2010 Australian University Sailing Report UNSW

by Ajay Rau on 31 May 2010 The 2010 'Zhik' Australian University Fleet Racing Regatta was held on April 8-10, hosted by Great Lakes Sailing Club (GLSC) at Forster, NSW. This unique event included a representation from international students from India, Hong Kong, Singapore, France and Italy. Tasars, Lasers and NS 14s were the best represented classes and competitors were split into two fleets based on their Handicap system.

At the end of the series, University of New South Wales comfortably won the overall point score to take home the major overall team trophy. The overall championship trophy was awarded based on a combination of results and participation. Other universities will be hoping to challenge UNSW for the trophy next year. 'In hardly a couple of months our club has managed to win the inaugural team trophy, this speaks well about the team of sailors we have at UNSW' says UNSW team captain Ajay Rau.

Colin Cheng from UNSW won the monohull division, while Brett Goodall from Team Monash won the cats and skiffs division. Elizabeth Yin from Sydney Uni won the female division ahead of Tara McCall and Alice Walker from UNSW.

The next event on the university sailing calendar is the world match racing championships in Greece, UNSW's very own Tara McCall is part of team representing Australia.

This will be followed by the major university sailing event for 2010 – the Australian University Games (AUG) at Perth in September 2010. The sailing program at AUG will include match racing on Foundation 36 yachts and teams racing on Pacers. Teams of six to eight students can represent their university in Australia's largest annual multi-sport event, which attracts between 6000 and 8000 university students annually from 42 universities.

In the Match racing division 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart sailors Andrea Green and Ajay Rau are expected to be part of UNSW team at the AUG's in Perth.

Contact unswsailingclb(at)gmail.com if you are interested in supporting UNSW at AUG's. We are looking for Sponsorship to ensure that we bring home the trophy to UNSW.