Wearn, Stransky, Riley, Coote, and Wadley are 2020 Australian Laser Champions. (Melbourne, Australia) With the regatta already won before the final two races, Matt Wearn finished the week with a third and a seventh (which became his second discard) to wrap up his fifth Australian Laser Championship. Conditions were testing, with strong 18–25 knot south-westerlies […]
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Wearn closes on fifth Australian Laser title. (Melbourne, Australia) With one day left to sail, Matt Wearn, who will be Australia’s representative in the Laser class at the Tokyo Olympics, has an unbeatable lead in this year’s National Championship. After three races in almost ideal conditions at Sandringham today, Wearn holds a 29 point lead
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Wearn consolidates his lead at the 2020 Australian Laser Championships. (Melbourne, Australia) Three races were held at the Australian Laser Championships today as organisers sought to make up for yesterday’s cancellations owing to high winds. A cold and wet Melbourne morning greeted the sailors, but the forecast moderate southerly winds had settled in, providing good
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Thompson, Stransky and Akkerman had standout performances on the first day of the 2020 Australian Laser Championships. (Melbourne, Australia) Double world champion Nick Thompson of Great Britain, young Queenslander Mara Stransky, who is chasing her first Olympic Games spot, and Dutch sailor Mirthe Akkerman were the standout performers on the first day of the Australian
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by Ken Hurling, ALCA Chairman Laser sailors have been arriving as early as two weeks ago to Denarau Island, enjoying the sunshine, warm waters, and the sights of Fiji before the 2018 Oceania Laser Masters Championships begin. For those who have never been to Fiji, seen turquoise-colored water, or sailed in the trade winds, it has been
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Via NSW/ACT Laser Association, photos by Beau Outteridge The Open Laser Championships for 2018 were held in Brisbane and hosted by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. A total of 175 Lasers competed across 4.7, Radial and Standard rigs in breezes ranging from 6 knots up to 20 knots gusts on windward – leeward courses. The
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