Chris Steele from the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and his team of Walker Banks on Main, Hamish Hardy on Jib and Tim Siemers on Bow have prevailed in blustery conditions today to win the ISAF Grade 2 Chicago Match Cup Qualifier.
The Laser European Championships, my final event for the first overseas trip of 2014 has just wrapped up here in Croatia. After a week of very tough weather conditions to get many races completed, the regatta was finished with only six out of the scheduled twelve races being sailed. I can’t remember the last major event I did where we had so few races, but it really makes you realize that anything can happen in sailing and you have to be on top of your game from race one in the Championships.
The 2014 European Laser Standard and Laser Radial Championships, has come to a close in Split, Croatia. With no racing possible on the final day due to more light winds the final results remain as they stood at the end of day five.
It was another tough day for the race committee and sailors in the 2014 European Laser Standard and Laser Radial Championships, on now in Split, Croatia where just one race was completed by the gold fleets on the penultimate day of the regatta.
Hundred and twenty sailors, aged from 8 to more tan 50 years, originating from Wallis and Futuna, Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands or New Caledonia sailed for 4 days, rocked or heckled by the Caledonian trade winds. All were in Noumea to participate in the Oceania Sailing. A very positive result for this competition which crowns the best Oceanian sailors in Optimist, Laser, Hobie 16, Kitesurfing or Elliott 6.
A lack of wind meant that no racing was possible at the 2014 European Laser Standard and Laser Radial Championships, featuring six New Zealand sailors, on now in Split, Croatia.
