Janaka, Nishantha and Kodituwakku impress at National Sailing C'ships

Richard Dwight

The Janashakthi National Sailing Championship organized and conducted by the Bolgoda Ceylon Motor Yacht Club and sponsored by Janashakthi for the ninth consecutive year with the CMYC being the host club was held last Saturday and Sunday at Bolgoda.

The championship witnessed, W P K Janaka, W A R Nishantha and T T B Kodituwakku from the Navy, being most impressive to win their events convincingly. All three of them have exercised a measure of consistency and are progressing to be a force to be reckoned with.

Noteworthy performances also came from Kimberly Karpinski, Radheeka Jirasinha, Devin Goonewardene and Viren Dias.

There were around twenty five boats vying for championship honours in the different category of boats viz; optimist class (under 15 years of age) Laser Class 4.7 (under 19 years of age) Laser Standard Class, Enterprise Class and GP 14 Class.

Since the championship enjoyed national status, it was organized and conducted on the lines of an international regatta, governed by the IYRU rules and in conformity with the local YASL Sailing Instructions.

The winners in these events were;

Optimist class (Under 15 years of age)

Winner - Kimberly Karpinski (Lycium International)

1st runner up - Per Fedrick (British College)

2nd runner up - Joshua Jayaratne (Colombo International)

Laser class 4.7 (Under 19 years of age)

Winner - Radheeka Jirasinha (Ladies College)

Laser Standard Class

Winner - T T B Kodituwakku (Sri Lanka Navy)

Enterprise Class

1st Place - W P K Janaka & W A R Nishantha (Sri Lan ka Navy).

2nd Place - Akshan Jirasinha & Ishan Abeysekara (Royal Colombo Yacht Club)

3rd Place - N.G.M.U. Gnanawardene & A P K Soyza (Sri Lanka Navy)

GP 14 Class

1st Place - Devin Goonawardene & Viren Dias (Ceylon Motor Yacht Club)

2nd Place - Jeremy Bolling & Frank (Ceylon Motor Yacht Club)

3rd Place - Joseph Kenny & Pramukshi Kariyawasam (Ceylon Motor Yacht Club)