Three young sailors from Oxfordshire competed against other Olympic hopefuls and won their classes at the RYA Zone South Zone Champion-ships at Weymouth and Portland.
Oxford Sailing Club’s Rafferty Read, ten, won four out of seven races to earn top spot in the 4.5 windsurfer fleet.
Rafferty is following in the footsteps of older sister, Alice, who also started windsurfing at Oxford with the RYA Team15 programme and is now competing successfully at international level.
Julian Tait, 15, also from the Oxford clubtook six wins and a second for a clear victory in the windsurfer 5.8 fleet.
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“Despite the light winds I thoroughly enjoyed the event and learnt some new skills.”
Away from the windsurfing, Hugo Burrows, 12, a member of West Oxfordshire Sailing Club, won a closely-fought Top-per dinghy class, where just four points covered the first six competitors More than 1,000 youngsters took part.
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