Audi China Coast Regatta - Long and trying day 2

by RHKYC Media on 12 Oct 2014

China Coast Regatta 2014 RHKYC/Guy Nowell http://www.guynowell.com/

It was a long and trying day for the Race Officer at today’s Audi China Coast Regatta, with a dearth of breeze in the Lamma patch forcing Inge Strompf-Jepsen to seek out a course in Tai Tam Bay, where 8-10kts of northerly was on offer. With a limited race area available, Strompf-Jepsen set a geometric course with a windward mark at 1nm for Racer 0 and IRC Premier and 0.7nm for Racer One and Two, IRC Cruiser and HKPN.

During the first start sequence, Xena and Clove Hitch made contact in the final minute, resulting in the retirement of both boats from the day’s proceedings. The second start was reserved for IRC Racer One and Two with a different three-lap course configuration, leaving HKPN and IRC Cruiser to take the last start.

After some fiercely competitive racing with boats using both sides of the race course to maximum effect, OneSails Racing emerged victorious in Racer Zero, while Island Fling took the honours in Racer Two and Mojito in Racer Three. DEAII corrected out to a win in HKPN, while Lady Butterfly kept a clean sheet in IRC Cruiser.

With a heavy schedule to get through and a threat of dying breeze, Strompf-Jepsen elected to start the Cruising fleets on their islands course, sending them out to TCS1 and Two before returning via Sung Kong island for a finish at Beaufort. The course was then reset for a windward / leeward for the Racer divisions, resulting wins for Team Beau Geste, EFG Bank Mandrake 2 and Whiskey Jack before the fleets were sent on a short islands course in 10kts of breeze to finish the day.

In the start sequence for Racer One and Two, a start line fracas between Island Fling and Ambush was to end up in the protest room after racing but did not affect boat of the day, EFG Bank Mandrake 2, who recorded her second win of the series after a two hour race to draw within one point of Island Fling. OneSails Racing also recorded another win, to put them within one point of Team Beau Geste in the overall standings.

In spite of shortening the course at Sung Kong, the breeze dropped to under 4kts and it was a fight to get the final boats home. Andiamo stuck to her guns to finish in the dark and claim a result, only 12 minutes before her cut-off.

Dexter 2 leads the Racer Two division after consistent performances throughout, while Mojito, lying third, took another bullet and win on corrected time to draw within two points of Whiskey Jack. In Premier, Lighthorse recorded another two wins for the day to top the standings, while Wicked leads HKPN and Lady Butterfly leads IRC Cruising.

China Coast Regatta 2014 © RHKYC/Guy Nowell http://www.guynowell.com/

IRC 0 Class

Sailed: 5, Discards: 0, To count: 5, Rating system: IRC, Entries: 4, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Fleet	Sail Number	Boat Name	Class	Owner / Skipper	Rating	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3 11 October 2014	Race 4	Race 5	Total	Nett
1st		IVB 1997	Team Beau Geste	IRC 0	Karl Kwok	1.393	2.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	3.0	9.0	9.0
2nd		AUS 8898	OneSails Racing	IRC 0	Ray Roberts	1.359	3.0	3.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	10.0	10.0
3rd		HKG 2283	FreeFire	IRC 0	Sam Chan	1.375	1.0	2.0	4.0	3.0	2.0	12.0	12.0
4th		HKG 600	Jelik	IRC 0	Frank Pong	1.521	4.0	4.0	3.0	4.0	4.0	19.0	19.0

IRC 1 Class

Sailed: 5, Discards: 0, To count: 5, Rating system: IRC, Entries: 9, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Fleet	Sail Number	Boat Name	Class	Owner / Skipper	Rating	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3 11 October 2014	Race 4	Race 5	Total	Nett
1st		HKG 2248	Island Fling	IRC 1	P.F. Winkelmann	1.225	1.0	2.0	1.0	6.0	3.0	13.0	13.0
2nd	HKK	HKG 2282	EFG Bank Mandrake 2	IRC 1	Anthony Day	1.144	3.0	4.0	5.0	1.0	1.0	14.0	14.0
3rd	HKK	HKG 2163	EFG Bank Mandrake 3	IRC 1	Kinmonth / Burns	1.179	4.0	1.0	6.0	2.0	2.0	15.0	15.0
4th		HKG 2291	Elektra	IRC 1	Marcel Liedts	1.178	2.0	7.0	3.0	3.0	7.0	22.0	22.0
5th	HKK	HKG 2300	Signal 8	IRC 1	McWilliam/ Pender/ Jacobs/ Hanning/ Kendal	1.197	7.0	8.0	2.0	5.0	4.0	26.0	26.0
6th	HKK	HKG 2208	Ambush	IRC 1	Isler / Taylor	1.157	5.0	5.0	4.0	8.0	6.0	28.0	28.0
7th	HKK	HKG 2213	Ramrod	IRC 1	New East Ocean International / Olivier Decamps	1.176	8.

IRC 2 Class

Sailed: 5, Discards: 0, To count: 5, Rating system: IRC, Entries: 9, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Fleet	Sail Number	Boat Name	Class	Owner / Skipper	Rating	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3 11 October 2014	Race 4	Race 5	Total	Nett
1st		HKG 1832	Dexter II	IRC 2	Lowell Chang	1.034	3.0	2.0	5.0	2.0	2.0	14.0	14.0
2nd	HKK	HKG 2102	Whiskey Jack	IRC 2	Nick Southward	1.031	2.0	3.0	3.0	1.0	7.0	16.0	16.0
3rd		HKG 1281	Mojito	IRC 2	Simon Blore	1.098	4.0	8.0	1.0	4.0	1.0	18.0	18.0
4th		HKG 1995	Talkinghead	IRC 2	Tonny Chung	1.029	1.0	5.0	2.0	5.0	6.0	19.0	19.0
5th		HKG 1822	Rampage	IRC 2	Denis Ma	1.077	6.0	1.0	7.0	6.0	3.0	23.0	23.0
6th		HKG 2298	Sell Side Dream	IRC 2	Simon Powell	1.095	5.0	7.0	4.0	3.0	4.0	23.0	23.0
7th		HKG 2138	Stella	IRC 2	Roland Buser	1.097	7.0	6.0	6.0	8.0	5.0	32.0	32.0
8th		HKG 2047	Avant Garde	IRC 2	Joshua Cole	1.092	9.0	4.0	9.0	9.0	8.0	39.0	39.0
9th	HKK	HKG 2119	Andiamo	IRC 2	John Woo	1.033	8.0	9.0	8.0	7.0	9.0	41.0	41.0

IRC Premier Class

Sailed: 3, Discards: 0, To count: 3, Rating system: IRC, Entries: 4, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Fleet	Sail Number	Boat Name	Class	Owner / Skipper	Rating	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3 11 October 2014	Total	Nett
1st		HKG 2333	Lighthorse	IRC Premier	Shawn Kang	1.14	2.0	1.0	1.0	4.0	4.0
2nd		CAY 8888	Moonblue 2	IRC Premier	Peter Churchouse	1.224	3.0	2.0	2.0	7.0	7.0
3rd		HKG 2260	Xena	IRC Premier	Peter Forsythe / Jing Lee	1.209	1.0	5.0 DNS	5.0 DNC	11.0	11.0
4th		HKG 2211	Clove Hitch	IRC Premier	C.L.Yu	1.121	4.0	5.0 DNS	5.0 DNC	14.0	14.0

IRC Cruiser Class

Sailed: 3, Discards: 0, To count: 3, Rating system: IRC, Entries: 4, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Fleet	Sail Number	Boat Name	Class	Owner / Skipper	Rating	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3 11 October 2014	Total	Nett
1st		HKG 2234	Lady Butterfly	IRC Cruiser	J C Broyelle	0.996	1.0	1.0	1.0	3.0	3.0
2nd		HKG 2186	Goddess	IRC Cruiser	Maiyo Hood	0.992	2.0	2.0	2.0	6.0	6.0
3rd		CHN 55009	China Cup No.9	IRC Cruiser	CCIR / Dean Peng	1.065	3.0	4.0	3.0	10.0	10.0
4th		HKG 2368	HTrip	IRC Cruiser	Li Jian	1.078	4.0	3.0	4.0	11.0	11.0

HKPN Class

Sailed: 3, Discards: 0, To count: 3, Rating system: PY, Entries: 9, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Fleet	Sail Number	Boat Name	Class	Owner / Skipper	Rating	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3 11 October 2014	Total	Nett
1st		HKG 2171	Wicked	HKPN	DSC Coporate Services Ltd / DS Cheung	946	2.0	3.0	1.0	6.0	6.0
2nd		HKG 2107	Darling	HKPN	Dean Chisholm	1028	1.0	4.0	3.0	8.0	8.0
3rd		HKG 1010	DEA II	HKPN	Louie Tan / Howie Suen	1065	3.0	1.0	4.0	8.0	8.0
4th		HKG 2136	Kiasu	HKPN	Seah Chin Yew / Herman Wong	876	4.0	2.0	2.0	8.0	8.0
5th		HKG 2318	TT	HKPN	Zenghu	922	5.0	7.0	5.0	17.0	17.0
6th		HKG 2117	Aya	HKPN	Philippe Cotillon	917	6.0	5.0	7.0	18.0	18.0
7th		HKG 2090	Red Kite	HKPN	Guillaume du Cheyron	1030	10.0 DNS	6.0	6.0	22.0	22.0
8th		HKG 2356	Barracuda	HKPN	Deng Fan	1049	7.0	8.0	10.0 DNF	25.0	25.0
9th		HKG 1632	HeartBeat	HKPN	Dennis Dakin	913	10.0 DNS	10.0 DNS	10.0 DNS	30.0	30.0