Podium finishes for Milo & Sarah at the Volvo Gill Optimist End of Season Championships.
Date Posted: 14/10/2011
Gill Race Team members Milo Gill-Taylor and Sarah Norbury produced fantastic individual performances at the Volvo Gill Optimist End of Season Championships last weekend to achieve 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
The annual event is the last major event on the Optimist calendar and a chance for IOCA UK Worlds team members to compete against some top competition before they head off to Napier, New Zealand at the end of December.
Over 290 young sailors battled it out over the weekend in testing conditions that ranged from no wind to 25 knots so it was great to see Milo and Sarah working so hard to finish on the podium. Well done!
Optimist Inland Championships
Date Posted: 16/05/2011
Capsizes, tows, and cold sailors were the order of the day on Saturday but there were smiles all round. Sunday saw the winds drop slightly which improved conditions for the young sailors. The Regatta fleet were not able to race on Saturday due to the conditions but the Main fleet got in three races with another six on Sunday.
Matthew Whitfield won the Inland Championships with Gill Race Team member Sarah Norbury coming second and the Regatta fleet was won by William Heathcote so congratulations to you all.
The Inlands was our first event as sponsor of the Volvo Gill Optimist Class. It was great to meet you all and we are looking forward to seeing you again at the Nationals.
GILL IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE SPONSORSHIP OF THE OPTIMIST CLASS ASSOCIATION
Date Posted: 08/03/2011
Gill announces an exciting new partnership as Official Clothing Sponsor to the International Optimist Class Association (IOCA-UK). The sailing clothing specialist has come on board, in a three year deal, to join Volvo in joint sponsorship of the class.
Gill is pleased to be a part of the Optimist Class and feel it is extremely important to support these young sailors from the early stages of their sailing careers. They are a pioneer of the dinghy clothing market, as this is where the company’s roots are, so the decision to sponsor the Optimist Class was a natural choice.
Nick Gill, founder and Chairman of Gill commented: “I am delighted to be involved with the Optimist Class. They are the sailors of tomorrow and it is an opportunity for Gill to market its exciting new range of dinghy clothing to the next generation of customers and gain their valuable feedback. It is wonderful to see fleets of 300+ on the water and the challenge for the sport is to ensure they go on into other fleets in time.” The Gill Race Team already supports several Optimist sailors, including Sarah Norbury and Scott Wallis.
Marshall King, Chairman of IOCA (UK) added: “The Optimist Class is delighted to welcome Gill as our joint title sponsor with Volvo for the next three years. Gill is as passionate as our members about dinghy sailing and the technical clothing that sailors wear whilst getting wet. Many of our members sail all year round and appreciate high quality comfortable technical clothing of the type that Gill provides. Gill value the opinion of their consumers and strive to meet their needs and we are sure that our young sailors will do all they can to help develop the clothing of the future.”
Look out for the unveiling of the new Optimist Sailing sponsorship logo.
Gill Race Team member selected to compete in the European Optimist Championships
Date Posted: 11/05/2010
Gill Race Team member Sarah Norbury has successfully seen off her competition to win a place on the British Optimist European Team!
78 optimists took to the water to compete in the selectors which were held over two weekends - the first in Weymouth and the second in Pwllheli. Overcoming stiff opposition and extreme weather conditions, Sarah was delighted to finish 6th overall and 1st Girl by quite a margin!
Sarah is the youngest member on the girl’s British Optimist European Team and the first 13 year old girl to win a place in the team for a number of years.
Over 40 countries send sailors to the European Optimist Championships and there will be around 230 sailors taking part.
Our congratulations go out to Sarah for yet another fantastic result!
