18th April 2009
By Peter Campbell
Crew of Casamajor - Gwynn Boyd, Charles Moore (skipper), Richard Blaiklock
The sailing of the Varuna Cup on Saturday has wound up another successful sailing season for the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron – and also underlined the excellent handicapping system overseen by Life Member John Maclurcan.
Faced with handicapping successful yachts from all mixed divisions and one-design classes, Maclurcan must have been delighted to see just four seconds on corrected time separate the first two boats in the Varuna Cup.
In fact, only 1 minute 48 seconds separated the first five placegetters which represented divisions 1, 3 and 4 and two one-design classes, the Ynglings and Etchells.
Victory by just 4 seconds went to the modified Etchells from Division 3, Casamajor, skippered by Charles Moore, from the champion International Yngling Pourquoi, steered by Hamish Jarrett.
In third place was Division 4 Spring and Main Series winner Kerstin II, owned by John Bowman, Ken Chase and John Goldie, with Division 1’s Braveheart (John Meiklejohn) fourth and the Etchells Humpback (Stephen Barlow & Peter Gardner) placing fifth.
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