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West Australian
08-05-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
Zuri skipper Neil Worrell takes home swag of silver at Princess Royal Sailing Club trophy night
The Princess Royal Sailing Club held its annual trophy night on Saturday, despite unfavourable weather conditions forcing the cancellation of the last race of the season. Due to Saturday's weather not being conducive to sailing the Cock of the Harbour race, it was decided to hold the event on May 10. However, trophy night went ahead as planned and a full clubhouse of members and families watched on as dozens of coveted trophies were handed to the proud recipients. No prouder and very humble was division two skipper of Zuri, Neil Worrell, who scooped the pool by winning a table full of silverware, mainly on handicap wins. His faithful Zuri may not have been the quickest yacht in the fleet but always managed to sail to its handicap and reaped the rewards. Stephen Brown, another division two skipper who hardly missed a race also took home a heap of trophies with Mary Maitland and a dedicated crew, in particular Grant Tickell. Peter Bane, also from division two and skipper of Dunluce, was tickled pink with his winning the prestigious Dymes Cup and his only trophy of the night. Aileen and Simon Lucas shared most of the spoils in the Flying Fifteen fleet. Both skippers dominated in their fleet and have proved to be the ones to beat.
West Australian
01-05-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
Junior competitors relish chance to train with world class coaches at Albany's Princess Royal Sailing Club
Sailing Australia's regional participation program came to the Princess Royal Sailing Club last week, giving 32 young mariners an opportunity for world class training. The sport's governing body sent three trainers to Albany to help 32 participants in 25 boats over four days. Star of the show was Nia Jerwood, who competed at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics in the 470 class. She took part in a question and answer session before presenting certificates to the regatta winners. Albany sailors Eden Gray, 14, and Jay Devries, 14, were respectively second and third behind laser winner Hugh Healy, 15. PRSC training and development officer Benn Gray said the program aimed to help regional sailors access the best tuition. 'The aim of the regatta was to deliver high performance coaching to regional sailors who usually have to do a lot of travelling to access it,' he said. 'This is part of our club's desire to lift and help regional sailing.' He said it was an opportunity for home competitors to test themselves. PRSC commodore Rachel Hodgson said it was a brilliant day for the sailors. 'We have trainers at the club, but it was so nice to sit back in the viewing boat and watch the Sailing Australia trainers in action,' she said. She said the program would run again next year, setting up a trifecta of competitions with clubs in Denmark and Walpole. 'We will have the Denmark regatta in January, the Walpole event at the end of February and now Albany at Easter,' she said. 'It is a very exciting time for the club.'
