AUS Schools Teams Racing Champs - Day 1 Abandoned
Racing should have kicked off at 9am this morning but due to gusts of 25 knots PRO, Colin Chidgey has postponed racing for two hours. The upper wind limit is set at 20 knots. The kids were entertaining themselves by playing team games and enjoying the sunshine whilst waiting for the breeze to ease enough to allow the competition to begin. The winds didn't decrease so racing was abandoned for the day at 1pm. 
'Feva get ready to fight'
Yachting Australia
This year the Championship is being raced in fleets of RS Feva's that Woollahra Sailing Club recently purchased.
The race course to be sailed is a starboard hand S-Course. After the start the boats must beat upwind to mark one, pass it to starboard, reach across the wind at 90 degrees from direction the wind is coming from, round mark two and head downwind to mark 3, reach across to mark 4 and beat back upwind to the finish. Races should last 7 minuets.
With this type of course there are many different opportunities to change the positions with mark traps, luffing duals, tacking matches, sailing the opposition away from the mark and covering. Teams Racers need to master boat handling skills and know the rules backwards.
The 2007 Schools Teams Racing Champions, The Hutchins School is back to defend their National Title against 15 other schools from five different states. The Opening Ceremony took place at Woollahra Sailing Club on 10th July with the traditional mixing of the waters from the different States. The entries are:
NSW:
Cranbrook School - Team Captain, Daniel Nixon
Knox Grammar School - Team Captain, Lachlan Doyle
Pittwater High - Team Captain, Jenna Walters
SA:
St Josephs School - Team Captain, Luke Stephens
KI Community Education - Team Captain, Josh Harris
St Peters - Team Captain, James Morgan
TAS:
St Virgils / Guilford Young Colleges - Team Captain, Oliver Nicholas
The Hutchins School - Team Captain, Elliot Noye
Launceston Church Grammar - Team Captain, Simon Legge
QLD:
QACG - Team Captain, Angus Rankin
BBC - Team Captain, Jack Sweep
Moreton Bay College - Team Captain, Shannon Landmark
WA:
Scotch College - Team Captain, James Louhridge
CCGS - Team Captain, DAvid Gilmore
Esperance Senior High - Team Captain, Morgan Prott
VIC:
St Leonards College - Team Captain, Richard Taylor
Racing is scheduled to kick off at 9am tomorrow morning.
by Laura Baldwin 
Margaret River or Osborne Park (severne shop), WA
