The Canadian 5O5 Class Association

13 teams from Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston and the US assembled at the Kingston Yacht Club for a 505 training weekend at the best fresh water sailing venue on the planet. We were lucky to have Richard Mundell fly out to coach the clinic for the weekend. Rich is a very experience 505 sailor and sailing coach. He coached several of the top Californian teams that finished in the top 5 at the 2019 505 World Championships in Fremantle Australia. Kingston has the potential to have Seabreeze heavy air conditions like Fremantle and Rich was eager to share what he had learned from coaching at the Worlds in Australia.

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The first morning of the clinic, sailors showed up to rig and prepare their boats for the day. Rich did a detailed walk around of all the sail control systems on a 505 explaining the role of each one in different wind speeds.

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The theme of the weekend was “feel” and many of the drills during the weekend focussed on trying different ways of setting up the boat and trying to notice the difference. Some races were sailing with a pre-determined rake or board setting.

We did several variations of short course 1 lap races doing rabbit starts. Everyone got the chance to be the rabbit. The format allowed for some close racing and opportunities to practice sailing in traffic.

Saturday night dinner was hosted by the Gesings. A huge thanks to Adam and Renka for organizing a great BBQ and hosting everyone. Rich gave a debrief on the day of sailing and took the opportunity to share photos, videos and stories from his experience coaching in Fremantle.

Kingston delivered for us! We had two days of awesome sea-breeze conditions starting at 10knots in the morning and building to 20+ by the end of the day. It was great practice for the Canadian and North American Championships.

Big thanks to Martin, Jeff and Marie for organizing and to Rich for coaching!

Ottawa Fleet 4 hosting its 3rd annual Espoir Camp July 6-7th 2019. The Espoir Camp idea comes from the French 505 Class Association and has the goal of introducing young sailors under the age of 25 to the 505. While the camp remains geared towards attracting u25 sailors, we opened it up to all sailors interested in getting into the 505. The 2019 Espoir Camp had 12 participants. Boats were lent to the participants by Ottawa 505 Fleet 4 members.

Participants were treated to excellent weather and sailing conditions on both days of the camp. On Saturday, the wind was very strong with gusts of over 20 knots. The decision was made to take less boats out on the water and pairing new 505 sailors with more experienced ones. The goal was to insure that everyone got a positive first experience. The conditions allowed for great planning and trapeezing conditions. The great winds lasted all day and allowed for 2 on water sessions. IMG_0534

On Sunday, winds were a bit lighter allowing for a mini regatta to be held. 5 short course races were held in medium wind conditions which still allowed for trapeezing conditions upwind and spinnaker reaches downwind.

A huge thanks to Shona Moss and Marie Gendron for organizing and running the camp. We hope to see the Espoir sailors doing more 505 sailing in the near future!

2019 BUZZARDS BAY REGATTA

NOTICE OF RACE

 Racing: Friday August 2 through Sunday August 4, 2019

Organizing Authority (OA): Buzzards Bay Regatta, Inc.

Regatta Headquarters & Hosts: New Bedford Yacht Club (NBYC), South Dartmouth

208 Elm St, South Dartmouth, MA 02748

http://www.buzzardsbayregatta.com/

A reminder to pay your 2019 Membership fees. Please remember that you must be a member of the class association to participate in national and international events and most regional and local events so please help your association, local fleets and regatta organizers by renewing your membership now!  Membership Types and fees remain unchanged for 2019 as described below.

Payment options

For any questions or to pay by cheque, please contact canadian505association@gmail.com

2019 FLEET 4 KINGSTON TRAINING WEEKEND
Date: Saturday and Sunday July 20-21, 2019
Location: Kingston Yacht Club

Coach: Richard Mundell. Richard is an experience 505 sailor/coach. A graduate of the National Coaching Institute in Victoria, Canada. Richard started his career as a professional sailing coach working with Canadian’s provincial and national team athletes. He leaved in California for several years and trained/raced regularly with the top US West Coast 505 teams. The last two years he helped coach during the annual fall LA Teams’ Tuesday training camps. These are done along with Jay and Pease Glaser. They are organized by Howie Hamlin and the ‘Team Tuesday’ gang in LA. They’re run out of Long Beach (Alamitos Bay YC) and typically include Howie Hamlin, Mike M, Mike Holt, and many of the other more active boats on the west coast; including boats from BC Canada, the PNW fleets and the Northern and Southern CA fleets. Richard just returned from the 2019 505 Worlds where he coached a team consisting of; (USA) Mike Holt/Carl Smit – placed 2nd, (USA) Howie Hamlin/Jeff Nelson – placed 5th, (GBR) Ian Pinnell/Reeve Dunn – placed 7th, (CAN) Bob Tennant/Steve Bourdow – placed 16th, (AUS) Kevin Cameron/Sam Heritage – placed 17th, (USA) Ted Conrads/Brian Haines – placed 19th, and (USA) Tim Murphy/Andrew Sutton – placed 56th.

Training fee per team: $130 CDN
The training weekend is offer to a maximum of 12 teams. Priority is given to Canadian teams but US teams are welcome to attend if places are available. Please confirm your intention to participate as soon as possible to Martin Hicks mort@bork.org

The KYC-INTERNATIONAL505NORTHAMERICAN-2019-NOR is now available and Regatta Registration is OPEN on the Kingston Yacht Club website. The regatta will be held August 21-25th 2019.

The event organizers are working hard in order to make this a great event. Be sure to register early in order to take advantage of reduced pricing.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone in Kingston in August!

Thirteen teams from Canada and the US East Coast converged to Kingston for the 2018 Eastern Canadians September 22-23. Three races sailed on Saturday with shifty winds coming from the Kingston shore line. It was a game of snakes and ladders, eyes out of the boat and avoiding holes out on the race course was key. The breeze eventually shut off during the third race of the day and a fleet decision was made to head ashore. After a postponement ashore, two sailed on Sunday in light, shifty winds from the Wolf Island. The Kingston Sea Breeze eventually came in during the second race. It was great practice looking ahead to the 2019 North Americans which will be in Kingston August 21-25th.

Local favourites Jeff Boyd and Martin ten Hove (CAN 8821) won the regatta by a single point over Brent Beninger and Martin Hicks (CAN 8735) from Ottawa. Marie Gendron and Nicolas Tosi from Ottawa (CAN 8600) finished in third.

Thanks to all the volunteers and to CORK for having the 505’s this year! Thanks to the American sailors for making the trip up north

Full Regatta Results

Mike Martin and Adam Lowry won the 2018 5o5 North Americans in style by winning almost every race. 24 teams from USA, CAN and GBR battled tough breezy conditions on San Francisco Bay.

Full article on Sail World 

Photos 

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Interview with winners Martin and Lowry

What the Winners used

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