Richard Mason, 14, from Lymington will compete at the Volvo Musto Optimist end-of-season championships 2002, at Draycote Water Sailing Club, Warwickshire this weekend.

Richard is just back from New Zealand, where his father, Chris Mason, is part of the America's Cup GBR Challenge Team competing in the Louis Vuitton Cup.

Richard won the Volvo Musto Optimist selections in May, and then represented Great Britain at the Optimist World Championships in Texas where he was placed 35th.

Since then he has been training and competing in New Zealand, where he recently won the New Zealand schools regatta.

After this weekend's event, selectors pick the 2003 national squad which will get an invitation to the Volvo Musto Optimist World and European selections next spring.