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July 2014

Krystal Weir / 2014 (Page 2)

Viper Worlds Erquy France

Over the past week I have been competing at the Viper Worlds in Erquy in France. I was sailing with Andy Dinsdale from France VSR. We had great racing with 37 Vipers buzzing around. Overall the regatta was predominately light winds and tricky conditions. Andy & I finished 12th overall and second best placed Aussie with Dan & Nath in 4th. Congratulations to the French team of Emmanuel & Eric for winning the regatta. I want to thank Mark Stichbury-Cooper from Viper New Zealand for helping make it all happen. ...

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Europeans & Holland Wrap Up

It has been a busy couple of months traveling around Europe.  Firstly Holland Regatta where I finished 12th and Europeans Croatia where I was delivered two yellow flags to drop me right down the ranks of Gold Fleet.  I decided to come over to Europe earlier then originally planned to help  give me an indicator of where to focus my training. It has been a great adventure to find out my strengths and weakness's. I had a great block of training with my new coach Jared West and the Australian Sailing Squad. It has been great being back on the circuit and apart of a team again. Croatia for me was the biggest learning curve. Where my lack of time on water was evident. The level of competition has...

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Krystal heads to Holland

It has been a very busy couple of months. I have been working full time at Caulfield Hospital after moving back to Melbourne earlier in the year. Only a month ago I decided to jump back into the Laser Radial and to travel back overseas for some competitions. First event back will be Holland Regatta which begins 20th May and runs till 24th May. To follow my progress http://www.deltalloydregatta.org/ Next stop is Split in Croatia in June....

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Australian Laser Womens National Champion 2013/14

  Krystal Wins Australian Laser Radial Womens National Title 2013/14  in McCrae, Melbourne It was a tough event with predominately windy and shifty conditions. There were 95 boats competing over the course of the week. The VLA & McCrae Sailing Club did a great job throughout the week to run a smooth regatta. The Wilson brothers & Peter Merritt provided the race management team and a top jury team were selected for the event. Congrats to Matthew Wearn Full Rig overall winner, Tristan Brown overall Radial Winner. Special mention to my old training partner who has moved into the full rig Jeremy O'Connell who came second overall in the Full rigs. Good Work Jez! Sail-World article http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Laser-Champions-crowned-with-a-bit-of-Star-Power./118169 Results http://sailwave.com/results/2014LaserRadialFinals.htm...

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