Northbridge Optimists

  Team Northbridge at 2010 NSW State Titles at Northbridge
 

Season 2011 has opened and off to a great start. Junior Captains David and Gareth have put great efforts into our junior racing program. We have a new specialist Club Opti coach in Stuart Johnston for our Open Optis but also our home grown instructors are nuturing and building up our future open racers in Green fleet.
These instructors are doing a fabulous job. 

Afternoon racing for our Open Optis is proving very popular with better winds and bigger fleets augmented with some stiff competition from MHYC Optis.

Look below for links to David and Gareth's newsletters.

"It's not about the boat."

Opti sailing is about the sailor and their growth in sailing. The Optimist is a relatively cheap introduction dinghy. Click here to read more on the Optimist and why it's the best intro boat for kids.

This boat is particularly kind to timid learners because it is very stable.    This makes the Opti an ideal training boat for the, variable, land affected sailing conditions in Middle Harbour around NSC.  

  More advanced sailors enjoy very competitive sailing at both club and interclub level.   There is an excellent class association and associated training programs.

The class is limited to children up to the age of 15 years.

Introduced to Northbridge in January 2009 we have a racing fleet of about 25 boats as at August 2010.

Newsletters

Season Opener                                  1/9/10
Heat 2                                               22/9/10
Heat 3                                              14/10/10
Summer Series Heat 1                       12/11/10

For all Opti & Junior sailing correspondence please use our new email address which goes to our Junior Captains David Ross & Gareth Dando.  

 Email : juniorsailing@nsc.asn.au

Official Results. Don't forget to refresh each time. (F5 will do it!)

Seabreeze Link

Calendar

Northbridge Calendar

Calendar of Opti Events of interest to NSW sailors.

http://www.optinsw.yachting.org.au/calendar/

 NSWIODA Teams Racing                      13th February 2011
Northbridge Sailing Club

NSW State Champs                                 March 26th 27th 2011
Woollahra Sailing Club