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Race 1
Race 2
Race 3
Race 4
Race 5
Race 6
Race 7
Drop
Points
With Drop

1
Casio
AUS
2
2
3
7
7
1
1
7
23
16

2
Asko
AUS
4
4
1
1
6
6
2
6
24
18

3
Club Marine
AUS
6
1
5
5
1
9
3
9
30
21

4
Rag & Famish
AUS
5
3
4
10
3
2
4
10
31
21

5
Pegasus
USA
1
7
22
2
2
32
6
32
72
40

6
Fisher & Paykel
AUS
8
13
14
4
10
5
10
14
64
50

7
Yandoo
AUS
10
5
17
8
11
4
15
17
70
53

8
CT Sailbattens
NZL
3
32
13
20
13
3
5
32
89
57

9
Active Air
AUS
32
14
8
9
16
8
11
32
98
66

10
AppliancesOnline
AUS
15
10
7
19
5
15
16
19
87
68

11
Fisher Fine Arts
NZL
20
11
9
13
4
14
19
20
90
70

12
Radii
GBR
11
16
12
11
18
12
8
18
88
70

13
AAPT
AUS
9
6
32
3
12
21
21
32
104
72

14
Omega Smeg
AUS
13
8
10
18
20
10
14
20
93
73

15
Delonghi
AUS
19
32
2
21
8
16
9
32
107
75

16
Maytag
AUS
7
9
24
15
14
32
12
32
113
81

17
Belle Property
AUS
32
12
16
25
15
7
7
32
114
82

18
Toshiba
RSA
14
23
6
16
9
32
20
32
120
88

19
CST
AUS
16
19
19
12
27
11
18
27
122
95

20
SX Projects
AUS
18
22
11
6
25
17
28
28
127
99

21
Barron & Smithers
GBR
12
21
23
30
31
13
17
31
147
116

22
Noakes
AUS
32
17
15
22
17
32
13
32
148
116

23
Hermes
GBR
32
15
18
27
19
20
24
32
155
123

24
Barracouta
HUN
32
24
20
14
23
19
23
32
155
123

25
Panasonic
AUS
17
28
27
17
21
18
26
28
154
126

26
SEFICO
FRA
21
20
25
28
22
32
22
32
170
138

27
Ssanyong
NZL
22
25
21
24
26
32
29
32
179
147

28
Avaya
AUS
32
18
26
26
24
32
25
32
183
151

29
Wentworth Courier
BRA
23
26
30
29
28
22
27
30
185
155

30
Rosemount
GBR
32
27
28
23
30
32
32
32
204
172

31
Hurley Palmer Flatt
GBR
32
29
29
31
29
32
32
32
214
182

Somewhat surprisingly, the Active Air team achieved the goal of
finishing in the top 10 at the JJ Giltinan 18′ Skiff
Championship.

I wouldn’t have thought it would turn out this way. We’d just
scraped into qualifying for the regatta at the start of the week
and had a DNF on our scorecard after race 1. Things weren’t looking
flash.

But then we scraped in a few top 10s. Not great top 10s, but enough
to pull us up in a fleet that was wildly inconsistent.

There were plenty of opportunities to make up lots and lots of
places in each race. We gave it away again and again, but still
managed to get up there in the end.

The last race was a tense affair. With a 20-30 knot Southerly
forecast to arrive at 8pm, and a 15 knot Southerly blowing at 1,
half the fleet opted for #2 rigs, half went #1. Given our relative
weight and smaller #1, we went big…. and it paid off.

Euan rolled the dice and chose #2, with Asko, Casio and Rag &
Famish going big. Amazingly Euan held on with his little rig when
the breeze died down, holding out Casio on the upwinds and
finishing a close 3rd in the race.

But then 3rd wasn’t good enough to win the regatta. Casio crossed
the line just ahead of last year’s runner up Asko to win the JJ for
the first time. Asko came close but went down by the smallest of
margins… again. Club Marine and Rag tied for 3rd.

Lucky for us, AAPT, AppliancesOnline and Fisher Fine Arts - all
boats we needed to beat went for #2 rigs. We had a great start and
held off the small rigs on the first tight run and then didn’t see
them much again.

So all in all a great week for us, topping off a mediocre season.
There’s a month and a half or so of League racing left to go - but
I need enough time to repair my knees and back after lifting these
horrifically heavy boats in and out of the water - from the far end
of the boatpark.

…

I forgot to mention that we also won on handicap overall, by about
15 points.

Lots of nice
photos from Saturday on Andrea Francolini’s site. Photos from
all through the regatta on the
18 footers site.

Here’s a few photos of the new skinny 12 foot skiff which should be
on the water in a month or so.

It’ll be interesting to see how this one handles with no Moth style
t-foil.

Well I wasn’t thinking too quickly when I came into work this
morning…

So when I was asked to crew for the company CIO on his yacht next
weekend, of course I said yes.

… but then I realised next weekend is Tai’s wedding.

So I had to ring him a few hours later and cancel. Ouch.

Thankfully I didn’t have to pack up my desk and leave
afterwards!

There’s a few interesting threads floating around on
YachtsandYachting and SailingAnarchy
on redesigning the League/Murray 18s.

There’s plenty that could be said… but I won’t be saying it. Have
a read anyway.

It was another good day on the harbour today, especially for
us.

The shitty, shifty Easterly breeze of 5-12 knots made for some very
very difficult sailing conditions. Lots and lots of boats made huge
gains and huge losses on all legs of the course. Lucky for us our
losses were confined to the end of the last work, where only 4
boats slipped through with slightly better shifts.

For the others… ouch.

The first work (and the whole race) was close as usual. We made the
first mark in Rose Bay in the teens then held on downwind to get a
huge right-hander and pass close to 10 boats. We sailed well on the
next upwind and downwind to round the last bottom mark in 5th.
Unfortunately Club Marine, Casio, Yandoo and SX all sailed through
us on the left hand side.

So in the end we finished 9th. Not as great as it could’ve been,
but a good result all the same.

If we take out our DNF drop, we’re looking good - tied for 9th spot
overall.

The forecast shows the same woeful conditions for tomorrow, so who
knows what could happen.