The 2018 NSW Youth Championship presented by Lake Macquarie City Council finished day three with some of the “closest racing this event has ever seen.â€
The steady conditions opened the doors for some spectacular racing across all classes on day two of the NSW Youth Championships presented by Lake Macquarie City Council. With only a few minor course changes the race officials squeezed in four races across all courses to make up for the races lost from day one due to the strong winds.
Day one of the NSW Youth Championships presented by Lake Macquarie City Council was gifted picturesque conditions the record amount of boats and competitors who made their way to South Lake Macquarie Amateur Sailing Club to compete.
The 2018 NSW Youth Championships presented by Lake Macquarie City Council is set to be one of the biggest ever with a record number of boats entered to take on the competition on Lake Macquarie.
NSW and QLD State Youth Championships have extended the late entry fee until Wednesday 19 September. The extension comes after it was decided that to make these events the biggest ever it would be appropriate to extend the late entry fee of $50.
Victorian youth sailors are now invited to register for the Victorian Sailing Cup. The Notice of Series for the 2018/19 Victorian Sailing Cup is live at the Australian Youth Championships website www.sailingyouth.org.au.
Registrations for Springsail, the first regatta in the Victorian Sailing Cup, have now opened. The event comprises of a regatta and coaching clinic held at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC) in conjunction with Australian Sailing.
The Australian Youth Team will leave the 2018 Youth World Championships in Texas with a silver medal and two bronze medals after an intense final day of racing at Corpus Christi.
NTST sailors Paris van den Herik and Aden McGrath have just finished 10 days of intense training and racing in Brisbane at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron.
Australians remain in podium positions in three classes, but face "a day and a half where it's all going to be won or lost", Team Leader Tristan Brown says.