SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week 2013 – One Perfect Day + Video

by Sealink Magnetic Island Race Week Media on 30 Aug 2013 SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week 2013 Day One - Sunshine, 28 degrees for the second last day of winter with a 15-20 knot breeze across Cleveland Bay.

Principal Race Officer Denis Thompson gunned all divisions away on the 19 nautical mile Strand race, with wind from the south east.

With the predicted left shifting breeze, the fleet would punch upwind for 7.5 nautical miles to a mark off Launs Beach, then have a shy spinnaker run to two marks off the Strand, then upwind to the middle reef east beacon thence to Hawkings Point and to the Nelly Bay finishing line.

The first division to start was the IRC Racing.

Bob Steel’s TP52 Quest, the 2008 Rolex Sydney to Hobart winner started at speed, one up from the pin, and was fast away. Townsville local Leon Thomas´s Sydney 38 Guilty Pleasures IV was second from the pin, with David Redfern´s Beneteau First 40 Not a Diamond.

Howard Piggott’s Flying Cloud was above those boats, soon headed right followed by Guilty Pleasures IV and Mike West´s X Yacht´s 38 Xpress. Doug Ryan´s Beneteau 44.7 Shazam started on the pin but was a length back.

Peter Hawker´s Farrier 32 racing trimaran Carbon Credits led the multihull fleet away from Andrew Stransky´s big 50 foot catamaran Fantasia. They were followed by Peter Berry´s Prescott Whitehaven 11.7 J’ouvert and behind them there was close race between two Schionning´s Mal Tynan´s Barbarella and Alasdair Noble´s Mr. McMoggy.

As Quest approached the Launs Beach mark, the New Zealand built Carbon Credits tri swept through her and rounded three lengths ahead and sailed away to take the overall fleet line honours win.

The wind was a little north of east as the fleet streamed towards the Strand on an eight mile leg, with the wind building for the back of the fleet.

Pete Hawke and his Carbon Credit´s team were pumped up when they came ashore.

‘That was a hard beat to start, we were the first boat round, a few boat lengths in front of Quest, surprisingly. I thought they would keep up with us downhill with the spinnaker but we actually pulled away from them a little bit going downhill.

‘Nice little course. Great ride with spinnaker down to Townsville, we hit 20´s. A few gybes included and then a bit of a hard bash back against a little more sea and breeze. Not too bad coming up to the finish line. ‘Just at the end we probably slightly over canvassed just at the very end but apparent from that it was perfect for us.’

Dual Hobart winner Bob Steel and all his crew were smiling too as they came ashore soon after.

Bob said ‘It was the perfect day wasn’t it? The breeze was probably 12 to 14 knots at the start and then it increased slightly during the course of the day to about 19 knots.

‘Our only complaint was we would have liked about 30 knots on the downwind run though. Not upwind, just downwind.

‘A few of our crew haven’t had a sail for a while, so the rust was coming off a little.

‘We took out a couple of youngsters from the local club which was great.

‘We all had a good look around. Great weather, great scenery and we all enjoyed the sail.

‘Now we are about to start exploring the Island and we will be back later for the Toad racing.’

In IRC Racing, Leon Thomas Sydney 38 Guilty Pleasures IV, was second across the line and won on handicap from David Redfern´s Beneteau First 40 Not A Diamond by just a single second.

Not a Diamond and Howard Piggott´s Beneteau First 40 Flying Cloud, finished just two lengths apart on the water. Flying Cloud was third and Quest was fourth on handicap.

Leon Thomas commented dockside

‘We had a good windward work and picked up a few favourable shifts up the second leg.

‘The run was good. The breeze did come from behind as it often does and the guys behind actually came back at us and two first 40s came back at us on the run really well. Quest was of course sailed very well and was soon well ahead but the breeze just kept building and we definitely had more pressure and that hurt them today.

‘Overall we thought we’d have had enough money in the bank to hold on from the Beneteau 40´s. but about 100 metres from the finish line we actually split our number 1 Medium headsail in two in a solid gust.

‘We ended up finishing just on the mainsail. So we over the moon to see we had won by a single second.’

In the Multihull Racing division, Fantasia, a Seven Seas 50 was second across the line and she won on handicap from Carbon Credits with Mike Willcock´s Corsair 750 Hot Option third.

In the Cruising with Spinnaker Division 1 line honours was taken by Robert Green’s Pacific 50 Dream, ahead of Doug Shield´s Jeanneau 54DS Vanilla, those two boats filled the first and second places on handicap with John Raff`s Kate Jeanneau 53 third.

In the Cruising with Spinnaker Division 2, David Marshall´s Beneteau 47.7 Femme Fatale took line honours, Mike Steel´s Dufour 34 Boudicea, with a badly torn mainsail top ahead of Paul Jackson´s Duncanson GBM 28 Run Run Run

On handicap Colin Clark´s Beale … Unbealeiveable won from Barry Smith´s Noelex Tide Up with Jack Maguire´s Cav 35 Zen.

In the Cruising Non Spinnaker division Nick Small´s Hanse 340 Huahine, was the line honours winner.

Russell Kingston´s Beneteau 423 Falcon won on handicap, ahead of Nick Small´s Huahine, with Peter Cox´s Dufour 385 GL Valhalla

And the wrap from PRO Denis Thompson

‘Wonderful wind and sunshine and an interesting course which we had not used before today which sent the fleet on to a beat across the Bay and a long spinnaker run down to Townsville so the office workers can look out the window and see what they are missing, Shows them what sailing is all about.

‘Looking ahead, we seem to have some great weather more of the same

‘As a few people have realised, from time to time we have been known to make sacrifices to the weather gods. I am not a rum drinker, I am a rum pourer. But it seems I won’t be needing to be doing much of that during the regatta.

‘The plan tomorrow to do Round the Island Race to starboard, so we get the deep draughted boats around the southern side where it’s shallower at the highest tide.’



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Division 1 IRC results Start : 11:00
Place	Boat Name	Sail Num	Skipper	Elapsd	AHC	Cor'd T	From	Score	Fin Tim
1	GUILTY PLEASURES IV	6068	Leon Thomas	02:31:38	1.107	02:47:52	TCYC	1.0	13:31:38
2	NOT A DIAMOND	RQ2404	David Redfern	02:35:27	1.080	02:47:53	RQYS	2.0	13:35:27
3	FLYING CLOUD	6808	Howard Piggott	02:35:16	1.084	02:48:18	CYCA	3.0	13:35:16
4	QUEST	52002	Bob Steel	02:06:58	1.352	02:51:40	CYCA	4.0	13:06:58
5	XPRESS	7013	Mike West	02:45:07	1.080	02:58:20	BSC	5.0	13:45:07
6	SHAZAM	PD447	Doug Ryan	02:48:12	1.102	03:05:21	PDYC	6.0	13:48:12

 

 

EHC Div1 results Start : 11:10
Place	Boat Name	Sail Num	Skipper	Elapsd	AHC	Cor'd T	From	Score	Fin Tim
1	DREAM	SM8	Robert Green	02:22:44	0.965	02:17:44	SYC	1.0	13:32:44
2	VANILLA		Doug Shields	02:31:44	0.999	02:31:35	SASC	2.0	13:41:44
3	KATE	R53	John Raff	02:33:49	0.991	02:32:26	RYCV	3.0	13:43:49
4	JOIE DE VIE	6702	Peter Byford	02:39:04	0.990	02:37:29	RPAYC	4.0	13:49:04
5	CHALKIES CHARIOT	8924	Bob Gray	03:02:20	0.883	02:41:00	YKBC	5.0	14:12:20
6	MONIQUE	3325	Stephen Budd	02:48:49	0.957	02:41:34	RQYS	6.0	13:58:49
7	BRAVA	409	Tony Muller	03:01:48	0.897	02:43:04	TCYC	7.0	14:11:48
8	DUSTY MUZZLE	4457	Ron Knott	02:45:19	0.994	02:44:20	TYC	8.0	13:55:19
9	AMAYA II	B247	Peter Boxall	02:49:22	0.984	02:46:39	TCYC	9.0	13:59:22
10	NELLIE MYRA	YC1066	Trevor Mudge	02:36:05	1.080	02:48:34	CYCSA	10.0	13:46:05
11	TUCANA	A31	Andrew Burford	03:10:33	0.948	03:00:38	TCYC	11.0	14:20:33
DNC	APOLLO VI	C6	Paul Stuart		0.945		TCYC	14.0
DNS	SAVANNA	1	Murray Whitehead		0.953		TYC	14.0

 
 

EHC Div2 results Start : 11:15
Place	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Elapsd	AHC	Cor'd T	From	Score	Fin Tim	Sail Num
1	001	UNBEALEIEVABLE	Colin Clark	02:58:06	0.649	01:55:35	MYC	1.0	14:13:06	001
2	730	TIDE UP	Barry Smith	03:17:58	0.669	02:12:26	NQCYC	2.0	14:32:58	730
3	35C	ZEN	Jack Maguire	03:24:54	0.659	02:15:02	TCYC	3.0	14:39:54	CAV35
4	1478	LIBRIAN	Stanley Barnes	03:45:46	0.608	02:17:16	TCYC	4.0	15:00:46	1478
5	168	LE ROSSIGNOL	Peter McKenzie	03:10:49	0.732	02:19:41	NQCYC	5.0	14:25:49	SM168
6	2800	RUN RUN RUN	Paul Jackson	02:56:03	0.800	02:20:50	RBYC	6.0	14:11:03	SM2800
7	1129	FEMME FATALE	David Marshall	02:35:39	0.942	02:26:37	MIYC	7.0	13:50:39	1129
8	35M	FORTIFIED	Graham Van Brederode	02:59:14	0.830	02:28:46	TCYC	8.0	14:14:14	MH35
9	40	LAST TANGO	Colin White	02:57:51	0.850	02:31:10	TCYC	9.0	14:12:51	40
10	771	BOUDICEA	Mike Steel	02:49:55	0.918	02:35:59	TCYC	10.0	14:04:55	771
11	37	ISEULTA	Tristram Denyer	02:59:38	0.878	02:37:43	TCYC	11.0	14:14:38	TSV37
12	84	SEALINK'S QUINKIN	Rod Finucane	03:19:40	0.800	02:39:44	TYC	12.0	14:34:40	84
13	5963	PANACEA	Mick Gillum	02:53:34	0.923	02:40:12	TCYC	13.0	14:08:34	5963
14	1104	AKARANA	Vicki Hamilton	03:05:42	0.890	02:45:16	TCYC	14.0	14:20:42	1104
DNS	SS	SOUL SISTER	Donna Dewhurst		0.638		TCYC	16.0		NONE

 

 

EHC results Start : 11:20
Place	Boat Name	Sail Num	Skipper	Elapsd	AHC	Cor'd T	From	Score	Fin Tim
1	FALCON	11	Russell Kingston	03:01:53	0.800	02:25:30	TCYC	1.0	14:21:53
2	HUAHINE	RQ300	Nick Smail	02:46:26	0.888	02:27:48	WSC	2.0	14:06:26
3	VALHALLA	PH385	Peter Cox	03:00:17	0.865	02:35:57	CSC	3.0	14:20:17
4	DREAMAGIC	6199	Alan Littlefield	03:02:20	0.880	02:40:27	RQYS	4.0	14:22:20
5	CELEBRITY	YC981	Wayne McNee	03:07:42	0.910	02:50:48	BSC	5.0	14:27:42
6	MISTRAAL	6515	Jacinta Cooper	02:59:02	0.957	02:51:20	RYCT	6.0	14:19:02
7	AUSSIE RULES	A45	Dick Cerny	02:56:54	1.004	02:57:36	TYC	7.0	14:16:54
8	V AMORE'	87	Bob Kimlin	03:46:38	0.834	03:09:01	TSC	8.0	15:06:38
DNF	SANTIAGO	BOW	Malcolm Winder		0.910		TCYC	12.0
DNS	VIXEN	SM340	Mark Fox		0.788		SYC	12.0
DNS	JENI ANNE	NONE	John Phelan		0.789		NONE	12.0

 

 

ipper	Elapsd	AHC	Cor'd T	From	Score	Fin Tim
1	BARBARELLA	1M	Mal Tynan	02:32:41	0.790	02:00:37	TCYC	1.0	13:37:41
2	SALACIA	3823	Ian Johnson	03:07:28	0.713	02:13:40	TCYC	2.0	14:12:28
3	TWOSHEA	6481	Geoffrey Sparkes-Car	03:27:37	0.705	02:26:22	APYC	3.0	14:32:37

 

 

EHC results Start : 11:05
Place	Boat Name	Sail Num	Skipper	Elapsd	AHC	Cor'd T	From	Score	Fin Tim
1	FANTASIA	641	Andrew Stransky	02:03:51	0.840	01:44:02	MYCQ	1.0	13:08:51
2	CARBON CREDIT	SA532	Peter Hawker	01:53:44	0.980	01:51:28	RSAYS	2.0	12:58:44
3	HOT OPTION	047	Mike Willcocks	02:24:30	0.795	01:54:53	LCSC	3.0	13:29:30
4	MCMOGGY	BOW4	Alasdair Noble	02:23:00	0.805	01:55:07	APYC	4.0	13:28:00
5	J'OUVERT	WH3801	Peter Berry	02:21:09	0.849	01:59:50	WSC	5.0	13:26:09
6	MISTRESS	042	Dennis Coleman	02:35:05	0.790	02:02:31	TCYC	6.0	13:40:05
7	THE BOAT	TV389	Graeme Etherton	02:35:02	0.825	02:07:54	TCYC	7.0	13:40:02
8	QENCOM	50	Matthew Kingsberry	04:06:07	0.790	03:14:26	QCYC	8.0	15:11:07