Krabi waters deliver a spectacular Day 3 of the Bay Regatta 2017

by Event Media on 18 Feb 2017 Opting for just two starts each day – monohulls and multihulls – has proven a successful strategy for the 2017 The Bay Regatta, getting the boats off early and enjoying the good breeze and eye-candy that is the Andaman triangle of Phuket-Phang Nga-Krabi.

Day 3, the Raymarine Race Day, saw the racing monohulls and multihulls enjoyed a 24 nautical mile passage while the cruising classes (monohulls and multihulls) raced a 17 nautical mile course with all finishing off Railay Beach in Krabi where the prize-giving and evening party was held at Railay Bay Resort and Spa.

In the Racing Class, Megazip seems to have the measure of Fujin with another win today making it three from three and an unbeatable lead going into the final day. In Cruising A, however, there were some changes as Hellmut Schutte’s Aquavit 6 won today's race and with it now lead the series. Second on the day went to Gavin Wellman’s Rascal’s with Woodrow Christensen’s Linda rounding out the top three. Gary Smith’s Baby Tonga went walkabout and ended taking the wrong course (the racing monohull/ multihull course), thus finishing last today, but their previous strong finishes keeps them in second overall.

There's no stopping Canadian Jim “Yee Haw” Ellis’s Remington in Cruising B Class who's third win from three races sees them comfortably on top. The Gillow-skippered Poco and the Robert Camera-helmed Piccolo swapped second and third spots from Day 2 giving Poco second spot overall with nine points, while Piccolo (a 1976 Sydney-Hobart winner) sits in third with ten points. Kevin Gillow has amazingly competed in all twenty The Bay Regattas.

Kinnon skippered by Stanislav Pechenkin finished one minute ahead of Aussie Alan Bower’s All Sail Asia on corrected time in the Bareboat Class, and a half-an-hour ahead of All Sail Venus Hunter (Russel Waddy) repeating the one – two - three of yesterday.

It was a third straight line honours for Fergus Wilmer’s Thor. Despite finishing eight minutes ahead of John Newnham’s Twin Sharks they could not convert it to a win on corrected time, and had to settle for second place behind Twin Sharks with Java, skippered by Mick Coleman, finishing in third.

Multihull Cruising saw Sergei Dikanov’s Fenix and Aussie Rick Fielding’s Mojo flip flop first-and-second place finishes again with Fenix taking the bullet. Graham Tucky’s Optoloi II finished third on the day and sits fourth overall.

The final day's racing concludes on Sunday (19th February) with the series prize-giving held at Kan Eang II in Chalong (Phuket).

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Results:

Racing class

Daily Pointscore 18 Feb 2017

Place	Sail No	Boat	Name	Country	Club	R1	R2	R3	Total Points	Score
1	RUS3500	Megazip	Aleksandr Trofimenko	RUS				1	1	1
2	AUS6038	Fujin	Gary Baguley	AUS				2	2	2

Cruising A class

Place	Sail No	Boat	Name	Country	Club	R1	R2	R3	Total Points	Score
1	28359	Aquavit 6	Hellmut Schutte	SIN				1	1	1
2	HR53	Rascal	Gavin Wellman	GBR				2	2	2
3	USA	Linda	Woodrow Christenson	USA				3	3	3
4	.	Tintin	Philippe Dallee	SIN				4	4	4
5	MAS99	Baby Tonga	Garry Smith	GBR				5	5	5

Cruising B class

Place	Sail No	Boat	Name	Country	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total Points	Score
1	42	Remington	Jim Ellis	CAN	PYC			1		1	1
2	THA824	Thalassa	Andrey Arbuzov	RUS				2		2	2
3	H280	Aqua	Mig Wehrle	THA	PYC			3		3	3
4	303	Poco	Kevin Gillow	THA	ACYC			4		4	4
5	F4	Piccolo	Reberto Camara	THA				5		5	5

Bareboat Charter class

Place	Sail No	Boat	Name	Country	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total Points	Score
1	A11	Kinnon	Stanislav Pechenkin	RUS				1		1	1
2	B40	AllSail Alexa	Alan Bower	AUS	AllSail			2		2	2
3	S2	AllSail Venus Hunter	Russel Waddy	AUS	AllSail			3		3	3

Multihull Racing class

Place	Sail No	Boat	Name	Country	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total Points	Score
1	FF 298	Twin Sharks	John Newnham	GBR	PYC			1		1	1
2	HK008	Thor	Fergus Wilmer	THA				2		2	2
3	05	Java	Mick Coleman	CHN				3		3	3
4	3	Asia Catamarans Hurricane	Alan Carwardine	THA	PYC			4		4	4
5	SIN270	Tantrum Too	Robert Van Paridon	NED				5		5	5
6	11	Phantom V	Andrew Hurford	AUS				6		6	6
7	10	Top Cat	Peter Wood	IRL				7		7	7
8	06	Galeforce	Kirill Stashevskly	RUS	GSC			8		8	8
9	179	OFF-LINE	Dirk Weiblen	CHN				9		9	9
10	US2	Adreneline	Mark Horwood	THA	PYC			10		10	10
11	P3	Pixalux	Mick Tilden	AUS				DNS		12	12

Multihull Cruising class

Place	Sail No	Boat	Name	Country	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total Points	Score
1	.	Fenix	Sergei Dikanov	RUS				1		1	1
2	5050	Mojo	Rick Fielding	AUS				2		2	2
3	.	Optoloi II	Graham Tucky	ALG				3		3	3
4	.	Swift	Colin Wright	AUS				4		4	4
5	.	Sahm Loy	Hugh Tompson	AUS				DNS		7	7
6	AC02	Da Vinci	Sanya Yomovo Sailing Team	CHN				DNS		7	7