Thorpe Bay Yacht Club

Thank you everyone for your support and keeping me in the media both on the website and in the press.

Cadet 8407 Fantasy  Jess Quinlan and Alex Warrington

Well Alex and Jess are now back from Buenos Aires having had the trip and experiance of a lifetime. I hope you all were able to follow the event on the Argentinian Website as posted. There were lots of photos and articles posted daily.

As some of you know from experience the sailing conditions in B.A. are extremely hard. They had all wind ranges up to force 5, which is rare for that time of year. The water is very shallow and because of this it is extremely choppy. Couple that with a stronger tide than at TBYC and you’ll find its very tricky to get a cadet moving forwards!!

They had a rocky start but put in some decent results in the mid week. A black flag (pushing too hard!) made them carry a 35th which put the stoppers on a top 20 finish. Sadly a bad last day put them 26th overall.

All said and done, they qualified for the British Team in a tough race series throughout last year. The experience and what they learnt sailing in Argentina will stay with them for life and hopefully stand them in good stead for the future.

All this could not have been possible without the fantastic support and help from this club and friends and family. We were overawed by the level of support. To be part of a club such as this is a truly great thing and we are very grateful to everyone for their kind donations.

Thank You!!

On Behalf of John Boshier :-

Chris’ Dad , John Boshier,  has asked me to put this on the web page for him.

Thursday was the first day of the Contender Words events.

Prior to that was the Australian National Championships in which Chris participated in some of the races for experience – but the Worlds is what he is there for.

In the first race of the day Chris came 29  out of 60 boats entered.  Not bad.   Chris said he was doing better than that at the start.  But then had a bit of boat trouble that he could not rectify until the first race was over .

The second race went very  well  -  he finished  11th out of 60  -  pretty good !!!

Overall, based on these two races he is 15th out of 60.

Good Luck Chris.

Regards Dad. (John Boshier)

Worlds Championships finishes on the 11th Jan and he should arrive back in the UK on 15th.

For those that don’t know our Sailing Secretary Chris Boshier is out in Brisbane Australia for the 40th Contender Worlds. I heared from Chris on New years Day and he was pulling his hair out!; as of then team GBR still had not receiveid their boats!! They were 3000 miles from there intended destination held in a Malaysian Container park and being held up by Malaysian Customs. Although not yet confirmed by Chris Y&A have stated the boats are now there!!!
Chris is entered in the Australian (3-6 Jan) and World Championships (7-12 Jan) and so has had no practice since ariving there on 27th December. He would have had his first Race today 3-01-2010 (-10 hours approx).

I wish him, and team GBR the best of luck with the rest of the event and for those that want to follow his progress the official Contender Worlds web site is here.

Hi All, Just a quick reminder in case you have not been in the loop! TBYC’s Olympic hopfull Mark Asquith (TBYC Member) is currently out in the Bahama’s looking forward to the 49er World championships. This event is important to all olympic hopefulls in this class as it lasts to the victor for almost 2 years!!! being at the start of the year 2010 and the next worlds being in Perth Australia at the end of 2011. So who wins here enters in the the olympic selection event in Perth as no 1 prospect

The event starts on the 2nd Jan same day as the Frozen Sheet’s Race but I think the simularity ends there!!!

Racing starts on 4th Jan and can be followed on the following link http://www.49erworlds.org/

I personally with Mark & Paul every sucsess and will be keenly following the results

Hi all – you might like to hear the latest on Chris and the Contender World Championships at Brisbane

You know that the shipping container carrying the eleven Contenders out to Brisbane got delayed and there was doubt whether she would get there for the start of racing – which was yesterday.

However everything just scraped through on time. We have not heard any results yet but at least Chris was in on the start

There is three days of the Australian National Championshps followed by three days on the World Champioships

If anyone is interested the web page for the reslts is www.contenderworlds2010.com.news but I can’t find any results there yet.

john

Hi all, yet another frustrating day in the dingy park waiting for the wind to drop still 30 – 40knt gusts!!!!

Only to have the second day cancelled again.

All I can say is that the race officers had it right. As some of the good guys decided to take the bladeridder FX demo boat out for a sail this lasted approx 3 mins before the boat spectacularly folded up!!!

Moths obviously don’t sail in 30knts!!!

Hoping for some racing tommorrow

keep you updated Steve