2011 Braassemermeer International Optimist Easter Regatta
05 May
This year Team Ireland won the Best Country award at Braassemermeer International Optimist Easter Regatta for the first time in the Netherlands. This is huge achievement for Irish team and shows the ongoing commitment, effort and training.
Team Ireland achieved their first race win this year and a total of 28 top ten results. This year also saw Team Ireland having 7 sailors in the Gold fleet for the first time.The total fleet size was 222 sailors comprising of the following 10 countries - IRL, GBR, NED, BEL, POR, NOR, USA, FIN, SWE, CZE.
Team Ireland was represented by 11 sailors. 8 of these sailors were members of the 2010/11 OPG programme and 4 of these are members of the RStGYC. Our congratulations to all and especially to our RStGYC members Caitlin Waters, Chloe Eggers, Conor O'Beirne and Adam Hyland.
This is a real credit to all the sailors who have been training throughout the winter months and who have now competed at what is recognised as one of the most competitive Optimist International regattas. It is also great to see Team George flying the flag for the club and this is hopefully a sign of the things to come.
Other sailors on the team were Alacoque Daly TBSC, Sean Donnelly NYC, Douglas Elmes WHSC, Fergus Flood HYC, Conor Kneafsey NYC, Cliodhna Ni Shuillebhain KYC (First bullet).
Every sailors results counted for the Best Country ranking making it a real team effort.
A big thanks you also the Team Ireland Coach Thomas Chaix for his input and guidance to the team.
