PSC were represented by 4 members boats Jacob /Sophies DASH, MJ s RECAA
Vice Commodore Ramas VG Offshore and Commodore Jeremys Blue Angel ,
not bad out of a total of 24 entrants
Race Officer Simon James had a problem on class allocation, in the past he
has been okay to have more smaller classes but this time there were groupings
which with the conditions simply didn’t work , for example with IRC 1 and 2
grouped together Jeremys 28 footer sailed against racing Farr 40 footers , the
handicap takes care of part of this but not the different sailing characteristics
/speeds , likewise in the cruising class our cruiser racers were grouped with the
120 year old Bristol cutter Evelyn , so much slower , this means for any restart
they have to wait for the slowest boat to finish
Racing class had only one entrant the Thai TP 52 , in the end the Navy entered
their boat Uranus which would never be a match
RLIR is always Jeremys favourite because it is a well organised ,conventional
regatta , ie based in one location and a very nice one , Langkawi, so beautiful
and scenic , this year was no exception in fact it had everything but the
essential WIND
In the end cruising class had 3 races and IRC 4 races normally 8 to 10 , Dash
sailing with a number of Malaysian Olympic sailors from the nearby Malaysian
Sailing Center on board was a close second in cruising, VG Offshore third and
Recaa sailing her first proper regatta fourth
Blue Angel having taken the option to enter the IRC 1 class was a rather
disappointing 6 th out of 7 , that said we had a great crew to sail with and in
one race were fourth when less than one minute would have had us second
Not enough races to give us a chance , which applies to everyone
After a great PSC club gathering on Sunday night the week however was made
more interesting by a visit kindly organised by Sophie who had a number of the
Malaysian Olympic sailors sailing on her boat DASH namely Juni Karimah Nor
Jamali ( Int 470 class ) Khairulnizam Mohd Afendi ( 3x Olympic in ILCA 7
formerly Laser and 3 times SEA games gold medallist ) Asri bin Asman ( Sea
Games silver medallist and assistant Kedah Coach ) Neeta herself is a SEA gold
medallist and 4 th in World Cup in Melbourne This is the Olympic training
center but also the Kedah Sailing Association base
Neeta who organised this introduced us to her Father Mohd Afendi who is
the Chief coach and organiser , He explained how from an abandoned
government building they had developed the center with good and wide
ramps, dormitories and huge under boat cover store, there were a lot of new
dinghies including 2 futuristic 29 ers
Afendi and Neeta offered assistance when we get our junior sailing academy
going , our thank to Neeta for her help and introducing the sailors , all
interesting and English speaking It was great to have our new member
Sophies with hubby Jacob involvement too , makes more possible our
integrated member and local children dinghy ambitions
Next up we are organising our sailing program for 2023 which traditionally
starts in February 12 th for the Squibs and including events for our greatly
increased cruiser membership , PD now fixed for Saturday 29 th May with an
event in PD on 30 th May
It may also be possible to start our Academy junior Optimist sailing program
under our new Chief Instructor Nurul Ain and Assistant Rina
Jeremy Camps
Commodore
20/1/23