50th Redlands International Cadet Australian Championship

The 50th Redlands International Cadet Australian Championship is to be held from December 27th 2011 to January 4th 2012 in Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia. It is the top racing event for the Cadet Class sailing dinghy in Australia. This year, as scheduling has changed from previous years, the event will not be a qualifier into the world championships. As the Cadet Class is an under 18 aged class the event will be a truly youth affair, attracting some of the best young sailors in the country, and taking its place as on the national youth sailing stage. This year there are predicted to be 60 - 70 boats in the event.
Over the course of the competition there are two major awards that competitors race for. The first is for an individual boat winning the overall national championship. This is worked out by adding the score for their ten best races in comparison to other competitors. The other is the Tillet Team Trophy. This is a state competition where by the best six boats from each state get their scores in races added up in comparison to other boats in the Tillet team, with two drops, and the state with the lowest number of points win. Both of these are very prestigious and much sought after.
Background
Each year the Cadet National Championships is rotated in location around Australia. Recent venues have included Geelong, Sydney, Hobart, Port Lincoln, Adelaide and Melbourne. In the 2011 - 2012 summer NSW was once again given the right to host the nationals. In order to accommodate the other states competing it was decided to hold the nationals at Lake Macquarie. The nationals are being sponsored by Redlands, the school in which most of the sailors from the home state of NSW attend. The school principal and head of co-curricular will speak at official events.
Traditionally Tasmania produces some of the best results although their fleet is not the largest, usually Victoria has the largest with over thirty boats. In recent years South Australia has won the Tillet Team and the overall championships
and this year New South Wales, not known for its great results, has the home advantage. This could shape up to be a very comparative nationals between the states.
See Also
SCECGS Redlands

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