Sailing

Sailing

• 27 Mar 2015

With pride, the McKinnon sailing team have become the Victorian State Champions for public schools. With the strongest presence of all the public schools at the championships, we entered teams in both the first and second division competitions. We won races in both divisions and experienced many challenging races against the array of talented schools present - many of which had state ranked sailors and very sharp tactics.

Unpredictable weather and extreme wind on the first day of races forced some events to be postponed so everyone was under the pump to get out on the water and get the most out of the two days left of the competition. Fortunately, the following days provided sunshine and ideal sailing conditions which we all made the most of.

Thank you to Mr Stevenson, Mr Carroll and Mr Farthing for organising, coaching and encouraging us to do our best and have an amazing time each year. Thank you also to our newest staff recruits, Mr Korowski and Mr Van Pelt, for coming along to the training sessions each week and learning the sailing language!

McKinnon’s sailing team grows bigger and better each year so well done to all the sailors this year: Andy Bird, James Hackett, Liss Gibert, Brendan Moncreif, Jason Moncreif, Freya Parker, Alex Hunter, James Hunter, Jaz Hackett, Lachlan Debout, Tom Broadbent, Antione Mornet, Aron Murray, Marcus Sjostrom, Jess Wang, Grace Edwards and Olivia Kennedy. Happy Sailing!

By Liss Gibert and Freya Parker

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