By Matthew and Robert Crawford

Over the past two months we have been crossing the continent, competing in Sail Melbourne, the 470 Nationals and the ISAF Worlds. We started off in early November by traveling down to Melbourne for the first regatta of the ISAF Sailing World Cup Series. We arrived in Melbourne a week before the regatta, to take part in 4 days of training to make final preparations for the regattas to come over the next seven weeks.  With the whole Australian 470 team, including the golden boys Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page taking part in the training this was a great time to both finalize our preparation but also learn some new tricks off Mat and Mal.

The YNSW Youth Champs were held over the October long weekend at Illawarra YC. RPAYC was one of the most highly represented clubs at the event, and our sailors produced some amazing results.

By Mark Connor

The Yachting New South Wales Youth Champs where held at the weekend on Lake Illawarra, once again RPAYC was well represented with 20 boats and 23 Children across 4 classes.

It was very challenging conditions with 10 races held over the 3 days, RPAYC members did our club proud with 6 members making it to the podium.

Tuesday 23 August 2011
By Matthews & Robert Crawford
For the past month we have been over in Europe competing in the 470 Junior Worlds and Junior Europeans Championships.  The First stop of the trip was the Medemblik Regatta centre in the Netherlands, where the 2011 470 Junior Worlds where held from the20-28th of July. We arrived early to take part in the association training which was a good opportunity to both learn some new skills and learn about the venue as well as familiarize ourselves with the boat we had chartered.   As the venue was in fresh water we found this time very useful to come to terms with the different feeling of the boat between fresh and salt water. 

19 August 2011

Matthew and Robert Crawford are on their way home from the Junior Worlds in Medemblik where they made Gold Fleet and came 25th Overall.

Report for San Francisco 2011
By Milly Bennett, August 2011

St Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco hosted the 2011 Laser 4.7 Youth World Championships in conjunction with the Laser Class Association. As promised the venue held up to it ‘windy, wavy and tidal’ reputation, providing us competitors with a challenging and rewarding regatta. The team comprised of eleven sailors from all around Australia, three of which were from RPAYC; Max Vos, Nick Connor and myself, Milly Bennett. All three of us achieved personal best results.

Thursday 4 August 2011
By Peter Campbell
Laser 4.7 Boys World Championship, San Francisco

Nicholas Connor from Pittwater’s Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club has finished top Australian and fourth placed under 16-year-old sailor at the 2011 Laser 4.7 Youth world championship sailed on San Francisco Bay this past week.

4 April 2011
A number of our junior members competed at the NSW Schools Team Racing Regatta hosted by the Woolahra SC from the 1-3 April 2011. Read the Report by Daniel Williams and watch the footage from the 2011 NSW Schools Teams Racing Championships. A very close regatta and well sailed by all.

Thursday 3 Feb 2011
By Pru Bennett

Laser Nationals - The 2011 Laser Nationals were sailed from the Georges River SC on Botany Bay with 186 boats entered. RPAYC has a total of 14 sailors which made us one of the largest club’s represented at the event.  Thanks to Rob and Virginia McClelland who were key volunteers.