2.4 Canadian Championships at National Yacht Club

11:53 AM Wed 22 Jul 2009 GMT

'Paul Tingley - 2.4 Canadian Championship' Canadian Yachting Association

2.4m sailors from Canada and the US met at National Yacht Club in Toronto for the 2.4 Canadian Championships July 18-19.

The weekend started out on the 17th with a scheduled training camp, the wind was nowhere to be seen though and the schedule kept having to be moved back. Finally a few zephers came in and we managed 25 starts and five short test races as a tuneup for the races.

Saturday the first racing began at 10:30 in good winds between 7 and 10 kts, the race got in 5 good races and by day's end Paul Tingley RNSYS had a three point lead over Allan Leibel of National Yacht Club, it was plenty of racing for one day with courses 45 minute length.

Sunday opened with nice but shifty winds from the West at 8-11kts but it was spotty, the National Yacht Club RC jumped on the opportunity and banged off two good races before the wind started to really deteriorate, that is all we could get for the day. In the end Paul Tingley from RNSYS in Halifax won the regatta with a total of eight points, Allan Leibel from National Yacht Club was second with 15 points, Jerry Wendt also from NYC was third on the countback with 19 points and Glen McKay from NYC was fourth with 19 points, Bruce Millar from NYC and RVYC was fifth with 21 points.

National Yacht Club and Allan Leibel put on a great event with plenty of activities to get the sailors together to share racing stories.

The next big event of the 2.4 class in Canada will be the North American Championships, which will be attached to Mobility cup Aug 31 to Sept 4 in Toronto, 2.4 class president Danny McCoy says that registrations are going well, if you plan to attend please send them in soon to assist the organizers with numbers to plan for.

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by Brian Todd - Canadian Sailing Team coach

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