshine. Very quickly the sleepy little suburb was transformed into a height of activity with boats rigged and sailors split into three groups of Green, Intermediate and Open.

From noon to 5pm the Race committee did a stellar job to get a total of 17 races ticked of, ten in Green fleet, three in Intermediate fleet and four races in Open fleet.

The top kids from NSW had risen to the top of three fleets and many kids who had stepped up a fleet were soon mixing it with the top guns.

There were some keen interstate sailors wanting to get in amongst the action with Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia sailors all showing up.

Lake side at Beacheschb NSW Optimist Championship 2017 SLMASC © Adam Beashel

Sunshine greeted the sailors on Sunday morning and with a lack of wind early on there was some fun freestyle comps, Thong paddling races and lots of dance moves to the hip music being played loud and clear.

Finally around 1pm a light Easterly filled in and Green fleet kids were first of the beach to get racing underway and they completed six more races for a total of 16 races over the weekend for the two groups.

Open and Intermediate fleets managed two more races each and the top kids from Saturday were once again showing there results that had them at the top of the leader board on Saturday were no fluke.

Prize winners are RPAYC - Best Overall scoring Club – Beacheschb NSW Optimist Championship © Adam Beashel

Congratulations to All 181 kids for a well-mannered weekend and showing us there talents, I am sure they have learnt a lot from the weekend and will already be pestering their parents about getting to the next Opti event.

To see replay of live video, visit here

Beacheschb NSW Optimist Championship © Adam Beashel

Hand Stand is Ruby Cowan, Best trick – Beacheschb NSW Optimist Championship © Adam Beashel

Overall Scratch - Intermediate Fleet

Plc	Sail No	Boat Name (Boat Type)	Skipper/Crew	From	Race 1 25-Mar	Race 2 25-Mar	Race 3 25-Mar	Race 4 26-Mar	Race 5 26-Mar	Drop	Total
1	1605	I Wanted A Pony!	Darcy Robbins	DAC	17	15	1	2	9	0	44
2	1294	Wave Runner	Dylan Ryan	SLMASC	3	23	2	4	17	0	49
3	1436	Evolution	Isabella Holdsworth	RPAYC	8	2	16	19	7	0	52
4	1035	Tigerlily	Sienna Brown	RPAYC	4	22	19	1	8	0	54
5	1620	Under the Radar	Logan Radford	GSC	9	12	15	6	14	0	56
6	1553	K Bunny	Henry Myers	WSC	21	8	12	17	1	0	59
7	1602	Aldabra	Claudia Freeman	HHSC	7	4	9	7	42	0	69
8	1094	Rusty	Ruby Cowan	slmasc	1	26	13	9	21	0	70
9	1325	Orion	Isaac Freeman	HHSC	6	27	30	5	3	0	71
10	1332	Starlight	Stella Hurley	HHSC	12	17	18	8	33	0	88
11	883	Iceberg	William Troop	RPAYC	2	25	38	28	2	0	95
12	1028	Ponyo	C. Norman	WSC	15	10	31	11	28	0	95
13	1309	For the wind	Douglas Cassidy	RSYS	14	29	11	18	26	0	98
14	1449	Saete	Anneke Meyer	MHYC	16	18	43	14	10	0	101
15	1574	Shore I Am	Jaxon Stacey	SLMASC	DNC (77.00)			15	15	0	107
16	1745	Avenger	Orlando Springer	RPAYC	5	11	21	36	39	0	112
17	1642	1642	Thomas Whitehead	RSYS	33	41	4	37	6	0	121
18	1693	BOLT	Jacob Marks	MHYC	32	30	7	39	20	0	128
19	1696	Fast Forward	Hayley Messenger	GRSC	40	14	49	3	24	0	130
20	1622	Around the twist	Wil Rivers	GSC	38	19	22	31	22	0	132
21	1085	Bumble bee	Jessy Hillhouse	SLMASC	10	28	32	22	43	0	135
22	1290	Funky Monkey	Daniel Evans	SLMASC	13	37	17	41	31	0	139
23	392	TILT-IT	Logan McLean	SLMASC	18	40	10	59	16	0	143
24	1676	Longreach	Cameron Scade	GRSC	37	34	29	16	30	0	146
25	1432	Green Eyed Monster	Kye Rivers	Gosford	20	1	44	23	60	0	148
26	1645		Ben Crafoord	WSC	34	6	28	40	41	0	149
27	1564	Benny Buoy	Ben Costandi	GRSC	49	31	48	13	11	0	152
28	1736	Bob	Hannah Kernohan	GRSC	27	42	45	26	12	0	152
29	1705	Ascham 11	Emma McKechnie	WSC	50	51	26	24	5	0	156
30	1139	Atomic	Tomas Lozevski	DAC	31	21	25	32	47	0	156
31	1526	Misty Seas	Alex Wyer	GSC	44	24	35	12	45	0	160
32	1348	Jaws	Nicolas Livermore	HHSC	41	54	8	35	23	0	161
33	1719	Lucky	Ariol Gold	GRSC	11	58	6	38	51	0	164
34	333	Eternal	Ciara Bartels	NSC	43	39	3	53	34	0	172
35	1317	Intense	Elizabeth Cole	HHSC	39	38	33	10	53	0	173
36	1702	Hatchet	Oliver Rose	SLMASC	48	13	23	25	65	0	174
37	372	Das Boot	Luke Berlee	MHYC	62	47	20	29	19	0	177
38	1697	Boatcraft	Reece Hartnett	HHSC	53	36	42	21	25	0	177
39	1703	Quick Wat	Morgan Rose	SLMASC	26	35	52	33	35	0	181
40	642	The Unsinkable Marshmallow	Thomas Westwood	NSC	36	3	68	61	18	0	186
41	1475	MAC-A-TAC	Jonty MacIntyre	HHSC	46	32	37	62	13	0	190
42	872	Where's Wally	Walter Tuite	RPAYC	68	44	27	20	32	0	191
43	746	Albatross	Alba Falkenmire	HHSC	51	7	34	51	52	0	195
44	1356	Just Keep Sailing	Xavier McLachlan	RSYS	25	53	40	30	49	0	197
45	1667	Pocket Rocket	Ellen Murray	GRSC	45	64	5	27	70	0	211
46	897	Niloc	Hugo Butterworth	RPAYC	60	5	39	46	62	0	212
47	665	Hanako :)	Hanako Tomishima	NSC	28	57	24	44	59	0	212
48	1472	Ratchet	Asher Ryan	SLMASC	19	46	41	49	58	0	213
49	1646		Charlie McKechnie	WSC	23	61	50	47	40	0	221
50	1269	Hike	Luc Boucher	CYC	42	68	61	52	4	0	227
51	1211	The Beast	Nathan Pearce	RPAYC	35	16	58	48	71	0	228
52	1368	Brooksea	William Brooks	HHSC	22	9	63	73	66	0	233
53	399	Sea Bunny	Edward Hooper	MHYC	75	56	14	50	44	0	239
54	108	Wave Crusher	Brayden Downing	GRSC	30	62	57	56	36	0	241
55	1611	Shimmer	Caitlin Nash	HHSC	54	20	64	54	56	0	248
56	708	Blaze	Nathan Goh	NSC	24	70	55	72	27	0	248
57	946	Tucker Box	Jago Tucker	WSC	56	50	51	34	57	0	248
58	652	Tigger Tack	Alex Moss	CYC	57	59	36	67	37	0	256
59	1571	Beat It	Lachlan Jones	WSC	72	33	47	55	67	0	274
60	1426	Aerodynamic	Zane Goodridge	DAC	47	55	62	42	68	0	274
61	1733	Stingray	Harry Wyer	GSC	61	43	53	71	46	0	274
62	1407	Supermaxi	Max Fisher	Greenwich	66	60	60	68	29	0	283
63	1649		Harrison Bathgate	Woollahra SC	63	65	65	45	50	0	288
64	1202	No Gas	Carlos Gundelach	DAC	29	49	59	DNC (77.00)	DNC (77.00)	0	291
65	1644		Hugo Fayyad	WSC	64	48	73	58	48	0	291
66	1334	Hunter	Gemma Ashton	HHSC	52	52	69	60	61	0	294
67	1466	Commando	Kye Williams	RPAYC	69	67	66	43	55	0	300
68	1395	Scrumpy Jack	Jack McGreal	WSC	65	63	67	74	38	0	307
69	1641		Archer Pullen	WSC	74	45	72	57	64	0	312
70	422	river rat	Joe Hogbin-Bourne	CYC	59	72	56	64	63	0	314
71	1529	Mythbuster	Jarod Brown	RPAYC	55	66	46	DNC (77.00)	DNC (77.00)	0	321
72	693		Lucy Ferguson	WSC	70	73	71	63	54	0	331
73	858		Lachlan Fraser	NSC	73	75	54	69	74	0	345
74	1548	Wobbegong	Xinqi Li	NSC	58	71	74	70	73	0	346
75	236	Millenium Falcon	Grace Cribb	NSC	67	74	70	66	69	0	346
76	1228	Jigsaw	Gareth Burns	Greenwich SC	71	69	75	65	72	0	352