March 9 2017
CYAA 2016/2017 Summer Series Race 6 March 5
Race 6 results
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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34 minutes between first and last off. The actual on water race 6 time spread between the 4 and 16
places was 34. 97 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 106.26 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.
Tumlaren Regatta March 25/26.
Entries now being received. 5 so far. The entire Tum Association is working towards 9 starters for the
series.
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.