Most coaches with local knowledge are already snapped up, and then this one becomes available! RS Feva world champion 2006, ISAF 29er Youth World Champion 2008, GBR Olympic Development Squad 2012 and his home club? Yup Hayling Island SC! If you would like to speak to James Peters about coaching this summer the address is peters_444@hotmail.com . Good luck.
Well he certainly isn’t from this planet. He sails against the most awesome sailors and at the Finn Worlds still gets to discard a 3rd place! He only needs to avoid a DSQ in the medal race to win his 6th Gold cup tomorrow. The Baltic countries in particular are right up there as well so they now need to repeat that success in double handed classes – come on you lot – a call to arms! Anyway, here is Big Bens quote on Twitter after todays exceptionally brutal 3 races: “Massive day, 3 races in 25/30 knots and very big waves. Not sure I’m going to make 200 metres with olympic torch on Saturday morning #spent“
How far North before it’s a long way North? Well go past Denmark, past Scotland, past Gothenburg, in fact almost all the way to Santa Clause’s Grotto. Google map it, it really is some way! Anyway, they love their training up there… These guys aren’t going to be lacking come the third race of the day! Way to go the Östersunders!
When it’s too windy and the theory is done…
I really can’t resist this!
Daan Dutilh & Roos van Lokeren dominate and ditch a first place at the 2nd United 4 of the season at Workum. I’m not sure when I last saw a scoreline like this but it’s fairly rare! A six race series counting 5 best results and nothing but bullets – including the discard! Impressed. Thomas & Marloes Rot were always in the mix and took 2nd by 2pts from Eline Tan & Max Bruijn. With very close scoring competition was seen throughout the fleet.
Breeze up at Workum| Congratulations to the Dutch RS Feva Association for their superb work in getting the RS Feva accepted as a permanent class at the United 4 events! Top work and we are so pleased for you.
RS Feva nu bij alle U4 |
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| Na de succesvolle deelname van de RS Feva aan de eerste 2 United 4 evenementen van dit jaar, zal de RS Feva voortaan een vast onderdeel zijn van de United 4 regattas.
And here are the results of the latest United 4 event at Workum last w/e: http://www.united4sailing.org/resultaat.php?jaar=2012&plaats=2workum&fn=rsfeva |
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We know it’s Olympic Classes but in Sweden that counts the RS Feva! Anyway – congratulations to Frida & Sofia who kept Albin Paelsson & Simon Alm at bay by 1pt with Linn Dadell & Felicia Berglund in 3rd another 2 points further back. Full Results here.
The RS Feva Worlds 2012 are a mere 80 days away. Entries have been pouring in and to date have reached the 175 mark. A snapshot of the stats involved so far: 350 sailors, 13 countries, 3 continents, 41 all girl pairings, 32 family pairings, 13 U13 pairings, possibly the best international level inter schools competition on the planet with 22 from Oakham School, Sevenoaks, Claires Court School and Stamford, 44 different UK clubs, largest single club the hosts HISC with 15 and largest club oversees the Royal Maas in the Netherlands with 9, the top 2 UK boats in their selection series were both all girl teams, and the current world champion Matt Whitfield will be back to defend!
The event is being held at Hayling Island Sailing Club where they have huge experience at putting on major events like this (last year they held a 115 boat worlds for the Flying Fifteens and the summer before they hosted over a 3 week period a variety of Laser class worlds numbering hundreds too). This time however, there are also all the families of the youngsters to fill the place. It is sure to be buzzing all day long.
In addition to racing in 4 fleets culminating in Gold, Silver, Bronze and Emerald Fleets to decide who gets the choccies, there will be a full on games night with all the inflatable games (human table football, bungee runs, surfboats, etc all powered by candy floss!), BBQ’s, beach games and the Stadium Style Nations Cup. That last one is held one evening with very short courses and 1 boat per nation – spectator sport! The Prize giving will flow into a UK Association sponsored party that will feature the Olympics opening ceremony on large screen!
It is also never too early to start thanking those who make the event possible – literally hundreds of association and HISC members and of course all our sponsors; Lead Sponsor: Allen Sailboat Performance Hardware and others Sekonda, Magic Marine, English Braid, RS Sailing, Havant Borough Council, Abarth.
The top Italians congratulating Bowerman/Darling at end of 2010 worlds
Results from the Bollé RS Feva GP have been added to the four-event GBR Qualification Series and the total number of helms competing for Team GBR places on the start line at the RS Feva Worlds 2012 has risen to 122.
Click here for the (un)official results of the Team GBR Qualifiers for the RS Feva Worlds 2012 at Hayling Island SC, July 21-27, and click here for a report published by the UK RS Feva Association via Yachts and Yachting.
A warm welcome to 17 RS Feva helms, and their crews, attending the Qualifiers for the first time at Grafham Water SC, and a huge ‘thank you’ to all sailors and ‘support crews’ for taking part in the selection process. Over a third of all helms competed in all four events in the series, with sailors needing to compete in at least three Qualifiers to secure an opportunity of selection.
The number of schools sending teams to RS Feva events continues to grow and amongst the Worlds Qualifiers Oakham, St Paul’s, Sevenoaks and Stamford have been represented.
For more information about the RS Feva Worlds 2012 please visit the Worlds’ pages at www.RSFeva.org and connect with social media links on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube for coverage before, during and after the event.
Phenomenal racing at Grafham in UK. 6 boats finished within 2 points. The first 2 were in the same positions at the United 4 regatta last w/e. So well done to Jenny Smallwood & Jamie Webb from Anna Prescott & Jess Eales. The next 3 were also tied! Getting the 3rd podium place though were James Curtis & Harry Phelps. Full results here. On this evidence there is every possibility that the leading Dutch boats will be in the mix come the Worlds at HISC! So given that the Irish and Italians are also usually there or thereabouts this could be a very interesting summer! So don’t leave it to late to enter – unallocated entries will be given the first reallocation at the end of this month!
And you may be pleased to learn that your international class secretary a) didn’t expire during the London Marathon and b) finished with a smile having had a superb day. Time around 5 and a quarter hours! Suffice to say that after a well deserved hot shower followed the painful but necessary ice cold bath (to help the leg muscles recover quicker according to the very sadistic doctor!) and she is already pushing the zz’s out! Her barking mad daughter bounded over finish line (yes, sadly my family are all mad as hatters, and that one possibly more than most – I said slightly proudly!) in about 4 and a half hours and looking ready to do it all again – oh no!!
