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In this issue: Ignore those blizzards
• Royal Van launches America’s Cup challenges
• Masters, ILCA and 2.4M reports
• Billy Gooderham on the flight deck
• An up and down week for CAN SailGP
• The Rules Guy looks at finishes
• More tips for 2023 campaign
Contributors this issue: Mark Lammens, Andrew Alberti, Chris Francis, Dave Dellenbaugh, Royal Vancouver YC, RORC, Sail Canada
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News
Royal Van Launches Women’s and Youth CA Teams
Sponsored by the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, the Canadian women’s team will be led by former National Team Member and CANSail GP Strategist, Isabella Bertold. History will be made when the all-female Team Canada entry participates in next year’s first only Women’s America Cup. As well as the Women only addition to the Americas Cup, we will be sending a Youth’s Team to the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona, Spain. After 137 years as a male sport, women and youths will compete for their own America’s Cup Trophy.
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Regattas
Charlottetown Race Week 2023 Announced July 13-15
The Charlottetown Yacht Club in partnership with title sponsor EZ DOCK is excited to announce that Charlottetown Race Week 2023 will be taking place on Thursday, July 13th - Saturday, July 15th, 2023. Registration for Charlottetown Race Week 2023 is now open for one design and PHRF racing. After a banner year in 2022, attracting 36 boats and crews, with 18 visiting crews, CRW 2023 is planning to continue growing the number of visiting and local participants. The organizing committee plans on having a PHRF Fleet, Etchells fleet, J/29 fleet, Farr 30 fleet, and J/70 fleet.
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People
CANSailGP Flight Controller, Billy Gooderham
Yes, there’s GB, NZ and USA but who says Canada can’t produce some sailing stars. Billy Gooderham is well on his way as flight controller (more on that later) on Canada’s SailGP F50. As you can well imagine, this is no small feat, but the good news is that Canada’s is developing world class sailors to accomplish these tasks. Dollars are a good place to start. As Billy notes with a laugh, “nothing goes upwind like money.” While not quite at the Mitch Marner level, Sail GP crew get paid. They particularly enjoy paydays when they win.
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Update
Canadians Compete in International Events
ILCA 6 World Championships. Congratulations to Allan Clark, 2023 ILCA 6 Masters World Champion in the Grand Master Fleet. The competition, which ended February 19, was held in Pattaya, Thailand. Canadian results. Apprentice Fleet (/9). 4. Isaac Bussin. Master Fleet (/14). 13. Ryan Bennett. Grand Master Fleet (/42). 1. Allan Clark. 35. John Kortbeek. Great Grand Master Fleet (/32). 16. Keith Kennedy. Portugal Grand Prix: Sarah Douglas took the 5th spot in ILCA 6 at the 5th Portugal Grand Prix - Round 2, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, February 12-16.
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Sailing Legends
Glory Days of ‘76
The summer of 1976 was an exciting time in Canada. Montreal hosted the Olympics and built a spectacular stadium for the opening ceremonies and track and field. Also built were a cycling velodrome beside the stadium, a rowing basin at Notre Dame Island and a sailing harbour in Kingston (Portsmouth Olympic Harbour). At the time, Race Management was the responsibility of the host country. Racing circles were run by Royal Canadian Yacht Club (YC), Royal St Lawrence YC and the Britannia YC.
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The Big Picture
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The Rules Guy
How To Finish
Last summer I observed several boats getting confused about where to finish. I am going to illustrate some of the scenarios. The rules are actually quite simple, but the application can sometimes confuse sailors. The definition of finish says, “A boat finishes when after starting any part of her hull crosses the finishing line from the course side.” The diagram actually shows two different common course configurations. These two boats are not actually racing against each other. If we start with the Blue boat, the course in the sailing instructions says “Start – 1 – 2s/2p – 1 – Finish”.
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SailGP
What a Week: New F50 Gets Launched Then Smashed
What a difference a few days makes. On the Tuesday of the second week in February, the strategist of the Canada SailGP Team and National Sailing Team 49erFX sailor, Georgia Lewin-Lafrance from Chester, NS did the honours last week naming the team’s new F50 SPIRIT, just before the team’s inaugural sail in preparation for the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix. On Saturday, just four days later, the boat was already on the Disabled List when a severe weather system passed through while the Canada SailGP Team’s F50 catamaran was craning out after the first day of racing.
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Speed & Smarts
Planning for 2023 – Tips 9 to 15
Last issue we began a series on the little things and the big things that make a difference in your performance. We continue with more of Dave’s series of tips to make you smarter and faster for racing in 2023. Now is the time to get set up for the season ahead. 9. Hold a team meeting: Getting your crew together before the race can be extremely valuable for preparation and for building team spirit. This should be done well before the first warning signal, preferably on the way out to the course.
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