The NSC Race Team competes in Kingston’s CORK Regatta
Our race team has just returned from a successful week in Kingston where they were racing in CORK (Canadian Olympic-training Regatta, Kingston). The team went down three days before the beginning of the event to train in the less familiar conditions on Lake Ontario.
By Tuesday the racing had officially begun, with two days of qualifiers to sort the boats into gold fleet and silver fleet. Six out of our eight boats qualified for Gold Fleet! Unfortunately, on Thursday, bad weather conditions kept all the sailors on land where our coaches took the opportunity to run a racing seminar for any interested athletes. They went over everything from general racing tactics to rigging and had a turnout of over 40 sailors! Friday morning they had an early start to make up for the lack of races the previous day.
After a long battle, Joel and Siqi finished the regatta in an impressive third place out of the 80 420s they were racing against. The rest of the results are as follows: 21st Thomas and Nathaniel Storer, 22nd Alexander and Steven Sheppard, 24th Riya Parti and Tessa McGhan, 25th Luke Bowlby and Sasha Kreuser, 28th Thomas and Oliver Pingot, 3rd Thomas Adolph and Quinn Fitzgerald (Silver Fleet), 10th Margaret Macgilivry and Danika Anderton (Silver Fleet).
We are so proud of all of our racers and can’t wait to see them race in CORK again next year.
Photos by Mark Podolsky, August 9 2023, CORK Regatta 2023.