Jack Simpson took part in the Youth Week early in July finishing 10th out of 37. It was a great opportunity to sail against the top Australian sailors who used the event as a final training session before going to the worlds.

For more info click here

Jacks placings were:

The 2009 European Optimist championships were held early in July in Piran , Slovenia.  Oscar Rorvik (Tauranga), Ben Caundle (Tauranga), Charlotte Corsten ( Charteris Bay) and Ryan Amlehn (Nelson) competed.

Check out the regatta site for results

http://sailpiran.si/eoc2009/index.php/news

The Optimists had GPS units attached and the racing could be tracked from the following site...

http://www.championchipsailing.com/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,44/year,2009/month,07/day,08/Itemid,76/catids,21/

Susannah Pyatt was the coach for the team and sent the following reports.......

Report 1 Slovenia 2009

We have been at the regatta venue for 24 hours however if it wasn’t for the three teams here training in their own boats you wouldn’t have known there was any regatta happening here, . ... .....

The 2009 North American Championship was held in the first week of July with 198 competitors.

Wakatere was represented by Mahia Pepper, who unfortunately was not well and suffered from bouts of sea-sickness in the big seas, affecting his result.

The final results are :

13th     Red         NZL        4204     Jayvee Buchanan   (DNC)   12     5      OCS     21     4      7         7     3      1       11
18th     Green     NZL        4262     Olivia Mackay              12      10     (32)     22     14     1      1          6    (33)    7       4
33rd    Yellow     NZL        4371     Trent Rippey                17     12     23        4      45     6    (DNF)   17     4     19      10
86th     Blue        NZL        4274     Mahia Pepper              12     28     24     19      46     41   (49)      18   (50)  23     16

Full results are available on the official website while you can get up to date info from Mike Pepper on Twitter

The North American Champs were held in the Dominican Republic from June 30th - July 8th.

Official Website

On a cold and frosty morning (2 °C with an ice-scraper on hand) we set off for Kohi where Mike had everything running like a well-oiled machine! With 4 support boats for parents plus Susannah on hand to coach the Open fleet, Wakatere was well represented by 13 sailors, 5 in Green and 8 in Open. The wind was forecast to be 15 knots rising to 20 but never really got up more than 10-12 knots. We were glad because the light southerly was freezing despite the warm sun on our backs. The event was to raise funds for teams travelling overseas.

Results

Open Fleet:

Against stiff competition…6^th Markus Somerville, 7^th Ellie Copeland, 9^th Mahia Pepper, 11^th Matthew Kempkers, 12^th Jack Simpson, 15^th Jack Collinson, 20^th Tim Adair (first Open regatta, best result 15^th (of 31), 28^th Alan Turner.

Green Fleet:

2^nd Leo Pagani, 7^th Aiden Nicholas, 8^th Anneke Simmonds, 9^th Scott Macky, 11^th George Pagani

More photos available in the Gallery pages