Kingston sailor headed to U21 world championships this fall – Kingston | 24CA News
Kingston’s James Fair continues to make waves. The proficient sailor is off to Morocco for the U21 world championships.
“It’s very competitive. Everybody who’s there has been sailing their entire life,” Fair mentioned. “In Canada especially, we don’t get to sail all year, where many countries do. So it provides an extra little challenge for us.”
During crusing season in Kingston, truthful spends most of his days on the water, however to make up for the shortage of crusing in the course of the low season he’ll head all the way down to the southern United States to get some additional time in.
“It’s extremely important,” he mentioned. “Any time that we miss is time that we’re behind any other country in sailing, so we try to get out as much as we can.”
But short-term, Fair is getting set to hit the waters in Kingston as part of subsequent week’s CORK regatta and he’s wanting ahead to having the home-course benefit.
“Out of everywhere and growing up here it’s still, by far, one of my favourite places to sail in the world,” Fair mentioned. “The quality in terms of the sailing is amazing. The competition, I mean, you still get most of the best people in Canada and some of the best people from the United States. So it’s still up there.”
Dedicating a lot of your time to at least one factor can develop tiresome, however that’s not the case for Fair.
“I think more than anything I enjoy being out there,” he mentioned. “I mean, if we’re working six or seven days a week all season, there’s times it can feel tiring, there’s times it can feel a little bit like a job.
“But I mean at the end of the day, it’s still what I love to do.”
The U21 world championships happen in Tangier, Morocco from Oct. 15 to 22, and you’ll make certain you’ll see Fair getting his “fair share” of reps in earlier than he sails on the world stage.
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