BRYN & JAMES SAIL TO NATIONAL SUCCESS

During the school holidays over two weeks, the Hobie Cat National Championships took place in Jervis Bay. Both James Winchester and Bryn Robinson-Mills competed in both series with the Hobie 16 opens being the first series. The first series saw a range of wind conditions over the 4 days with racing being called off for both too much wind and not enough wind. In this series James Winchester crewing for Gavin Luxton managed to place 12th, close behind was Bryn Robinson-Mils skippering for his Dad who racked up a 17th place. The second series which took place was the Hobie 14, Womens and Youth where James skippered for local sailor Brody Watt on a Hobie 16 and Bryn skippered his own Hobie 14.

This series of the regatta provided lighter winds over the 3 days of sailing as the last day was called off with winds too strong to hold racing in. In this series James managed to claim a 4th place in the Hobie 16 youth fleet with some red-hot competition. In the Hobie 14 fleet Bryn managed to place 1st in both the youth and open divisions and take home the championship trophy. He also became the youngest sailor to ever win the open division beating the 2017 World Champion in the process. In 2nd place to Bryn was past St John’s student Patrick Butler.