30th June 2008
By Peter Campbell
Three teams from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron will contest the 2008 Open Yngling World Championship, to be sailed from Skovshoved Harbour, just north of Copenhagen, Denmark from 3-12 July. The 2008 Youth Europeans will also be held from the 2-5 July.
The three teams from the Squadron participating are:
AUS 48 – Chris Harper, Jan Harper, Jake Selinger
AUS 43 – Jordan Reece, Alan Reece, Michael Reece
AUS 5 – David Chapman, Tom Scardifield and a third crew, yet to be named
AUS 43 and AUS 5 will also compete in the Youth Europeans.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Yngling, designed by Jan Herman Linge in the winter 1967-1968, with the first seven boats sailing in the 1968 season in Denmark. The class has been sailed out of the Squadron for many seasons.
The three-crew keelboat class is heading towards 4,000 boats worldwide and will be the women’s keelboat class at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, with Australia represented by the RSYS crew of Krystal Weir, Karyn Gojnich and Angela Farrell.
The World Championship will be sailed over 10 races, with the first competition scheduled for July 6.
View: Event Website & Race Results
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