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2023 WAIODA State Championship


Congratulations to all of the sailors competing at the 2023 Optimist State Championship


A fantastic weekend of sailing at the beautiful Nedlands Yacht Club.


Awesome conditions with the fleets completing 9 races over 2 days!


Results as follows:


State Champion – Perpetual Trophy


Open Fleet Boy Murray Duthie

Open Fleet Girl Lucy Graham

Intermediate Fleet Alexander Eyles


Open Fleet – Girls


  1. Lucy Graham

  2. Victoria Chernoff

  3. Jemima Lane


Open Fleet - Boys


1 Murray Duthie

2 Thomas Cooper

3 Orlando Ligovich


Intermediate Fleet – Girls


  1. Olive Hooper


Intermediate Fleet


  1. Alexander Eyles

  2. Sebastian Buckley

  3. Charlie Purt


Green Fleet


  1. Asher Williams

  2. William Whitehead

  3. Bryn Gordon



Best 10 Year Old Alexander Eyles

Best 11 Year Old Nicholas Cooper

Best 12 Year Old Seth Till


Youngest Competitor Harry Cooper

Spirit Award Celina Trinh

Furthest Travelled Xavier Potter


Thank you to everyone at Nedlands Yacht Club for hosting such a fantastic weekend, your hospitality was wonderful!


Special thanks to:

RO Rob Hubbard

Jury Christina Heydon and Brendan Green,

Mark Layers Rick Fairey and Murray Pennifold

Nedlands Yacht Club Graeme Pennifold and Jared Eyles


Thankyou to North Sails for sponsoring the event and providing prizes for our raffle. Special thanks to Monkeyfist Marine for supporting WAIODA with prizes.


Finally a huge thanks to all of the volunteers and parents for supporting all of the sailors at this event!



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