Queensland IRC Championship 2014 - Lambourdini takes handicap honours

by Tracey Johnstone on 29 Jun 2014 Queensland IRC Championship 2014 - Lambourdini returned to the top of the podium today taking out handicap honours in the Queensland IRC Championship conducted by Mooloolaba Yacht Club for Sail Mooloolaba.

Skipper David Lambourne was disappointed he was unavailable to defend his 2012 title so this year he came at the event with full intentions of regaining the crown. A consistent scorecard of one-two-two-one-four-four was enough for him to bump the Vaughan Prentice skippered Black Jack Too out by just two points. In third place, after count-back, came Todd Anderson’s Corum.

After a really tough day yesterday of huge pressure changes and wind shifts, today’s stunning sunshine and 10 to 15 knots, with the occasional gust to 20, was a welcome reprieve. The west-south-west flattened out the bay off Mooloolaba which suited the 13-boat fleet which ranged in size from the little 32-foot Perception through to the big Ker 50 Kerumba.

Lambourdini went into today’s racing with a tenuous series lead, just one point ahead of Black Jack Too. They needed to sail smart and fast to keep Black Jack Too in check. On board Lambourdini was local sailor Graham Eaton who took a lead role in the decision making and helped make the vital difference in knowing how to work the local conditions and winter westerly.

'Scooter was our tactician. He kept us all level-headed and told a few jokes. He is a regular on board.

'It’s been a good weekend. The westerly breeze always has a lot more movement and shifts in it. Sometimes you are in the right side and sometimes you are on wrong the side. The flat water was also good for us today,' a very happy Lambourne said.

Prentice was accepting of his team’s second place in the regatta. Up against the Farr 40s with their spinnakers and finding the wind just not light enough or heavy enough for Black Jack Too to beat the Farr 40s cleanly, a second overall was still a solid result.

'It’s very difficult to sail against the Farr 40s. They race very well, rate well and run well. It probably came down to the last race for us. We stuffed up earlier today. We were over the line early (in Race one) and that was our bad race. In the middle race we did everything well and we got a result. Then the last race we felt pretty confident we had our time on them, but then the breeze went from eight knots to 20 knots and they ran home. It changed everything.

'We went round the finish line and hardened up to come home into a 20 knot gale. Two-thirds of the way down the run we had our time on them, no worries. We felt pretty confident we had the race in the bag.

'Really, they just have to sail around. It’s extremely frustrating for us, but it is, what it is,' Prentice said.

In other results, the Sail Mooloolaba Keelboat Performance Division was tightly fought across the six-race regatta with the team of old Hobart Race mates, led by Ian Griffiths on the Hanse 40 Witchy Woman, taking line honours and eventually handicap honours, just one point ahead of David Perkins’s Jeanneau 54, Vanilla. Five points behind in third place was Col Thomas’s Adams 10, Ella.

The Sail Mooloolaba Keelboat Performance Cruising Division was won by the two-man team on the Spider 22 Untamed. Skipper John Parkes travelled all the way north from Illawarra Yacht Club to join the regatta. His crew, Ingrid Rooke, found herself participating in her very first racing experience as the little boat completed two short windward-leewards and two passages races to win handicap honours. In second place was Mark Coghlan and Deb Pfeiffer’s 39-foot Ocean Warrior while in third place came the oldest skipper in the fleet, 82-year-old Arthur Hodge on his S&S 30 Crackajack.

Queensland IRC Championship 2104

Hosted By Sail Mooloolaba

Provisional Results

Updated:  29/06/2014  4:11:03 PM

Series Results [IRC Div1] up to Race 6 (Drops = 1)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Bow No	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		8877	LAMBOURDINI	David Lambourne	RQYS		7.0	2.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	[2.0]	1.0
2		52542	BLACK JACK TOO	Vaughan Prentice	RQYS		9.0	3.0	1.0	[4.0]	2.0	1.0	2.0
3		RQ1331	PATRIOT	Antony Love	RQYS		14.0	1.0	4.0	3.0	[4.0]	3.0	3.0
4		AUS6058	THE FAT CONTROLLER	Cameron Pryce	KBSC		19.0	4.0	3.0	2.0	5.0	[6.0]	5.0
5		NZL40010	BOBBY'S GIRL	John Leman	RQYS		23.0	5.0	[8.0]	7.0	3.0	4.0	4.0
6	5.0S	RQ130	RAGTIME	Chris Morgan	RQYS		32.0	8.0	5.0	5.0	[9.0C]	8.0	6.0
7		RQ5050	KERUMBA	Tam Faragher	RQYS		32.0	6.0	7.0	8.0	6.0	5.0	[8.0]
8		6669	CARBON CREDITS	Paul Freeman	RQYS		33.0	7.0	6.0	6.0	7.0	7.0	[7.0]

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

Queensland IRC Championship 2104

Hosted By Sail Mooloolaba

Provisional Results

Updated:  29/06/2014  4:11:04 PM

Series Results [IRC Div2] up to Race 6 (Drops = 1)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Bow No	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		HKG1088	CORUM	Todd Anderson	RQYS		6.0	1.0	2.0	[2.0]	1.0	1.0	1.0
2		3627	GAUNTLET	Peter Miliken	RQYS		9.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	3.0	[3.0]	2.0
3		RQ2404	NOT A DIAMOND	David Redfern	RQYS		16.0	5.0	3.0	3.0	2.0	[5.0]	3.0
4		6595	BRILLIANT PEARL	Gary McCarthy	MYC		17.0	3.0	[5.0]	4.0	4.0	2.0	4.0
5		6432	PERCEPTION	Greg Gilliam	SCYC/MYC		22.0	4.0	4.0	5.0	5.0	4.0	[5.0]

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

Queensland IRC Championship 2104

Hosted By Sail Mooloolaba

Provisional Results

Updated:  29/06/2014  4:11:04 PM

Series Results [IRC] up to Race 6 (Drops = 1)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Bow No	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		8877	LAMBOURDINI	David Lambourne	RQYS		10.0	4.0	[4.0]	1.0	2.0	2.0	1.0
2	2.0S	52542	BLACK JACK TOO	Vaughan Prentice	RQYS		12.0	5.0	1.0	[5.0]	3.0	1.0	2.0
3		HKG1088	CORUM	Todd Anderson	RQYS		12.0	1.0	3.0	[6.0]	1.0	4.0	3.0
4		RQ1331	PATRIOT	Antony Love	RQYS		19.0	3.0	6.0	3.0	[7.0]	3.0	4.0
5		3627	GAUNTLET	Peter Miliken	RQYS		20.0	2.0	2.0	4.0	6.0	[7.0]	6.0
6		AUS6058	THE FAT CONTROLLER	Cameron Pryce	KBSC		28.0	6.0	5.0	2.0	8.0	[10.0]	7.0
7		NZL40010	BOBBY'S GIRL	John Leman	RQYS		32.0	7.0	[11.0]	10.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
8		RQ2404	NOT A DIAMOND	David Redfern	RQYS		38.0	10.0	7.0	7.0	4.0	[11.0]	10.0
9		6595	BRILLIANT PEARL	Gary McCarthy	MYC		47.0	8.0	[13.0]	11.0	10.0	6.0	12.0
10	8.0S	RQ130	RAGTIME	Chris Morgan	RQYS		50.0	13.0	8.0	8.0	[14.0C]	13.0	8.0
11		RQ5050	KERUMBA	Tam Faragher	RQYS		50.0	11.0	10.0	[13.0]	9.0	9.0	11.0
12		6669	CARBON CREDITS	Paul Freeman	RQYS		51.0	12.0	9.0	9.0	12.0	[12.0]	9.0
13		6432	PERCEPTION	Greg Gilliam	SCYC/MYC		52.0	9.0	12.0	12.0	11.0	8.0	[13.0]

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