2014 Sail Canada Senior National Championships at CORK OCR
by Marianne Davis on 16 Aug 2014
Sail Canada Senior National Championships CORK
2014 Sail Canada Senior National Championships - Hot on the heels of hosting the Youth Championships, CORK Kingston is set to greet over 250 sailors at the Olympic Classes Regatta and Senior National Championships. Registration and check-in begins today with racing from Saturday through until Wednesday August 20th.
Several members of the Canadian Sailing Team are in town and excited to sail CORK OCR/Senior Championships as final preparation for the World Championships in September. The laser fleet includes five CST sailors, Lee Parkhill (fresh from the RIO test event), Evert McLaughlin, Tom Ramshaw, Matt Ryder and February Sailor of the month Robert Davis.
National Team coach Steve Mitchell is looking forward to using this event as a build up for the ISAF World Championships in Santander, Spain. 'Podium and Top 10 for all five guys is the expectation for this event. We have been working hard on improving on their weaknesses from the European season.'
The Radial fleet will have four CST sailors competing including Brenda Bowskill, Claire Merry, Violet Stafford and Sarah Douglaswhile the Finn fleet will see Olympian Greg Douglas, Martin Robitaille, Jeff Roney, Kyle Martin and Riley Finch competing for top spot among the heavyweights.
49er and FX teams have been training in Kingston for over a week now, and are ready for action including Barnes/Mori, Brodeur/Inkpen, and the Ferguson brothers. FX teams also prepping for the Worlds include Rafuse/Boyd, Berry/Merry teams. Canadian Youth World team members Fannie Alcala and Gabriel Verrier-Paquette will test training at CORK in the RSX fleet.
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