This book is meant as a guide to plan and prepare your season helping you reach your peak performance. Whether your goal is to make it to the Olympics or sail for fun, achieving any goal takes lots of planning.
As all ABYC members know who have raced in the last 30 odd years, Paul McDonald served Ashbridges Bay Yacht Club on the Sailing Committee as PHRF Rep and as Chair of the committee. It is hard to imagine a volunteer position that elicits more complaints than the guy handing out PHRF ratings.
Have you ever wondered where the girls are when you are when dropping off your child at Junior Sailing School, or volunteering as a parent for the race team at your local club, or if you volunteer for Race Committee?
The Sail Canada Talent ID Program is focussed on finding the top talent across Canada. The camps give the Sail Canada Technical Staff the opportunity to work with/identify youth sailors from across the country and provide athletes access enhanced training opportunities.
James Fair has been selected to represent Canada at the U21 sailing world championships next October in Morocco. Only two Canadians have qualified, Fair and Daniel Connors. This will be Fair’s 4th world championship and 1st in the ILCA 7 Olympic Class.
Arie Moffat (Kingston – KYC) and Ryan Wood (Vancouver – RVYC) became the first Canadians ever to qualify and compete in the medal race of a 49er event at a major international competition when they did so on Wednesday, June 21, at the Kiel Week competition in Germany.
Port Credit Yacht Club’s Steerers’ Invitational July 20-21 has been confirmed as one of the events included in the 2023 Fogh Gold Cup Series. After the racing series ends and all ILCA scores are in, Fogh Marine presents awards for Top Full Rig, Top Radial, and Top Female Radial Sailor.
The new episode of “Whitecap”, the Canadian sailing podcast supported by Sail Canada’s BMO MasterCard, is now available and the guest is Fillah Karim who qualified to be nominated to Team Canada’s Santiago 2023 Pan American Games Team in ILCA 7.
Lee Parkhill from the Oakville Yacht Squadron, qualified to be nominated on Canada’s Santiago 2023 Pan American Games sailing team in the Sunfish class after a thrilling last day of competition.
On Saturday June 10th during the Sail Past Ceremony at the Port Credit Yacht Club Glenn Lethbridge, Executive Director of Ontario Sailing, presented Katie Coleman Nicoll with the President’s Trophy.
The Youngstown Yacht Club is set to hold its 10th annual CanAm Challenge and Great Lakes PHRF Fest on July 28-30, for two days of hosting competitors from all over the U.S. and Canada. With the end of COVID border crossing restrictions, the Youngstown tradition can resume.
Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club hosted the first of the Ontario Sailing Grand Prix Development Series in May – the 52nd Icebreaker Regatta. Formerly known as the Canadian Olympic Classes Regatta, the Ice Breaker has been held at TS&CC on the May long weekend almost every year since 1970.
The Lake Ontario Racing Council (LORC) was formed back in the mid 1980’s when the Metro Yacht Racing Council (MYRC) and the Canadian Yacht Racing Association (CYRA) joined together. A constitution was written and eight clubs in the greater Toronto area were the players at the table.
The St. Margaret’s Sailing Club hosted some 25 athletes competing in the Olympic ILCA classes from Canada, USA and Mexico for the Spring Fling Regatta May 20-21, part of Sail Canada Canadian Sailing Team (CST) and Canadian Sailing Development Squad (CSDS) Integration Camp.
Port Credit Yacht Club announces the 64th Annual PCYC Steerers’ Invitational and the 22nd Annual PCYC Four Sisters Open events will be held July 20-21, and July 22-23, respectively, with lead sponsor DriveHG.ca.
It was a dramatic season of racing this year in the Canadian Collegiate Sailing Circuit (CICSA), filled with tight racing, every wind and weather condition imaginable, camaraderie, and the overall national title being decided in the final regatta. The season follows the school year, wrapping up in spring.
