19th Int. Flying 15 Worlds - 50 boats turn up on day 7

by Lindsay Lyons, RHKYC Media on 8 Nov 2013 At the 19th International Flying Fifteen World Championships, with first place already decided, 50 boats turned up at the start line for the seventh and final race. It’s no exaggeration to say that the weather and sea state has been different on every day of this regatta and today was just perfect – sunny, 15kts, a light swell.

Race management was not in for an easy day though, with two ships anchored on the preferred layline. Having moved closer inshore to allow adequate leg length without encroaching into China waters, the line was laid for an axis slightly to the right of the wind, to balance the course against the ‘left at Lamma’ effect.
Everything was going to plan until two minutes into the start sequence, when the AP had to be raised to allow for a commercial ship crossing the course on the port layline.

Just as thoughts were turning to getting into the start sequence again, a tanker anchored just upwind of the start line, forcing the team to up sticks and move back further offshore and reset the course.

Finally, 50 minutes behind schedule, the start gun was fired for the last race of the 19th International Flying Fifteen World Championships and the fleet was away with a clean start. Nick and Janet Jerwood, already assured of second overall for Ineffable, were out for glory and led from the front to take their second first of the series, finishing on a nett 15 points two minutes ahead of Matthew Owen and Andrew Reed on The Wife’s Ffault – their best placing of the series. El Toro was only seconds behind in third, cementing third place overall for the Australian duo of Grant Alderson and Dean McAullay.

The Jerwoods seemed happy with their overall performance and unperturbed by the changeable weather, with Nick saying 'conditions are probably the best I’ve ever sailed in at a (Worlds) regatta'.

Top Ten Placings

Rank	Sail No.		Bow	Name	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Total	Nett
1st	GBR	4004	1	Foof	Graham Vials	Chris Turner	1	1	2	1	5	1	DNC	64	11
2nd	AUS	3986	50	Ineffable	Nick Jerwood	Janet Jerwood	4	5	1	2	-6	2	1	21	15
3rd	AUS	3933	46	El Toro	Grant Alderson	Dean McAullay	2	2	7	BFD	1	9	3	77	24
4th	GBR	4021	13	TBA	Steve Goacher	Phil Evans	3	6	6	5	2	4	-7	33	26
5th	AUS	3684	40	The Wife's Ffault	Matthew Owen	Andrew Reed	-15	8	3	4	3	11	2	46	31
6th	GBR	3920	6	Betty	Greg Wells	Andrew Jameson	5	7	8	BFD	4	3	6	86	33
7th	GBR	3998	10		Alan Bax	Chris Hewkin	6	4	4	6	7	7	-11	45	34
8th	GBR	4019	11	Pure Magic	David Tabb	Chewey Sherrell	12	10	5	3	8	-16	4	58	42
9th	AUS	3992	52	Glamour Buoys	Gregory Leaversuch	Peter Barblett	9	9	11	8	10	10	-23	80	57
10th	AUS	3982	49	Storyteller	Christopher Paterson	Rupert Leslie	-14	12	10	10	14	8	8	76	62

Provisional Results Race 7 at 1630hrs
Rank	Prefix	Sail No.	Bow	Boat Name	Helm	Crew	Elapsed	Points
1	AUS	3986	50	Ineffable	Nick Jerwood	Janet Jerwood	02:06:05	1
2	AUS	3684	40	The Wife's Ffault	Matthew Owen	Andrew Reed	02:08:13	2
3	AUS	3933	46	El Toro	Grant Alderson	Dean McAullay	02:08:17	3
4	GBR	4019	11	Pure Magic	David Tabb	Chewey Sherrell	02:08:38	4
5	AUS	3972	48	PHAROS Financial Group	Ashley Smith	Adam Kingston	02:09:24	5
6	GBR	3920	6	Betty	Greg Wells	Andrew Jameson	02:09:43	6
7	GBR	4021	13	TBA	Steve Goacher	Phil Evans	02:09:48	7
8	AUS	3982	49	Storyteller	Christopher Paterson	Rupert Leslie	02:10:17	8
9	GBR	4020	12	Freaking Fantabulous	Graham Scroggie	Ben Scroggie	02:11:03	9
10	AUS	3797	42	Changing Lanes	David Swan	Matt Elliot	02:11:04	10
11	GBR	3998	10		Alan Bax	Chris Hewkin	02:11:23	11
12	GBR	3953	9	Fforca del Vento	Robert Hogben	Glyn Morgan	02:11:39	12
13	AUS	3743	41	Spot the Difference	Greg Tonnison	Steve Roberts	02:11:57	13
14	NZL	3754	37	Business	Sandra Williams	Graeme Robinson	02:12:25	14
15	GBR	3692	4	fentura	Nick Heath	Pippa Noon	02:12:56	15
16	GBR	4022	14	Always Fforever	Andy Goddard	Mal Hartland	02:13:43	16
17	AUS	3855	43	Fflashpoint	Peter Rooke	Martin Arrowsmith	02:13:44	17
18	AUS	4010	53	Mr Fox	Jade lane	William Ian Lane	02:13:47	18
19	GBR	3936	7	Smooth and Stoned	Steve Douthwaite	Paul Averley	02:14:19	19
20	HKG	4015	35	Uffa Fox Ache	Barry Hayes	Sheridan Teasel	02:14:45	20
21	HKG	3305	18	Ffact or Ffiction	Simon Pickering	Rafael Buitre	02:14:56	21
22	AUS	3880	44	Where The Bl**dy Hell Are You	Craig Rainey	Ian Rainey	02:15:04	22
23	AUS	3992	52	Glamour Buoys	Gregory Leaversuch	Peter Barblett	02:15:07	23
24	AUS	3989	51	Fast Lane 4	John Wilson	David Tucker	02:15:22	24
25	GBR	3901	5	Freewheelin'	Mike Kilbee	Tony Cox	02:15:23	25
26	AUS	3930	45	Aussie Falcon	Dale Collings	Glenn Scheen	02:15:26	26
27	GBR	3539	3	Hakuna Matata	John Hanson	Helen Selden	02:15:30	27
28	HKG	3981	32	Tchaikoffsky	Howard Williams	Huw Riley	02:16:00	28
29	HKG	3722	25	Noisy Forefather	Cosmas Grelon	Rory Godman	02:16:15	29
30	ESP	3735	16	Pathffinder	Michael Clough	Hendrik Penndorf	02:16:51	30
31	HKG	3997	34	Tomffoolery	Tom Sheppard	Peter Barker	02:17:30	31
32	HKG	3533	22	My Ffair Lady	Brian Henderson	Ben Muskett	02:17:50	32
33	NZL	3714	36	jaffa	Andrew Taylor	Greg Taylor	02:17:54	33
34	HKG	3979	31	Kerfuffle	Carlyon Knight-Evans	Lucy Sutro	02:18:26	34
35	HKG	3876	28	French Fries	Akira Takada	Wataru Takada	02:18:31	35
36	AUS	3964	47	Fforeigner	Simon Lucas	Aileen Lucas	02:18:34	36
37	HKG	3882	29	No Name	Koichi Yamamoto	Shinji Ishiwata	02:18:46	37
38	AUS	3620	39	Casper	Howard Faulks	Nick Faulks	02:19:12	38
39	HKG	3500	21	FFatal Attraction	Murray Latham	Nigel Davis	02:19:28	39
40	HKG	3701	24	Puff'n Stuff	David Chow	Mark Lyons	02:19:34	40
41	HKG	3990	33	FfreeFire 90	Sam Chan	Nick Atkinson	02:19:50	41
42	AUS	3545	38	Frequent Flyer	Jennifer Sims	Andrew Wallace	02:19:51	42
43	HKG	3830	27	Squiffy	Joe Nelson	David Bone	02:19:52	43
44	GBR	627	2	Vamoose	Bobby Salmond	Robert Till	02:20:06	44
45	HKG	3828	26	Ffirecracker	Naoki Ishihara	Martin Heath	02:21:13	45
46	HKG	3304	17	Skiver	Louis Brink	Thomas Issac	02:21:33	46
47	HKG	3469	20	Frantic Forties	Wai Chuen Chan	Jack Leung	02:21:49	47
48	HKG	3415	19	Fflippin' Muppets	Kunihiro Fukushima	Motokazu Nlshimura	02:29:59	48
49	GBR	4004	1	Foof	Graham Vials	Chris Turner	DNC	53
49	GBR	3939	8	Athol	Athol King	Trevor Bellis	DNF	53
49	IRL	4002	15	Afloat.ie	John Lavery	David O'Brien	DNC	53
49	HKG	3468	23	Zest	Chris Howard	Andrew Howard	DNS	53