Our Sailors

Youth Race Results

RNSYS members win Canada Games Medals!!
Canada Games August 2009
Jono Reid (RNSYS) and crew Ted Skiffington (SMSC) win Gold in mens 29er class
Dana Archibald (RNSYS) and crew Karen Dexter (SMSC) win Silver in womens 29er class
Erin Rafuse (RNSYS) wins Silver in womens Laser Radial class
Tom Broskey (RNSYS) wins Silver in Mens Laser class

What a fantastic performance for Nova Scotia. Congratulations to all our Medal winners !!

NS Sailor Top Female at New England Championships
Allison Surrette from the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron and COAST program was top female at the Optimist New England Championships which were held in early August in Newport, Rhode Island. There were 323 boats at the regatta, including 113 females. Allison finished the regatta 10th overall, 1st in the female division.
Other COAST athletes at the championships were Jeremy Fraser 36th overall, Minette Murphy 67th overall,
Luke Ruitenberg 96th, Christian Grantmyre 132nd, Nathan Dunn 186th, and Lauren Sullivan in 191st.
The team was coached by Jeff Bethune of Halifax.

Laser North Americans @ Buffalo Canoe Club Ontario
Laser Class - Carlisle Norwood 13th, Alex Palmeter 25, Tom Brosky 29 out of 97 boats
Radial - Lisa Ross came 2nd, Matthew Archibald 12th, Erin Rafuse 35th, Ted Murphy 52nd, Fraser Wells
96th and Macaskill Oland 108th out of 121 boats
ARK
29er Class - 1st Ted Murphy and Alex Scales, 2nd Jono Reid and Emilie Bishop
Radial Class: 1st Matt Archibald
Laser Class: 1st Carlisle Norwood, 2nd Daniel MacMillan, 3rd Ben Rafuse (Instructor!)
Opti Green Fleet: 1st Brandon Ritchie, 3rd Marine Robertson Kempton

18 Optis at Opti Jam this year!
Brandon Ritchie won the Beginner class!
Ian Burke won the Intermediate Class!
Steph Robertson Kempton 8th, Christian Grantmyre 11th, and James Fraser came 18th in our Advanced Class

US Nationals in New Jersey
Tom Brosky 19th and Carlisle Norwood 20th out of 104
Radial : Erin Rafuse 26th, Ted Murphy 32nd, Katie Nichols 57th, Eric Dagenais 97th, Macaskill Oland 108th out of 142
Our 420 team is competing at North American Championships in Holland, Michigan and of course CORK, in Kingston so standby for those results at a later date.

NS Sailor Top Female at New England Championships

Monday, August 10, 2009
Allison Surrette from the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron and COAST program was top female at the Optimist New England Championships which were held on the weekend in Newport, Rhode Island.
 
There were 323 boats at the regatta, including 113 females.

Allison finsihed the regatta 10th overall, 1st in the female division.
 
Other COAST athletes at the championships were Jeremy Fraser 36th overall, Minette Murphy 67 overall, Luke Ruitenberg 96th, Christian Grantmyre 132nd, Nathan Dunn 186th, and Lauren Sullivan in 191st.
 
The team was coached by Jeff Bethune of Halifax.
Full results can be found at:
http://www.sailnewport.org/npt/m/_general/2009optineresults.asp

NS Sailors Compete Around the World

Lisa Ross, Danielle Dube, Erin Rafuse at Laser Radial Worlds, July 25 - August 2 Japan

Brendan Wilton at Laser Worlds, August 19-26 St. Margaret Sailing Club

Allison Surrette, US Opti Nationals, July 18-26, California

Max Flinn & Devan Dube, Opti World Championships, August 4-15, Brazil

Dana Archibald, Karen Filbee Dexter, Jonathan Reid, Ted Skiffington, Chantelle Boudreau, Casey McDermott, 29er World Championships, July 18-25, Italy

Canada Games Sailing Team Set for PEI
Tommy Brosky (Laser), Erin Rafuse (Radial), Karen Filbee-Dexter & Dana Archibald (Female 29er), Jonathan Reid & Ted Skiffington (male 29er) will represent Nova
Scotia at the Canada Summer Games in PEI from August 15-21.
Team Coach is Mike Todd, and Team Manager Lisa Ross.

Paul Tingley Wins 2.4mR National Championships
Paul Tingley captured the 2.4mR National Championship July 19 at National Yacht Club in Toronto. Tingley, who won gold in the same class at the 2008 Paralympic Games, will next compete at the North American Championships August 31 - September 4.
Continue reading for the full story, (as reported by the NSYA):
2.4m sailors from Canada and the US met at National Yacht Club in Toronto for the 2.4 Canadian Championships July 18-19. The weekend started out on the 17th with a scheduled training camp, the wind was nowhere to be seen though and the schedule kept having to be moved back. Finally a few zephers came in and we managed 25 starts and 5 short test races as a tuneup for the races.

Saturday the first racing began at 10:30 in good winds between 7 and 10 kts, the race got in 5 good races and by day’s end Paul Tingley RNSYS had a 3 point lead over Allan Leibel of National Yacht Club, it was plenty of racing for one day with courses 45 minute length.

Sunday opened with nice but shifty winds from the West at 8-11kts but it was spotty, the National Yacht Club RC jumped on the opportunity and banged off two good races before the wind started to really deteriorate, that is all we could get for the day. In the end Paul Tingley from RNSYS in Halifax won the regatta with a total of 8 points, Allan Leibel from National Yacht Club was second with 15 points, Jerry Wendt also from NYC was third on the countback with 19 points and Glen McKay from NYC was 4th with 19 points, Bruce Millar from NYC and RVYC was 5th with 21 points.

National Yacht Club and Allan Leibel put on a great event with plenty of activities to get the sailors together to share racing stories.

The next big event of the 2.4 class in Canada will be the North American Championships, which will be attached to Mobility cup Aug 31 to Sept 4 in Toronto, 2.4 class president Danny McCoy says that registrations are going well, if you plan to attend please send them in soon to assist the organizers with numbers to plan for.
Brian Todd, Canadian Sailing Team coach

Our Olympians

Lisa Ross

Lisa began sailing at the Lunenburg Yacht Club at 8 years old and spent every summer of her childhood since then at the club and on boats.  Her first regatta was the NS Provincial 13 and under champs where she finished 2^nd and was hooked on racing. At the age of 15, she got her first laser radial and raced this boat throughout high school winning the Canadian 18 and under Championships, representing Canada at the Youth World Championships and the Pan American Games all as a youth sailor.

Lisa attended the University of British Columbia where she graduated with a B.Sc. in Marine Biology. During university, Lisa played women’s CIAU rugby and coached sailing during the spring, fall and summers. 

In 2001 Lisa teamed up with Deirdre Crampton and in 2002 with Chantal Leger and they started their quest to represent Canada at the Olympics in the Women’s Keelboat, the Yngling.  They met their goals and competed for Canada in Athens in 2004.

In 2005, Lisa returned to the Laser Radial, which was named as the Women’s One Person Dinghy for the Beijing Olympics.  Along with the move back to a single-handed boat, Lisa began working with the Nova Scotia Provincial Sailing Team in 2005 as coach and is currently the High Performance Director for the team. She has been the top ranked Laser Radial member of the Canadian National Sailing Team since 2005 and has just recently won the Olympic Trials earning her the spot to be the Canadian representative at the Olympics in Beijing in August 2008.  She is currently training hard in Nova Scotia and competing in the World Cup circuit in preparation for the Olympics where she hopes to be the first Canadian women to bring home a medal for Canada in sailing.

Oliver Bone

Since the age of seven, Oliver Bone has been tempting the waters with his passion for sailing. Eight years later, in August 2000, saw him competing with then teammate Patrick Littee and winning the Canadian Olympic Regatta in Kingston (CORK). With that win he went on to place first in the North American Circuit on the Laser II (a precursor to the 470). At this point it was obvious that Oliver was of Olympic quality. In 2001, Oliver and his Laser II teammate began training on the Olympic 470 boat. Oliver’s team was invited to participate in an intensive training camp with the then Canadian National 470 team that summer. At the time Oliver was considered one of the best 470 skippers in Canada. After a year of training, Oliver’s teammate decided to pursue other venues. Oliver considered sailing solo when he received an offer to join Stephane Locas who was also an established 470 skipper. Oliver gladly accepted the offer and started his journey to realize his Olympic dream.

Oliver is not only concerned with advancing his own skill but also feels passionately about giving back to the community. On an ongoing basis Oliver coaches Canada’s up and coming Olympic hopefuls with the skills one can only acquire through international achievement. Amongst his busy training and eventing schedule, Oliver has established a camp solely for women who he will be coaching personally this summer. He also developed a program where junior sailors will be able to have the opportunity to test their skills on the senior member’s large boats. As president of the 470 sailing class, Oliver organized the national qualifier regattas, training camps and established regattas throughout Canada. Oliver looks to raise not only himself to high levels but wants to give opportunity to those around him. His current project, which recently has been put on the shelve do to time restraints

Paul Tingley

Sporting Accomplishments

2004 Paralympian, (Athens)

Bronze Medalist, 2000 Paralympic Games (Sydney)

Paul started sailing when he was ten years old and has competed since 1995. As a member of the Canadian Paralympic Sailing Team, he has participated in several international competitions, including the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. For the past 10 years, he has competed in national and international championships winning a World Championship competition in 2001. Now Paul has switched to single handed sailboats and is ramping up for a medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.