2023 SA Sailing League 8,9,10 Dec
CYCSA Youth Team get invited to Victorian State League and finish 2nd overall and 1st in age division!
A great outcome for the club and for the Elliott program!
Below L-R: Murphy Cowen, Carter Baker, Maddy Salter (Coach), Sailor Cowan, Sophie Ward)
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PLACE | CLUB | SKIPPER | ||||
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1st | Brighton & Seacliff Yacht Club (Team 1) | Sandy Higgins | ||||
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2nd | Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia (Team 1) | Robbie Deussen | ||||
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3rd | Brighton & Seacliff Yacht Club (Team 2) | Ben Hinks | ||||
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4th | Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia (Team 2) | Greg Allison | ||||
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5th | Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia (Team 3) | Carter Baker | ||||
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6th | Largs Bay Sailing Club (Team 1) | Ash Emery | ||||
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7th | Adelaide Sailing Club (Team 2) | Alex Blacker | ||||
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8th | Largs Bay Sailing Club (Team 2) | Stephen Eshman | ||||
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9th | Wallaroo Sailing Club | Ryan Kelly | ||||
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10th | Grange Sailing Club | Dale Geddes | ||||
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11th | Port River Sailing Club | Hannah Lees | ||||
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12th | Christies Sailing Club | Marc Read | ||||
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13th | Port Lincoln Yacht Club | Max Sturman | ||||
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14th | Adelaide Sailing Club (Team 1) | Maddy Salter | ||||
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15th | Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club | Craig McPhee | ||||
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WHO IS THE BEST INTERNATIONAL SAILING CLUB?
How do to work out which is the best sailing club in the world? Is it the club with the largest membership, biggest marina or club house, the biggest or the best boats? We think it is none of these things, but it is the club with the best sailors.
So how exactly do you work this out? That too should should be simple, but up until now it has not as there has been no simple, accessible, cheap way of getting sailors young and old to compete in a global club vs club competition. The key to this is that the racing format does not favour rich or poor, large or small clubs as all clubs send their best sailors to compete on a level playing field in event organiser supplied boats.
This starts at local club level progressing to National Sailing Leagues (of which there are 23 NSL’s worldwide) and then the top clubs from each NSL compete at a regional basis (ie SAILING Champions League: Asia Pacific) to compete to be the best club in Asia Pacific and then go onto to compete against the best clubs from around the world in the SAILING Champions League: World Finals based in Europe each year.
THE IDEA BEHIND SAILING CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
It’s a straightforward format that has been working well in football for years; now we have clear proof that it also works for sailing: An international club competition generating high levels of media interest and a competition that clubs, sailors and fans can all identify with.
The idea behind SAILING Champions League is simple: it’s the championship of the national champions. The most successful clubs of the National Sailing League countries are competing against each other to fight for the title: “Best Sailing Club of the Year”.
YOUTH SAILING AND WOMEN’s SAILING AND CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Following the exponential growth of the league format, the next obvious steps were to create special leagues for Youth and Women’s competition. So for the first time in 2018 we saw sailors competing in the Youth SAILING Champions League and Women’s SAILING Champions League. It’s all about making league sailing as accessible and attractive as possible to a wider group of sailors, as well as increasing the appeal to sponsors and commercial partners.