2011 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN RC LASER TITLE

Perth will be host for one of the largest sailing events held in Australia with the ISAF World Championships being held in WA in December this year starting on Friday 02 Dec-11.

WAnderers have deferred their 2011 State Championship from mid-September to the weekend of 3/4 December so that RC Laser skippers in eastern states could come to Perth and sail and see some of the ISAF World Championship sailing and huge festivities planned for Fremantle over the two and a half week period.

During the Worlds, WAnderers will be sailing RC Lasers in a series of races in Fremantle Harbour once a week for two weeks which will be excellent publicity for the class. It is proposed to arrange for some of the World’s top Laser skippers to race boats in a RC Laser series which will get world wide publicity.

If you are interested in coming over to Perth for this series, we would pleased to assist with arranging accommodation locally. Email Rodney on gerney@bigpond.net.au or David on bedfamily@iinet.net.au and we will assist in any way we can if you wat to attend.”;2011-09-05 20:46:18;2011-09-05 20:46:18
Congratulations Adrian Hardman, Richard Fischer and Geoff Martin; A more detailed report and photos will follow on the 2011 Tasmanian State Title won by Adrian Hardman after a series of 16 races held at Lake Trevallyn in light winds on Sundat 18th September. Congratulations all competitors. Good to see some new names on the winners list.;2011-09-19 21:37:36;2011-09-19 21:37:36
Report on the 2011 North American Nationals;

The 2011 RC Laser North American Championship is in the books and class manufacturer, Jon Elmaleh, once again, showed us how it’s done with his 8th North American victory since 2000.

The Rock Hall Yacht Club in Rock Hall, Maryland played co-host with the Cooper River RC Laser fleet to provide a wonderful two days of competitive racing and plenty of social time to get to know your competitors and friends.

Regatta Chariman, Nick Mortgu, was able to garner a host of wonderful sponsors who not only provided products for door prizes but added to the social excitement of the regatta. This has been a must attend regatta over the past three years. Stay tuned for a 2012 site announcement.

The format for the regatta for the 29 competitors was a day of seeding races on Saturday and then two fleets, Gold and Silver, to decide the championship on Sunday.

Points with one throw out on Saturday were carried over to Sunday’s races where 6 races (one more throwout) decided the championship for the top 15 in the Gold Fleet.

Regatta chairman, Nick Mortgu, provided these two fleets beautiful glass bowl prizes to fight for in each fleet.

Jon Elmaleh defeated the most competitive RC Laser fleet in recent history with good starts, a nose for clear air and a calm steady thumb on the tiller. Jon took a 2 point lead into Sunday and distanced himself from the fleet, throwing out only a 2nd on day two to win by 15 points over two time defending champion, Jim Kaighin, who came from 4th on Saturday to nail down 2nd overall. Ryan Lippincott moved to third in the final standings with Jamie Betz and Rob Seidelmann rounding out the top five.

Cooper River’s RC fleet placed three in the top five. Conditions were A sail with some good puffs to keep it interesting as very few B sails were used with success. Shifting winds from the east and north helped shake up the poisitons in almost every race. Everyone in the fleet (other than Jon Elmaleh) seemed to have a least one or two good races but the best skippers kept the double digit finishes to a minimum.

In the Silver Fleet, local skipper, Tom Lippincott, bested local newcomer, Chip Lieber, to win with Victor Oberg in third. Tom and Chip represented the host Rock Hall YC, who provided buffet breakfasts and lunches as well as a group dinner on Saturday night.

Results are below and on the web site under RESULTS as well as the regatta web site. Pictures from the North Americans will follow shortly on the www.RClaserNA.com site.

;2011-09-25 19:00:15;2011-09-25 19:03:50
Tasmanian RC Laser State Championship;

Sunday the 18th Sept saw 8 RC Laser skippers contest the 2011 State Championships held at Lake Trevallyn, Launceston.

Racing got underway at 10:30am under very light wind conditions out of the south.

 The author was the first casualty of the day, lining up for the first start …… Laser slowly fell over and ended upside down, showing a lack of a keel (most embarrassing).

Richard Fisher showed early form winning the first 3 races, but Adrian Hardman managed to win the next 4 races and continued to remain in front of Richard with consistent sailing.

Third place getter Geoff Martin sailed the trying conditions well and was awarded for his consistency by finishing just in front of Geoff Buckle and Chris Madziara.

Peter Darcy, having just purchased his RC Laser 14 days before the event, got to grips with it to take out 2nd in the final race.

Arigs were used all day. The PRO Paul Laverty kept the racing going despite the light changing winds and 16 races were completed.

A good day’s sailing with very close racing.

1st Adrian Hardman 16 points

2nd Richard Fisher 26 points

3rd Geoff Martin 45 points

4th Chris Madzira 49 points

5th Geoff Buckle 54 points

6th Peter Darcy 60 points

7th George Fish 73 points

8th Keveral Bye 106 points

Report by George Fish

;2011-09-25 19:09:17;2011-11-24 21:23:58
2011 WA STATE RCL CHAMPIONSHIPS;”The WA State Championships will be held on 3/4 December at Jackadder Lake in Perth and run by the WAnderers RCL club and Radio Sailing Association of WA

Be great to have some interstate visitors this year as it is a lovely venue and we have the ISAF World Championships in Perth for the two weeks following our WA States…

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