2015 CanAm Regatta August 1 to 2, 2015

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You can’t tell from this photo, but we had two days of great sailing at the 2015 edition of the CanAm Regatta held this weekend in Stowe, VT.

The winds were typically shifty, but we had plenty of wind to sail and race hard for two days. In the end Team USA won by a slim 10 points as the score narrows again. We will have to wait another year to engrave Team Canada on the trophy but we can taste it now!

The addition of some great new team members from Ontario made this the strongest Team Canada yet. Jim Goddard from the Halifax Area Model Yacht Club placed first in the individual competition with Bob Boutilier also from HAMYC placing fifth.

Jim Goddard has been the top Canadian every year of the CanAm Regatta compiling an impressive record on a pond that is notoriously fickle.

2015 First
2014 First
2013 First
2012 Second
2011 Second
2010 First
2009 Second

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Left to right – Bob Boutilier (Fifth), Jim Goddard (First), Bruce Nourjian (Second), Clark Abbott (Third), Jack Ward (Fourth)

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Good Luck to Team Canada

Once again members of the Halifax Area Model Yacht Club will for the core of Team Canada at the CanAm Regatta this weekend in Stowe, Vt. We will be joined by top sailors from Eastern Canada, as Canada will send it’s strongest team ever in hopes of capping our outstanding individual performances with a team win.

The CamAm Challenge Cup was first held in 2009 to promote a friendly, yet competitive

2014 CanAm Regatta (3)spirit between sailors in the US and Canada – in the true Corinthian spirit. The regatta is sailed with Soling One Meter model Yachts and scored on two levels:

  • Individual performance
  • Team performance (Canada vs. U.S)

The emphasis is on the individual sailor; team racing is specifically prohibited. It is anticipated that the top five individual positions for each country, for each race, will determine the CanAm Challenge Cup team winner. This method gives each skipper a chance of scoring for their team in an race throughout the regatta. The number of sailors scored for the team award will be adjusted based on lowest number of entries from one country.

 

Weeds Choke Out Sullivan’s Pond

We managed to sail with the hazards of the holes and the exposed sleepers.
Only a few people have tripped over the stupidly placed rocks this year.

But now the weeds have returned, along with some floating planters at the edge of our race course.

We are the only group that uses the pond at the pond but they never see fit to talk to us about what they do there.

We hear that when they are done with the canoe area of Lake Banook, they may clear the Pond. Let’s hope so, while the City will not admit it they caused this problem.