CORK OCR

CORK OCR was held in Kingston Ontario from August 18th to 22nd. I finished 8th out of the 33 boats that were entered in the event. The full results can be found here

I drove to to Kingston from Vancouver with the club trailer which was a 50 hour drive. There were two of us sharing the drive. This was an interesting experience and it certainly was a great way to see lots of Canada however it tuned out to be an uneventful drive in terms of any great adventures or problems.   After arriving I helped coach the RVYC team for the CORK International youth event in which the team did really well finishing with seconds in both the Laser and Radial. This event ended on Thursday the 16th so I only had one day of training before starting the OCR (Olympic Classes Regatta). That one training day turned out to be a great day of sailing with strong wind and some awesome waves.

The regatta started off with light and shifty wind for the first race. As the day went on the winds built and steadied out a bit. The pattern of the first race being lighter then building for the second and third being the windiest of the day went on all week. The time at which the wind came in and the strength that it built to differed day to day but we did not miss one race for lack of wind. The laser course was lucky in the fact that we had the latest start of all the fleets which meant that there was more time for the thermal to fill in. It was also the farthest course from shore which meant that  it was the first to get the thermal. 

We had some very interesting racing, most of the time Kingston is a go left place but because of where our course was you could play the shifts and make some big come backs. However, as the wind built it was more and more important to get to the left side. This made it a lot more of a thinking game that it normally is in Kingston.

I am home how and am heading off to school for the winter. I will be doing my best to keep training as much as I can. The plan as of right now is to take some time off around Christmas and train in Miami before the Miami OCR.


-Kyle