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News Archive
May, 2010
Nominations for 2010 Australian Yachting Awards now open Nominations are now open for the 2010 Australian Yachting Awards, recognising outstanding achievements in the sport of sailing during the year.
The winners will be announced at the 2010 Australian Yachting Awards gala dinner to be held in Sydney on Friday October 15. The 2010 Yachting Awards categories are as follows: - Male Sailor of the Year Nominations for the awards may be made in respect of achievements during the period 1 August 2009 and 15 August 2010. Yachting Australia President Andrew Plympton said that “the annual Yachting Awards provide the ideal opportunity to officially recognise those who contribute so much to, and achieve so much in, sailing.” "From athletes competing on the world stage to the vast number of tireless volunteers involved at every level of the sport, sailing relies heavily on the contribution of everyday Australians so I encourage anybody who feels they know of an individual who should be considered for an award to make a nomination," said Plympton. "The Australian Yachting Awards allow our community to recognise and celebrate those that help to make sailing such an outstanding sport in this country," he said. Plympton will also present the President's Award which recognises outstanding contributions to Australian sailing. Nominations close on 20 August 2010 with details regarding venue and ticket sales to be announced at a later date.
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Two Gold medals for Australian sailors at World Cup in Holland The final day of round five of the ISAF Sailing World Cup has proven to be a golden one for the Australian Sailing Team with Tom Slingsby winning the Gold medal in the Laser class while Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen claimed first in the 49ers in an action packed medal race. Slingsby headed into the deciding medal race with a 16 point lead over second placed Nick Thompson of Great Britain knowing that he would have to keep his eye on his competitor to take the Gold medal. “The medal race was really tricky, you had to really back yourself on what side you wanted to go which forced me to be a bit indecisive because I wanted to follow my competitors who were close to me on points and also sail my own race,” said Slingsby. “I ended up doing a bit of a mix and came home second by about a boat length to Paul Goodison which was a great result.”
Slingsby’s second place in the medal race, coupled with Nick Thompson’s ninth saw the Australian take the regatta victory by 25 points, a great result given that he finished outside the top ten at the same event last year.
“My last two grade one events, Sail for Gold in Weymouth and here have both been wins by 25 points, which seems to be a lucky number for me,” he said. “I’m really happy with the result and I’m sailing well so I’ve got everything to be pleased about at the moment.”
The route to the Gold medal wasn’t as straightforward for Outteridge and Jensen who had to put two boats between themselves and the first placed Austrians and hold off the third placed New Zealanders.
“We started the medal race off with a bit of match racing between us and the Austrians in the pre-start,” said Outteridge. “We started on port and around the first mark the Austrians were first, we were second and the Kiwis third so we had a bit on to put boats between us and Austria. It stayed that way for a bit then we hit the lead and in the bottom mark for the second time we managed to get a rule infringement on the Austrians and they ended up capsizing which definitely put two boats between us and them.”
“From then on all we had to do was stay in front of the Kiwis which we did, making it a very successful event for us, a bit stressful at times and there was a little bit of luck in there for us,” he said. “At first I didn’t realise that the Austrians went over, we went around the mark and I knew they were really close to us and then when I turned around and saw them capsized it was like alright we just had to stay ahead of the Kiwis and we’ve got it in the bag,” he said.
Jensen enjoyed the close Trans-Tasman battle with Peter Burling and Blair Tuke of New Zealand who they’ve trained with closely and competed against on home waters over the summer.
“It was pretty close between us and the Kiwis and around the bottom mark they were only two or three lengths behind us but we seemed to be moving through the water a bit better up the last beat and managed to extend a little on then, meaning all we had to do was hold it together on the downwind to win it.”
The medal race result gave Outteridge and Jensen a three point overall victory over Burling and Tuke in second place with the Austrian crew in third position.
In the RS:X class Jessica Crisp had a great run in the opening medal race of the day to finish second which saw her jump from her overnight seventh to be fifth overall. In the light, shifty conditions of the morning Crisp had a solid start and once in second position powered on, keeping Great Britain’s Bryony Shaw at bay and finishing behind Marina Alabau of Spain.
Krystal Weir powered home in the Laser Radial fleet, finishing the medal race in fourth position to move up to fifth overall in her return to the class. It was a great fight back from Weir who found herself rounding the top mark last on the second beat. Weir was still at the back of the fleet at the bottom mark and then headed to the right of the course which paid off as she moved through the fleet to fourth at the finish.
The Australian Women’s Match Racing Team crew of Nicky Souter, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price finished the regatta in seventh position after defeating Anna Kjellberg in the seventh and eighth playoff.
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Belcher and Page win Silver medal at Sailing World Cup in Holland The Australian Sailing Team’s 470 men’s crew of Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page has won the Silver medal at the Delta Lloyd Holland Regatta, extending their overall lead of the ISAF Sailing World Cup. Belcher and Page’s result capped off a great day for the Australians with Tom Slingsby opening up a 16 point lead in the Laser class, 49er crew Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen moving to second overall, Krystal Weir holding down sixth in the Laser Radial and RS:X sailor Jessica Crisp climbing up to seventh. All four crews will contest the final medal races on Sunday. For Belcher and Page the day provided a great opportunity to close in on the leading two teams with two fleet races and the medal race scheduled.
“We went into today fourth, just a couple of points off third and about nine to second,” said Belcher. “We started the day quite well finishing fifth in the first race and to our surprise the leaders from Great Britain had an OCS in that race which really opened up the game. In the second race we were first to the top mark but lost a little bit of an opportunity but came home in ninth, leaving us second going into the medal race.”
“The medal race was quite difficult, with it being held so late in the evening and with bad weather closing in it actually made the wind quite difficult,” said Page. “We started off in a decent breeze of about 10 knots but by the end it had faded to about three or four knots with a 30 to 40 degree shift towards the end of the race so it was pretty stressful in the sense of trying to manage the points as best we could and luckily it all fell into place and we secured second which we’re really pleased with.”
In the Laser fleet two time World Champion Tom Slingsby had two strong results, finishing fourth in both races to open up a 16 point lead over Nick Thompson of Great Britain with Chile’s Matias Del Solar a point further back.
“The conditions were really shifty out there today,” said Slingsby. “Both sides seemed to work really well and up the middle you got a bit caught out, I just tried to take a little risk but not too much and play the side I wanted too and I was lucky and ended up with a good day.”
“With a top eight tomorrow I’ll win, Nick needs to win the race and have me finish ninth or worse, it sounds easy but tomorrow is going to be windy and if I break gear anything can happen so I’ve got to make sure I win it.”
Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen took another step towards winning back-to-back Delta Lloyd Holland Regattas with three solid races on the penultimate day of the event.
“We had three races on the last day of the gold fleet and we started off well with a third and then got caught in the pack a bit in the next two races,” said Outteridge. “We picked up an 11th and a 10th so it was pretty tight racing and at times we were counting from the back two behind us but we managed to save the day and move up to second overall.”
“We’re six points off the Austrians in the lead and one point ahead of the New Zealanders in third so ideally we put three boats between us and the Austrians and win the regatta,” he said. “But as you know when you go racing anything can happen and it’s just about staying out of trouble and put some boats between us and the Austrians without letting the Kiwis get ahead of us.”
After two years away from the class Krystal Weir’s great return to the Laser Radials continued as she finished with a seventh and a hard fought fourth to remain sixth overall, tied on points with fifth place, going into the medal race.
“In the second race today I had a really good start and just ended up on the wrong side of a shift on the first beat and was struggling a bit, rounding the top mark in 19th,” said Weir. “Through the rest of the race I just did minimal losses and had a really good second beat where I just stayed in the pressure and stayed at the right angle and sailed my way through the fleet.”
“I always love a good medal race, they’re always a fun with a bit more on the line with double points and with the jury right out there so it should be enjoyable,” she said.
Jessica Crisp had a long afternoon on the water, with just one RS:X women’s race possible due to the constantly shifty winds, finishing fourth to move up to seventh from her overnight position of ninth. Heading into the medal race Crisp has plenty to race for, currently sitting two points off sixth and just four off fifth position.
The Australian Women’s Match Racing Team crew of Nicky Souter, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price had a tough day on the water, losing their quarterfinal to British sailor Lucy Macgregor three-nil. The Australian crew had great starts in the opening two races, beating Macgregor to the top mark both times but were reeled back in on the downwind. In the third race the Australians received a penalty in the pre-start and eventually lost but will be back on the water on Sunday morning in the play-off for fifth to eighth positions.
Australian Sailing Development Squad sailor Tom Burton jumped up the ladder in the Laser class to 16th overall, finishing the day with an eighth and a win while Ashley Brunning is 21st and Ryan Palk 34th. Mark Whittington is holding down 47th with Ki-Raphael Sulkowski 74th. In the 49er silver fleet Will and Sam Phillips started the day with an OCS but bounced back with two third places.
In the Finn class Brendan Casey narrowly missed out on the medal race finishing in 11th, ahead of Rob McMillan in 33rd, Tim Castles in 36th and Chris Caldecoat in 55th.
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Great day of racing for Australian sailors in Holland Day three of the Delta Lloyd World Cup regatta has been full of positive results for the Australian Sailing Team with the majority of the team racing up their respective leader boards. Laser sailor Tom Slingsby moved from third to first, 49er crew Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen jumped from 10th to third, Krystal Weir went from 10th to sixth in the Laser Radial class, 470 sailors Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page raced up the ladder from 14th to fourth and Nicky Souter and crew moved into the quarter-finals of the Women’s Match Racing event. Slingsby had a great day on the water with three strong results to be leading the Laser class after the opening three races of the gold fleet.
“Today was another tricky day, I think Holland’s full of them but I did pretty well with a first, 13th and third,” said Slingsby. “We went into the gold fleet today and the scores were up and down so I was really happy to get through with a good day.”
“My main goal today was to be conservative but it didn’t always turn out that way, sometimes you had to take a lot of risks but I was lucky and most of my risks paid off,” he said.
“In the second race I was about 30th but got back to 12th, I was quick downwind today and managed to pull about five boats back each run which was the big thing and then each beat I chipped away picking up one or two or three and when you add up each leg it adds up to about 15 boats so I was really happy to get back,” said Slingsby.
Australian 49er crew Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen had a consistent day of racing finishing with a sixth, fifth, second and third moving up the ladder to third overall to be just seven points off the lead.
In shifty conditions with gusts of up to 20 knots the Australian pair have put themselves into a good position heading into the business end of the regatta with four races scheduled for Saturday before Sunday’s medal race.
“Today was the first day of the gold fleet and it’s always good to start off with a few results in the top five and we managed three top fives and a six so we were probably not the best boat of the day but definitely in the top two,” said Outteridge.
Laser Radial sailor Krystal Weir had a bundle of sixes with three sixth place finishes moving her up to sixth overall in her return to the class. The 2008 Beijing Olympian is just one point off fifth position and within striking distance of a top three finish heading into the final two days of the regatta.
In the 470 class Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page were the big movers of the day racing up ten positions to be fourth overall after a fourth, fifth and 10th in the gold fleet.
“It was much nicer to be able to race people and know that what your place is on the water is what you do on the scorecard,” said Page. “There’s nothing worse than when you can’t control someone in another fleet, we much prefer gold fleet racing.”
“I suppose our style of racing is more suited to the gold fleet scenario, we tend to play the fleet and play the percentages so our scorecard today was pretty similar to the first day of qualifying but today it’s worth more with all the good guys in the one fleet,” he said.
Belcher and Page are just two points outside of the medal places and with another two races scheduled before the final medal race on Saturday night there is still ample opportunity to move further forward.
The Australian Women’s Match Racing crew of Nicky Souter, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price battled their way through the repechage to qualify for the quarter-finals with four wins and a loss in a day of almost sudden death racing.
“With only five races today we knew the racing was going to be very tight for the last two positions in the quarter finals so we just went out there and did everything we could,” said Souter. “Going into tomorrow every team is even and we start off with a clean slate. We’re ranked eighth for tomorrow so we’re up against the number one team but they’re just another competitor and we’ve proven before that we can beat them all so nothing is going to change tomorrow.”
Fellow women’s match racers Katie Spithill, Jessica Eastwell and Angela Farrell had a tougher day than their Australian counterparts, recording two wins and three losses to finish the regatta in ninth position.
In the RS:X women’s fleet Jessica Crisp is currently in ninth position after finishing with a 23rd, 10th and fifth.
In the Laser fleet the Australian Sailing Development Squad’s Ashley Brunning is 13th, ahead of Tom Burton in 30th and Ryan Palk in 41st. Fellow Australians Mark Whittington and Ki-Raphael Sulkowski are 47th and 66th respectively. In the 49er silver fleet Will and Sam Phillips recorded an 11th, DNF, first and fifth in Friday’s four races.
Brendan Casey remains the best placed Australian in the Finn class in 15th overall, ahead of Tim Castles in 31st, Rob McMillan in 37th and Chris Caldecoat in 56th.
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Australian sailors bounce back in Holland It was a day of form reversal for a number of Australian Sailing Team crews at round five of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Holland with Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen in the 49er class, Jessica Crisp in the RS:X and Women's Match Racers Nicky Souter and Katie Spithill all having a strong results on the water. The variable weather once again played a major role on the events of the day with the five knot breeze that greeted sailors in the morning dying out around lunchtime resulting in a number of fleets returning to shore without finishing the full compliment of races. The breeze filled in again late in the day with the Laser and RS:X fleets not getting racing underway until after 6pm. Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen quickly put the mixed results of day one behind them, winning the opening 49er race and finishing seventh in the second. The pair jumped up the leader board to be tenth at the end of the day and closing right in on the leaders.
“We had a much better day today with a first and a seventh so we’re pretty happy with that,” said Outteridge. “Tomorrow we head into finals racing and we’ll be in the gold fleet with the top boats which will offer us the first chance this regatta to mix it up with the top guys and a good chance to move up.”
“It was really light today with the forecast for less than five knots and we would have been lucky to even see that,” he said. “The first race was really short, only about 18 minutes and less than five to the first mark. We picked it nicely off the pin and led from start to finish and in the second race we tried the same but a bit of pressure came down the middle and we were in the top ten and ended up seventh.”
“It was a tough day’s racing but to get the results we did was good considering some guys at the front of the fleet had both results outside the top 20.”
“Iain and I haven’t done a regatta since the Worlds back in January so it’s been about five months out of the boat and it just takes a while to remember how to race against a lot of boats,” he said. “We’re coming along well and we typically start with a pretty bad first day so there’s no change for this one and hopefully we can keep moving forward.”
Once the RS:X women’s fleet finally got underway Jessica Crisp was unstoppable, with the three time Olympian leading the only race of the day from start to finish and as a result leapt up the ladder to seventh overall.
“Today was great, I led from the start to the finish and pulled right out during the race so it’s pretty exciting,” said Crisp. “Yesterday was a bad day and today made up for it, I did a lot of things differently, whereas yesterday I was freezing cold and a bit paralysed by it but today I got out of the boat and did all my prestart stuff and was watching the wind and knew what to do, I just got up and did it.”
“The conditions were very light, I trained for that for the Beijing Games so it’s kind of my conditions, we pumped the whole way, it was a bit of a pump-a-thon, so I got a bit of exercise as well,” she said.
The two Australian Women’s Match Racing Team crews headed into the second day of racing with their work cut out for them, knowing they’d need to push hard to progress to the next round of the competition.
And push hard they did, with Katie Spithill alongside crew Jessica Eastwell and Angela Farrell and fellow Australians Nicky Souter, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price each having two wins and a loss to finish third and fourth respectively in their group to qualify for the repecharge round.
Souter began the day with wins against Lotte Meldgaard of Denmark and Silja Lehtinen of Finland while Spithill had a loss against Lehtinen before defeating Meldgaard meaning that she had to beat Souter in the final match of the opening round.
Spithill put a penalty on her Australian teammates in the pre-start and from there stayed close throughout the race and hung on to take the win and progress into the Friday repecharge.
“I’d be lying if I said it was easy,” said Spithill. “It was definitely a very tough morning and we still made a lot of valuable mistakes but I guess the aim for us it to learn from them and we’ve been given a second chance now and we can take these lessons into the repechage round.”
“Going into the last race against Nicky it was the same as always, as soon as we hit the water they’re just another team so for us it doesn’t matter who they are or what the score is we just have to win every race,” she said.
“We now have a clean slate for tomorrow, we definitely have to take the lessons we’ve learnt forward but obviously forget about the losses and take every race as an opportunity,” said Spithill.
The Australian Sailing Team 470 men’s crew of Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page had a tougher day on the water picking up a black flag in the opening race before fighting back with a 14th place in race two to be 14th overall when the fleet was sent to shore due to a lack of wind.
In the Laser class Tom Slingsby sits in third position after finishing with a 14th in the one and only race of the day, while fellow Australians Tom Burton, Ashley Brunning and Ryan Palk are 20th, 23rd and 44th respectively. Mark Whittington is 46th and Ki-Raphael Sulkowski is 68th.
Krystal Weir continued her solid form in the Laser Radial class with her 11th and 10th position finishes leaving her 10th overall after the opening five races.
In the Finn class Brendan Casey is in 12th position, ahead of Tim Castles in 27th, Rob McMillan in 38th and Chris Caldecoat in 54th.
The Australian Sailing Development Squad 49er crew of Will and Sam Phillips are in 48th position with the Victorian brothers having an eighth and 23rd today.
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Australian crews in top ten after day one of ISAF Sailing World Cup in Holland The Australian Sailing Team's Laser, Laser Radial and 470 competitors have started round five of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in style, all finishing day one well inside the top ten. With the temperature barely into double digits and the wind continually shifting throughout the day, sailors had their work cut out for them with up and down results in all fleets. Dual Laser World Champion Tom Slingsby is the best placed Australian in second overall, with a ninth, fifth and a first leaving him with 15 points, eight behind the leader, Javier Hernandez of Spain.
“Today was a good day, there were a lot of opportunities to have a really good score today but nobody really took it,” said Slingsby. “I was happy with a nine, five and one, you can’t win the regatta on the first day but you can definitely lose it and I wanted to get through unscathed.”
The Delta Lloyd Holland regatta is Slingsby’s first since winning the 2010 Australian Laser Championship in January and his first international event since the final round of last year’s Sailing World Cup in England, which he also won.
“I was surprised I’ve gotten back into it so quickly,” he said. “I can only go up from here and I’m still a bit rusty, I’ll iron out those small problems and be fine soon.”
Krystal Weir was impressive in her first World Cup regatta in the Laser Radial class for a number of years, picking up an 11th and two sixth positions to end the day fifth overall.
“I’m really excited that I’m right up there after today,” said Weir. “I’m not too surprised though as I’ve had a lot of years in the Radial but it’s nice to know that I’ve still got it.”
“I’m enjoying being back in the class, facing the challenge again of really close racing,” she said. “It’s amazing how the little things make a big difference out there. It was pretty choppy, the water was really hard to sail in and with the girls all sailing at a pretty high level it was a tough day of racing.”
Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page are sixth in the 470 men’s fleet, with the Australian Sailing Team crew finishing with a fourth, fifth and ninth on day one.
“We started off well in race one where we were first around the top mark which is always nice,” said Belcher. “We fell back a little but the conditions were really difficult so we were trying to get some good races on board and be a little conservative on day one.”
“The 470 fleet has 93 boats and with all the top 20 here along with the medalists from the Beijing Olympics it’s a good test for us in the lead up to our World Championships in July,” he said.
In the 49er class Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen had a mixed day, finishing the opening four races in 17th overall. The pair had a 10th, 20th, 16th and third in their first regatta since finishing second at the 2010 49er World Championship.
With another four races scheduled for day two Outteridge and Jensen will be looking to close the gap on the leading crews.
The Australian Women’s Match Racing Team crews have their work cut out for them on day two after both recording two wins and two losses in their opening four matches.
Nicky Souter, sailing alongside Nina Curtis and Olivia Price and Katie Spithill with crew Jessica Eastwell and Angela Farrell were paired in the same group and had identical days, having victories against Mulder of the Netherlands and Pic of Poland and losses to Skudina of Russia and Bekatorou of Greece.
With the top two crews from each group going directly into the gold round robin the two Australian Women’s Match Racing Crews will be pushing hard to chase down the leaders.
In the RS:X women’s class Jessica Crisp is 13th overall, six points off the top 10 after a 12th, 22nd and 11th in the opening three races of the regatta.
Australian Sailing Development Squad sailor Tom Burton is 27th in the Laser fleet, followed by Ashley Brunning in 34th and Ryan Palk in 41st. Fellow Australians Mark Whittington and Ki-Raphael Sulkowski are 53rd and 76th respectively.
The ASDS 49er crew of Will and Sam Phillips are 52nd overall while in the Finn class Australian Brendan Casey is ninth, Rob McMillan is 38th, Tim Castles is 39th and Chris Caldecoat is 60th.
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Australian Sailing Team athletes prepare for World Cup regatta in Holland Australian Women's Match Racing Team training in Holland The Australian Sailing Team is in the final stages of preparation for round five of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Medemblik, Holland, with racing set to begin on Wednesday, 26 May. The 2010 Delta Lloyd Holland Regatta will be the first time the entire team has competed at the same regatta this year and with large, competitive fleets in every class it will provide an opportunity to gauge progress on the long road to the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Australian Sailing Team crew of Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page continue to lead the 470 men’s ISAF Sailing World Cup standings, four points clear of the Swedish and French teams.
Page has recently returned from the Farr 40 World Championship in the Dominican Republic and in his absence Belcher contested the 470 Spring Cup in Marseille and round four of the ISAF Sailing World Cup with Australian Sailing Development Squad sailor Will Ryan, where the pair finished first and sixth respectively.
“We’ve been progressing quite well since I joined up with Mat again,” said Page. “Yesterday we had our first practice races and were quickly reminded of the quality of the international fleet.”
“We had our work cut out early but as we progressed we got ourselves sorted out by the end of the day,” he said. “It was good to get some practice in against a high quality, international fleet, we just don’t get that at home.”
The Australian Women’s Match Racing Team will take part in their first regatta since being refined to six members recently, with Katie Spithill sailing alongside Jessica Eastwell and Angela Farrell while 2009 Women’s Match Racing World Champion Nicky Souter will compete with Nina Curtis and Olivia Price.
“The whole team feels relieved now that we’re down to the six of us,” said Souter. “We can now focus on the next two years, not having to worry about the next two months and who would make the cut. We now have a different mindset and can focus on what is ahead of us in the long term.”
“Since arriving in Holland we spent two and a half days training with the Dutch which was good preparation,” she said. “We had between five and 15 knots of breeze which allowed us to train in a range of different conditions.”
“With 24 crews competing in the regatta from 19 different countries we’re looking forward to taking on some new nations such as China and Slovenia and as a team we’ve got our eyes set on the semi-finals.”
For 49er crew Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen this week’s regatta will be the first time they’ve competed together since finishing second at the 2010 49er World Championship in the Bahamas in January.
It’s also been a year since Outteridge and Jensen teamed up and the pair have had incredible success since then, winning the 2009 49er World Championship, four ISAF Sailing World Cup Regattas, the 2009 49er Australian Championship and the 2009 Sail Sydney Regatta.
Tom Slingsby will be looking to continue his good form in the Laser class, following victories at his last two regattas, the final round of last year’s ISAF Sailing World Cup in England and the 2010 Australian Laser Championship.
Krystal Weir, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games representative in the Ynglng class, returns to the Laser Radial class with the 2010 Delta Lloyd Holland Regatta her first major international event in the class for a number of years.
Three-time Olympian Jessica Crisp had a strong result in Holland in 2009, finishing fifth, and the RS:X sailor will be keen for another good showing as we close in on two years to go until the 2012 London Olympic Games.
A contingent of Australian Sailing Development Squad will also contest the regatta including Will and Sam Phillips in the 49er class and Ashley Brunning, Ryan Palk and Tom Burton in the Laser.
The Finn class features a number of Australian competitors with former Australian Sailing Team member Brendan Casey sailing alongside Chris Caldecoat, Tim Castles and Rob McMillan.
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Yachting Australia congratulates Jessica Watson Yachting Australia welcomes Jessica Watson safely home and congratulates her on successfully circumnavigating the globe in Ella’s Pink Lady. | ||||||||||||
National Keelboat Scheme Instructor Training Below is an outline of how the Keelboat Scheme is structured and how 'In-House' and Senior Instructor training occurs. The levels of instructor qualification for this Scheme are as follows:
Keelboat Instructor
Senior Keelboat Instructor (Seamanship) or (Racing)
* with external moderation from a Yachting Australia appointed Assessor 'In-House' Instructor Training Keelboat Instructor Training may be conducted 'In-House' at a recognised Yachting Australia Training Centre. The minimum course duration is 2 days, or 12 hours. The course must be run by a Senior Instructor and moderated by an external Keelboat Instructor Assessor or Senior Instructor who will be appointed by Yachting Australia. YATCs wishing to arrange a moderation should contact Yachting Australia* of have the student complete the application for assessment form YA10 (below). Once a moderation has been arranged, enquiries about course content and management should be directed to the Assessor. * A minimum lead time of 2 weeks is required for the engagement of an external Assessor. All travel and accommodation costs (where applicable) should be negotiated between the Assessor and the Club. How to run a 'Keelboat Instructor' Course at your YATC (please see link to guidance notes below) The Student: • Sailing Ability – should at least be above the level of Keelboat Helm
• Hold a current First Aid certificate
• Minimum age of 16 yrs
• VHF (preferred)
• Possess Keelboat Logbook, workbook and textbook
The Instructor:
• Deliver on-water training (min 9 hrs) either as part of a 'live' course or dedicated 'In-House' Instructor Course
• Use YAIW Instructor Workbook
• Use Keelboat Instructor Course Presentation (available below)
• Prepare session plans (template below)
• Follow the EDICT method with use of YA Keelboat Instructor presentation (see below)
• De-brief effectively
• Contact Yachting Australia to arrange an assessment by a SI/Assessor by completing form YA10 (attached below)
Senior Instructor Training overview
Senior Instructor courses are held by Yachting Australia. Please see our INSTRUCTOR COURSE SCHEDULE for further information.
Course Pre-Requisites
Applicants should be qualified Keelboat Instructors and familiar with the structure and syllabus of the Keelboat Scheme. (See previous page.) Before applying for this course, Instructors should be aware of the technical abilities required to deliver the more advanced elements of the Scheme. These include but are not limited to: ·Sailing a 'figure of eight' rudderless
·Sailing backwards
·Sailing on and off a mooring under control
·Retrieving MOB
·Using Spinnakers - symmetric and asymmetric
Performance at demonstrating the above combined with experience and overall instructional ability will determine the level of qualification awarded. It is strongly advised that you practise the above and familiarise yourself with the syllabus prior to attending an Instructor Course.
All Yachting Australia Instructors must hold a current first aid certificate.
April tbc Brisbane Cost: $350 Registraion closes: Aug 24-25 Perth Cost: $495 Registration closes: Jul 27th To apply for either of the above mentioned Instructor courses, please complete the relevant application form and return to Yachting Australia. Places will be allocated on a first ‘first come, first served’ basis with all other candidates being shortlisted. A deposit of 25% is due at the time of booking and the remainder will be due (where applicable) 4 weeks prior to course commencement. Please read the terms and conditions of entry before signing.
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Australian Women's Match Racing Team AnnouncedYachting Australia has announced the Australian Women's Match Racing Team (AWMRT) to train and compete towards the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Team of six athletes, including two skippers, has been confirmed as:
The AWMRT will now represent Australia at forthcoming ISAF Sailing World Cup rounds at Medemblik in the Netherlands, Kiel in Germany and Weymouth in England. Dayne Sharp will continue as the Australian Women’s Match Racing Team coach.
All members of the AWMRT will also be offered scholarships for the Australian Institute of Sport Sailing program, joining the members of the Australian Sailing Team in this elite program.
Yachting Australia’s High Performance Director Peter Conde said the selection process to select the six from the original ten athletes had been difficult but exhaustive.
“It’s always a difficult process to select final team members from large squads, however we have a rigorous process of performance monitoring, consultation and input from the squad members themselves which we use for selection,” said Conde.
“All ten original squad members showed particularly high levels of ability but we feel we now have the best of the best to move forward with towards our goal of a Women’s Match Racing gold medal at the Olympic Games in 2012.”
The Team includes world class talent. Nicky Souter is the current Women’s Match Racing World Champion; Katie Pellew (nee Spithill) led a crew which included Nina Curtis to a fourth overall finish at the recent Semaine Olympique Francois De Voile in Hyeres; and Angela Farrell was part of Australia’s Yngling team at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Nicky Souter said she was thrilled to be selected for the final squad.
“Obviously it’s very exciting to be named in the final six, especially as all of the girls have been performing at a high standard,” said Souter.
“Now everything will ramp up another level – we’re off to Europe for three weeks’ solid training and competition so the rest of the year will be really busy.
“But that’s exciting too because it’s taking us one step closer to the bigger goal of getting to the Olympic Games and now we need to focus and do the best we can.”
Angela Farrell said she was appreciative of the second chance to tilt at an Olympic medal. Having competed in the Yngling class at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Farrell understands the pressures of an Olympic campaign but also values the position she is in.
“There are a lot of things you wish you could do differently in your campaigns, so I’m very lucky to have the opportunity to do things right this time around to give me the best chance to win an Olympic Medal,” said Farrell.
“I’m really pleased to be part of such a great group of talented match racers so we can all learn from each other as well.”
The AWMRT will next compete at the Delta Lloyd Regatta in Medemblik, The Netherlands starting 26 May 2010.
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Aussies Retain Fourth and Sixth in Hyeres Belcher Retains Lead in World Cup Pointscore Mat Belcher and Will Ryan Lead the Fleet in Race 8 at Hyeres Hyeres, France: The Australian Women's Match Racing and Mens 470 sailing teams have finished the 42nd Semaine Olympique Francaise De Voile regatta in fourth and sixth position respectively. Katie Spithill and her crew of Nina Curtis and Amanda Scrivenor finished fourth behind against France’s Claire Leroy in the semi finals of the Women’s Match Racing. The Women’s Match Racing was won by Germany’s Silke Hahlbrock and crew. In the Men’s 470s Mat Belcher and Will Ryan finished in the medal race in fourth position but it wasn’t enough to put them on the podium and they ended the regatta sixth overall. The Men’s 470 class was won by France, with Nicholas Charbonnier and Baptiste Meyer Dieu taking Gold.
However, it’s the impact the results have on the ISAF Sailing World Cup that are most important, as this event forms round four of the seven part World Cup series.
Australia continues to lead the standings in the Men’s 470 class in the World Cup, while Spithill’s crew are ranked eighth and Lucinda Whitty’s crew are placed tenth in the Women’s Match Racing standings.
Round Five of the ISAF Sailing World Cup will take place at Medemblik in The Netherlands, from 26 May 2010.
Mathew Belcher will regroup for this event with his regular crew Malcolm Page, where they will be joined by all other Olympic class members of the Australian Sailing Team as well as the members of the Australian Women’s Match Racing Team.
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