By mmilner on
1/19/2010 4:38 PM
Congratulations to Lee Parkhill and Joanne Prokop who respectively won Ontario Sailing Male and Female Athlete of the year awrds. Both Lee and Joanne are finishing up school and plan to pusue their Olympic aspirations for 2012. Lee is a laser sailor and Joanne is a laser radial sailor who is contemplating moving to the Woman's match racing discipline in the near future.
This prestigous awrd has been won by so many past Olympic and World Champoions that there are too many to list here!!!
Keep up the good work guys.
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By mmilner on
1/15/2010 12:15 PM
The RCYC was well represented at the Recent I-14 worlds held in Sydney Australia. Four RCYC boats competed over the event which concluded on January 11th. Congratulations to all for representing the club in such a distant (but amazing) sailing mecca!
Top finisher was RCYC member Rob Paterson, sailing with Andrew McCorkindale finishing 11th overall. Other members competing were Andrew Yates, Fred Eaton, Jason Lemeuix, and Matt Lusty.
For complete results check out the I 14 web site
Mike Milner
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By mmilner on
1/5/2010 12:57 PM
The 49er worlds are currently being held in Freeport, Bahamas (January 4-9). The RCYC has 2 boats entered in Gordon Cook (2008 olympian in the 49er) with new crew Hunter Lowden(from BC) , and the team of Billy Gooderham/Ian Hogan.
Conditions in Freeport can only be described as amazing. Windspeeds of 15-20 knots meet the competitors every day (or at least so far).
After day one Cook/Lowden are currently in 23rd postion overall and Gooderham/Hogan sit just outside of the Gold fleet in 26th overall. Both have had excellent individual races with Cook coming 6th in the first race of the series and Gooderham placing 5th overall in the second race of the series.
Racing continues to the 9th of January, and overall results can be found at
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By mmilner on
11/23/2009 2:13 PM
Congratulations to David Wright who was just awarded Canadain Male Athlete of the year for 2009. David, culminated a terrific season with a sixth place in the laser world championships as well as many top 5 finishes in the International regatta scene.
Well done david
And we cannot forget Lee parkhill winning CYA rookie of the year. This award is given to the 1st year Canadian Sailing Team member who has the best finish at their World Championships. Lee place an incredible 16th overall in the laser worlds. This is the best finish for a relative newcomer to the laser class in any country for many years.
The future looks bright indeed for not only these two sailors but the many others who trained and pushed these two to their results
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By mmilner on
11/2/2009 8:52 AM
Congratulations to Jim Rathbun and his tema for placing second at the recent J 105 North American championships. Also in Attendance was Mike Mountford (15th overall) and Ian Farquson (16th overall)
for complete day by day event reports go to
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By mmilner on
10/3/2009 5:11 PM
Surviving 11 other fleets challenging for the prestigous patricia's Binnacle trophy John Cushman had the best consistency and results and won the 2009 Champion of Champions regatta.
The winds were very light and varible causing most fleets to see both ends of the leaderboard over three races.
Congratulations to the entire Ideal 18 fleet
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By mmilner on
9/30/2009 8:11 AM
taken from the J105 fleet 4 web site
Hey Jude stages a comeback to win the 2009 J105 Championship.Jim Rathbun on Hey Jude staged a comeback to win the J/105 Canadian Championship over the weekend. The team scored 41 points over 9 races. Glen Malcolm and Arthur English, racing Starcross, came in runner-up with 43 points, followed by Dave Shaver on Re:Tern (45 points). 18 boats competed at this year's event. Hey Jude, already registered to the 2009 North American Championship is well poised to do well at Rye. Jim and three other Fleet 4 boats have already registered.
Jim Rathbun will also be crowned as this year's Fleet 4 champion, over Stuart Kilpatrick/Robert Bak ...
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By mmilner on
9/20/2009 4:46 AM
Marvinn Beckmann from the USA won the hotly contested Etchell North Americans held from September 16th to the 19th of September. 35 entries from the USA, Canada and Australia visited the club for the past four days and were thrilled to call RCYC home over the past few days.
The RCYC has a long association with the Etchells fleet. Dirk Kneulman is the current boat builder in North America, and it was great to see Commodore Gordon Norton who owned the very first Etchells in Canada come to the opening cermonies. In fact it seemed every member who stood up to speak to the fleet at the various functions had a story to tell about their Etchell sailing. Commodore Meadows regaled us with his stories of the Etchells, as well as Tony Anderson, Commodore Sherwood, Vice commodore fred eaton and many others.
5 races were held over 3 days. Day one saw light winds and bumpy seas from the East whic ...
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By mmilner on
9/14/2009 8:32 AM
taken from the wimra web site
Sheboygan, Wis., (September 13, 2009) -- New Zealand’s Samantha
Osborne today bested Canada’s Jen Provan in a thrilling five-race
final that came down to the last leg of the series to win the
inaugural Buddy Melges Challenge hosted by the US Sailing Center
Sheboygan.
Provan finished the round robin with 8 points, tied with Peru’s
Tania Zimmerman, who was seeded first going into the semifinal
knockout series because she had beaten Provan in the round robin.
Zimmerman faced Osborne in the semifinal knockout series, with
Osborne winning both races to advance to the final. Likewise, Provan,
who faced the other New Zealand team, led by Stephanie Hazard, won
both semifinal knockout races to head to the best-of-five final
Rac ...
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By mmilner on
8/25/2009 6:41 PM
The 2009 Royal Weekend held Aug 22-23 is now over with 38 boats in attendance.
The conditions on Saturday were challenging to say the least. Big shifts, light and a strong current made for some dramatic turnarounds for each fleet during the course of both race 1 and 2.
Jim Rathbun of Hey Jude, Robert Baker of Planet B and Kathy Pask on Full Tilt Boogie seemed to have the best handle on the conditions in the J105 fleet. In the 8 meters Raven and Sarissa seemed to manage the day the best.
All the regatta competitors were thrilled to see Doug Bullock of Kittiwake in his classic Cheoy Lee win a race in the phrf division!
On sunday the 3rd annual pursuit race for the Queens Cup was held. After a first attempt at getting it started the race was abandoned while t ...
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