Award to young sailor in Boag’s Sailing South
by Peter Campbell on 6 Jan 2007
Young Tasmanian sailor Nick Chapman last night was named winner of the Andrew Jones Travel Encouragement Award at the prize giving dinner for the 2007 Boag’s Sailing South Race Week in Hobart.
Chapman, who will turn 21, next month, began sailing in Sabots and Lasers with the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and is now part of the foredeck crew of Matt Allen’s Jones 70 Ichi Ban which competed in Sailing South.
Nick, who is studying agricultural science at a Sydney university, received a valuable travel voucher to assist him compete in further regattas.
The overall results of the PHS division were announced last evening, just prior to the presentation dinner at the RYCT.
They had been delayed after David Bean, skipper of Trecento, claimed redress, claiming that Moonshine (Bruce Palmer) had been given outside assistance by the Race Committee in being hailed that the yacht was heading for the wrong finish line in race five.
The National Jury was told that all competitors had been advised by radio that the course had been shortened and that the finish line would be between the Committee Boat and the leeward mark.
When it became apparent that Moonshine had not heard the radio call and was sailing under spinnaker in the direction of the newly laid start line for race six, on the portside of the Committee Boat, the Principal Race Officer hailed Moonshine that they were finishing on the wrong side of the Committee Boat.
Moonshine then altered course sharply and under a close reach, crossed the correct finish line. The National Jury ruled that while the Race Committee had erred in hailing Moonshine, the action had made no significant difference to the race result nor to the overall results, and the claim for redress was refused.
This confirmed Moonshine, a Northshore 38, as the overall winner of the PHS division with 14 points from a scorecard of 2-1-7-6-1-4, just one point ahead of X-Rated (4-3-3-5-3-2, 15 points) and Andrew Sutherland’s Farr 37 Silver Mist (1-6-4-7-4-1, 16 points) on a count back from Trecento (3-2-2-4-6-5, 16 points).
In a closely fought series, Dick Knoop’s wooden-hulled Magellan, designed by his brother Walter, placed fifth overall on 19 points (8-7-1-17-3).
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