August 31, 2022
Canadian sailors in ILCA had some competitions in August, including Sail Canada 2022 ILCA 6 & 7 Senior Championships held August 13-16 in Kingston.
On the women's side, Julia Buesselberg from Germany won gold, followed by Rory Walsh and Coralie Vittecoq while, on the men's side, Gord Welsh took the gold medal, Rafael Hebert, silver, and Scott Gittens, bronze.


The European portion of SailGP Season 4 got underway this weekend in Saint-Tropez, France. Having hit record breaking speeds last year on the Côte d’Azur, Phil Robertson and the Canadians were looking forward to this weekend of racing, but things did not turn out as hoped. A penalty in the pre-start of race one was a precursor of what was to come, and it proved difficult for the team to recover.
A collision with Spain early on in race one set the team back and translated into eight penalty points for the event and an additional four penalty points for the season.
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