Optimist

The Western Cape Optimist Class Racing Association have produced a pretty newsletter.

Download the WC Newsletter HERE (2.5 megabytes)

The teams have been announced to represent RSA at the Worlds Optimist Championships to be held in Niteroi, Brazil, in August 2009, and at the African Optimist Championships to be held in Richards Bay, South Africa, in July:

Worlds Team:

Michael McNeill
Nic Findlay
Matthew McCaul
James Leigh
Alex Burger

Coach: Rudy McNeill Manager: Glynis Baer

Africans Team:

Alex Lehtinen
Heidi Burger
Tammy Shaw
Helen Wertheim-Aymes
Cara Stubbs
Joshua Woolard
Matthew Gaughran
Gustav Hugo
Marcello Marcia
Trent Bingham
Ruben Heard
Tiran Long
David Wilson
Peter Bendon

Coach: Andrea Giovannini

The Final Results from the Optimist Selections sailed in Richards Bay.

The top 5 Sailors are selected for the Optimist Worlds Team.

The next 14 sailors are selected for the Optimist Africans Team - 4 of which must be of the opposite gender.

The Final Results up to the end of Race 13.

Monday saw four races being sailed in the Optimist Selections in Richards Bay.

The preliminary Results up to the end of Race 13.

Sunday saw two races being sailed in the Optimist Selections in Richards Bay.

The preliminary Results up to the end of Race 9.

Yesterday was the second day of the Optimist Selections Championships in Richards Bay, the venue for the African Continental Optimist Champs.

Just two days into the championships and 7 races have been sailed.

The fleet is 22 sailors strong, down on the normal numbers of 30 sailors. All are vying for places in the Worlds and Africans teams.

The preliminary Selections 2009 results (56.3kb PDF Download)