| 2003 Australian NSW Formula 16 State titles at Kurnell |
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| By : Various Created : 12 march 2003 Last updated : 17 march 2003 Classification : general publication Copyright : restricted freeware |
| Created by : Projectgroup, 11 march 2003 |
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| First report from James Cole |
| Morning all We had 7 F16s (all Taipans) at out inaugural NSW State Titles on the weekend. Light and shifty conditions on Saturday with the wind around 5-8 knots. Sunday again saw shifty condition of 10-15 with lots of rain squalls. 5 races plus a marathon. Racing was tight and fun with the last of 5 heats seeing the top 4 racing within 50m of each other the whole race. The event was won by Andrew Williams and Petra Eggl from Andrew Collins and Kingsley Pursch. All 7 were sloops with kites. Full results to be posted on http://www.kcc.ozehosting.com.au/ later in the week. Cheers JC In the marathon, the Nacra 5.8 did not have a spinnaker. The course however had a lot of reaching which obviously benefited the Nacra as neither the Tornado of F16 could not get the kite up. There were 8 legs and the kites were only up for 2.5 of them. JC |
| 3rd place crew : Bullet � Daniel Van Kerchof and Annaliese Byrne |
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| First report from James Cole |
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| Full race results from the hosting Botany bay regatta and Cock of the Bay distance race |
| And the results of the Australian NSW F16 state titles are : 1AUS147 A Williams 7.00 2 AUS129 A Collins 8.00 3 AUS035 D Van Kerchhof 10.00 4 AUS166 M Cook 10.00 5 AUS260 L Goodall 20.00 6 AUS090 J Cole 20.00 7 AUS105 K Stevens 28.00 (Sadly the results don't show the names of the crew. And we all know that the crews have become inmensely important with sailing with a spi. They more than deserve to be named) Full results data at : http://www.kcc.ozehosting.com.au/Results%202002-2003/2003_NSW_F16HP_AGG.htm *************************************************************************** From the results it looks like the state titles were derived from open class results which were gethered at the Caltex Botany Bay Classic. The Australian crews did very well in that event with their spis. These are results based on handicap numbers. All boats except the A-cat have spis. And yep Darren Bundock is in there too. 1 AUS147 F16hp A Williams 8.00 2 AUS129 F16hp A Collins 9.00 3 AUS166 F16hp M Cook 12.00 4 AUS035 F16hp D Van Kerchhof 12.00 5 AUS315 OlympicTornado D Hart 19.00 6 AUS99 F16hp J Cole 26.00 7 AUS2004 OlympicTornado D Bundock 8 AUS7 AClass L Hinchcliffe 29.00 9 AUS260 F16hp L Goodall 29.00 10 AUS270 OlympicTornado J Stone 35.00 11 AUS105 F16hp K Stevens 42.00 12 AUS260 OlympicTornado S Medwell 52.00 (The last guy only scored 13's do I assume he never finished) A few things happened (darren had a few very low scores) so a look at the full scores is adviced they can be found at : http://www.kcc.ozehosting.com.au/Results%202002-003/2002_2003_COB_BB_Classic_AGG.htm And of course the Caltex Botany Bay Classic had a large Taipan Cat rigged (Uni or a la A-cat) class. Two Taipans showed up as sloops and were pitched into this cat rigged class by choice or because their ratings are close together. The results Taipan 4.9 Cat Rigged : 1 AUS146 Taipan4.9Cat B Chapman 4.00 2 AUS232 Taipan4.9Cat S Crichton 7.00 3 AUS233 Taipan4.9Cat B Medlow 14.00 4 AUS007 Taipan4.9Cat K Markivitch 17.00 5 AUS075 Taipan4.9Cat S Vine 20.00 6 AUS060 Taipan4.9Sloop M Edwards 20.00 7 000002 Taipan4.9Cat P Brander 21.00 8 AUS231 Taipan4.9Cat J Blanch 32.00 9 AUS184 Taipan4.9Cat T Jenkins 32.00 10 AUS062 Taipan4.9Cat A Edwards 36.00 11AUS104 Taipan4.9Sloop D Apthorp 41.00 And then of course there was a marathon (distance race) called "Cock of the bay" I will give two result lists The first being the elapsed time result list NO HANDICAP 1hour 28min 10sec AUS260 OlympicTornado S Medwell 1" 33' 46 : AUS166 F16hp M Cook 1" 33' 52 : AUS1575 Nacra5.8 T Lowder 1" 35' 12 : AUS129 F16hp A Collins 1" 38' 03 : AUS315 OlympicTornado D Hart 1" 38' 03 : AUS104 Taipan4.9Sloop D Alphorp 1" 49' 59 : AUS270 OlympicTornado J Stone 1" 50' 22 : 0002002 Nacra5.0 B Geisker 2' 06' 50 : 0001206 Nacra5.8 D Warne DNF AUS147 F16hp A Williams DNF 000002 Nacra14Sq B Argall DNF 000103 NacraF18 C Brewin And now the result list using HANDICAP numbers : 1 0001575 T Lowder Nacra5.8 2 AUS260 S Medwell OlympicTornado 3 AUS166 M Cook F16hp 4 AUS129 A Collins F16hp 5 AUS104 D Apthorp Taipan4.9Sloop 6 AUS315 D Hart OlympicTornado 7 002002 B Geisker Nacra5.0 8 000270 J Stone OlympicTornado 9 001206 D Warne Nacra5.8 That was all folks, Now we only have to wait for the race report ! Wouter |
| 2nd place crew - Alphabet Soup sailed by Andrew Collins and Kingsley Pursch |
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| The champion crew - Wet Willy, Andrew Williams and Petra Eggl just ahead of the runner up |
| Race Report from Andrew Collins |
| Ok, you all asked for it. Just something I spewed out onto the machine. Willy is quite busy at the moment but might add his comment as well but you should get the idea.... 7 boats in total made it to Kurnell in Sydney for the NSW F16hp State Titles on the 22nd and 23rd of February. 3 boats from Sydney, 2 from Canberra, 1 from Newcastle and 1 making the 10 hour trip from Bendigo. All boats were Taipan F16s. The crews were as follows: 035 Bullet � Daniel Van Kerchof and Annaliese Byrne 099 Kinetic � James Cole and Jen Stalker 105 Two Fang Tango � Kez Stevens and Steve Medwell 129 Alphabet Soup � Andrew Collins and Kingsley Pursch 147 Wet Willy � Andrew Williams and Petra Eggl 166 Fully Blown � Michael Cook and Nathan Van Kerchof 260 n/a � Liam? Goodall and Brett Goodall The race format was to have one race in the morning and then two back to back in the afternoon on Saturday and two back to back on the Sunday morning. Race 1 started in a bit under 10 knots with crews double trapezing most of the time upwind. Dan and Annaliese missed the start having only received the spinnaker kit on the morning of the regatta they were still setting things up � plus, Dan�s lazy . The breeze was quite shifty coming from the south and this being Willy�s home club he showed the rest of the fleet where to go. The class format had the F16hp�s starting with the Tornado�s and an A Class instead of the F18s so it was a little hard to judge our speed differential. Race 2 made it easier though with Michael Cook (Cookie) romping in a victory and actually beating some of the Nacra F18s around the course after they started 5 minutes ahead of us! Dan made it onto the water and Annaliese showed us why she�s a super crew with a 2nd place in her first sail with a kite. Race 3 saw Cookie�s halyard pully seize relegating him to running standard for just about the whole race. The breeze had picked up slightly to near 15kts at times which made for some fun rides though we were all still experimenting with crews and skippers on and off trapeze when the kites were up. If we thought the racing was fun on the Saturday though , none of us were really prepared for how close things were at the top on Sunday.... The wind had picked up fairly significantly for the Sunday morning as rain and wind squalls moved across the course. There were times though where the wind dropped down near 10 kots though. Kingsley and I did a rather spectacular stack straight over the front on the way to the start line as we had just set the kite which provided amusement for the rest of the fleet as well as the start boat. We picked ourselves up and the fluro orange jib of Alphabet Soup led the fleet around the course for race four with second to Cookie after fixing his halyard from the day before. The last race was just awesome. Four boats absolutely smokin� around the course in about 18knots all within 50 metres of each other. Mark roundings, cross tacks, everything was close. All four boats led the race at one point and there were enough boats in the group that you couldn�t afford to cover one boat or the other two would sneak by. As we were sailing around I thought to myself that you only get this close racing in really big fleets when there are boats all around you anyway. The kite drops at the gate bottom mark were.... um..... interesting shall we say. The final results show Willy taking the title by only one point and two tiebreaks in the rest of the results! One interesting note was that Helen Sharrock was on the start boat and was timing us around the course and noting our deltas with the F18s. In the decent breeze around 15-18kts we were pulling back only up to 30 seconds per lap on them but when the breeze died out the deltas were more like a minute to a minute and a half! Just an interesting side point. Andrew Collins Yeah, reading through it again it does seem a bit confusing. "we were pulling back only up to 30 seconds per lap on them" Translation: It took us 30 seconds less to complete each lap. Probably should read through stuff before I post it up. Andrew Collins But I can't really recall the waves being much of an issue over the regatta. We were sailing at Kurnell in Sydney in a south/south-easter so there wasn't much to speak of in terms of waves. A few big rollers curling round from the mouth of the bay but not really of much concern. Andrew Collins Plus, the F18s were sailing 5 minutes ahead of us so weren't sailing in the same patch of water unfortunately. Just as a side note, the top four F16s were 2nd, 7th, 5th and 4th respectively at the recent Taipan Nationals Andrew Collins Alphabet Soup Taipan 4.9 - AUS 129 |