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Champagne sailing conditions returned to ACCBank Cork Week for Friday's finale that saw South Africans Dave and Steve Hudson collect the overall Boat of the Week trophy for their win in the 40-strong Laser SB3 event.
Dave Hudson runs a Sailing School in Cape Town and is a veteran Fireball sailor who only recently turned his hand to the Laser SB3. The class will hold its first World Championship in Ireland later this year when 150 boats are expected on Dublin Bay. |
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 ONLY 6 DAYS TO CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: In Lipton Challenge Cup’s 100th Year Regatta.
As no late entries will be accepted after 17h00 on Friday 25th July, it is imperative to get your entry in now – all that we require at this stage are : Your Club details; Contact details; Skippers details; Team Managers details; Boat particulars; Registered name of Yacht; Registered owner; SAS registration
As THE event on the 2008 sailing calendar you do not want to miss this Centennial celebration. Apart from the action on the water, Race Organisers have designed a great entertainment programme, FREE breakfast every day and each participant will receive a really special Commemorative Gortex Jacket. |
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 Århus, Denmark – 18 July, 2008 – Great Britain topped the medal table as the podium positions were decided on the final day of racing at the 2008 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship in Århus, Denmark.
On the final day of the 38th championship all the medal positions bar the Boy’s 29er fleet remained the same from yesterday’s leaderboard. Argentines Germán Billoch and Gastón Cheb Terrab clinched a win in the last race of the series pushing the American’s Judge Ryan and Hans Hensen into bronze position.
An elated Terrab explained, “I am really, really happy to get a silver medal here. We had a bad start but we took the right hand side and had great speed. We kept looking for the gusts and when we tacked over we were in front of everyone, including the British boys. We always had speed today and just maintained our lead. USA got a sixth in the race which was enough for us to jump up.” |
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Århus, Denmark – 17 July, 2008 – The records tumbled at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship with all seven titles decided, Great Britain secured the Volvo Trophy and a new generation of sailing stars emerged in Århus.
Cyprus and Great Britain won two titles, with the others going to Australia, France and Italy on a record breaking day in Århus, Denmark. Great Britain is in an unbeatable position in the Volvo Trophy standings and therefore wins the title for the best performing nation at the Youth Worlds for the first time since 1996.
Pavlos Kontides (CYP) became the first ever two-time winner of the ISAF St Lawrence Trophy, presented to the winner of the Boy’s One Person Dinghy event – an incredible achievement considering the sailors to have come closest to it in the past (by winning one gold and one silver medal) are Russell Coutts (NZL), Ben Ainslie (GBR), Dean Barker (NZL) and Dan Slater (NZL)! Kontides did not have his best day today, but has dominated the Laser fleet throughout the series to win with two races to spare. |
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Report by Rob Walker
The Team representing RSA at the ISAF Youth Worlds includes two PYC Youth sailors, Rudy McNeil (Laser boys) and Claire Walker (Laser Radial girls). Also in Team RSA are Cape Townians Taariq Jacobs & Neil Malan (29er), and Matt Whitehead & Michael Ovenstone (catamaran SL16). The boys and girl are coached by Shosholoza tactician David Rae and managed by Hobie Class President Colin Whitehead. David has also recently been appointed the SAS National Coach. RSA was not represented in the double handed girls (29er) nor the sailboard (RS-X) divisions. ISAF Youth Worlds mimics Olympics in every aspect except that it is held annually. There are three course areas and a very high profile set of international race officers, judges & jury. There are no sail numbers on the boats, only country letters aka Olympics, as the competition only allows one skipper/crew per country per division. In Rudy's fleet he is up against the top sailors of 45 different countries and Claire has 40 in her fleet. Age limit is 19. Two races per day are sailed with a lay day after 6 races and one discard every 6 races. The competition is tough, conditions testing and ISAF is out to raise the bar in every respect to groom these young athletes for eventual Olympic campaigns. So much so that the ISAF APP program has sponsored a huge proportion of Team RSA's costs. Our sailors are also grateful for PYC's contribution and a considerable donation from SAS and SASCOC (Department of Sport). Further info can be found on http://www.youthworlds2008.org/ and as a new innovation, each boat carries a GPS chip, and is tracked real time tracking in each race which can be viewed at www.sportcasting.org/home |
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Arhus, Denmark: Great Britain is leading a close four-country battle for the Volvo Trophy, awarded to the best-performing nation at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship.
The young British sailors can enjoy the lay day in Arhus, Denmark today, after a highly successful start to the championship which puts them 17 points clear at the top of the Volvo Trophy standings. New Zealand follow the Brits in second place, whilst the defending champion Australia lie third, just ahead of the host nation Denmark. France, nine-time winners of the Volvo Trophy, complete the top five, but has a lot of ground to make up with a 45-point gap separating them from the British team. |
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Four hundred sailors from 62 nations will take to the world's greatest sporting stage this August as they battle on the Yellow Sea at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Sailing Competition. Confirmation of national places has been received by the International Sailing Federation, along with provisional entry lists detailing the athletes who will compete across the eleven events of the Olympic Sailing Competition. Amongst the 62 nations, Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates enter athletes to the sailing events
of the Olympic Games for the first time. -- Complete story |
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| In a pea-souper fog, Thomas Coville and his 32 m maxi trimaran Sodeb'O crossed the finish line this morning at 09 hours 17 minutes and 40 seconds. With a time of 5 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes and 20 seconds, a time which is yet to be approved by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC), Thomas Coville and Sodeb'O are the new holders of the solo North Atlantic crossing record. |
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Green Dragon VOR Team Adds New Members
The Green Dragon Team's Volvo Open 70 completed its first offshore passage, arriving into Cork in Ireland on Sunday (13/07/08). The boat, was commissioned and has undergone sea trials in Gosport, UK, sailed with a full crew for the 450 mile trip to Ireland. Onboard were two new additions to the Green Dragon Team ; internationally renowned yachtsmen Neal McDonald (GBR) and Anthony Merrington (AUS) have joined the existing 10 strong sailing team. |
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A member of Team Shosholoza's 2007 America's Cup campaign has launched an epic "cycle for leukaemia" to raise funds and awareness for a bone marrow donor organization even though he is back in hospital fighting a desperate battle against the disease.
South African sailmaker Mike Coburn, 35, who was proud to join Team Shosholoza in Valencia, Spain after recovering from a bone marrow transplant himself, is planning to raise funds for the Anthony Nolan Trust by cycling 1000 miles from one end of Britain to the other - John O'Groats to Land's End - in November this year. |
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Arhus, Denmark (July 14, 2008) - France moved to the top in the multihull fleet whilst the other leaders remain unchanged as the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship hit the halfway stage. As of today all competitors at the event have sailed at least six races allowing them to discard their worst score to date. The discard and the shifty winds on the course meant that some sailors shone whilst others fell and rose in the standings.
In the SL16 multihull class the South Africans, Matthew WHITEHEAD and Micheal OVENSTONE were overtaken by the French brothers, Valentin BELLET and Romain BELLET when they discarded their DNF position on day one (started but did not finish the race). The French team were very happy with their rise to the top being as it is Bastille Day, in France. |
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 Due to the Cape Town office moving, the office will be closed from Wednesday, 16th July 2008 and will reopen at the new premises on Monday, 21st July 2008 at 08h00.
The new address and contact number are as follows:
14 Melrose Walk
CLAREMONT
Tel/Fax: 021 671 8669 |
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 Report by Campbell Alexander
The Action Bolt SA Laser Class National Championships enjoyed a week of good winds, sailing off Richards Bay. The Race Officer, Mike Leigh, ran 8 races for the Standard and Radial world-class competitors,
The Radial Class was hotly contested, with Megan Clayton winning the open ladies by keeping her sister Bridget behind as well as young Claire Walker who will be representing South Africa in the International Youth Worlds in Denmark next week.
Capetonians Leo Davis and Matthew Shaw finished 1st and 2nd with a point difference in the Radial open class only just beating Sam Hancock of KZN. |
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Thomas should cross the start line off Ambrose Light tomorrow morning, Wednesday 9th July, between 0600 and 1200 UT.
On stand-by in New York since 19th May, the maxi Sodeb'O skippered by Thomas Coville, will leave Brooklyn Harbour this evening, Tuesday, prior to nightfall (local New York time) in order to position himself on the start line off Ambrose Light. |
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 COMMODORE CALLING
How heartwarming it was to see such a good turn-out at the GLYC annual Prize Giving and AGM in our club house on Sunday 8 June. I know that the lovely winter sunshine and the promise of snacks had something to do with it, but a good turnout at an AGM usually means one of two things: either members are happy with the way in which their club has been run and are keen to participate to show their appreciation, or they are heartily fed-up and keen to voice their dissatisfaction. I am pleased to report that from the very positive contributions made when the traditional grumble session was opened to the floor it was the former! Members were clearly very happy with the way in which their outgoing club President (Thelma Farrell), Commodore (Dave Laing) and Committee have been running things. Quite right too, as the club has had a very good year in a very difficult climate of uncomfortable change in the administration of sailing in South Africa and of declining participation in the sport.
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