![]() ![]() The career of Queen Victoria’s last Royal Yacht is chronicled in great detail, from conception in the late 1890s through nearly half a century of service to her final demolition. Ask those same folk the name of Britannia’s predecessor and you will, more likely than not, be met with a puzzled glance, such is the obscurity of H.M.Y. Check out website for full coverage during the Games (July 19 to 22).Ask anyone the name of our last Royal Yacht and the majority will tell you Britannia, many of them with a recollection of the Yacht herself, so much was she a part of British life. Sponsor Black Press Media will send a five-person team to cover the highlights. Thirty-five alumni competed for Canada in the 2016 Summer Games in Rio, including Georgia Simmerling (cycling), Kirsten Sweetland (triathlon), Jamie Broder (beach volleyball), Evan Dunfee (race walk), and Byron Green (wheelchair rugby). The BC Games, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, has been the starting point for many Olympic and Paralympic athletes. It’s good exercise.”Įighteen different sports will be on display at the BC Summer Games, from baseball and golf to wrestling and sailing. “My favourite part is just being on the water in beautiful weather. “It’s just really fun getting out on the water,” said Chapman. Two weeks ago he was in Squamish, racing as part of the BC Circuit Regattas to qualify for the Canadian Championships, which he looks forward to attending in August. “I’m really looking forward to all the events that are happening, like the ceremonies and all the good stuff.”Ĭhapman trains twice a week – after school on Wednesdays and all day on Sundays – and more when a regatta is coming. “I’m super excited about going to BC Games,” said Chapman. I think the sport has done him a lot of good.” He’s really, really come a long way since the start of the year – in maturity and behaviour, performance, all around. He’s from Halifax, but he has sailed all over,” said Hulme-Lawrence. “Max has been on our race team for almost two years. At the BC Games, the age categories are divided as Optimist (under 15) and Youth (under 19). Chapman, who has been sailing for about seven years, normally competes in the Optimist Blue fleet for sailors 11 and 12 years old. The Optimist is a small, single-handed sailing dinghy intended for children up to the age of 15. ![]() It was a wonderful experience and I’m looking forward to taking our athletes to the Maple Bay Yacht Club this year.” “I coached at the last BC Summer Games in Abbotsford where our athletes sailed at the Harrison Hot Springs. “We have seven athletes going to the BC Summer Games from our club as well as the rest of zone 6,” said Hulme-Lawrence, who coaches the Royal Victoria Yacht Club Optimist (Opti) team. The RVYC will also be represented by its coach and sailing program coordinator, Stephen McBride, who is going as head sailing coach for zone 6 (Vancouver Island-Central Coast), and Chapman’s coach Delani Hulme-Lawrence, as assistant sailing coach for zone 6. Oak Bay sailor Max Chapman is one of them.Ĭhapman, who trains at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club heads to the Games Thursday to compete in sailing. A handful of Oak Bay youth are among the 2,400 athletes set to descend on the Cowichan Valley for the BC Summer Games this week. ![]()
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