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Koh Samui Yacht Club Regatta
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Monthly Sailing Yacht Regatta on Koh Samui

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SAMUI YACHT CLUB REGATTA
SAILING AROUND KOH SAMUI

• WEBSITE UPDATED Wednesday, January 20, 2010

• Junior Sailing page updated January 20, 2010

• GrapeVine updated January 20, 2010

• Scuttlebut updated October 25, 2009

	Sailing coaches from Royal Thai Navy teach advanced sailing techniques to Samui’s juniors. Three coaches from the Royal Thai Navy (Fleet Team), Lieutenant Navee Naungchumnong, Petty Officers Anun Daochanterk and Wiwat Poonpat arrived on Koh Samui Friday 18 December with the help of Bangkok Airways and Tradewinds Resort, to hold a special sailing clinic for the two day weekend at the SYC Club at Ban Rak.
	Each morning, a two hour session was held on the water and after lunch, a longer afternoon period where the juniors were taught boat tuning, upwind and downwind sailing techniques, starting strategy and the sailing rules.
	The head coach Wiwat Poonpat is a relative of Thailand’s greatest sailor Noppakhao Poonpat, a 14 year old girl who recently finished fourth in the Optimist World Championships in Brazil where there were some 220 entrants from 47 countries and just last week, she won the Asian championships held in Lankawi, Malaysia.
	Coach Wiwat concentrated on the finer points of sailing, such as when approaching and rounding a mark (buoy) how to gain the advantage over other competitors by carefully judging and placing yourself in the right spot.
	All the kids showed their appreciation by their active participation in the sailing techniques and the question and answer sessions. The Navy team returned to Sattahip Monday and it is hoped to run future courses on a monthly basis.

Sailing Safari, three days at Marine Park

26, 27& 28 September 2009

All welcome, those who don't have boats, space is available on
Dreamcatcher, Crazy Horse, Viva and the new Radical Bay 8000.

Price Baht 3000 each and includes all dinners.

Please contact Joh or Kunta to confirm

Wednesday 24th June, the visiting sail-training vessel S/Y Argo, invited Samui Optimist kids aboard their ship and to meet their 25 students

S/Y Argo

Kids learning navigation on board the Argo

Our kids in the engine room

The kids with Captain Dan and Captain Jim

Kids on the bowsprit

Our kids in the galley

Junior Sailors Optimist Dinghies at the
Koh Samui International Regatta 2008

Frank Pong with 1st place, Mai	Americas Cup designer Juan Kouyoumdjian and 2nd place Amanda
Peter Grimes Australian F18 Hornet fighter pilot, crewing yacht Baby Tonga presents prize to 3rd place, Nattapphol	Bill Bremner and 4th place Martin.

NEWS ITEM: Post Koh Samui Regatta 2008: There is more good news for the Junior sailors. Sunsail is donating a Benetteau 35 racing yacht for the use of the Junior sailors. The plan is, John Stall will be skipper with two Royal Thai Navy crew and each day, take four different Junior sailors to crew. So with five days racing some twenty kids will have the chance to experience big boat racing and perhaps learn some colorful nautical terms.

 Visit our Junior Sailing Squadron Page Here

Koh Samui Regatta 2008 Photos

February 2008 Regatta Report

The February regatta was staged from the Oriental Resort (and their Cooler Bar) at Ban Rak and the five Juniors who showed up were spread amongst the fleet.

The Lamai Chamber of Commerce set the start line at 1230, using Gerry's Macgregor 26 as the committee boat and then screwed up the starting sequence by lowering the one minute flag, a minute late!

While this was tolerated by the older crews, the juniors made it known that they expected more from the elders and let the race officer know by their loud comments, that went unanswered by a subdued committee who were already into their third can of beer.

However it did make for an interesting start with Capt. Didier and his Hobie 21 crossing the line on port followed by Francesco on his Windrider 17, while Squall's Nacra crossing on Starboard forced Moonshadow (Mick Grover) to tack and Squall's junior crew of Amanda and Mai asking " Why did they shout "Bastard !" Mr. John ?".

Because the wind was a fitful 9 knots with holes, the course was a clockwise rounding of the two offshore rocks Hin Mu Nok, Ko Som and the committee boat. Moonshadow, with her outstanding windward ability was first around, followed by the H. 21, then the Nacra and then a long way back to Crazy Horse (RB 8000) and the Windrider.

Then, after rounding Koh Som, poor Moonshadow fell into a hole and had to watch the Hobie 21 sail right through her and into a big lead while the Nacra also made large gains on the leader.

Capt. Didier scored line honours, followed by Moonshadow, Nacra 4.5, Crazy Horse and the Windrider 17. Corrected results., 1st Moonshadow, 2nd Nacra 4.5, 3rd Hobie 21.

Sunday dawned raining and no wind, so at 1300 it was decided to cancel the day's racing.

Race Results February 22 / 23 Regatta

Samui Yacht Club Regatta
The General Committee 2007 - 2008

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