Sunday Junior Sailing News from 27 March 2022

What a fantastic day of sailing at RMYS on Sunday to mark the running of the 2022 Napier Cup!

A thoroughly enjoyable day had by all, the junior squad can’t thank the club enough for organizing the event, the feedback I’ve had is amazing, everyone had such a great time, a fantastic introduction to keelboat racing.

A massive thanks to all the boats that entered Sunday’s race being;

Sunshine, Double Shot, Vitamin C, Buck, Cloud Ten, Take Five, Vagabond, Hot Shot, Boots, Forzado and Archimedes all took place in the race.

In particular, the Junior Racing squad would especially like to thank;

Jim – Sunshine

Ron – Buck

David – Cloud Ten

Steve – Double Shot

Jurgen  – Take Five

Andrew – Vagabond

Michael – Hot Shot

For allowing the juniors to take the helm of their boats under their expert guidance.

 

Congratulations to Junior squad members.

Alex WARD (Buck) for first place and Hayden GOLD (Cloud Ten) for third place. The junior squad also congratulates Cameron’s girls for their second-place finish on Vitamin C. (NB: We’d love for you guys to join the squad as well)

Special thanks to Ross Flood for a great job as Race Officer, Greg Blackwood skippering Rohan Brownlee as the media boat and Colin Burgess for getting this all organized so very well.

Please find a link to an absolutely fantastic YouTube video of the 2022 Napier Cup made by David Vlasic who is one of our junior squad parents. Simply Brilliant.

Watch the video below or click here.

 

Kind Regards,

Graeme Savage

RMYS Junior Racing Squad Parents Committee.