GP14 Females Talk on Zoom About Helming, Crewing & Other Roles in Racing & Sailing

23rd May 2021

GP14 Females Talk on Zoom this week about sailing roles Credit: Richard Craig of Sailpics

The International GP14 Association are taking part in World Sailing's Female Festival – "Steering the Course"; following the excellent Zoom talk from three top female sailors from the 2018 World's at this year's RYA Dinghy Show; the Association has asked a few more sailors to join them in chatting about GP14 sailing.

The sailors will be sharing tips on boat set-up and techniques for lighter weight sailors. They will be sharing their journey into sailing and Ross Kearney will share what he does differently when he has a female crew.

A third talk is about the supporting roles in sailing and International race team member Sally Burnett and International Measurer Olive Parker amongst others will be talking about what this entails.

Jane Kearney (gold fleet crew) at the 2018 World Championships

The GP14 is a friendly class where families can sail together or in opposition. We have had child helms with their parents crewing, husbands and wives or siblings sharing a boat on the competing together, at all levels of sailing from club to World Championships as well as in opposition to each other. In 2022 our Worlds at Skerries in Ireland hope to host a Ladies World Championship, along with the open, Mixed and Youth if there are enough entries to meet the criteria set by World Sailing.

GP14 Females Talk on Zoom

Monday 24th May 8pm

Topic: Female helms –Katie Dwyer First female Helm at 2018 Worlds. Sarah Norbury First female Helm and female boat, 2019 Nationals and Ross Kearney 4th place at 2019 Nationals (with a male crew)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86076645302?pwd=WDhsbHlnc0Vhb3BXMHh4L3kzQXNOQT09
Meeting ID: 860 7664 5302
Passcode: 256293

Tuesday 25th May 8pm

Topic: Female crews – Mel Morris 9th place and first female crew 2018 Worlds, Liz Senior 2nd place crew at 2019 Nationals and more importantly just in front of her World Champion husband Mike, Michelle Rowley- Crew for Katie Dwyer and first female boat at the 2018 Worlds and Jane Kearney (gold fleet crew)
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85665508262?pwd=OUtvQ3FGOEhNclFYTFFOWjBOYVZGQT09
Meeting ID: 856 6550 8262

Thursday 27th May 8pm

Topic: Other Roles Which Supporting Sailing – Sally Burnett International race official, Olive Parker International Measurer, and Kerri-ann Boylan coach chat about how they came to be involved
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86237273250?pwd=Qnh1MVBQRlBicytSSCt6T1JOL3F5QT09
Meeting ID: 862 3727 3250
Passcode: 975564

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