This year's ILCA Canadian Championships took place at Buffalo Canoe Club from August 25th to 27th. I came into this year's event hoping to defend my title from last year’s event at ABYC. The first day saw light winds from the north, with very unstable conditions. I made a number of mistakes on the first beats, leaving myself a challenge to climb up the ranks with finishes of 5, 11, and 8th after a flag.
The second day saw marginal hiking conditions with more stable breeze, I was able to finish 6, 3, and 3 in the 3 races, moving up a bit and giving me an opportunity to potentially finish on the podium with a good last day. The final day saw similar light and variable conditions to the first day with big changes in direction. I finished the first race in 9th, costing me any chance of defending my title. Prior to the last gun time the race committee started a final race, with a start at the favored end I found myself in 2nd place, with the positions being such that I would have moved up to 2nd, when the race committee decided to abandon a race for the first time in the entire event. I finished in 4th place. Kudos to the race committee for getting as many races off in challenging conditions as they did and BCC for being incredible hosts.