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Youth Sailing Championships in New South Wales, Ontario and Québec - a Quick Comparison

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

With the youth championships in New South Wales, Australia, starting today, with a remarkable number of 326 entries, totalling some 399 sailors, a comparison can be done with the numbers achieved at the recently completed Translate youth provincial championships in Ontario and  Québec. ⾔語を選択 Powered by 翻訳 Interestingly, NSW, ON and QC are juridictions with populations numbers that are not that far apart: approx 7.5 million in NSW, 13.6 million in Number of Sailors in Attendance at 2018 Youth Championships ON and 8.2 million in QC. The three jurisdictions Popular Posts in 3 Juridictions - on various types of equipments - chart offer plenty of opportunities for sailing.

A Sad Day for Sailing It's also important to note that, in Canada, Ontario and Québec are traditionnally among the most dynamic jurisdictions for youth sailing, along with British Columbia and Nova Scotia.

To proceed with the comparison, one has grouped some boats. The single handed Open Bic and Sabot, Cayard, Berecz, Kusznierewicz both absent at the QC and ON championships, are lumped together. The Techno 293, absent at the ON Weigh in on World Sailing, the and QC championships, and the RSX, only present at the QC championships, are put together Finn and Offshore (eventhough the sailors were not really youth sailors at those championships). The club and international 420s are put together, eventhough they are technically different boats: actually, no i420 Resolving the 2024 Olympics was sailed in ON and QC, while only i420s were sailed in NSW. The numbers for the light weight double Lineup: a Solution handed dinghies Flying 11 and NS 14, which are equivalent to the RS Feva XL, are put together. In Quebec, there are just a few Laser 4.7s, but those were sailed jointly with the Radial, so numbers are merged together and put into the Radial category. Un jour triste pour la voile

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What are the key findings:

2024 Olympic Singlehanded - there were about twice more sailors in NSW than in Ontario, nearly 4 times more than in Québec, yet Dinghies: Videos of the more important than the absolute numbers of sailors is the distribution of sailors among the various classes Potential Contenders - substantial Open Bic and Sabot fleets in NSW ; no such boat accepted at youth sailing competitions in QC or ON, which exclusively rely on the Optimist - even though there is an number of Open Bics in Ontario (the Sabot is not present in Canada) - similarly, substantial light weight double handed dinghies - Flying 11 and NS14 in NSW - no such dinghies in Ontario or QC, which don't have, so far, light-weight double-handed dinghies (except a fleet Featured Post of approx 10 RS Fevas in Ontario)

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- significant presence of windsurfs on both the Techno 293 and 293+ in NSW - only a few RSXs, that Welcome to the Optimist and Open Bic were not really juniors, in QC Blog! - similar numbers of Laser 4.7 and Laser Radials in NSW, while the 4.7 fleets in ON and QC are either Welcome to the Optimist and Open Bic Sailing very small, or merged with the Radial Blog - an initiative primarily aimed at parents of - comparatively more Lasers 4.7 and Radials in QC and Ontario, which can probably be explained by opti sailors who would like to share their... the absence of light weight double handed dinghy alternatives such as the Flying 11 or RS Feva XL in those jurisdictions - higher popularity of the 29er than the i420 in NSW, while the 29er fleets remain small in ON and QC (these were actually mostly the same sailors attending both events) - and yes, the numbers are flawed, because there were many QC sailors at the Ontario Championships - but not the other way around ... for example, 11 out of the 43 Optimist sailors at the Ontario Championships were from Québec. For the Radials, it was 16 out of 55 sailors who were from QC. For the 29er, 6 out of the 8 boats, i.e. 12 out of the 16 sailors, at the Ontario championshiop were from QC. So the actual participation by Ontario sailors is actually lower than what transpires from this rapidly compiled table and chart.