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Farr 40 Worlds 2011 - Summer Sprint Series used for practice

Ahead of the 2011 Farr 40 World Championships sixteen Farr 40 teams spent the weekend racing on Sydney harbour in the Sound area and offshore on the Macquarie Circle course. After five long races, with a different winner for each, the winner of the regatta was Lisa and Martin Hills Estate Master.

'This has been a fantastic warm up event and it is terrific to see so many of our international teams who are in Sydney for the upcoming Rolex Farr 40 Worlds doing this event with us. I think we had a taste of some conditions we could see on the race track over the next two weeks during both the Farr 40 Australian Championship and the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds as well. It was extremely tight racing the whole weekend with boats finishing within seconds of each other which makes it all the more exciting racing', commented Martin Hill after racing.

Using this event as a practice for the upcoming Class Australian and World Championship titles, all 16 boats capitalized on the opportunity to tune up crew work and sailing skills. Teams from four countries, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the USA all took part this weekend along with two teams who have travelled from Tasmania to race over the next two weeks.

2010 Sprint Series winners Estate Master were the series leaders after day one with Guido Belgiorno Nettis' Transfusion in second and international entry Jim Richardsons Barking Mad from the USA in third. The race management team decided to run racing in the Sound are on Sydney Harbour on day one due to the 25+knots from the South East that they saw when they went out to the offshore race course. Teams had a taste of harbour racing when they had to manoeuvre around ferries and ships.

Day two and the fleet headed for the offshore Macquarie Circle course and a building Southerly breeze. After getting race four of the series run and won the fleet then went into three general recalls and an ever increasing breeze for the start of race five. A number of boats decided to return to the dock with damaged gear and sails and the race committee wrapped up racing after finishing race five which was won by New Zealander Brett Neill's White Cloud who finished the series in third place overall on a count-back from Transfusion.

German team Struntje Light owned by Wolfgang and Angela Schaefer won the Corinthian Division which had five boats competing in this division.

The Summer Sprint Series, which has been hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club, is the second last event in the 2010-2011 Farr 40 Australian Circuit with the season being wrapped up next weekend when the 2011 Farr 40 Australian Championship will be held on February 18-20 and hosted by Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.

2011 Farr 40 Summer Sprint Series Final results:

Place	Boat	Owner	Yacht Club	Country	Points
1	Estate Master	Lisa&Martin Hill	MHYC	AUS	24.0
2	Transfusion	Guido Belgiorno-Nettis	MHYC	AUS	29.0
3	White Cloud	Brett Neill	RNZYS	NZL	29.0
4	Barking Mad	James Richardson	NYYC	USA	34.0
5	Kokomo	Lang Walke	RYCCS	AUS	34.0
6	Sputnik	Ivan Wheen	RSYS	AUS	36.0
7	Struntje Light	Wolfgang Schaefer	NRUKYC	GER	37.0
8	Edake	Jeff Carter	MHYC	AUS	39.0
9	Plenty	Alex Roepers	NYYC	USA	40.0
10	Voodoo Chile	Andrew Hunn	RYCT	AUS	41.0
11	Easy Tiger	Chris Way	RPAYC	AUS	42.0
12	Hooligan	Marcus Blackmore	RPAYC	AUS	50.0
13	Flash Gordon	Helmut Jahn	CYC	USA	54.0
14	Impi	Ivan Resnekov	SASC	AUS	65.0
15	Wired	Stephen Boyes	RYCT	AUS	68.0
16	Enigma	Gotze/Cranitch	CYCA	AUS	80.0

For more information visit the Farr 40 website

by Sam Crichton

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