By Daniel Cunningham on
2/22/2010 1:34 PM
The Laser and Radial Midwinters have wrapped up in Clearwater Florida. Congratulations to Lee Parkhill who finished 2nd overall beating the current world champion Paul Goodison, and Canada's 2008 Olympic representative Mike Leah. Lee put together a very consistent event in tricky conditions, putting up the scores necessary when the pressure was on. Also of note in the Laser Class was Greg Clunies and Evan Lewis finishing in 22nd and 23rd respectively. RCYC's top finisher in the radial class was Brenda Bowskill in 31st. Brenda's result qualifies her to be Canada's representative at the Youth World Championships in Istanbul Turkey this summer. Brenda has spent countless hours training over the past year to get to this point and is now off to Mexico to continue training for the remainder of the winter. Watch for our High Performance Athletes this spring at our Queens Quay facility. Training begins in April.
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By Daniel Cunningham on
2/10/2010 2:01 PM
The Miami Olympic Classes Regatta finished up last week with all the medal races going off without a hitch. RCYC’s top performer Lee Parkhill finished his series off with an impressive 2nd place finish in the medal race ending up 6th overall in the always competitive laser fleet. Finishing 4th in the medal race, Gordon Cook held on to 9th overall in the 49er fleet while relative newcomer to the star class, Oskar Johnasson scored an OCS to end up in 9th overall. Congratulations to the medal race competitors. For full results visit the OCR website here http://rmocr.ussailing.org/Results.htm
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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 Daniel Cunningham on
1/18/2010 10:53 AM
Over the weekend the RSX North American Championships were held on Biscayne Bay in Miami. RCYC members David Hayes, and Graeme Locket both competed in the event, which saw typical Miami conditions of light shifty breeze from the south east. David had a string of consistent finishes netting him a 7th overall. Graeme who recently switched from Lasers into the RSX missed day one due to some technical problems put up good scores on day two. He finished 12th overall. Both sailors were using this event as a warm up to next weeks Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, racing starts on Monday. For more info on the team please visit www.nssco.ca
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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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