Day 1 of the Over the Moon Promotions Flying Fifteen Championships
by Nicole Douglass on 5 Jan 2011
Flying Fifteens on Lake Burley Griffin - Over the Moon Promotions Flying Fifteen Championships Canberra Media
Flying Fifteen Championships - The 42 crews taking part in the championships on Lake Burley Griffin were welcomed for the day of racing with a 5 to 12 knot nor-easterly breeze. Three heats were completed with a different winner in each.
Brothers Ian and Craig Rainey in ' Where the bloody hell are you' showed the fleet their form with a one minute win from locals Matt Owen and Andrew Reed in 'Form 3020' with Adam Hawkins fresh form his Sydney to Hobart on the TP52 Shogun and crew Ben Jones in 'I’d swap this for a Bundy' sliding into third.
Heat two belonged to Adam and Ben who seemed to be sailing another race with a huge five minute lead from the pack until the last leg when Adam and Ben got the gun from a very fast finishing Victorian sailmaker Brian Carroll and FD guru Craig Ginnivan in 'Super Toy plays on, 'Form 3020' and Canberra Yacht Club historian Peter Forster and Craig Murphy filling in the minor places.
Heat three started in a stronger breeze with big shifts and big place changes, there was plenty of crashes at the first mark, which will keep the protest committee busy for a few hours tonight.
Matt Owen and Andrew Reeds pulled back from a very poor start to gain the lead from the Rainey’s and Hawkins/Jones on the second windward leg and held on to win the shortened course finish. With ' I’d swap this for a Bundy' coming in second and the Rainey’s third.
This means and very cosy leader board with the top three boats very close on points with two races programed tomorrows with light winds and storms predicted.
You can keep up with the series results
here.
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