Tuesday, July 21, 2009

 

2.4m sailors from Canada and the US met at National Yacht Club in Toronto for the 2.4 Canadian Championships July 18-19. The weekend started out on the 17th with a scheduled training camp, the wind was nowhere to be seen though and the schedule kept having to be moved back. Finally a few zephers came in and we managed 25 starts and 5 short test races as a tuneup for the races.
 
Saturday the first racing began at 10:30 in good winds between 7 and 10 kts, the race got in 5 good races and by day’s end Paul Tingley RNSYS had a 3 point lead over Allan Leibel of National Yacht Club, it was plenty of racing for one day with courses 45 minute length.
 
Sunday opened with nice but shifty winds from the West at 8-11kts but it was spotty, the National Yacht Club RC jumped on the opportunity and banged off two good races before the wind started to really deteriorate, that is all we could get for the day. In the end Paul Tingley from RNSYS in Halifax won the regatta with a total of 8 points, Allan Leibel from National Yacht Club was second with 15 points, Jerry Wendt also from NYC was third on the countback with 19 points and Glen McKay from NYC was 4th with 19 points, Bruce Millar from NYC and RVYC was 5th with 21 points.
 
National Yacht Club and Allan Leibel put on a great event with plenty of activities to get the sailors together to share racing stories.
 
The next big event of the 2.4 class in Canada will be the North American Championships, which will be attached to Mobility cup Aug 31 to Sept 4 in Toronto, 2.4 class president Danny McCoy says that registrations are going well, if you plan to attend please send them in soon  to assist the organizers with numbers to plan for.
 
Brian Todd
Canadian Sailing Team coach  
 
 
 
 
2009 Canadian Championship - July 18, 19, 2009 - National Yacht Club, Toronto ON
Place
Sail No.
Name
Club
Race 1
Race 2
Race 3
Race 4
Race 5
Race 6
Race 7
Total Pts.
Final Pts.
1
CAN 99
Paul Tingley
RNSYS
1
( 5 )
1
3
1
1
1
13
8
2
CAN 8
Allan Leibel
National YC
2
1
5
2
( 6 )
2
3
21
15
3
CAN 96
Jerry Wendt
National YC
4
3
4
1
3
4
( 5 )
24
19
4
CAN 54
Glenn McKay
National YC
3
4
3
5
2
( 5 )
2
24
19
5
CAN 39
Bruce Millar
RVYC
5
2
2
( 6 )
5
3
4
27
21
6
CAN 3
Darrell Suderman
National YC
6
6
7
4
( 9 )
6
6
44
35
7
CAN 88
Ann Marie Shewfelt
National YC
9
7
( DNS )
8
4
9
8
62
45
8
CAN 14
Peter Wood
BYC
7
( OCS )
6
7
10
11
11
69
52
9
CAN 961
C. MacRae
( 12 )
9
10
12
7
8
7
65
53
10
CAN 42
Scott Lutes
( 15 )
10
12
9
8
7
13
74
59
11
USA 128
Brit Hall
Noroton YC
10
8
9
15
( DNF )
10
10
79
62
12
CAN 40
Nigist Sewnett
National YC
11
12
8
10
( 14 )
13
9
77
63
13
CAN 12
Christine Lavallee
BYC
8
11
13
14
12
( 16 )
14
88
72
14
CAN 81
Marg Hurley
BYC
13
13
11
11
13
( 14 )
12
87
73
15
CAN 1
N. Ferguson
( 16 )
14
14
13
11
12
15
95
79
16
CAN 155
Aaron Wong Sing
BYC
14
15
15
( 16 )
15
15
16
106
90
( Discard )