Sail-World.com : Interdominion 12' Skiff Championships - Dimension Polyant first up win
Interdominion 12' Skiff Championships - Dimension Polyant first up win
'Tight racing in light airs, Heat 3 - 12ft Skiff Interdominion Selection Trials'
Eddie Markey
The 2010 Interdominions 12' Skiff Championships are being held at the Auckland Sailing Club, Okahu Bay, Auckland from 9 - 17 January 2010. This is the major regatta for the class and is hosted in alternate years between Australia and New Zealand.
On Day one Dimension Polyant (Nick Press) took out race 1, leading almost from start to finish, in a 18 knots SouthWesterly.
Nice Action Too (Hamish Hey) got out to an early lead at the first mark rounding, before capsizing down the spinnaker run. Dimension Polyant took over the lead and held off another late charge from Nice Action Too, who finished second, Frankinskiff (Tim Bartlett) finished third.
The New Zealand team won the day, 110pts to 180pts.
Results:
1st - Dimension Polyant (Aust) 2nd - Nice Action Too 3rd - Frankinskiff 4th - As Good As It Gets 5th - Dimension Polyant (NZ) 6th - Garde 7th - Design Source 8th - Nuplex 9th - Gemmell Sails 10th - Little Bus 11th - Exonet 12th - Thistle Hill 13th - Andrew Short Marine
The 2010 interdominion marks the 50th Anniversary of the event.
The 12ft skiff is a development class sailed in New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales and Queensland).
by Twelve Foot Skiff Association and Sail-World.com
8:36 PM Sat 9 Jan 2010 GMT
Click here for printer friendly version Click here to send us feedback or comments about this story.
If you want to send this story to a friend, please use link below
http://www.sail-world.com/USA/Interdominion-12-Skiff-Championships---Dimension-Polyant-first-up-win/65300
Customised news feeds -Marine Industry companies, Clubs and Associations have their own customised version of our Sail-World news feed on their website. Look_here_to_see_examples
