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"It's not about the boat"

The International Optimist Dinghy is currently raced by more than 150,000 sailors in over 110 countries worldwide.

Did you know that more than two thirds of the medal winning sailors at the last two Olympic Games, and over 85% of the medal winning skippers at the Beijing Olympics were former Optimist sailors?

That's why they say Optimists are the bathtubs that breed champions.

"I woke up one Christmas morning to find an Optimist dinghy beside my bed. I guess I have been sailing mad ever since"......Ben Ainslie (Gold Medallist)

"In Optimists you train together as a team to develop your skills, and build your character".....Victor Kovalenko (Australian Olympic Coach) AOST Training March 2009.

"You haven't won anything if in winning you lose the respect of the other competitors"....Paul Elvstrom (Gold Medallist)

150 Optis attend 2010 AUS Nats & Oceania's at Adelaide Sailing Club!

Great Results acheived by VIC sailors!!

With extreme 42C temperatures there was little hope of the seabreeze arriving, and at 1.30pm the Race Committee called it a day, effectively bringing the regatta to a close. Singaporean sailors (Samantha Neubronner, Jia Min Audrey Lim and Jillian Lee), Hong Kong sailor (Wai Chi Wan) and USA sailor (Drew Gallagher) filled the top five places overall. Nia Jerwood (WA), the first sailor from an Oceania nation, is the new Oceania Champion and consequently has also won the 2010 Australian Optimist Championships. Eliza Wilkinson (NZ) finished second and Lachlan Gilmour (WA) was third. Lachlan Gilmour was second in the Australian Championships and Jack Felsenthal (Vic) finished third. Full OPEN results click here!

In GREEN Fleet we saw Lauren Hautier (FRA) 1st, Eva Lorenz (Qld) 2nd, and VIC Sailors Jame Grogan (SYC) 3rd, Harrison Sly (MSC) 4th, Matthew Bates (MYC) 5th, Nicholas Sharman (MYC) 6th, Stan Austin 10th, followed bt Steven Case, Ben Brill, And Abbey Schwartz.. Full details Click here!

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