Audi Hamilton Island 2010 Lindeman Island Race – the final curtain

by Rob Kothe Sail-World.com on 28 Aug 2010 Today in the Grand Prix fleet, Stephen Ainsworth's Gordon Maguire helmed Reichel Pugh 63 Loki has the series wrapped up. However the fight for second and third places is far from over.

Michael Hiatt's Farr 55 Living Doll is just one point ahead of the New Zealand IRC optimized TP52, Jim Farmer's Georgia.

The Doll needs a good result today because the Kiwis have sailed a consistent regatta and currently have a drop of sixth, where as the Farr 55 has a 13th. Just one park up and it will be Georgia sliding into second place.

Because of the daily tidal advance, the traditional bookends to the 27 year old Audi Hamilton Island Race series are the Molle Island Race and the Lindeman Island Race. This year the last race is the 23 nautical mile Lindeman Island.

The race for the big guns will shortly start in Catseye Bay, the fleet has a choice of which side of Pentecost Island it goes, and then they beat to the western shore of Lindeman and slide around the corner into the channel between Shaw Island and Lindeman.

There is currently thin cloud from horizon to horizon with a few blue patches. The cloud could burn off as the day unfolds and breeze is likely to swing left as it does in the Whitsundays in these conditions...

With the West Cardinal Mark having disappeared (again) from Spitfire Rock, there is a laid rounding mark some 500 metres away. Once bitten, twice shy race officials are seeking to avoid the optimistic helming around Surprise Rock a few years ago, which left numbers of boats with damaged keels.

Then the fleet will head north up the Dent Passage to the finish line outside the Marina.

Sail-World will keep you posted with news from the water as the day unfolds.

IRC Grand Prx

Hosted By Hamilton Island Yacht Club

PROVISIONAL RESULTS

Updated:  27/08/2010  14:56:56

Series Results [IRC] up to Race 8 (Drops = 1)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 8	Race 7	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		60000	LOKI	Gordon Maguire	CYCA	11.0	3.0	1.0	3.0	1.0	[4.0]	1.0	1.0	1.0
2		R55	LIVING DOLL	Michael Hiatt	RYCV	23.0	6.0	3.0	1.0	[13.0]	1.0	5.0	5.0	2.0
3		10000	GEORGIA	Farmer & Meads	RNZYS	24.0	1.0	2.0	4.0	2.0	5.0	4.0	6.0	[6.0]
4		7001	WILD OATS X	Iain Murray	HIYC	28.0	4.0	8.0	5.0	3.0	[10.0]	3.0	2.0	3.0
5		6952	SHOGUN	Robert Hanna	RYCV	38.0	8.0	6.0	2.0	6.0	6.0	6.0	[8.0]	4.0
6		52566	BLACKJACK	Mark Bradford	RQYS	40.0	2.0	11.0	8.0	5.0	[16.0]	2.0	4.0	8.0
7		YC3300	SECRET MENS BUS. 3.5	Geoff Boettcher	CYCSA	43.0	7.0	7.0	6.0	4.0	8.0	8.0	3.0	[14.0]
8		1836	YENDYS	Chris Nicholson	CYCA	53.0	11.0	5.0	7.0	[11.0]	9.0	7.0	7.0	7.0
9		SM24	TERRA FIRMA	Nicholas Bartels	SYC	55.0	5.0	4.0	10.0	10.0	3.0	11.0	12.0	[13.0]
10		SM11	SCARLET RUNNER	Robert Date	SYC	55.5	9.5	9.0	9.0	9.0	2.0	12.0	[15.0]	5.0
11		SYD222	YOU'RE HIRED	Andrew Banks	CYCA	81.0	13.0	16.0	14.0	8.0	11.0	10.0	[16.0]	9.0
12		SM602	VELOCE	Phil Simpfendorfer	SYC	82.0	14.0	12.0	12.0	14.0	7.0	[14.0]	11.0	12.0
13		10081	LAHANA	Peter Millard John H	CYCA	83.0	12.0	13.0	13.0	7.0	15.0	9.0	14.0	[16.0]
14		884	AFTERSHOCK	Michael Hill	RPAYC	84.5	9.5	14.0	15.0	12.0	14.0	[15.0]	9.0	11.0
15		7447	ALACRITY	Matthew Percy	SYC	85.0	15.0	10.0	[16.0]	15.0	12.0	13.0	10.0	10.0
16		HW42	WEDGETAIL	Bill Wild	RQYS	99.0	16.0	15.0	11.0	16.0	13.0	[16.0]	13.0	15.0

(Ties: S=Score R=Race B= Bettered. Penalties: A=ARB B=BFD C=DNC D=DNE E=ESP F=DNF G=RDG L=Late Entrant M=DGM N=ENP O=OCS P=Protest Q=DSQ R=RAF S=DNS U=DUT V=AVG X=EXC Z=ZFP Y=SCP #=NoData [x.y]=Discarded)