BODA Announce 2013 Bermuda Optinam Team

Bermuda Optimist Dinghy Association [BODA] President, Anthony Bailey, officially presented the 2013 Bermuda team selected for the upcoming IODA North American Championships [Optinam] starting on July 3. The fleet of 20 local sailors will be competing against 160 other racers from 19 countries during the event, which runs through July 10. The Colonial Group is Team Bermuda’s sponsor.

The team was chosen via a BODA selection trial series made up of 16 races over 4 race days. The top 20 at the end of the trials were invited to join the team. All qualifiers chose to take up the opportunity to represent Bermuda on their home waters. The boys and girls on the team represent a broad selection of ages, backgrounds and experience but all are excited to “take-on” some of the world’s best right here in their own backyard.

National High Performance Coach and former IODA World Champion, Martin Jenkins will be coaching the team with assistance from Bermudian and former IODA North American Champion, Elijah Simmons. The Bermuda Team Leader will be parent, Naomi Buckley.

Team Bermuda [in alphabetical order]:

• BER 1084 – Joe Arrowsmith [M]
• BER 1009 – George Buckley [M]
• BER 1226 – Camille Chin-Gurret [F]
• BER 1037 – Chase Cooper [M]
• BER 1234 – Felix Cutler [M]
• BER 1316 – Peter Dill [M]
• BER 1019 – Sammy Dill [F]
• BER 1939 – Jordan Etemadi [M]
• BER 1017 – Yannick Hillier [M]
• BER 1097 – Tre Maxwell [M]
• BER 1111 – Matilda Nicholls [F]
• BER 1008 – Campbell Patton [M]
• BER 1088 – Adriana Penruddocke [F]
• BER 1040 – Thomas Penruddocke [M]
• BER 1050 – Alice Reeves [F]
• BER 1324 – Benn Smith [M]
• BER 1121 – Tayte Stefaniuk [M]
• BER 1001 – Micah Thomas-Raynor [M]
• BER 1029 – Ceci Wollmann [F]
• BER 1101 – Mikey Wollmann [M]

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