CYAA 2016/2017 Summer Series Race 6 March 5

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1 March Race 6 results CYAA 2016/2017 Summer Series Race 6 March 5 Attached are the Race 6 results along with the Series Aggregate final score and status of the Marie Louise III consistency trophy status. There are two sets of results. One is the normal pursuit start with the over the line order of finishers. The second is a rework of the results to generate the corrected time results required for the Marie Louise III consistency trophy. These corrected time results provide statistics that will be used by the handicapper for allocating handicaps for the 2017 Winter Series. With only six race of the Summer Series being conducted the Series aggregate was decided on the basis of no race drops. Frances takes out the series. When a pursuit race is series aggregate decider between the International 8 metre Frances and the Tumlaren Snow Goose the question was, will Frances make up the 19 minutes that Snow Goose had on her or will Snow Goose be able to keep three boats between herself and Frances? Fast and tight kite sets and drops plus fast and clean tacks were the words from the skipper of Frances, Peter Johns, to his crew. Most of the time the Frances crew heeded these stirring words and had her racing in true Sayonara Cup winning form. Pre start, George Low had Snow Goose moving well. That form held for most of the race. All Snow Goose needed was for the 15 knot breeze to hold. Sad to say the breeze lightened around 12 noon. Although Frances was slow on the final run Wind Graph for the top end of Port Phillip during race 6

2 from RMYS D Mark to RMYS G Mark Snow Goose was slower. It was Goodnight Irene to Snow Goose as Frances passed and went on to cross the finish line 4 minutes and 24 seconds ahead of Snow Goose. Congratulation to Peter Johns and his crew for bringing Frances home to take out the CYAA s 2016/2017 Summers Series. Lot s of hard racing on Frances were behind this series win. Line honours goes to Sayonara The Classic fleet of 20 starters were treated another display Classic Yacht racing courtesy of Sayonara. With eighteen souls on board, Skipper Dave Allen had no trouble making clean tacks that kept Sayonara pointing well on the two beats from the RMYS G to RMYS C Marks. After passing Cyan at the second RMYS Mark G rounding Sayonara went on to take the line honours gun with a one minute 49 seconds lead over Cyan. The race put in by Cyan was one of no mistakes. Her crew gave a big cheer as skipper Craig Brown had Cyan hit the start line at full power, one second after her group flag drop. From that time on Cyan began her mission. Eat the fleet. Waterline length of 40 foot was the only handicap. Sayonara with 60+ on the water line finally took Cyan out on the slightly sprung sheet final reach. In the dying breeze Cyan stayed high on the run to the line to keep pressure on Sayonara with the hope the breeze would give Sayonara a knock. Not to be.

3 Sayonara under sprung sheets chasing down a desperately hard raced Cyan when approaching the RMYS Mark D for the second time. Photo Cameron Dorrough skipper Bungoona. Marie Louise III Consistency Trophy After the first half of the series that govern the Marie Louise III Consistency Trophy The first three are Tumlarens in the order of Dingo, Ettrick and Snow Goose. Frances is holding down fourth place. Last year the trophy went to Martini. After a renovation of the trophy, titled Classic Reflections, it was finally presented to Ross Clark and Michael Williams, co-owners of Martini.

4 Tumlaren Association Aggregate Trophy This trophy is results the over the line aggregate score of the previous winter series and recently completed Summer Series. Congratulations go to Gordon Tait skipper of Ettrick and his crew of Dave Brodziak, John Brodziak and Heidi Modra. Performances through the fleet Marie Louise III went well but wind strength was not co-operating. Still there was enough speed left in her to hold off Frances in the final run. Boambillee had a good race to the RMYS Mark D but reaching legs kept her from continuing with her early race performance of picking off the fleet leaders. Perhaps the standout performance of the fleet on the day was the single handed performance by Cameron Dorrough on Bungoona. It was only on the last leg where the likes of Boambillee and Frances caught her. Bungoona received a great cheer for her performance from the fleet in the after race comments at RYCV. Further down the list we had 3 Tumlarens, Dingo, Sirocco and Ettrick next to cross the finish line with 45 seconds separating these 3. Snow Goose was closing on Serifa but missed passing by 13 seconds. With lots of shy kite work all 4 Tumlarens put in some serious Tumlaren Regatta training. Serifa was in fine form with Chris Havre of Akuna on the helm. Another victim of the lightening breeze was Kingurra, Being the back marker meant she had to sit and watch the fleet reaching the second mark of the course before starting. So the chase began at 11:04am. Much fast kite work and crew work was paying off as she closed down the Classic ahead of her. Unfortunately another dying breeze victim. An excellent kite launch was seen on Astrud. With two hot shot Bluebird operators on board as crew, that green and gold kite was up before the first mark rounding was finished. So good was Astrud s progress that the VHF Channel 69 air waves were full of comments from the RYCV race committee conducting the Diamond Regatta. After correctly rounding the next mark, some many minutes later, the Astrud crew finally put their reading glasses on. Say no more. Being short handed, as some of her crew were attending the CYANZ Regatta in Auckland, Mercedes III still put in a note worthy kite handling performance. Talking of kite handling performance, the very shy kite work on Martini, that bought her down for the first rounding of RMYS Mark D and up to the RMYS Mark G for the second time, was note worthy. With no round ups, this half tonner was performing in the manner she was known for in her JOG racing days of the 1970 s.

5 Corio Vertue leads L to R Unknown Tum with kite problems, Serifa, Claire Manuka and that shy kite flying specialist, Martini Photo Cameron Dorrough skipper of Bungoona. Although down finishing lower down the fleet, the performance of these much shorter water line Classics was noteworthy. It took the fleet well after the third mark rounding to overtake these starters. Corio Vertue chased Bungoona around the third mark. Manuka with Cam Smith was close to Corio Vertue, after finally moving well after some exciting kite work Richard Macrae had Claire at water line speed and sailing hard beside Bungoona. The perennial dark horse of the fleet, Black Adder, was seen sailing well on the beat from RMYS G to RMYS C Mark. After a six month break from Classic racing Joe Tuck and the boys did some fast crew remediation work to keep Loama up with the fleet. Corio Vertue prior to being passed by Bungoona on the first run to the RMYS D Mark. Photo Cameron Dorrough

6 Corrected time results The handicaps used to calculate these results were based on the race 5 results. These handicaps were then used to generate the group starting times for race 6. From experience, the corrected time results of a pursuit race are generally close to the actual finishing order. With Race 6 with a couple of exceptions this was the case. Congratulations go to Sayonara for taking out first on corrected time and to Cyan for her close second by 1.5 corrected seconds over Bungoona. Looking over the fleet results, tight corrected times between the 20 starters were again a feature of our Classic Yacht racing. One first time feature of the results was to see 3 Classic s score 0 points for the Marie Louise III trophy. That means 3 Classics, Dingo, Ettrick and Claire had an equal ACH and BCH score. Never before has this happened. Some Race 6 statistics Down the bottom of the corrected time results are 3 sets of statistics which show the race was about as fair as a pursuit race could be. The present range of handicaps calculated for the classic fleet requires a spread of at least 45 minutes between first and last groups. Race 6 had a actual spread of 34 minutes between first and last off. The actual on water race 6 time spread between the 4 th and 16 th places was minutes. This would indicate the Race 6 pursuit start results were about as fair as possible under these complex conditions. No doubt the Classic s outside this range will be looked over by the handicapper. The average on course time for the fleet was minutes. The group start time calculations used for Race 6 were based on a race with an average on course time of 100 minutes. So the 8.3 Nm Race 6 course allocation by the RYCV race director was spot on. Not bad. The Race director also received a great cheer during the post race comments. Final 2016/2017 Summer Series comment The enjoyment of sailing your Classic Yacht with other Classic Yachts While it might be said the principle reason for Classic Yacht racing is to enjoy sailing your Classic in company of other Classics. Fair enough. After many years of continual racing, skipper and crew work on our classics is now very tight. It doesn t matter where the boat is in the race all the Classics are now raced in a manner that gives more enjoyment, particularly when crew and skippers find out how well their Classic can really go when raced hard but safely. This emerging feature of Classic Racing enjoyment is more evident after listening to the after race round the table talk. Let s keep this aspect Classic racing going to enhance the principle reason for Classic Yacht racing. The enjoyment of sailing your Classic Yacht with other Classic Yachts. Regards to all Peter Costolloe CYAA (Vic) Handicapper Other CYAA (Vic) news 2017 Winter Series. The Notice of Race and entry form is attached and is also on the home page of the CYAA Web site. We can only hope weather conditions will allow for all eight races to be conducted. First race April 23. Don t forget to correct your EFT payment record to reflect the new BSB (083149) for the CYAA Bank account before doing any EFT transfer to the CYAA account.

7 Tumlaren Regatta March 25/26. Entries now being received. 5 so far. The entire Tum Association is working towards 9 starters for the series.

8 A Classic Yacht Story. Yesterday returns to the Alwyn. On Sunday while positioning Marie Louise III along side the HBYC Marina for her run to the Race 6 start line along the handicapper noticed HBYC Member Mark Sheahan helping a lady go on board the the Alwyn. The handicapper asked Marie Louise III skipper Peter Lloyd to slowly sail along the marina line to find out what was happening. The story came back. My Name is Alwyne. I was named after Alwyn because of the enjoyment my father had when racing her in Hobart during the 1930 s. I ve travelled down from Florida, US, just to stand on her and to close out the missing link in my life. How about that!! Needless to say later conversations with Alwyne revealed more of the story and a promise to provide details of her father s time racing on her. Later I met up with Mark who explained he was approached by Alwyne Lamp asking if a yacht named Alwyn was at the Club. The rest is now history, Alwyne Lamp has asked me to pass her thanks on to Mark for his magnificient and gentlemanly help that led to the completion of her journey of 60 or so years. So from the handicapper and Alwyn thank you Mark Sheahan. There will be more stories on this subject.