Excellent...
There is a whole bunch of BIC Techo kids racing at Woollahra YA in Rose Bay every Wednesday now and this enthusiasm will really motivate them.
They are talking about racing every Saturday afternoon through winter, but not sure if that is official yet?..

JockyC said..
Our goal as a team now is to head to QLD for the Midwinter Youth Nationals and hopefully claim a tassie podium lockout (as well as 4th, 5th, 6th etc ).

The Tasmanian team is looking pretty dangerous for sure, this year. But don't relax we have some future stars hot on your heels.

Well done to all sounds like it was a great regatta.

We have a couple of kids that are showing some real potential, after literally 3 or 4 sessions they are planing and in the footstraps and harness but they currently have commitments to the opti class.

Quite a bit of talk among the dinghy sailors about techno at the moment with a constant flow coming to have a go every weekend. RQ is having a "classes" day in 3 weeks to showcase options for the kids coming out of opti's and help them make a choice about what class they want to move into next. Hoping we pick up a few new ones at that day.

Other kids we have are completely new to sailing, they are progressing well but not as fast as the dinghy sailors, I think they will start racing next season but wont be ready for the mid winter youths as its a steep learning curve when you have to learn about basic sailing principles and then learn windsurfing and then learn racing.

I think we will have at least one of these new kids enter and I might be able to get Jacob to enter to make up some numbers, his old board is in your fleet now but we can use one of the old club boards and just charter a sail.

Look forward to catching up and meeting the Tassy team in July.

You might find a Starboard Rio or JP funster with a rig second hand for less than $1500. With a larger fin the performance might be comparable but might be slightly slower upwind. The volume is very similar. Were you thinking of racing against other Bics or just for general racing and sailing?

Well I really want a board which has state and national competitions like the techno but I also want to be able to race in my sailing club so I am looking more towards a techno than any other type of board