NZIODA and the Mercury Bay Yacht Club welcomes you to the 2010 Toyota Optimist National Championships.
We look forward to watching you young sailors’ achievements on the water. It will be a real, but very satisfying, challenge for you all. Racing in such a big fleet will extend your sailing skills. I am sure all of you will take the spirit of competitiveness and good sportsmanship onto the water and fun and friendship off the water.
We especially look forward to seeing you Green fleet sailors coming for perhaps the first time to a big regatta. We promise that you will have a great time. And we promise you will learn heaps in the process. Within a year or so we are sure you will be confidently finding your space on the start line of the Open fleet.
Our objective is to make this regatta an “event” to be enjoyed both on and off the water by parents and children alike.
Let's celebrate and make this regatta a special event that will again enthuse us and our children to the fun and fellowship and achievement that is the Sport-for-Life …. Sailing!
Nigel Rippey
President
NZIODA
