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ISA YOUTH NATIONALS & JUNIOR PATHWAY C/SHIP: THE SAILORS FEEDBACK
We asked the sailors a few questions and here's their responses...
| Your Name | Your Class | Your Club | Your School | Who else from your family is here? | What did you like about this event? | What was your best sailing experience last year? | What are your next sailing plans? |
| Alan Ruigrok | Laser Radial | Howth Yacht Club | Gormanstown College | My Mum | Very competitive racing and lots of sunshine | Coming 6th in the Kinsale Frostbites | Club racing |
| Brendan Lyden | RS Feva | Royal Cork Yacht Club & Baltimore Sailing Club | Rochestown College | Two of my brothers | All of my friends were there | Going to the RS Feva Europeans | To be National Champion in my boat |
| Cian Cahill | Laser | Royal St George Yacht Club & Baltimore Sailing Club | St Conleths College | My borther, my cousin Fionn and my cousin Darragh | It was close to my relatives | Making the Leinster Squad | Laser 4.7 Europeans |
| Cian O'Regan | 420 | Kinsale Yacht Club | C.S.N. | Brother & Sister | Good quick racing | Winning Christmas 420 Regatta | Mitsubishi Youth Regatta |
| Colm O'Mahony | Laser Radial | Blessington Sailing Club | ST Colmcilla, Knocklyon | Just my Mom | The sailing area | GP14 event! | Mitsubishi in two weeks and Ulsters the week after |
| Cool Man | Rocks | is cool | is a waste of time | The free stickers | |||
| Darragh O'Sullivan | Laser 4.7 | Kinsale Yacht Club | Bandon Grammer | Cousins | It was in Cork | Sailing in big events | Train hard and get a top 1 ranking |
| Dermot Lyden | RS Feva | Royal Cork Yacht Club | Rochestown College | My brothers | The weather was lovely | Coming first under 16 in this event (Junior Pathway 2009) last year | To win the Worlds in Carnac. |
| Evie Byrne | Optimist | National Yacht Club | Rathdown Junior School, Dublin | william (Laser Radial), Tom (Topper) and Conor (Optimist) | Good venue | Optimist Leinsters, regatta fleet | To slowly improve my skills |
| Finn Lynch | Topper | Blessington Sailing Club | CBS Carlow | Granny, Grandad, Mother, Father, Brothers Ben & Rory | I got to race Jack and have some craic! Boom! | 2nd in Topper Worlds | Win worlds |
| Fionn Lyden | Laser 4.7 | Baltimore SC | Schull CCSC (2nd year) | A few of my cousins | It's in Cork | Getting 2nd in a race in the Munsters Laser 4.7. Getting onto the Munster Squad | To go to the Laser 4.7 Europeans in hourtin France???? |
| Gattan Roberts | RS Feva | Royal Cork Yacht Club | St Mary's | Richard and Mairead | The social scene | Nationals! | America's Cup 34 |
| Henry McLaughlin | Laser Radial | Carlingford Lough Yacht Club | Abbey CBS | Dad | The big waves | Laser 4.7 Europeans | Qualify for Laser Radial Worlds in Largs |
| Iseult Kneafsey | Optimist | National Yacht Club | Ranalegh Multi Denom School | Conor (Optimist) Sean (Laser) | Good venue and not too much pressure | Started Regattas | Topper Ulsters |
| Jack Brien | Topper | Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club | Cambell College Belfast | My sister Tiffany, who was supporting me and was a great help | I like the fact that all classes come together in the same event. | Eric Twiname Championship of which I finished 8th | My plans are to move from the Topper to follow my sister's footstps and go to Laser. I am only doing very little in 4.7 at the moment and hope to do more. |
| Jil McGinley | Optimist | Royal Cork Yacht Club | Scoil Mhuire | Whole family | It was fun and competitive at the same time! I also got in races before the trials! | Connaughts and Nationals | To attend all events. Improve and move up the ranks |
| Mark Cudmore | RS Feva | Royal Cork Yacht Club | Kilkenny College | Nobody | The sailing | RS Feva Europeans in Lake Garda | RS Feva Worlds in Carnec |
| Oliver Loughead | Laser Radial | Ballyholme Yacht Club | Sullivan Upper | Parents | Very easy reacing, late starts | Winning Youth Nationals | BYC club race BOOM |
| Peter Stokes | RS Feva | Royal Cork Yacht Club & Baltimore Sailing Club | Rochestown College | My Mum and Brother | It was good and the weather | Going to Lake Garda and the coming 3rd in the Europeans | To win the Worlds in Carnock….muahaha! |
| Philip Doran | Laser Radial | Courtown Sailing Club / Wexford Harbour Boat & Tennis Club | Gorey Community College | Dad, Mam, sister Niamh | It was competition and enjoyable | Laser Radial World Championships in Japan | To continue to progress in the Laser class |
| Philip Doran | "Another great regatta in Schull, sun , wind, everything you want. It was a great compettition" | ||||||
| Rebecca Ó Shaughnessy | Optimist | Royal Cork Yacht Club | Scoil Nicois | Mum, Dad, Brother (s?) Sister | It was very well organised | 2nd in Ulsters, Regatta | Make the Trials |
| Rory Lynch | Laser Radial | Blessington Sailing Club | Carlow CBS | Everyone, my younger brother is sailing, my older brother is coaching and my parents and grandparents are supporting | The weather, it's been great | To win the Italian Cup in April | |
| Ross Vaughn | Laser Radial | Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club | Cambell College | Mum and Dad | Great close racing | European Championshi Danmark / Copenhagen (13th overall) | Moving into the 49er class |
| Sean Murphy | Laser Radial | Kinsale Yacht Club | Kinsale Community School | My Mom, Dad and brother | The weather has been great and we have great races | The 420 Worlds in Lake Garda | To win the Italian E Cup new week! |