The RYA South West Zone Championships
Restronguet hosted the South West Zone Championships for promising young sailors drawn from sailing clubs all over the South West keen to start on the RYA sailing skills programmes and join the various training squads.
The Zone Championships were held a seven venues around the Country and attended by RYA Regional Managers to spot any promising young sailors at club level missed by non attendance at say the Optimist or Topper Nationals.
They are an effort to make sure no talent is wasted or not recognized and any youngsters maximize their fullest potential.
Restronguet staged a 5 race series for Optimists, Toppers and Mirrors over the weekend with light winds dominating the 2 races on Saturday with Sunday proving a slightly stiffer challenge with a fresher breeze.
In all 3 classes there was one exceptional performance.
In the 37 strong Topper fleet Richard Cumpsty from Chew Valley posted 4 wins from 5 starts to win overall from Tom Francis from Sidmouth with Sam Webb in 5th proving to be the first local sailor.
In the Optimist fleet Restronguet dominated but with perhaps Jack Martin a surprise winner although again posting 4 wins it was certainly no fluke with GBR Optimist World and European Squad sailors Christian Townrow and David Grant in 2nd and 3rd places.
Finally in the Mirror fleet James Wilkinson and Chris Searle from Mounts Bay also won 4 of their 5 races to comfortable win the class overall.
It will be interesting to see how far the 3 wining crews progress in the RYA squads after their impressive performances at Restronguet.
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