NZL Youth Sailing Team All Within Top 10 After Day 2 At World Championships

by Louise Andrews on 22 Jul 2003 Madeira, Portugal - at the end of day two with five races on the board the 2003 Yachting New Zealand Youth Team are all within the top 10 of their respective classes at the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Madeira.

Veteran Youth Team member Anna Eason is the top scoring New Zealander at the regatta currently in 3rd place in the women's boardsailing class. Team Manager, Paul Page, attributes this result to her good instinctive feeling for the conditions which have been a real test for the sailors. Page reports, ‘the biggest challenge with the conditions is the 200m high cliffs with the top mark only 100m offshore, this produces extremely gusty, shifty, nasty pressure lines and deviations which are unpredictable and which require the sailors! to concentrate on placing themselves in the correct position both upwind and downwind’.

There are four more days of racing sheduled with the regatta finishing on July 25th.

New Zealand Results After 5 Races:

Mistral Women
3rd - Anna Eason (Bucklands Beach Yacht Club)
Mistral Men
5th - David Robertson (Kohimarama Yacht Club)
Laser Radial
5th - Jo Aleh (Kohimarama Yacht Club)
Laser
6th - Luke Judge (Torbay Sailing Club)
420 Men
5th - Alastair Thompson (Torbay Sailing Club) / Scott Kennedy (Kohimarama Yacht Club)
420 Women
7th - Olivia Powrie / Sarah Bilkey (both from Kohimarama Yacht Club)

Support:
Paul Page (Manager) mobile: 021 848 369 or +351 291 96 9500
Ian Neely (Coach)
Matt Davies (Coach)

Useful Links:
For Team Profiles check out the Youth Sailing Pages of our website: www.yachtingnz.org.nz
For venue and entry information see the official website: www.worldyouthsailingmadeira.com