Provincial Sailing Association Reports

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1 Provincial Sailing Association Reports 1

2 Sailing Association Reports 6.0 Report from: BC Sailing Submitted by: Tracy Terry, President and Tine Moberg-Parker, ED Training Programs BC Sailing has hosted several instructor clinics. Coach boat Safety, Race Officer, Judging, and Safety at Sea programs are also part of our standard programming. Dinghy instructor training and the Offshore Personal Survival Course are still our strongest participation. The Safety at Sea program has steadily gained success with the racing community. There are significant growth opportunities in the keel instructor and race officials training areas. Despite some poor participation in instructor and coach training programs, both the dinghy and keel sailor participant numbers are increasing. Dinghy Coach Training participants Keel Instructor Training - 8 Participants Race Officials Training - 22 participants Judge Training - 0 participants Coach Boat Safety - 66 participants Safety at Sea participants The following instructor programs were not offered: Community Instructor, Wet feet Instructor Module & Coaching Athletes with a Disability Module. 2

3 The 6 Meter Worlds September The 2017 RE/MAX Mobility Cup Sept 2017 Goals Revamp our committee structure with the goal of increasing participation in all of our courses and promoting BC Sailing programs. Sail Training Start MOSS planning earlier in Programs were under registered this year due to problems with our scheduler and a late start in planning, but we have made changes for Work with Navy League Cadets to establish a fall MOSS program. Work to support sailors who have first nations backgrounds to take sailing through the school system. Promote Keel Instructor training in the following programs: Start Keel boating Sailing Instructor, Keel Boat Spinnaker Instructor, Intermediate Cruising Instructor, Advanced Cruising Instructor, Offshore Cruising Instructor, & Basic Cruising Racing Instructor. Spin and Trap CANSail 5-6 Instrctor CANSail 1-4 Instructor FUNdamental Racing Highlights BC has many sailors on the national team and is working with regional and provincial coaches to support our national and next gen sailors. The following results regatta s and results were obtained this year: The event was hosted by Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. In its heyday, 6mR was the most important international racing class, involved the greatest naval architects, and in 1908 it was chosen as an Olympic class. Requiring a skillful 5 person crew, the 6M is 10 to 12 meters long: the number 6 being the result of a formula taking into account various parameters of length, weight, surface of sail: a challenge for the architects! 43 competitors are competing in Kelowna, BC. Sailors are competing from as far as St. Johns Newfoundland and many cities across Canada plus U.S. racers are coming from California and Vermont. There are 21 Gold boats and 22 Silver boats registered. CORK OCR August 2017: BC athletes named to the Canadian Sailing Team, Ryan and Andrew Wood, who placed second in the 49er fleet. In the Laser fleet, Canadian Sailing Team member Max Gallant placed fourth. 29er World Championships: Erik Lyall and Andrew Moreno - 20th, Freja and Astrid Frykman - 24th, Ansel Koehn and Zach Spicer - 9th (Bronze Fleet), Fraser Buck and Sam Briggs - 20th (Bronze Fleet), Nelson Fretenburg and William Mendham - 23rd (Bronze Fleet) 3

4 Canada Summer Games: John Owen, Laser - Silver Medal, Makena Shepard, Laser Radial - 5th, Delani Hulme- Lawrence, 2.4mR - 4th, Emily Bugeja and Hannah Smith, 29er Female, Bronze Medal, Henrik Moberg Parker and Josh Smithman, 29er Male, 4th Laser Radial World Championships: Isabella Bertold - 19th, Maura Dewey - 31st (Silver) Optimist Canadians: 13 sailors traveled from BC to the Opti Canadians Sail Canada Youth Champs: Cameron Wallace and Matthew Vincent, 29er - 10th, Faye Cheng and Hannah Stevens, 29er - 11th, Kate Sargent and Caitlyn Shum, 29er - 13th, and Ben Witting and Abbey Brown, 29er - 14th 49er Worlds: Alexander Heinzeman and Justin Barnes - 56th Initiatives We have taken on many initiatives this year they include: Jenn Bream, our marketing and communications staff member, has begun the process of a website update; We also have a regular newsletter, Facebook posts and tweets. You can sign up for the news letter by contacting business@bcsailing.bc.ca; We purchased Regatta Toolbox and are using this excellent resource on the BC Circuit. We attended the Vancouver Boat show and filled two spaces; We have added targets to our strategic plan so that we can measure our success; We continue to promote the establishment of an Squamish Sailing Center; We are considering moving our office; We have partnered with ISPA to produce training manuals for keelboat sailing; Committees were restructured with a tremendous effort to promote maximum participation from our Membership; and The BOD and Staff have worked together to establishing terms of reference for our staff. Areas we are working on Work with the membership committee to strengthen our membership reporting to aid in maximizing available government funding. Communicate initiatives and opportunities to our membership and stakeholders more clearly through strategic projects established by the Marketing and Communications Coordinator. Melges 24 worlds and Opti Canadians are coming to BC next year. BC Sailing passed our new by-laws in November We were required to update our bylaws due to the Not-For Profit laws changing on November 30th. This process was very educational. Our BC Circuit continues to be a tremendous success with 448 participants in BC circuit with two more events to go. We look forward to the upcoming training opportunities in the Comp Dev program and continued partnership with Sail Canada to deliver the LF clinic. We are energized by the possibility to see more provincial involvement in the NextGen program. 4

5 In January and February Alberta Sailing assisted sailors with their training on the west coast. We also ran a Club Race Officers course for members in Alberta. March saw local sailors attending Spring Break Camp at Royal Vic and Laser Mid Winters West. ASA held a Rules Seminar at Glenmore sailing Club (GSC). April had our sailors at Royal Vic s Easter camp and the Kitten Cup at Royal Vancouver YC. In May Albertans were able to sail again at 3 Training Camps sponsored by ASA with 2 held at Calgary Yacht Club (CYC) and 1 at Wabamun Sailing Club (WSC) on 3 different weekends throughout the month. In May the Alberta Regattas began in earnest with the Icebreaker at CYC and a week later the Founders at WSC. ASA also carried out Coach Boat Safety re-certs and Cansail Evaluations and re-certs at WSC. We also had members attend North American Laser Championships in Vancouver. July was a busy month with members at Waves Regatta in Vancouver and then home to sail in the Prairie Winds Regatta at Lake Newell (NSC). Prairie Winds was also the location for the North American Seaspray Championships. WSC held sailing week and GSC held their Midsummer Regatta. ASA s MOSS program was booked July at Argentia Beach. And the Canada Summer games (CSG) started in Gimli Manitoba. August saw the ending of the CSG and Masters Laser training at WSC followed by Masters Laser Canadian Championships. In September the Provincial Regatta was held at Edmonton Yacht Club (EYC). GSC held their Fall Regatta and some members attended Masters Worlds in Croatia. October was the month for the Brass Monkey Regatta at CYC and some sailors finished off the season with the Pumpkin Bowl in West Vancouver. Till next year then and Happy Sailing. TG, President ASA 5

6 The Saskatchewan Sailing Team finished 4 th overall in flag points at the Canada Games behind Ontario, Nova Scotia and BC. Joe Gerlinsky, Battlefords SC finished first in the 2.4 mr. Alec Watters, Saskatoon SC and Nick Langhorne, Blackstrap SC finished 5 th in the 29er. Kate Langhorne and Madi Amy both from the Blackstrap SC finished 6 th in the Girls 29er, winning a race. Andre Gagnon and Kathleen Carter both from Saskatoon SC finished 7 th and 8 th in the Laser and Radial. Krystal Shewchuk from PA sailing for the Blackstrap SC finished 7 th in the 2.4 mr finishing 3 rd in the heavy air race. Back in 1989, Andre s father Louis Pierre competed at the Canada Games in Saskatoon for Team Quebec with the sailing at Elbow. Andre carried the 1989 Saskatoon Canada Games banner into the opening ceremonies in Winnipeg marching in front of PM Justin Trudeau. Brigitte Smutny, JCG Technical delegate, Peter van Muyden, PRO and Warren Nethercott, Jury Chair and the many cheerful/helpful volunteers did an exemplary job hosting the Sailing competition at Gimli. Sailing took over the village with the high school as the athlete village. Hot weather a full range of wind speeds and wave size. At Sail West at Royal Lake of the Woods Alec Watters and Nick Langhorne finished 2 nd, Joe Gerlinsky was 1 st and Krystal Shewchuk was 3 rd. Ilia Rudnitskiy was 4 th in the Laser, Andre Gagnon was 6 th. RLWYC commodore Leney Richardson and Past Canadian Sailing Team member in the Finn, Jim Richardson and were amazing hosts to the coaches and the all of the sailors. All athletes were billeted by the RLWYC members and were treated very well. It was also made wheelchair accessible for our sailor. Top coaches Trevor Parekh, (29er) and Dominic Fritz, (Laser) were brought in to prepare Canada Games athletes and others at the training camp. Great racing, Amazing Fish fry s, organized Lake Cruise, HH Gear and lots of diving/swimming at the cottage across the bay. At the National Laser Masters at Wabamun SC, Coach Lammens finished 2 nd and LP Gagnon was 4 th. Lewis Oteruelo finished 27 th and Jake Watters finished 32 nd. PvM, Jordyce and the WSC team did another great job. 2 athletes competed at the Mobility Cup, Judy Winship and Thom Webb. Logan Campbell was a finalist for SK Athlete of the Year and won Sail Canada Team of the Year with Scott Luttes and Paul Tingley for finishing 3 rd in Rio. The Wheelchair sailing had good activity in 2017; The Just try it effort with the SK Wheelchair Sports Associtaion weekend had great and new wheelchair participants. 1 participant was blind and required a different approach. 2.4 mrs were racing in 4 SK events plus Sail West and the Canada Games. Disabled Sailing activity promotes the inclusiveness and full engagement of our sport. This is very positive for Sailing we should collectively encourage this activity. The Outdoor eduaction program at Blackstrap had 630 students introduced to sailing and canoeing in a split day format. 26 days were dedicated to this activity. Coaches were Connor Boyle and Canada Games athlete Kate Langhorne. The Mobile Sailing School traveled to 6 clubs and hosted 11 different sessions. 2 Optimist clinics, clinics, a Martin 16 clinic a laser clinic, a Women s clinic and a youth Laser 4.7 clinic. The 4.7 clinic requires the optimist clinic as a pre-requist. Provincial Kite Sailing championships had a start for the fioler class, first time for this category. Big air had 32 competitors, 6 women. Neil Kirby had a jump of 11.8 meters, Corrie Coons went 9.2. Corrie jumped 13.0 meters in Squamish beating all the men. Many thanks to all of the volunteers at the clubs and on the Provincial executive, service is appreciated. Tyler Koyl, President SSCA 6

7 What a fantastic summer for sailing, bug free, hot & windy! It was crazy busy all across the province this summer with clubs updating their facilities & boats (Black Sturgeon, Gimli, West Hawk, Victoria Beach & Falcon). Racing was everywhere to be had with the high school league expanding this spring to 11 school teams participating. Almost every club had their race series (dinghies & keelboats) come down to the wire with fierce battles for club bragging rights & hardware. The Provincial Keelboat Championships held at Gimli YC, and the Provincial Dinghy Championships held at Falcon YC, were well attended. Congratulations to all the participants & champions! A big thank you to the Royal Lake of the Wood YC for stepping up to host Sail West on short notice, when Saskatchewan couldn t take their turn to run the regatta. 50+ sailors were treated to one of the top regattas in Canada this year at one of the most beautiful facilities. All of this was a good preview for the event of the summer, the 2017 Canada Summer Games sailing event, held at the Gimli YC and their amazing facilities, upgraded with the help of the Games. The best youth sailors from across the country and the best volunteers from across the province met up in Gimli to run a first class event that will be remembered for fierce winds & no wind days. The event was nominated for Regatta of the Year at Sail Canada! While sitting in a mark set boat one day, our volunteers figured out that there were 40+ Yacht Clubs from almost every Manitoba member club and across the country represented at the Games. Congratulations to every sailor, racer, crew, volunteer, board member across the province - you keep this beautiful sport alive and active. The fall edition of the Porthole Magazine will be Brigitte Smutny s last as Executive Director & Head Coach. Our board is working hard to find her replacement when she retires in March 2018, no easy task! We will miss her beyond words, as many of us who have been involved with the organization over the last 20 years know, she is the embodiment of sailing in the province, passionate and compassionate. As I end my two year term as President and hand off the reigns to incoming President Liz Kristjansson, I whole heartedly thank all of you. Please give Liz & Sail Manitoba your continued support as we continue to grow the membership base and bring this amazing sport to more people across the province! Paul Krestanowich, President 7

8 Ontario Sailing has had a very exciting year to date. Our membership continues to grow as some of the few remaining clubs that were not members of Ontario Sailing/Sail Canada joined. In one case, the club saved enough money on their Insurance they were able to pay their club membership and insurance and still be further ahead than the year before. On the Learn to front the new Start Keelboat and I Can Sail standards have rolled out in the Community Stream which gives clubs, schools and camps a great new offering to get more people into the sport. Instructor and Coach programs were full this year and we train over 400 people in this area. The Competition Development Course run with Sail Canada was a success and we hope to see more clubs send their Race Coaches to this program. We continued to offer coach mentorship programming and launched a new Training Center Program to work closer with our clubs in developing strong sailors. In partnership with Port Credit Yacht Club we hired Thomas Fogh as our third Provincial Coach. Thomas worked as a fulltime coach at PCYC along with running our 420 team and started offering Optimist Talent ID camps. Our two other Provincial Coaches, Chris Cowan running our Laser team, and Chris Hewson running our Radial Team had a very busy season training in excess of 170 days on the water. We had athletes competing in Europe, Florida, BC, Nova Scotia and at the CSG in Gimli. Highlights of the year were being the top Province for the second time in a row at CSG. PCYC hosted the J24 Worlds and local sailor Rossi Milev finished a tight event as the World Champion. We were required to reapply to our Province as a Provincial Sport which included making sure numerous policies were in place, a current Operational Plan and Strategic Plan. This was required for all sports. After this, we reapplied for funding and were recognized as a tier one sport. Our board of directors have worked hard this year and supported the staff with strong HR and Financial leadership. We will be losing long term board members Tom Bolland (Treasurer) and Mark Searle (President) as they come to the end of their terms. On the equipment side as new VSR Coach Boat was purchased with much of the cost coming from a grant from the Ministry of Tourism Culture and Sport. We replaced two older tow vechiles with two Dodge Trucks as our ongoing capital replacement program. Our staff continue to go the extra mile in supporting the programs and services offered to our members. This includes our COAST program run by Lisa Roddie. Cam Lymburner helps manage the Athlete Development and Coach Development programs, Melanie O Brian runs our BOOM program and cruising programs, Krystal Smith ran another successful Celebration of Sailing Event and is our Administration go to person, and finally Margaret Mummery continues to be the best Sales and Accounting staff person I have ever worked with! See you on the water 8

9 The 2017 season started with drama for many as the water rose to record levels and created havoc for many sailing clubs and schools. The start of the season was delayed by many weeks in some areas and the most unfortunate had to either relocate, delay, cancel some or all of their activities. Financial impact of loss of revenues and renovation costs are a menace to the future of some organisation that still do not know what type of financial support and compensation they will receive from the government. For the FVQ, the spring floods had an impact on the instructor training schedule which needed to be revised and activities relocated many times. Thanks to our staff that did a fabulous job at keeping all our programs afloat! Voile mobile visited 6 areas of the province and provided sailing camps to children new to our sport as well as dinghy introduction to adults. A promotional task team also took the road with a sailing simulator to promote sailing at many festivals and special events such as the Tall ship We are organising the second edition of a sailing fair that will take place in parallel to our annual conference. Voile à l école is nearing completion of phase 1 and raised a lot of interest in the education community both at the elementary and high school level. 214 athletes raced in one or more regattas of the 2017 Quebec Circuit. Training camps were organised to prepare athletes for the Canada Games. On the QST side of things, we are still looking for a new head coach and are working closely with our main clubs to provide coaching to the athletes. A group of 29er athletes also went to BC for the season. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the athletes of the Quebec delegation for all coming back with a medal and thank Brigitte Smutny and her team of volunteers for a great venue! 9

10 This past season has been another busy and hectic year for Sail NB. Canada Summer Games year is always busy and NB hosting Sail East at the Royal Kennebeccasis Yacht Club made it extra busy. Some of the highlights of the year: Membership: Membership at the clubs stayed about the same buy numbers increased at the sailing schools especially the Adult Learn to Sail program. Some clubs opened up more classes and some clubs had to turn away due to shortage of instructors and boats. Clinics: Sail NB held a Race Managements clinic and Fundamental clinic in April and in May held a Coach Boat Safety course as well as Instructors clinics for all CANSail levels. The clubs have benefited greatly with the Wetfeet program being held in all of the clubs. Junior Circuit regattas: The Junior circuit regattas have grown in participation over the last few years. The three largest clubs host regattas and our provincial coach has been instrumental in getting a club coach from each of the clubs to come on board to help in getting more of the sailors to attend the regattas and travel to out of province regattas. This seemed to create enthusiasm amongst the younger sailors and this coach has helped to educate the parents as well. Canada Summer Games: Gary Sullivan was the games coach and the manager was Juliet Bernard. A giant thank you to both of them as it was a big commitment as both have full time jobs. Canada Games was a bit of a challenge as transportation distance was difficult as we only took one trailer and chartered a 2.4 out there and relied on other people for a coach boat. Our drivers were great and had no problems with trailering. Sail NB AGM and Awards Banquet: Sail NB will be having their AGM and Awards and Recognition banquet at the Royal Kennebeccasis Yacht Club in Saint John. Sail East: The Royal Kennebeccasis Yacht Club hosted Sail East in July. It was very successful due to having great weather and a very organized organizing committee. Heather McBriarty was the chairperson and because of her leadership she won the Sail Canada Volvo Volunteer of the month in August. Great for her club and committee. Volvo was very present at the regatta and had a booth and cars to try during the duration of the event. Selling at least two cars made it worthwhile to attend. Hope to see more of them in the future. Administration: Sharon Mills, ED is instrumental in the success of the association, the dedication of so many volunteers around the province is the true strength of the association. A new web site this year has helped immensely with communication and has helped us stay in closer touch with our members. The association would like to thank Sharon for her continued support and dedication to the sport of sailing. David Wells, President 10

11 It s been a busy year on and off the water in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia clubs hosted 3 National Championships (Youths, Opti, and Women s Keelboat) and one world championship (Sonar) this summer. Each event was extremely well run with great support from volunteers. What was most impressive was the Legacy left behind following these events. For example the Lunenburg Yacht Club secured more than $300,000 in funding for club infrastructure upgrades because they were hosting these two events. And they were only able to host events because they were a member of Sail Canada. Yet another major benefit of belonging to Sail Canada & Sail Nova Scotia! Off the water Sail Nova Scotia supported 4 clubs host Open House days in the spring to bring more of their respective communities to their clubs to showcase their program offerings. All clubs reported good success with that initiative and will build on it next year. Several of our clubs are experiencing declining or aging membership numbers. Much of it is attributable to out-migration in the rural communities, but all clubs are being encouraged and supported to attract more young people to their clubs through innovative means. Let the younger generation set the program and social calendar at the club, go after new Canadians and women who are under-represented in the sport, build relationships with other groups in their communities, etc. Changes must be made for the health of the sport. On the water our youth athletes performed very well. 4 of the top 5 finishers in the Opti Canadians were from Nova Scotia, 3 medals at the Canada Games in Gimli, a number of national youth podium finishes, 5 athletes from Nova Scotia on the Youth Worlds team heading to China in December. Impressive results from a province with 1/36 th of the Canadian population! We like to think we do things well here in Nova Scotia given our population and limited funding. It all comes down to building healthy relationships and supporting all areas such that clubs, volunteers, staff, and athletes can achieve their very deserving success. Respectfully submitted, Frank Denis Executive Director 11

12 In 2013 SailNL was a barely functioning organization and organized sailing in the province largely didn t exist outside the realm of the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club Sailing School s target market of youth recreational sailing (intro) and keelboat racing. Since 2013, the SailNL Board of Directors and it s working groups have sought to re-establish relationships with its membership and stakeholders, and assist with organizing a sustainable model for organized sport (sailing) in the province. The beginning of the 2017 season was not without struggle, still building on initiatives started in 2014, the province had an incredibly small pool of instructors and sailors holding the qualifications need to become a coach. Moreover, the SailNL coaches had to make the difficult decision of sending only one athlete to the 2017 Canada Summer Games. By June 2017 it became apparent that efforts made by the sailing community stakeholders were in fact paying off. Leveraging the recently formed RNYC Race Team, four sailors attained the sailing qualification needed to become sail coaches; this in event proved that the RNYC Sailing School and Race Team had again become self-sustaining. Despite its small representation at the 2017 Canada Summer Games, efforts to bring sailors to the mainland to compete in recent years proved incredibly valuable, and our athlete placed 6 th in the Laser Class, becoming one of the top placing athletes in the games from Newfoundland and Labrador. We readily acknowledge the successes within the sport of sailing in the province would not be possible with an incredibly dedicated support network of coaches and volunteers and would like to use this medium to thank them for their continued support. We have a long way to go for the sport in Newfoundland and Labrador; we are struggling with keelboat racing participation and yet to expand membership beyond the greater St John s area. That said we feel very strong as an organization and look forward to building on the successes of recent years as we prepare for the seasons to come. Ryan Kelly President SailNL 12