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Sailing Training School
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Sailing Training School
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Sailing Training School
FOBISIA Sailing Invitationals
Royal Varuna Yacht Club is a venue for 2016 FOBISIA Sailing event.
Regents International School Pattaya is delighted to be hosting the second FOBISIA Sailing Invitational at the Royal Varuna Yacht Club Pattaya from 10 -12 March 2016. For more information, please contact Dave Williams at david.williams@regents-pattaya.co.th
Regents International School Pattaya is delighted to be hosting the second FOBISIA Sailing Invitational at the Royal Varuna Yacht Club Pattaya from 10 -12 March 2016. For more information, please contact Dave Williams at david.williams@regents-pattaya.co.th
Hosted by Harrow International School, Bangkok 27-29 March 2015
Five schools, some 50 competitors and two boat types (Optimists and Qubas) battled it out at the Royal Varuna Sailing Club in Pattaya for the first FOBISIA Sailing Championships, hosted by Harrow Bangkok.
The crews came in from far and wide, with four top teams from Thailand, and Kellet School, Hong Kong, who fielded a team which had recently won the Inter school’s Sailing Championships in Hong Kong.
The weather conditions were challenging, with wind speeds of 8 knots in the morning, gusting to 12 in the afternoons. Many of our teams were used to the strong tides which Pattaya Bay is notorious for, and this enabled them to steal a march on their Hong Kong competitors.
Early on in the event, the host school Harrow Bangkok beat Bangkok Pattana School (BPS) and Regents’ to move into a firm lead, but their competitors fought back to move into strong positions, with Bangkok Prep proving to be the outstanding team in terms of team tactics and individual sailing skills.
The final races of the event were held on Saturday; BPS and Harrow Bangkok were fighting it out for 3rd Place with BPS eventually triumphing in a nail-biting finish. Kellet Hong Kong and Bangkok Prep provided a tense final for the event, with strong sailing skills eventually winning the day for the Bangkok Prep team.
It was certainly an experience that many of us will never forget, a comment from the Harrow Bangkok Team Captain, Nano, sums up the event perfectly, when he said, “Skippering my team to some closely-fought races has been the height of my sailing career, and I shall definitely be back to cheer our new team on in 2016”.
By Stewart Ross, Head of Sailing, Harrow International School, Bangkok
Five schools, some 50 competitors and two boat types (Optimists and Qubas) battled it out at the Royal Varuna Sailing Club in Pattaya for the first FOBISIA Sailing Championships, hosted by Harrow Bangkok.
The crews came in from far and wide, with four top teams from Thailand, and Kellet School, Hong Kong, who fielded a team which had recently won the Inter school’s Sailing Championships in Hong Kong.
The weather conditions were challenging, with wind speeds of 8 knots in the morning, gusting to 12 in the afternoons. Many of our teams were used to the strong tides which Pattaya Bay is notorious for, and this enabled them to steal a march on their Hong Kong competitors.
Early on in the event, the host school Harrow Bangkok beat Bangkok Pattana School (BPS) and Regents’ to move into a firm lead, but their competitors fought back to move into strong positions, with Bangkok Prep proving to be the outstanding team in terms of team tactics and individual sailing skills.
The final races of the event were held on Saturday; BPS and Harrow Bangkok were fighting it out for 3rd Place with BPS eventually triumphing in a nail-biting finish. Kellet Hong Kong and Bangkok Prep provided a tense final for the event, with strong sailing skills eventually winning the day for the Bangkok Prep team.
It was certainly an experience that many of us will never forget, a comment from the Harrow Bangkok Team Captain, Nano, sums up the event perfectly, when he said, “Skippering my team to some closely-fought races has been the height of my sailing career, and I shall definitely be back to cheer our new team on in 2016”.
By Stewart Ross, Head of Sailing, Harrow International School, Bangkok
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Royal Varuna Yacht Club,
286 Moo 12 Phatumnak Rd., Nongprue, Banglamung Chonburi 20150 Thailand.
Tel: (66) 0-3825-0116
Fax: (66) 0-3825-0115
Club Manager at
generalmanager@varuna.org
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