1April 2010
By Peter Campbell
A win in the final race of the Squadron’s summer season of 2009-2010 last Saturday has given Willyama her second successive Division 1 win in the Main Series, beating Sydney by just one point.
The consistently sailed Beneteau 40.7, owned by Richard Barron, Stephen Sanlorenzo and Tom Stanley, finished the Main Series on 80 points, the last race win enabling Willyama to overtake Charles Curran’s Sydney, which placed eighth on Saturday for a net total of 81 points.
Third overall, on 84 points, went to Summer Series winner Equinox (John Molyneaux and Peter Bray) on a countback to Hell Razor (Ian MacDiarmid).
Sydney won the IRC Series and the Short Inshore Series for Division 1, with the Iain Murray-designed 60-footer also winning the Spring Series.
The season ended with strong fleets in all divisions and classes, with the International Etchells, Dragons and Ynglings ending the summer with a mini regatta. For the Etchells, the regatta was the final of the Kopsen Trophy interclub challenge and also for the Easton Cup.
The Cruising Yacht Club team won the Kopsen Trophy with 336 points to the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s 295 points with the topscoring boat in the mini regatta being the CYCA-based Humpback (Stephen Barlow and Peter Gardner) with an eighth and two second places.
In Division 2, a third in the final clinched the Main Series for Peter Davenport’s Arcturus II, giving her 41 points to the 44 points of Ambitious (David Matthews) with alouette (John Waring) finishing third overall on 45 points. Arcturus II also won the Spring Series, with Ambitious taking out both the summer and Short Inshore Series.
Australia Day Regatta management committee chairman John Jeremy scored a well-deserved Main Series win in Division 3 with his Cole 31 Tingari in a closely contested series. One of Sydney Amateur Sailing Club’s regular volunteer race officers (when not racing on Saturdays), John clinched victory with a second in the final race to finish the Main Series on 62 points, comfortably clear of the cruising Etchells Wallop (Bryan Collis and Stephen Wall) on 67 points and Come by Chance (John Nutt) on 78 points.
Tingari also won the Summer Series while Norn (Robert Albert) won the Spring Series and Wallop took out the Short Inshore Series.
Division 4 went right down to the wire with Peter Campbell’s Bonbridge 27 Hornblower celebrating 30 years of racing by winning the Main Series for the 2009-2010 season. Hornblower also won the Spring Series and the Short Inshore Series.
Skippered by Steve Sweeney (Peter now lives in Hobart), Hornblower finished fourth on Saturday while rival Brother Hood, Tony Craven and Jack RIgg’s Hood 23, placed fifth. The end result was a net 52 points to Hornblower, 54 to Brother Hood, with last year’s Main Series winner Kerstin II (John Bowman/Ken Chase/John Goldie) third overall on 64 points.
The Division 4 Summer Series went to the Folkboat Alicia (Andrew McPherson) which sailed a faultless race to finish second in the final race of the season, also winning the Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club trophy for the season.
The International Dragons wound up their season with the RSYS with a hard-fought three-race mini regatta which saw Wizzardry (David Mason and Andrew York) notch up an impressive 2-4-1 scorecard, while two veterans Norman Longworth, helming Karabos VIII, and Gordon Ingate, steering Whim, also did well. Karabos VIII had a 1-6-2 score, Whim a 4-2-3.
Main Series winner Sidewinder, helmed by Olympian Carl Ryves, had a third and a first but did not contest the third race of the mini series.
Seven RSYS fleet Dragons are now on the road heading to Melbourne for the Pre-Worlds Regatta to be conducted over Easter by the Royal Brighton Yacht Club on Port Phillip.
The 2011 Dragon worlds, preceded by the Prince Philip Cup, will be sailed on the bay next January and getting a feel of Port Phillip over Easter will be Whim, Wizzardry and Karabos VIII, along with Baikal (Wolf Breit), Indulgence (Robert Alpe), Isis (Grant Bellamy), Liquidity (Richard Franklin) and Taranui (Matt Whitnall).
The pre-worlds regatta has also attracted entries from the top Russian sailors Olga White and Mikhail Muratov, West Australian Richard Lynn, and 2009 Prince Philip Cup winner Nick Rogers from Hobart, as well as leading Victorian Dragon sailors.
Olympian Karyn Gojnich had an excellent final day in the Yngling mini regatta, steering Evie to two wins and a second, while Karma, skippered by Gary Wogas had a win and two seconds. Main Series winner Hamish Jarrett had three third placings at the helm of Pourquoi.
From Peter Campbell
M: 0419 385 028 E: peter_campbell@bigpond.com
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