One of our members, Harper Spacey, travelled down to the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club in Victoria last weekend for the Vic Youth Champs. She did extremely well: third overall and first female. She sends the following report:The 2025 Zhik Victorian Youth Championships was a great regatta. The varying winds and strong tide in Sorrento created a challenging environment to sail in, making the racing very tight and competitive. Over four days, we participated in a coaching camp, competed in a two day regatta and heard from Olympian Jim Colley who told us his story of learning to sail as a child to competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics. In the ILCA 4, there was a strong fleet of 27 boats who were all very welcoming and friendly. It was great to compete against a fleet I’d never raced with before. The first day of racing was frustrating as the dying
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