Derwent Sailing Squadron - War Games wins battle for Winter Series

by Peter Campbell on 7 Sep 2014 Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Winter Series 2014 - There may still be snow on Mount Wellington and the morning temperature down to four degrees but today was a perfect spring day for the final Winter Series race day conducted by the Derwent Sailing Squadron on the River Derwent.

The DSS along with the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and the Bellerive Yacht Club have taken turns in running Sunday morning races throughout Hobart’s winter race, with fleets of more than 35 yachts out on the river – sometimes after chipping ice off the rigging.

Today, however, was clearly a spring day, crews enjoying perfect sailing conditions, a bright sunny and relatively warm Sunday morning with a steady 10-12 knots nor’wester blowing down the sparkling River Derwent.

Despite placing last on corrected time in today’s final race of DSS Winter Series, Wayne Banks-Smith’s Farr 40 War Games has won the Division one pennant.

With today’s placing the discard, War Games finished with a net eight points from fan otherwise excellent scorecard with placings of four-one-two-one in the Cleanlift Marine-sponsored Winter Series.

The powerful Farr 40 finished two points clear of Fred Barrett’s sports boat, Fang to the Max, which finished third today, following placings of one-three-(four)-three over the winter.

Third overall, on 17 points, was the Sydney 38 Ciao Baby II with skipper Gary Cripps enjoying his first win of the series, a victory that gave Ciao Baby II third place on a countback from Planet X (Mick Rowley).

War Games and Toby Richardson’s Barrett-designed 38-footer X & Y once again had a close duel for line honours. X & Y led around the leeward mark off Nutgrove Beach for the first round but War Games was in front the second time only to lose the lead due to a slow spinnaker drop.

At the finish, X & Y was 32 seconds in front of War Games and on corrected times it was the same order – but they were second last and last respectively in the fleet.

Today’s racing produced wins for the first time in the Winter Series to Ciao Baby II in Division one and also for octogenarian skipper John Hunn, helming Atilla in Division two.

Ciao Baby II won Division one from Planet X (Mick Rowley) and Fang to the Max (Fred Barrett) while Atilla took out Division two from Spare Time (Shane Powell) and the Syndicate-owned Wildfire.

The third place for Wildfire was sufficient for the Farr 31 to win the Winter Series by two points, turning in a consistent series scorecard of three-(four)-three-one-three for a net 10 points.

Countbacks were needed to decide second and third after Rousabout (Derek Inglis), Spare Time (Shane Powell) and Vasco (Graeme Harrington) each finished with a net 12 points. Two wins gave second place to Rousabout, one win was the key factor in Spare Time’s overall third.

Just one point separated Greg Biskup’s Malbec 24 Vistula and Graham Hall’s Serenity after today’s final race for Division three. The two had been on equal points after discard going into race five, but Vistula’s second giving it the winning score of a net six points from Serenity which placed fifth on corrected time, giving it a net seven points.

Third place overall and last race winner was Paul Einoder’s Off-Piste on 14 points.

DSS Winter Series 2014

Hosted By Derwent Sailing Squadron Inc

CLEANLIFT MARINE

Updated:  7/09/2014  11:18:19 AM

Series Results [PHS] for Division 1 up to Race 5 (Drops = 1)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Sers Score	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		222	WARGAMES	Wayne Banks-Smith	8.0	[8.0]	1.0	2.0	1.0	4.0
2		6401	FANG TO THE MAX	Fred Barrett	10.0	3.0	3.0	[4.0]	3.0	1.0
3	1.0S	SM6083	CIAO BABY II	Gary Cripps	17.0	1.0	[11.0]	5.0	6.0	5.0
4		10	PLANET X	Mick Rowley	17.0	2.0	2.0	7.0	[7.0]	6.0
5		6385	WINSTEAD WINES	Neil Snare	18.0	4.0	6.0	6.0	2.0	[8.0]
6	3.0S	440	ELIZA	Kevin Jacobson	24.0	6.0	8.0	3.0	[10.0]	7.0
7		5887	TEMPTATION	Steve Harrison	24.0	5.0	5.0	[13.0C]	4.0	10.0
8		6577	ILLUSION	David Brett	26.0	[13.0C]	7.0	8.0	9.0	2.0
9		3938	WINGS THREE	Peter Haros	27.5	7.0	[10.0]	9.5	8.0	3.0
10		M45	OBSESSION N/S	David Creese	30.0	13.0C	4.0	1.0	[13.0C]	12.0R
11		6197	PISCES	David Taylor	32.5	[13.0C]	9.0	9.5	5.0	9.0
12		7883	MADNESS	G.Adamson J.Frawley	52.0	13.0C	13.0C	13.0C	13.0C	[13.0C]

Series Results [PHS] for Division 2 up to Race 5 (Drops = 1)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Sers Score	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		8806	WILDFIRE	Team Wildfire	10.0	3.0	1.0	3.0	[4.0]	3.0
2	1.0S	111	ROUSABOUT	Derek Inglis	12.0	7.0	3.0	[10.0]	1.0	1.0
3	1.0S	3140	SPARE TIME	Shane Powell	12.0	2.0	4.0	1.0	[6.0]	5.0
4		4688	VASCO	Graeme Harrington	12.0	[6.0]	2.0	4.0	2.0	4.0
5		399	HI-VIS	Matt Westland	15.0	4.0	6.0	[6.0]	3.0	2.0
6		401	WHICH WAY UP	Steve Davison	21.0	5.0	5.0	[8.0]	5.0	6.0
7		447	ATILLA	John Hunn	23.0	1.0	7.0	[9.0]	7.0	8.0
8		H447	COOL CHANGE	Chris Bobbi	30.0	9.0	9.0	5.0	[14.0C]	7.0
9		150	HORNET	Neville Georgeson	39.0	8.0	8.0	14.0C	[14.0C]	9.0
10		326	ELECTERIC	Ron Bugg	44.0	14.0C	14.0C	2.0	14.0C	[14.0C]
11		105	DIVINE MADNESS	Paul Turner	47.0	14.0C	14.0C	7.0	[14.0C]	12.0F
12		412	ZORRO	Steve Bradford	52.0	14.0C	14.0C	14.0C	[14.0C]	10.0
13		5416	BLIZZARD	Matt Bugg	56.0	14.0C	14.0C	14.0C	14.0C	[14.0C]

Series Results [PHS] for Division 3 up to Race 5 (Drops = 1)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Sers Score	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		6605	VISTULA N/S	Greg Biskup	6.0	2.0	1.0	[3.0]	2.0	1.0
2		H32	SERENITY	Graham Hall	7.0	[5.0]	2.0	1.0	1.0	3.0
3		834	OFF-PISTE	Paul Einoder	14.0	1.0	5.0	[6.0]	4.0	4.0
4		1181	KINDRED SPIRIT	Peter Alcock	16.0	3.0	[6.0]	5.0	3.0	5.0
5		66	RAGTIME	Tom Kirkland	20.0	11.0C	3.0	4.0	[11.0C]	2.0
6		H11	KHARIS	Terry Dalby	22.0	6.0	4.0	2.0	[11.0C]	10.0
7		278	AFFINITY	Peter Thompson	24.0	4.0	7.0	7.0	[11.0C]	6.0
8		339	VITAMINSEA	Wayne Pitt	39.0	11.0C	11.0C	8.0	[11.0C]	9.0
9	7.0S	33	MISCHIEF	Kif Weber	40.0	11.0C	11.0C	11.0C	[11.0C]	7.0
10		46	WAYATIH	Allan Morgan	40.0	11.0C	11.0C	10.0R	[11.0C]	8.0

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