Friday, January 21, 2011

LAKE BALDWIN FLORIDA COMMUNITY SAILING

Lake Baldwin Florida Community Sailing



Collegiate Match Race held January 15, 2011 at Rollins College

In a Single Round Robin 4 Boat ISAF Grade 5 event.

RESULTS

1st Team FIT (2- 1),

2nd Team Rollins (2-1),

3rd Team Melbourne YC (1-2),

4th Team Sheboygan-Winter Park (1-2)



Ties for 1st and 2nd and 3rd and 4th were broken when

the tied teams raced each other.



The next event is the North U Varsity "Road to Rio" Clinic at Rollins College February 18-20, 2011.

The US Sailing Women’s Olympic Sailing Coach, Dave Perry will conduct a Match Racing Clinic for college varsity sailing teams. Six college teams from around the country are descending on Rollins College to acquire the advanced tactics and strategies needed to be competitive and successful in Match Racing on the National level. Dave Perry is a three time National Match Racing Champion as well as the Olympic sailing coach for the 2012 US Women’s Olympic match racing sailing team. The “Road to Rio” is a pathway of opportunities in 2011 for U.S. women sailors looking to raise the level of their match racing game with a possible eye on the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.



Thank You,



Larry Landrigan

Lake Baldwin Florida Community Sailing

Sunday, January 9, 2011

LAKE EUSTIS SAILING CLUB

The cool temperature and high winds of Saturday limited the sailing at the Lake Eustis Sailing Club. The Laser Fleet had four races on Saturday with Alejandro Illera first, Rob Krentel second and Luke Yates third. On Saturday the other fleets cancelled because of high winds. On Sunday the Lasers didn’t sail, but the other fleets did. Tom McNally won both Flying Scot races. Joe Lobato and Dean Grimes were second with Chris Erichsen third. In the MC scow group David Helmick tied with John Houck for first for Sunday. David wins on the tie breaker and Don Fancher was third.

Next Club races are in two weeks with youth instruction every Saturday.
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LAKE BALDWIN FLORIDA COMMUNITY SAILING

The Orlando Youth Match Race Results held on December 30, 2010

1st Zachery Kelchner from the UCF sailing club match racing team.

2nd Ray Laguna from the Lake Eustis Sailing Club match racing team.

3rd Casper Thijssen from the Netherlands match racing team.

4th Caroline Cave from the Georgia Tech match racing team.

Special thanks to Randy Talbert from the Indian River Yacht Club for serving as the Chief Umpire for the event.

The next event is the Coed Collegiate Match Race on January 15-16, 2011 at Rollins College. All match racing teams are invited to this event to compete with the best college match racing teams. The Notice of Race for the event is at www.ussailing.net/LBCS

"The results will be included in the next International Sailing Federation Match Racing Rankings which are scheduled to be released on Wednesday February 2, 2011. International Match Racing Rankings can be viewed at www.sailing.org "
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