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The light to moderate winds on the Derwent and Storm Bay could not have been better for the Mumm 30 Cleopatra in yesterday’s Combined Clubs Long Race Series.

 

Owner Matthew Denholm and his crew capitalised on an early spinnaker run down river in light winds and then a spinnaker run home in a freshening sea breeze to score a handicap double, PHS and AMS, in Group A.
“A very pleasant day on the water, light katabatic northerly for the start, then a building sea breeze as the yachts went down the river,” commented Bellerive Yacht Club sailing manager.

“Group A went out into Storm Bay, the first time for a long time we have used this course, with the windward mark about 6 nautical miles out from the Iron Pot towards Wedge Island.”

BYC race officers sent Group B to Blackman’s Bay, then Seacroft Bay and back to the finish. Group C did a similar course.

Group B start to Saturday
s long race. Photo Peter Watson.

In the freshening sea breeze for the spinnaker run home, Cleopatra was in her element, finishing fourth across the line, astern of Wot’s Next, Filepro and Intrigue and ahead of several bigger boats in Group A,

In the PHS handicap category,  Cleopatra won from the Mumm 36 (Gavin Adamson) and Ramrod (Tom Maddock).

In the AMS rated category Cleopatra won comfortably on corrected time from Don Calvert’s Intrigue and Madness.

Intrigue went on to win the IRC handicap category for Group A in close race with Shaun Tiedemann’s Philosopher and Madness.

Ron Akhurst’s Lock On Wood won Group B on PHS from Moonshadow (Anthony Ellis) and Team Wildfire’s Wildfire. Under AMS, first place went to 42 South (Mark Ballard) with Lock on Wood second and Mako (Peter Foley) third.

Lock oN Wood finishing Saturday's Long Race. Photo Peter Watson

In Group C, Steve Mannering’s Camlet Way had an outright win from Kindred Spirit (Peter Alcock) and Wayatih (Alan Morgan).

Yesterday’s results produced some provisional changes to overall positions in Groups A, B and C, but the leading position remain virtually unchanged.

In Group A, PHS, Illusion (David Brett) has moved to the head of the leader-board; in Group B, PHS, Silicon Ship has retained its position; while in Group C, PHS, Camelot Way heads the pointscore.

Philosopher still heads Group A, IMS and has regained first place overall in Group A, AMS.

Words:  Peter Campbell

Photos:   Peter Watson, Ed Glover

 

 

 

The prestigious Lipton Cup, one of Tasmania’s oldest yachting trophies, sailed for each year at the Royal Hobart Regatta, has been won  by Engenue, a fast cruising yacht.

Skippered by her senior Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania member Nigel Johnson, Engenue won the Cup in Monday’s Regatta Day race for the Combined Clubs Harbour Series.

The Derwent Sailing Squadron announced today that Engenue,  a Kaufman-designed Huon 33 pilot house cruiser/racer, had the lowest PHS corrected time among the division winners, thus collecting the Lipton Cup for 2017.

Scotsman Sir Thomas Lipton, creator of the Lipton tea brand and the most persistent, but unsuccessful challenger in the history of the America’s Cup, presented the ornately sculptured, silver trophy to the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania in 1914

He requested that it be dedicated as a ‘Perpetual Challenge Cup’ for the Tasmanian One Design class.

When the One Design class eventually disbanded before World War II, the RYCT presented the Lipton Cup to the Royal Hobart Regatta.

Engenue won Division 6 of the Regatta Day race, sailed in winds that ranged from zero to gusts of 35 knots,  rom Innovator (Ian Smith and D Aberle) and Rod Williams’ Alibi II.

Other PHS division winners were Toby Richardson’s X&Y in Division 1, Mark Ballard’s 42 South in Division 2, and the 8-metre class yacht Juana,  skippered by Jock Young, in Division 6.

X&Y’s PHS corrected time in Division 1 was the closest to Engenue, after leading the fleet around the harbour course.

X&Y recovered well from a spectacular broach when hit by the 35 knot gust, which saw the spinnaker halyard lost and kite flying ’30 metres off the masthead’, according to the crew of a nearby yacht.

With little break after sailing the 89 nautical mile Bruny Island Race last Saturday, Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Shaun Tiedemann and his youthful crew of Philosopher were back in winning form in the Regatta race.

Philosopher won the Division 1 AMS category from Jeff Cordell’s B&G Advantage and Ian Stewart’s

Juana added her classic lines to the Combined Clubs racijg.

Tas Paints.

Philosopher won Division 1 IRC from War Games (Wayne Banks-Smith) and X&Y (Toby Richardson).

Mark Ballard’s 42 South won Division 2 PH from Peter Davis’ Jiyuu and Trouble (Dave Willans).

The classic 8-metre Juana, helmed by DSS memberJock Young, scored an outright win in Division 4, second place going to First Light (Ben Davidson, third to Hornet (Neville Georgeson).

Words:  Peter Campbell  -

Photos:  Peter Campbell

14 February 2017

 

A spinnaker run down the Derwent, a spinnaker run home, but in the middle of the race a big windless patch in Seacoft Bay, near the mouth the river.

That was the frustrating story from many Group A yachts in yesterday’s Combined Club Long Race, the fourth of the season due to abandoning races because of galeforce winds.

“Frustrating day on the water for all yachts, particularly Group B with the sea breeze fighting the gradient west-north-westerly wind,” commented Bellerive Yacht Club marine manager Peter Watson.

Those to suffer most were the front-runners in the Group A fleet, with Graeme Wood’s Wot’s Next leading the fleet home in 5 hours and 56 minutes for the 32-nautical mile race down the river and into Storm Bay to Ralphs Bay and Black Rock and return.

Group A start off Victoria Esplanade, Bellerive. Photo Peter Watson

On corrected time Wot’s Next placed 17th under PHS scoring. Runner-up Tilt (Peter Cretan) placed last.

Derwent Sailing Squadron Vice Commodore Peter Haros’ Wings Three won the Group A PHS from black-sailed Jiyuu (Peter Davis) and Illusion (D Bett).

Jiyuu won Group A under AMS scoring from Wings Three and Illusion. Her previous best had been a third place on handicap.

Pointscore leader Philosopher (Shaun Tiedemann) placed eighth on corrected time,  TasPaints (Ian Stewart) 10th and Intrigue (Don Calvert) fifth after crossing line fourth in the 35 boat fleet.

Group A (AMS) winner pf the Long race. Jiyuu.
Photo Peter Watson

‘Gun boat’ Philosopher made up for her AMS result with a  win under IRC scoring,  with Intrigue second and As Good As It Gets (Ian Marshall) third.

In Group B Lock on Wood (Ron Akhurst) won from Twitch (David Rust) and Groove (E Gusto) the three being among the leaders in the spinnaker run back up river after sailing down to Ralph’s Bay and Pearson’s Point, a distance of 28 nautical miles.

In Group C,  Wayatih (A Morgan) took handicap honours from Steve Mannering’s Camlet Way and Petr Alcock’s Kindred Spirit.

The last boat to finish crossed the line close to five o’clock, taking six hours and 48 minutes to sail the Group A course of 32 nautical miles,  an average speed of just under five knots,

Words:  Peter Campbell

Photos: Peter Watson

5 February 2017

 

A fleet of more than 40 SB20 one-design sports boats, including several mainland crews, is expected to contest the Banjo’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta later this month.

SB20 State champion Scott Brain predicted the record fleet for the River Derwent at this week’s launch of the Banjo’s Crown Series..

The Banjo’s Crown Series is one of the significant regattas on the Derwent in the lead-up to the SB20 Worlds in Hobart in January 2018.

The Crown Series will be sailed over the weekend of 18-19 February with the keelboat divisions also contesting a twilight race on the evening of Friday, 17 February, joined on Saturday and Sunday by SB20s, trailable yachts and off-the-beach dinghies and catamarans.

Scott Brain talks up the SB class to the media.

Now in its 14th year, the Crown Series is Tasmania’s biggest regatta for keelboats, sports boats and off-the-beach racing dinghies and catamarans,

“I am confident most of the 41 SB20s in the Hobart fleet will contest the Crown Series along with four crews from the mainland which will include Victorian Chris Dare who finished fourth in the Worlds in Cascais, Portugal, last year,” Brain said.

“Local yachtsman Michael Cooper, who finished one place behind Dare at the worlds, will also be competing along with top Hobart SB20 sailors Nick Roger, Paul Burnell, Rob Gough and Fraser Read, just to mention a few. Rod Jones will also be down from Queensland again.

“Any one of 10 to 15 skippers could be the winner at the Crown Series and we expect similar competition at our State championships in March,” the defending champion added.

The two regattas will give big fleet practice for the Tasmanian crews going to England later in the year to contest the 2017 SB20 worlds at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

Tasmanian skippers planning to compete on The Solent include Nick Rogers,  Andrew Smith, Stephen Catchpool and Michael Cooper.

Chris Dare is expected to lead several crews from Victoria and Queensland also contesting 2017 worlds.

 

Words:  Peter Campbell

Photos:  Jane Austin, Peter Campbell

4 February 2017

 

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