After year in which they Won the Nationals at Esperance and narrowly missed out on winning the World Championship in Napier, Janet and Nick Jerwood were nominated for Female and Male Sailor of the Year award at the recent WA Sailing Awards. Nominated for Club of the Year was Esperance Bay Yacht Club, represented by David Swan. Congratulations to all involved.

As promised, following are the full results for the 2017 State Championship: Open Fleet

Sail Number	Boat name	Skipper	Crew	Points
AUS3933	El Toro	Grant Alderson	Dean McCaullay	9
AUS3986	Nia, Enough	Nia Jerwood	Nick Jerwood	15
AUS3859	Tuffan Up	Dave Yu	Chris Nelson	21

Full results here. Silver Fleet

Sail Number	Boat name	Skipper	Crew	Points
AUS3258	Savoir-Ffaire	Peter Groom	John Muscio	9
AUS3259	Eagle Eye	Karen Dawe	Russell Dawe	12
AUS3263	Firefox III	David Von Felton	David Robinson	15

Full results here. Handicap

Sail Number	Boat name	Skipper	Crew	Points
AUS3982	Storyteller	Chris Patterson	Ed Repevicius	34
AUS3743	Spot the Difference	Greg Tonnison	Janet Jerwood	35
AUS3064	Streaker	Stephen Pidgeon	Stu Adamson	42

Full results here.  

The 2017 State Championships have wrapped up with Grant Alderson and Dean McAullay securing their 9th title together.  Grant also slipped past Graeme Lillingston as record holder with his 13th Title. Nia Jerwood joined forces with Dad Nick to steer "Nia, Enough" sailing a great regatta to win second place and David Yu and Chris Nelson on Tuffan Up secured third. Conditions were absolutely glorious with shifting breezes in the middle range providing fair but challenging racing on all three days.  Dean and Grant secured 5 first places with the other two heat wins by first time winners - Andrew and Ann Knowles on A2 (the "Milk Cart") winning heat 5 and Chris Patterson and Ed Repsevicius on Storyteller winning heat 6. Other results will be published after the presentation dinner. The event was enjoyable for everyone so a big thank you to Geraldton Yacht Club and to Mark Millman for leading the event organisation. Results sheet can be found here.

It is with regret we report the passing of class stalwart Nigel Peck, at the age of 89.  Please see the full post at the FFIA website here.