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Australian Sharpie National ChampionshipDay 4 + images + results

by Peter Campbell on 3 Jan 2010
Bread Run dominates Day Four of racing. - 67th Australian Sharpie Championship Hobart Day Four Images Jane Austin

South Australian sailors scooped the pool on the fourth day of competition in the 67th Australian Sharpie National championships sailed today on Hobart's River Derwent and they now fill the three top placings overall.

On a day in which the moderate to fresh breeze changed in strength from 10 to 20 knots and in direction from a nor'wester to a sou'wester - and back again - the strong contingent from Adelaide excelled on the water.

Jason Heritage and his crew of James Davis and Mark Beaumont, sailing Bread Run, notched up two second placings following their previous results of 10-3-1. Discarding the 10th place, they are on 8 points, just one point ahead of fellow South Australians Malcolm Higgins, Sam Sanderson and Andrew Chisholm, sailing Blur.

Blur is on 9 points with a third and a first today, while on 11 points is All Scoobed out, sailed by brother Dave Higgins and his crew of Anthony MItton and Mark Kretschmer, who had a win and fifth place.

Today was off day for previous regatta leader, Tasmanian Rick Buchanan and his crew of One Hump or Two, Andre Declerk and Nick Johnston. Going into today's racing in first place they missed the vital wind shifts in the fluky conditions to place eighth and seventh.

This has dropped them to fourth place overall on 15 points with a series scorecard of 2-4-2-7-8, still within shooting range of a podium finish.

Tomorrow is a lay day with racing resuming on Tuesday for race six of the seven heat national championship.











67th Australian Sharpie Championship - Progressive Results

Sail No Boat Helm Crew Category Points Place R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
SA920 Bread Run Jason Heritage James Davis & Mark Beaumont Open 8 1 10 3 1 2 2
SA893 Blur Malcolm Higgins Sam Sanderson & Andrew Chisholm Open/40 9 2 5 2 3 3 1
SA909 All Scoobed Out Dave Higgins Anthony Mitton & Mark Kretschmer Open 11 3 8 1 4 1 5
T900 One Hump or Two Rick Buchanan Andre Declerk & Nick Johnston Open 15 4 2 4 2 7 8
Q906 Jess Andrew Wells Jason Beebe & Sam Reid Open/40 18 5 1 6 5 6 11
N885 Mr Freeze Todd Curry Hayden Sellers & Brad Curry Open/C 23 6 6 17 7 4 6
SA858 Savage Mood Swings John Weigand Justin Kennaway & Sam Heritage Open/40 32 7 4 10 8 15 10
T846 Dump Truck Nick Fleming Will Logan & Alex Bourke Open/40 36 8 14 5 16 5 12
T825 Nutpatch Nougat Drew Latham Nick Carter & Andrew Rostron Open 37 9 9 15 9 19 4
SA831 2MC's & 1 DJ!! John Heywood Harry Fisher & Zane Hacker Open 39 10 13 7 10 13 9
T816 Get Smart Tim Muir Charles Donnelly & Marcus Carter Open 43 11 3 13 28 24 3
WA910 Vita Brevis David Meehan Rhyss Edwards & Brendan Green Open/C 48 12 11 8 12 17 19
N883 Smoke Michael Forster Andrew Forster & Ben Phillips Open/C 50 13 16 11 11 14 14
SA895 In Hindsight Daniel Rantanen Matthew Carter & Chad Baker Open 52 14 28 14 6 12 20
N747 Roger Ramjet Derek Milligan John Fisher & Andrew Breen Open/50 55 15 19 19 22 10 7
T889 Gun Smoke Paul Burnell Tom Ransley & Steve Salter Open 56 16 17 12 28 11 16
WA821 Impact Craig Mann David Nixon & Chris Plummer Open/40 57 17 12 9 13 25 23
SA912 Wet Dream Darryl O'Toole Barry O'Toole & Brad Day Open/50 58 18 7 18 20 20 13
SA884 Pre-Mature Ellen Fisher Cameron Larkin & Brad Windram J 62 19 21 22 15 8 18
N812 Rocket Fuels Dean Souter Mark Ablett & Michael Denny Open/C/J 62 20 15 16 17 16 15
N902 Mainiac Ian Richardson Alex Marzano & Dylan Zanin Open/C/50 65 21 20 23 14 9 22
N736 Chilli Factor Chris Ablett Eric Hines & Grant Warner Open/C/50 77 22 22 21 21 18 17
SA699 Rhythmstick Steve Luders Angus Hughes & Brad Luders Open/50 82 23 24 20 19 22 21
SA897 Killing Me Softly Greg Hammet James Bowling & Chris Thorne Open/50 83 24 18 24 18 23 24
T610 Head David Golding Ishmael Konstantinidis & Guy Roberts Open/C 97 25 25 26 28 21 25
SA856 Freak on a Leash Adam Cotton Rohan Lillie & Peter Knispel Open 101 26 23 25 28 26 27
WA734 Run to Paradise Tony Aisbett Jeff Darby & Gary Reed Open 104 27 28 27 23 28 26



Event website at: http://www.sbsc.yachting.org.au/
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