Australian Youth Nacra 15 Championship at Wangi RSL Amateur Sailing Club

by Jane Gordon, Australian Sailing 19 Apr 2017 07:29 BST 14-17 April 2017

Western Australians Shannon and Jayden Dalton win the Australian Youth Nacra 15 Championship © Beau Outteridge / Australian Sailing

Western Australian siblings, Shannon and Jayden Dalton, have won the Australian Sailing Youth Nacra 15 Championship, hosted by Wangi RSL Amateur Sailing Club over the Easter long weekend.

Former Optimist and 420 sailors, Shannon and Jayden relished in the conditions on Lake Macquarie, winning seven from ten races over the course of the regatta. Having only spent the last four months training in the Nacra 15, the duo negotiated the light and tricky conditions on the Lake flawlessly.

"A lot of hard work has paid off," said Jayden. "No one has really had the boats long enough to train and be really prepared, so it was really good to just get out here and see how we went with everyone else.

"We have been training hard at both South of Perth Yacht Club on Swan River, and on the ocean in the lead up to this event.

"The regatta was really quite light and shifty, and the water was really flat which we are not used to. We haven't trained in the light breeze that much back home (Western Australia)."

Jake Liddell and Emma Jones from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia flew the flag for the east-coast of Australia winning three races across the weekend to take out second place. Local Wangi sailors, Jed Fatches and Karma Randall, also capitalised on the conditions finishing the regatta in third place after posting consistent results across the four-day event.

Australian Sailing Performance Pathway Manager, Mark Robinson said the first Nacra 15 Championship event was a great success.

"The Nacra 15 is a new multihull that youth sailors are climbing on board across the country to experience the speed and versatility that it offers," Mark said. "We've received comments both from experienced multihull sailors and those new to the discipline that this is a great balanced boat ideal for our youth sailors.

"The multihull is a great pathway option for junior sailors coming from Optimists, Open Bics, Sabots and the like, and the event on the weekend highlighted that with such a competitive yet diverse fleet background."

Darren Bundock presents Shannon and Jayden Dalton with the Australian Youth Nacra 15 Trophy - photo © Beau Outteridge / Australian Sailing

Next stop for the Daltons will be the 2018 Youth World Championships to be hosted in China this December with their training as a part of the Australian Sailing Youth Team to commence shortly.

"Shannon and Jayden now complete the Australian Sailing Youth Team that will travel to Sanya in China," Mark said. "The other team members have been training in their home states since their selection earlier in the year and will come together as a team later in the year for training camps with the three appointed team coaches."

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Boat Name	Helm	Crew	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Pts
1	AUS037	AUS037	Shannon Dalton	Jayden Dalton	SOPYC	2	1	1	[5]	1	1	1G	[12]	1	1	9
2	AUS060	AUS060	Jake Liddell	Emma Jones	CYCA	1	2	8	2	5	[12Y]	1	1	[11]	3	23
3	AUS051	Tallulah	Jed Fatches	Karma Randall	WASC	3	6	2	6	[9]	[7]	3	3	4	4	31
4	AUS056	Tooley's Vision	Jai Tooley	AQAji Miller	CYC	[8]	3	3	4	7	6	[8]	2	2	7	34
5	AUS046	Ramona	Will McKenzie	Patrick Butler	Vincentia	[11]	8	4	3	2	5	5	8	3	[10]	38
6	AUS043	AUS043	Tom Dawson	Brin Lidddell	Belmont	10	7	[12]	[11]	4	3	4	4	6	9	47
7	AUS044	NHS	Tom Crockett	Jack Twomey	Belmont	9	[10]	5	[10]	6	4	7	7	7	5	50
8	AUS058	Afterburn	Will Cooley	Ethan White	RSYS/GLSC	5	[14O]	[9]	1	3	8	6.8G	5	14D	8	50.8
9	AUS016	VES	Georgia Payne	Daniel Brown	SOPYC	7	[9]	6	8	8	2	[10]	9	8	6	54
10	AUS057	Forward Sailing	Jack Challands	Lauchlan Hughes	SYC/PYC	6	5	10	[12]	[11]	11	6	6	9	2	55
11	AUS059	High Voltage	Ashleigh Swadling	Cooper Richmond	RQYS/SYC	4	11	7	9	[12]	[12]	12	10	5	12	70
12	AUS064	Triton Racing	Leopold McAllister	Bailey Hood	RSYS	[12]	4	[11]	7	10	10	11	11	10	11	74
13	AUS053	Musto 4 Youth	Lucy Nissen	Ethan Micallef	NCYC	[14C]	[14C]	14C	14C	14C	14C	14C	14C	14C	14C	112