The Optimist Worlds was held in Costa Brava, Spain. More specifically off a camping resort called La Ballena Alegre, on the Gulf of Roses, which is 150km north of Barcelona. As is typical in any major regatta, the conditions were “not what we usually get here”, in that the normal thermal sea breeze failed to …
The South African Team for the Optimist Worlds Champs, which was held in Spain, was made up of a relatively inexperienced (international sailing speaking) group of sailors in Joshua Keytel, Sean Sadler, Ross Mukheiber and Dylan Hall. Dylan aside, this was a young team and for all of them, this was their first world championship. …
Hi guys. So day 4 of racing went well for the most part. Robert and Aydin we put into the emerald fleet. The first race only started around 14.30 as we had to wait for the breeze to come in. Measuring about 22knots. Robert had a great day in race 7 he got a 13th …
Race day 3 was an eventful day. Robert placed fairly decently in the green class in both races. Aydin unfortunately had a technical failure on his brand new sail with the sprit tie pulling out of the sail. He came back in and the Turkish organizers helped us rig up his spare sail in super …
Wow what an experience for the boys, there are really some fierce competitors and the sailing conditions are awesome. We had some issues with boat equipment and also silly mistakes costing valuable points but day one down and hopefully ready for better results tomorrow. All the Results