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It was a rest day for all the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team competing at the 2015 ISAF Youth World Sailing Championships in Malaysia, bar the SL16 pair of Tamryn Lindsay and William Mckenzie who have moved up into 3rd place.
Active recovery was the theme of the day for the majority of the New Zealand uner-18 representatives in Malaysia today. All except for the catamaran boys who sailed four races in 15-22 knots of breeze. The kiwi crew sailed consistently well scoring 2, 2, 2, 3 moving up into 3rd place overall.
After taking media lessons from their roomate (29er sailor Jackson Keon) the boys were rearing to go when asked to describe their day.
Things started off slow with, “it was fun” (Tam Lindsay) but quickly progressed to “good breeze out on the water, we minimised on some of the mistakes we had made yesterday. After only three days in the boat we still have a few things to figure out but are really happy with our progress” (Will Mckenzie).
It is all on for tomorrow as the sailors gear up for an intense last two days of competition. The New Zealand team, currently lying 2nd overall in the Nation’s Trophy standings behind Australia, is feeling rested and revived and ready to get back into it.
2015 ISAF Youth World Sailing Championships
NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team current standings
1st Jackson Keon and Nick Egnot-Johnson – 29er boys – (5, 9, 8, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1)
3rd Tamryn Lindsay and William Mckenzie – SL16 – (2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3)
4th Greta and Kate Stewart – 29er girls – (6, 8, 4, 1, 2, 2, 5, 9, 7)
6th George Gautrey – Laser Radial boys – (7, 2, 3, OCS, 9, 16)
8th Ali Nightingale – Laser Radial girls – (1, 19, 4, 5, 11, 18)
6th Kerensa Jennings and Chelsea Rees – 420 girls – (5, 2, 21, 12, 15, 1)
10th Lauren Mackenzie – RS:X girls – (5, 15, 10, 8, 9, 9, 10, 12, 14)
14th Jono Weston and Taylor Balogh – 420 boys – 14th (18, 19, 5, 2, 18, 20)
22nd Finn Croft – RS:X boys – (20, 20, 16, 14, 19, 21, 22, 8, 17)
Full results at isafyouthworlds.com/results/index.php
More about the ISAF Youth World Championships
The ISAF Youth World Championships feature racing for up and comers under 19 years of age and includes the Laser Radial, RS:X, 29er, 420 and SL16 classes. The regatta will gather together the world’s best youth sailors and will run from 27 December 2015 through until 3 January 2016 on the Malaysian island of Langkawi.
Plenty of the world’s best known yachtsmen and women have competed and medalled at the ISAF Youth World Championships which date back to 1971.
Among the list of New Zealanders to have stood on the ISAF Youth Worlds podium are Jo Aleh (2004 Silver, Laser Radial), Sir Russell Coutts (1979 Silver, Laser and 1981 Gold, Laser), Blair Tuke (2007 Silver, 29er), Dean Barker (1990 Gold, Laser and 1991 Silver, Laser) and Stuart Bannatyne (1989 Gold, Laser).
The ISAF run event is coming to the southern hemisphere for the first time in 15 years and as a consequence the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team will miss Christmas and New Year in New Zealand with departure planned for 23 December. The last time the regatta was hosted south of the equator was in 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
The team is proudly supported by the following…
NZL Yachting Trust, Oceanbridge Shipping, ZHIK, HPSNZ
