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From Sarah Davies
The annual Yoo Youth regatta took place at Bowmoor on Saturday 1st June. This event took place after Camp where new skills could be put to use for the competitive racing.
Bowmoor welcomed a few guests adding to the competition in the Laser fleet and RSTera fleet.
The race had shifty Northerly conditions with wind funnels coming down the lake. Some sailors were lucky enough to pick up a wind funnel and get wonderful lifts while some patches were light.
The exciting new inflatable race buoys were used and might need to have better names than big tomato and the other three orange marks! This led to a bit of confusion communicating the course but the lead boat helped direct the sailors around the first lap.
Result can be found on website. Toby Banbrook, our oldest sailor and race coach inspired the sailing in his Aero 7 with three bullets.
Alex Davies, sailing a club Laser Radial for the first time finished in a strong 2nd place after a gruelling 8 continuous days of sailing.
Ellie Pickard, sailing a Byte C1 was strong throughout the racing and secured third place, first female and First Byte.
Our visiting guest Daniel Windsor-Wilkin finished 4th in the ILCA 4 and will have another chance to compete against our sailors on 8th June at the Interclub Regatta.
The event was sponsored by Lakes by Yoo and at prize giving all competitors came away with generous recognition of their achievements.
A big well done to those that took part in the event with a few special mentions to Millie Nelson for competing in her first club race after the support she received during camp. We also saw an exciting new pairing in a Laser 2000 by Lauren Griffiths and Ellie Marshall.
The event was only possible with the support of volunteers and there was a team of 17 making this event possible.
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