RaceAhead

06 March 2013 The RaceAhead Team was delighted to win the Team of the Year Award at the Western Cape Sports Awards ceremony at the Lord Charles Hotel recently. We sincerely appreciate the recognition and this gives us added encouragement to push hard with the final part of our summer training in Cape Town as [...]

21 December 2012 RaceAhead’s Asenathi Jim and Roger Hudson have just become sailing world champions following yesterday’s photo finish in the final race of the SB20 world championship in Hamilton Island, Australia. After a successful and satisfying 2012 the boys are looking forward to some relaxation over the Christmas break before getting back to training [...]

17 December 2012 Following the 470 Sail Melbourne event in early December, Roger & Asenathi linked up with Great British sailor Geoff Carveth for the 2012 SB20 World Championships at the idyllic Hamilton Island off the coast of Queensland Australia. Geoff is a UK sailing legend having won their champions of champions event, The Endeavor [...]

8 December 2012 Good news from Melbourne – we had a tough medal race but got it in the end, finishing 2nd overall. The wind came from the desert in the North today and it was very hot, very dry and very windy. And of course very full of flies. We had to be within [...]

27 Nov 2012 The RaceAhead London 2012 Olympic 470 Sailing Team of Asenathi Jim & Roger Hudson have launched their 2016 campaign. Following a 2-month break from 470 sailing after London 2012, the team started training in Simonstown with 4 young SA sailors who have produced good results at recent Youth World Championships. Asenathi & [...]

23 Nov 2012 RaceAhead’s 470 Olympic sailing Team of Asenathi Jim & Roger Hudson won the WP Sports Council Sports Team of the Year award at the annual ceremony in Cape Town last night. Asenathi Jim: “I’m very happy and honoured to win an award like this. We work extremely hard and it is nice [...]

3 October 2012 The Story So Far… London 2012 Olympic sailors Asenathi Jim (20) and Roger Hudson (34) deeply surprised the Olympic sailing world by qualifying for the Olympic Games in very special circumstances. At the end of 2010 Asenathi Jim was 18 years old and he was struggling with life. Living in a township [...]

16 August 2012 We’ve had the most amazing experience competing at London 2012. We’re extremely pleased to have achieved our first goal of qualifying for London 2012 and we gave the event everything we have and enjoyed every moment of it. We’re now looking forward taking the project forward and to working towards our goals [...]

1 August 2012 I remember watching World War 2 films when I was a kid and thinking how do they do it, those brave soldiers landing on the beach at Normandy facing a monstrous barrage of bullets and the slimmest of chances of making it up the beach alive. What must it be like to [...]

9 June 2012 We had a good opening race at Sail for Gold this year, leading in light breeze after the first hour with the World Champion Aussies chasing us. We came to the final gate mark, a couple of hundred meters to the finish still leading but neck and neck with the Aussies and [...]

24 May 2012 Interesting regatta for us at Delta Lloyd this year. We managed to win the first race, but unfortunately were OCS. Then again we sailed a good medal race to finish 2nd but again were were OCS. Still served as a good light wind training event and it felt good to get back [...]

19 May 2012 We are totally elated, having secured Olympic qualification at the 470 World Championships in Barcelona by making the Gold Fleet cut (top 32 teams out of 95 entries). We stared the regatta with a solid 10th on day 1 but it was day 2 that really set us up. We got a [...]

11 May 2012 We’re just a couple of days away from the start of the 470 Worlds Championships here in Barcelona and we’re taking it pretty easy at this stage. The boat is safely tucked under its cover and primed for the competition and our 10 days of training here are complete. We arrived in [...]

30 April 2012 On the way back from Hyeres to Barcelona, we stopped off for a couple of days rest in the Pyrenees Mountains. We stayed in a little town called Axat and went exploring…saw the surrounding villages,took a few hikes in the mountains and generally chilled out. What an amazing place to relax. All [...]

27 April 2012 A good event for us down here in the South of France, ending up 39/82 and cracking Gold Fleet at a Grade 1 World Cup event. We showed some good character in fighting back a long way in some races and also in dealing with some breakages in the big breeze races. [...]

16 April 2012 We ended 18th out of 59 here at the 470 Spring Cup in the South of France. We had some very good finishes like our 4th in race 2, but also some rough ones for example dropping from 5th to 18th in the final few hundred meters of race 5 after an [...]

7 April 2012 After a solid start to the event where we fought back well in both of the first 2 races to place 41/93 overall at the end of the opening day, our event went downhill as we struggled for pace in the middle 3 days. A stronger final day with a 3rd and [...]

31 March 2012 The RaceAhead 470 team of Asenathi Jim & Roger Hudson left South Africa for Europe at the end of February after a break from 470 sailing and a month of physical training at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa in Cape Town. During February Roger & Asenathi also ran a 10-day [...]

28 January 2012 This was a valuable but tough event for us, finishing 17th out of 22. The fleet was small but very competitive, including 6 teams ranked in the top 10 and 10 of the 19 teams already qualified for the 2012 Olympics. We struggled with inconsistent pace and racing errors and found it [...]

15 January 2012 Frustrating start to 2012 – unfortunately our bags, including our sails, equipment and kit were left by the airline in Amsterdam for 3 days, making it difficult to prepare for this event and causing us to miss the first day of racing. Once we got on the water, we managed to put [...]