The Optimist National Championships took part this year in Lough Derg Yacht Club Dromineer Co Tipperary. The event was over 5 days (15th to the 19th August) with a lay day on the Wednesday. This was a big event with 207 entries including both Irish and International. There were 19 NYC Juniors representing the Club at the Nationals.
NYC Laser sailing success continues! We are delighted to congratulate Nicole Hemeryck on winning the Ladies Laser Radial National Championship in Galway this weekend. This result and her 7th in the Laser Radial World Championships in Dun Laoghaire means that she will represent Ireland at the ISAF 2016 Youth Sailing World Championships in New Zealand in December. The boy’s Laser place to represent Ireland was won by RCYC’s Johnny Durcan who is also a cadet member at NYC. Claire Gorman put in a stellar performance at the Laser Nationals to win the Ladies Laser 4.7 Championship and second place overall. Well done!!!!
Where has the summer gone? We cant believe how time has flown by as we get ready to enter our final week of the junior summer courses. Each course has been jam-packed with fun and excitement, and plenty of new friendships made.
I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all of our junior sailors for taking part we hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have having you here and hope to see you back next year. Also a big thank you to our wonderful Instructors who have done a great job.
Where has the summer gone? We can’t believe how time has flown by as we get ready to enter our final week of the junior summer courses. Each course has been jam-packet with fun and excitement and plenty of new friendships made. We would like to take this opportunity in thanking all our junior sailors we hope they had as good a time as we did having them here, and looking forward to seeing all of them back her next year.
I would also like to thank each and everyone one of our wonderful team of instructors who have done such a great job.
The NYC together with the RSGYC are providing coaching support for our main fleet optimist sailors taking part in the Nationals in Lough Derg from Monday the 15th August to Friday the 19th August. The cost for the coaching is €100 per child. Read the full post to register for this on the water support if you have any queries please contact Rebecca Hall and Clodagh
REMINDER: Nationals closing date this Friday July 29th!
Regular Entry Fee: €160 – Closing Date: Friday 29th July
Late Entry Fee: €260 – up to Wednesday 3rd August
Visit http://oppienationals.com/ for more information
If you have any queries please contact Rebecca Hall and Clodagh O’Connor.
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