Australian Sharpie National ChampionshipDay 4 + images + results

by Peter Campbell on 3 Jan 2010
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/