New South Wales Youth Sailing Championships preview
by Peter Campbell on 28 Sep 2012
Heavy weather Laser sailing on the Derwent - NSW Youth Sailing Championships 2012 Dane Kojek
NSW Youth Sailing Championships are being held on Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, this weekend. A team of ten teenage Tasmanian sailors will contest the Sailing Championships as an important step towards contesting the Cational Championships in Hobart over Christmas and the New Year.
The sailors, members of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s Dinghy Group will compete in five different classes at the championships, which have attracted more than 200 entries from NSW and other States.
Several of the team have already had international experience and are expected to do well on the broad coastal lake, particularly in the fresh winds forecast for the weekend.
Heading the team will be 15-year-old Jock Calvert, who is emerging as a leading sailor in the Bic Techno sailboard class, and Anna Vaughan, who will contest the Laser Radial class along with Maddie Davies and Freddie Brown.
Anna is a talented and experienced 16-year-old who, when sailing in the Laser 4.7 class, won heats of the world championships.
Jock’s younger brother, Angus, has changed to the Optimist class, his eyes on the national championships to be conducted by Sandy Bay Sailing Club next January.
Edmund Hargreaves will be contesting the Laser 4.7 class while Morgan Davies and Lachlan Hargreaves will racing in the double-handed 420 class.
The championships start tomorrow and continue on Sunday and Monday with up to ten races for each division.
The Laser Radial and Laser 4.7, Optimist and 420 class Australian championships and the Australian youth sailing championships will be sailed on the Derwent over Christmas – New Year.
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