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ORANGE BOWL YOUTH REGATTA 2009!
Congratulations to all the competitors in the 2009 Orange Bowl Youth Regatta!! In the 420 Yuki Yoshiyashu placed 46th out of 90 sailors. The Laser 4.7 Kayla Gibson placed 11th out of 32 Sailors. In the Laser Radial Sailors included Leonie Schuurman placing 52, Stefan Schuurman placing 103, and Reed Baldridge placing 31, there were 135 Sailors in the Laser Radial. In the Opti RWB included Richard Schuurman placing 13th, Sofia Sole placing 139, Josh Dochoda placing 90th, Kyle Dochoda placing 182, and Wiley Rogers placing in at 35 there was 222 Sailors in the Opti RWB. In the Opti Green Zane Rogers placed fourth out of 84 Sailors. KO Sailing would like to congratulate everyone who competed you all did wonderful!
Click the link below to look at more results from the 2009 Orange Bowl Youth Regatta
http://www.coralreefyachtclub.org/index.cfm?menu=7560
Click here to check out pictures from Texas Youth Race Week on our Scrapbook Page. Click on Regattas and 2009 Texas Youth Race Week.
The ISSA High School Singlehanded Championship for the Cressy Trophy was hosted by Corpus Christi Yacht Club October 30- November 01, 2009, where 36 sailors from across the seven national districts had qualified to compete in the Laser and Laser Radial divisions. The Southern districts dominated the Laser. Congratulations to Trey Hartman for placing 2nd. In the Laser Radial congratulations to Carson Crain for placing 8th.
Trey Hartman in the Center
LASER US NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
We would like to welcome back our sailors to Texas. They traveled to Brant Beach Yacht Club New Jersey for 2009 Laser Standard, Radial, and 4.7 US Championship. This was the single largest Laser regatta of 2009 with 276 sailors participating.
Congratulation to Josh Junior from Houston YC for placing 4th out of a total of 104 sailors also Jon Larson placing 77th for the Full Rig Lasers.
For the radial youths there were a total of 142 kids. Congratulation for Greg Martinez placing 5th, other youth sailors included are Carson Crain placing 10th, Chase Shaw placing 11th, Reed Baldridge placing 16th, Trey Hartman placing 18th, Lawrence Maher the 4th placing 25th , Leoni Schuurmans placing 44th, and Marten Kendrick placing 60th.
The Laser 4.7 Sailors included B. Shaw placing 2nd, Kayla Gibson placing 3rd, C. Richnow placing 7th, S. Shchuurmans placing 8th, and William Romeo placing 9th. There was a total of 27 sailiors.
Congraulations to everyone. Hope you had a wonderful time.
Small Racing Tips:
“Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance” – Mattia
Two days in advance – make sure you drink plenty of water, a gallon a day is best. Make sure you get plenty of carbs – more than normal. Stretch for 30 minutes, at least twice a day until the regatta.
One day in advance – check the weather patterns and forecast, and mentally prepare yourself for the conditions. It would be nice to have all the boat parts in working order.
Morning of – Good breakfast – no pop tarts or donuts, WATER, Eat a banana for potassium as cramping preventative, Warm up is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. I don’t care if it is 102 outside. Leave enough time to stretch for 30 minutes before you rig. Rig your boat, then put your gear on. (If it is cold outside, do not let yourself cool off between the time you warm-up and go sailing.) Most people tend to under dress. Always wear hiking pants, even if it is 2 knots. If you are not sweating just a little bit on land, you are not dressed enough for sailing. Put on more layers.
Rigging - Make your sure your upper and lower are aligned properly, otherwise you might break your mast. Make sure the sail is aligned with the mast. The block on your vang should almost be touching the boom at max ease. (I like to tie the tail ends of my Cunningham and vang together. It is convenient for weather mark roundings). Your hiking strap should be tight enough to where there is equal pressure on your calves and your hamstrings. Your dagger board bungee has a nasty habit of getting stuck in the Cunningham/vang assembly, so I use a small loop that is tied to the fairlead, to keep the bungee from fouling. Where the main sheet feeds into the cockpit from the main block, I tied a daisy chain big enough for my hand to fit around (it helps for better grip when pumping).
On the Water – Get in tune with the conditions. Find a partner to pace with/split tack. Make sure you know where the wind is coming from and its pattern – puffs, shifts, etc. Practice your tacks and gybes excessively. If there is enough wind to hike, your sail should be set to where you can make it up the whole beat without taking one break/rest AKA droop hike. Find a mark and practice roundings. Practice timing yourself to the starting line.
Get a Good Start and Sail Your Best.
Trey Hartman
Junior, Bellaire High School
Lakewood Yacht Club
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Archive:
March 2009- Gregory Martinez
April 2009- Kayla Gibson
May 2009- Elisabeth Fortin
June 2009- William Romeo
July 2009- Trey Hartman
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