NSW Sabot Sailing Sprint Regatta - A success over October long weekend
by Mark McEearney on 8 Oct 2014
Sabot Racing at Drummoyne Karjn Gojnich
2014 NSW Sabot Sailing Sprint Regatta - After some quick work, the Sabot NSW Youth Regatta was organised by Drummoyne Sailing Club with 37 sailors hitting the water over the two day regatta format. With a nice Nor’easter on the Saturday it was a great decision by the RO, John Sanderson, to get in the five heats, as whilst a lovely day again greeted us on the Sunday the breeze only allowed one heat to be run in rounding out the event. Thanks to John Sanderson, Nick Ward, Alex South and the team in getting the on water side of things well sorted.
The turnout for the event was great to see with a team coming down from Lake Macquarie, a range of boats from across Sydney, including Narrabeen, Vaucluse, Lane Cove, Hunters Hill and Drummoyne sailing club members, and our longest travellers making it up from Tassie for the event, well done to dad Andrew Jones for the driving effort and Josh who, after some hard fought tussles over the weekend, also took home the trophy.
Coming off the back of the annual Sabot training week it was great to see the youth regatta well attended by a number of participants who felt that after the four days of training they were ready to take off in their very first regatta, well done to all our Sabot sailors.
The Southern NSW Sabot association arranged for coaching support for the regatta and again Alex South, Greg Hartnett and Karen Gojnich provided great support in taking our sailors through some of the regatta and rule basics to make the regatta a fun event (no protests sited, penalty turns sportingly noted) and provided on water support over the two days.
The coaches ensured all our kids received the support they needed to take them to the next level, whether at their first regatta or some of the up and comer 'groms' chasing hard on the tail of Josh Jones the Tasmanian top ranked sailor, having finished sixth at the last National titles.
A similar event is planned for the 2015 October long weekend with invitations going to the Manly Juniors, Open Bics, Mirrors and Optimist classes.
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