2015 J24 Australian National Championships - Day 1

by J24 Australia on 9 Jan 2015 2015 J24 Australian National Championships - Day one has got off to an interesting start with more protests that races held.

After a very stormy morning today following two 38 deg days previously that have had those preparing their boats spending unusually large amounts of time falling about with heat stress and consuming large amounts of water rather than beer, racing got going with a huge black wall of cloud to the north of the race track. The breeze was a light and variable 13knots, flat seas and warm muggy temp, champagne sailing really.

Dave Suda won the first race from Simon Grain sailing Code Violation but is on the receiving end of a multi-boat protest at the top mark for a port and starboard in the second race. At least four protests are in already and I believe there may be more to come – busy night in the committee room !

Code Violation was leading all the way round the track in the second race before falling into a hole 100m from the finish and having three boats sail around them as the breeze died. Brendan Lee took out the second race from Doug Watson, Dave Suda and Code.

2015 J24 Australian National Championships Results

Series Results [PHS] up to Race 6

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1	1.0S	AUS4790	WITCH'S THIMBLE	ROBIN TOWNSEND	CYCSA	40.0	5.0	1.0	11.0	9.0	8.0	6.0
2		AUS2637	SUCH IS LIFE	DAVE NICOLSON	CYCSA	40.0	7.0	7.0	2.0	12.0	2.0	10.0
3		AUS4791	ENDLESS SUMMER	STEVE O'ROURKE	CRONULLA SC	40.5	1.0	2.0	10.0	14.0	11.5	2.0
4		4474	FOOLISH BEHAVIOUR	JANETTE SYME	MANLY YC	43.0	3.0	4.0	13.0	8.0	10.0	5.0
5		AUS5246	HYPERACTIVE	KIRSTY HARRIS	SYC	43.5	11.0	10.0	1.0	3.5	4.0	14.0
6		AUS4424	COOKIE MONSTER	ROB HOGAN	CYCSA	45.0	8.0	9.0	6.0	6.0	3.0	13.0
7		AUS2663	GOOD COMPANY	HELEN WILMER	RSAYS	47.0	14.0	3.0	4.0	2.0	13.0	11.0
8		AUS5086	CRACKERJACK	DOUG MACGREGOR	SYC	47.5	10.0	8.0	5.0	5.0	11.5	8.0
9		AUS4795	BY THE LEE	BRENDAN LEE	SYC	48.0	13.0	5.5	9.0	3.5	1.0	16.0
10		4792	CODE VIOLATION	SIMON GRAIN	SYC	51.5	4.0	13.5	8.0	13.0	9.0	4.0
11		AUS144	STOCKCAR	DAVID MACKAY	CRONULLA SC	53.5	2.0	13.5	7.0	16.0	14.0	1.0
12	3.0S	AUS5333	PACEMAKER	DAVID SUDA	SYC	58.0	9.0	11.0	3.0	15.0	17.0Q	3.0
13		AUS1324	KICKING	RON THOMPSON	SYC	58.0	6.0	12.0	15.0	7.0	6.0	12.0
14		4457	AMAZING GRACE	BRUCE ALEXANDER	SYC	61.5	17.0R	5.5	14.0	11.0	5.0	9.0
15		AUS4859	EL FIDELDO	DOUG WATSON	CYCSA	62.0	12.0	15.0	12.0	1.0	7.0	15.0
16		AUS1315	NO EYE DEER	ANDREW TOWNSEND	CYCSA	84.0	17.0R	17.0C	16.0	10.0	17.0Q	7.0

Series Results [OD] up to Race 6

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		AUS4795	BY THE LEE	BRENDAN LEE	SYC	16.0	3.0	1.0	3.0	2.0	1.0	6.0
2		4792	CODE VIOLATION	SIMON GRAIN	SYC	24.0	2.0	6.0	4.0	7.0	3.0	2.0
3		AUS5333	PACEMAKER	DAVID SUDA	SYC	25.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	3.0	17.0Q	1.0
4		AUS4859	EL FIDELDO	DOUG WATSON	CYCSA	26.0	4.0	10.0	5.0	1.0	2.0	4.0
5		AUS5086	CRACKERJACK	DOUG MACGREGOR	SYC	32.0	7.0	3.0	6.0	5.0	6.0	5.0
6		AUS5246	HYPERACTIVE	KIRSTY HARRIS	SYC	35.0	5.0	4.0	2.0	6.0	5.0	13.0
7		AUS1324	KICKING	RON THOMPSON	SYC	43.0	9.0	7.0	11.0	4.0	4.0	8.0
8		AUS144	STOCKCAR	DAVID MACKAY	CRONULLA SC	48.0	8.0	12.0	8.0	9.0	8.0	3.0
9		AUS4791	ENDLESS SUMMER	STEVE O'ROURKE	CRONULLA SC	54.0	6.0	8.0	10.0	12.0	11.0	7.0
10		AUS2637	SUCH IS LIFE	DAVE NICOLSON	CYCSA	59.0	11.0	9.0	7.0	13.0	9.0	10.0
11		AUS4790	WITCH'S THIMBLE	ROBIN TOWNSEND	CYCSA	60.0	10.0	5.0	12.0	10.0	12.0	11.0
12		AUS4424	COOKIE MONSTER	ROB HOGAN	CYCSA	65.0	12.0	11.0	9.0	8.0	10.0	15.0
13		4457	AMAZING GRACE	BRUCE ALEXANDER	SYC	71.0	17.0R	13.0	14.0	11.0	7.0	9.0
14		4474	FOOLISH BEHAVIOUR	JANETTE SYME	MANLY YC	85.0	13.0	14.0	16.0	15.0	13.0	14.0
15		AUS2663	GOOD COMPANY	HELEN WILMER	RSAYS	88.0	14.0	15.0	13.0	16.0	14.0	16.0
16		AUS1315	NO EYE DEER	ANDREW TOWNSEND	CYCSA	92.0	17.0R	17.0C	15.0	14.0	17.0Q	12.0