Cyrene 3 claims spoils in Grant Thornton Short Haul Pointscore

by Di Pearson on 15 Mar 2015 Michael Selby and crew have sailed Cyrene 3 to overall honours in the Grant Thornton Short Haul Pointscore following the final race of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia hosted series today.

Cyrene 3, an X-412 design, trailed the Beneteau 40.7 L’Attitude (Jon Short) by one point coming into the final race of the series, decided under PHS, but Selby’s second place to Short’s fourth sealed the deal. The two finished the series on equal points, with Cyrene gaining the upper hand via three wins in the 14-race four-drop series.

Ian Guanaria’s One More-No More was five points adrift of the leader coming into the day, but in winning the final race, closed the gap to one point behind the top two. Guanaria also showed a total three wins on his scorecard, making for a thrilling series to the end.

However, Guanaria was happy today’s win reversed the trend. His Beneteau F35 won the IRC trophy from Cyrene 3 which had held sway over Guanaria’s boat by one point going into the final race. They too ended on equal points.

Prior to the race, L’Attitude’s crew knew their destiny lay in third place overall, as they were in ‘no man’s land’; 13 points short of the leader and 14 points ahead of fourth placed First Light (Chris Ryan).

The race started at midday in an eight-nine knot easterly near Point Piper. 'It was much better that the forecast five knots,' remarked winning owner, Michael Selby, who was loathe to take credit for their victory.

'I’ve been away overseas most the time. I did a couple of the early races and returned from Japan in time to race today, so I can’t take the credit – I feel like I muscled in,' Selby said. John Gardener did a great job skippering the boat. He’s good at picking the wind shifts and he’s a skilled sailor. The whole crew did a good job.'

Selby said the wind was up and down and patchy during the windward/leeward race: 'It was mostly easterly, but it went north-east at one point. We were reaching and running coming home.

'It was a very close series and I congratulate all the others – they are such a good bunch of people and boats.'

Twenty five yachts took part in the annually held Grant Thornton Short Haul Pointscore which will return for another season in September.

 Complete Results:

PHSTCF results Start : Div1 12:00 Div2 12:00

Place	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Div No	AHC	Fin Tim	Elapsd	Cor'd T	Score	Vis
1	8035	ONE MORE-NO MORE	Ian Guanaria	1	1.0249	15:02:15	03:02:15	03:06:47	1.0
2	8412	CYRENE 3	Michael Selby	1	1.0569	14:56:46	02:56:46	03:06:50	2.0
3	A113	INDEFENSIBLE	Hugh O'Neill	2	0.8741	15:34:09	03:34:09	03:07:11	3.0
4	6563	L'ATTITUDE	R Hunt/J Short /M Ba	1	1.0191	15:04:04	03:04:04	03:07:35	4.0
5	7045	DEFIANT	P Billingham P Mcgee	1	0.9434	15:19:30	03:19:30	03:08:12	5.0
6	35000	NEXT LIGHT	Chris Ryan	2	0.9499	15:18:35	03:18:35	03:08:38	6.0
7	8420	JUBLILEE	Ian Arthy	2	0.7983	15:59:43	03:59:43	03:11:22	7.0
8	6484	MR BOJANGLES	Warren Grounds	2	0.9153	15:33:00	03:33:00	03:14:58	8.0
9	6652	BALTIC LADY	Niel Burling	2	0.9203	15:34:48	03:34:48	03:17:41	9.0
10	129	VIVA	Ken Hudson	2	0.9550	15:44:38	03:44:38	03:34:32		Yes
DNC	13	CAPRICE OF HUON	David Champtaloup	1	0.9396				14.0
DNC	89	INTO THE MYSTIC	Arthur Psaltis Jon R	1	1.0059				14.0
DNC	508	STORMY PETREL	Kevin O'Shea	2	0.8977				14.0
DNC	1961	IN CAHOOTS	Pat & Roberta Easton	1	1.0115				14.0
DNC	4582	PRIVATEER	Bill Mirow	2	0.8586				14.0
DNC	4715	MARLOO	George Girdis	1	1.0464				14.0
DNC	5139	KATINKA	Paul Oconnell	2	0.8210				14.0
DNC	5407	LADY ANN	John & Ann Kirkjian	1	1.0146				14.0
DNC	5930	REVE	Kevin Whelan	1	1.0200					Yes
DNC	6223	TRIM	Shaaron Walsh	1	0.9795				14.0
DNC	6226	SANTE'	Rob &Sue Segaert	1	0.9693				14.0
DNC	6277	LIMELIGHT	Alan Husband	1	0.9769				14.0
DNC	6360	INTEGRITY	Andrew Stoeckel	1	1.0013				14.0
DNC	6657	PANTOMIME IV	Michael Kelly	2	0.7127				14.0
DNC	6659	KURRAKA	Cyril Latimer	2	0.7848				14.0
DNC	6683	CROSSHAVEN	J Pelly & S Rahilly	1	1.0542				14.0
DNC	6754	ORION BLUE	Steven Capell	2	0.9717				14.0
DNC	6959	SOLEARES	Sebastian Bohm	2	0.9090				14.0
DNC	6990	GREAT WHITE	Ann / Bob Penty	2	0.9146				14.0
DNC	8402	MORE WITCHCRAFT	John Cameron	1	1.0526				14.0
DNC	99999	ASSASSIN	Phil Cutts	1	1.0426				14.0
DNC	R6572	ICEFIRE	Alan Mather	1	1.0472					Yes
DNF	6593	LU LU BELLE	Peter Lewis	2	0.8717				11.0

NONSPINIRC results Start : Div1 12:00 Div2 12:00

Place	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	AHC	Fin Tim	Elapsd	Cor'd T	Score
1	8035	ONE MORE-NO MORE	Ian Guanaria	0.994	15:02:15	03:02:15	03:01:09	1.0
2	8412	CYRENE 3	Michael Selby	1.038	14:56:46	02:56:46	03:03:29	2.0
3	6563	L'ATTITUDE	R Hunt/J Short /M Ba	1.032	15:04:04	03:04:04	03:09:57	3.0
4	35000	NEXT LIGHT	Chris Ryan	1.029	15:18:35	03:18:35	03:24:20	4.0
DNC	508	STORMY PETREL	Kevin O'Shea	0.938				8.0
DNC	5407	LADY ANN	John & Ann Kirkjian	1.060				8.0
DNC	6683	CROSSHAVEN	J Pelly & S Rahilly	1.018				8.0

Division 1 PHSTCFDIVISIONS results Start : 12:00

Place	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	AHC	Fin Tim	Elapsd	Cor'd T	Score	Vis
1	8035	ONE MORE-NO MORE	Ian Guanaria	1.0249	15:02:15	03:02:15	03:06:47	1.0
2	8412	CYRENE 3	Michael Selby	1.0569	14:56:46	02:56:46	03:06:50	2.0
3	6563	L'ATTITUDE	R Hunt/J Short /M Ba	1.0191	15:04:04	03:04:04	03:07:35	3.0
4	7045	DEFIANT	P Billingham P Mcgee	0.9434	15:19:30	03:19:30	03:08:12	4.0
DNC	13	CAPRICE OF HUON	David Champtaloup	0.9396				8.0
DNC	89	INTO THE MYSTIC	Arthur Psaltis Jon R	1.0059				8.0
DNC	1961	IN CAHOOTS	Pat & Roberta Easton	1.0115				8.0
DNC	4715	MARLOO	George Girdis	1.0464				8.0
DNC	5407	LADY ANN	John & Ann Kirkjian	1.0146				8.0
DNC	5930	REVE	Kevin Whelan	1.0200					Yes
DNC	6223	TRIM	Shaaron Walsh	0.9795				8.0
DNC	6226	SANTE'	Rob &Sue Segaert	0.9693				8.0
DNC	6277	LIMELIGHT	Alan Husband	0.9769				8.0
DNC	6360	INTEGRITY	Andrew Stoeckel	1.0013				8.0
DNC	6683	CROSSHAVEN	J Pelly & S Rahilly	1.0542				8.0
DNC	8402	MORE WITCHCRAFT	John Cameron	1.0526				8.0
DNC	99999	ASSASSIN	Phil Cutts	1.0426				8.0
DNC	R6572	ICEFIRE	Alan Mather	1.0472					Yes

Division 2 PHSTCFDIVISIONS results Start : 12:00

Place	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	AHC	Fin Tim	Elapsd	Cor'd T	Score	Vis
1	A113	INDEFENSIBLE	Hugh O'Neill	0.8741	15:34:09	03:34:09	03:07:11	1.0
2	35000	NEXT LIGHT	Chris Ryan	0.9499	15:18:35	03:18:35	03:08:38	2.0
3	8420	JUBLILEE	Ian Arthy	0.7983	15:59:43	03:59:43	03:11:22	3.0
4	6484	MR BOJANGLES	Warren Grounds	0.9153	15:33:00	03:33:00	03:14:58	4.0
5	6652	BALTIC LADY	Niel Burling	0.9203	15:34:48	03:34:48	03:17:41	5.0
6	129	VIVA	Ken Hudson	0.9550	15:44:38	03:44:38	03:34:32		Yes
DNC	508	STORMY PETREL	Kevin O'Shea	0.8977				10.0
DNC	4582	PRIVATEER	Bill Mirow	0.8586				10.0
DNC	5139	KATINKA	Paul Oconnell	0.8210				10.0
DNC	6657	PANTOMIME IV	Michael Kelly	0.7127				10.0
DNC	6659	KURRAKA	Cyril Latimer	0.7848				10.0
DNC	6754	ORION BLUE	Steven Capell	0.9717				10.0
DNC	6959	SOLEARES	Sebastian Bohm	0.9090				10.0
DNC	6990	GREAT WHITE	Ann / Bob Penty	0.9146				10.0
DNF	6593	LU LU BELLE	Peter Lewis	0.8717				7.0