2014 CYCA Trophy Series - Wild Oats XI takes to the water

by Di Pearson CYCA Media on 11 Dec 2014 Solas Big Boat Challenge (SBBC) winner, Wild Oats XI, will take to the water for her final Rolex Sydney Hobart limber up, joining 30 others in the two-day CYCA Trophy–Passage, starting Saturday near Shark Island at 11.00am.

Wild Oats XI will be joined by 30 others, including Caro, owned by Mark Bartlett. To be skippered by Max Klink, the Botin 65 will make her Sydney race debut in this event. The first entry ever received from the Cayman Islands for the Rolex Sydney Hobart, she has been prepared at the CYCA for the past two weeks. It is an opportunity for all to check out the year-old racer cruiser that smashed the ARC race record by over eight hours last year.

Back for his 34th attempt to win the Hobart race, Bruce Taylor returns with his Caprice 40 Chutzpah. The Melbourne dentist will be joined by fellow Victorian, Antony Walton with his RP46, Hartbreaker and Steven Richardson’s Geelong entry, Moody Buoys, a Moody 54ds design.

Two Tasmanians are entered: Anthony Lyall and his recent Maria Island Race record breakingTP52, Cougar II, and David Rees’ Whistler, which took the Maria Island race trifecta of IRC, AMS and PHS. Skipper Jory Linscott will be joined by his sister, stepfather and step uncle in the crew of nine. Linscott is confident the close-knit family can keep the MDB 36’s reputation clean.

Craig Carter’s Indian from Western Australia is back after finishing ninth in the Cabbage Tree Island Race and fourth overall in the Bird Island Race last weekend, but the feeling is we are yet to see the full potential of this Carkeek 47 from Western Australia.

Bob Cox will be back at the helm of Nine Dragons, after skippering his DK46 to victory in the Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship at the end of November. Cox’s Middle Harbour YC competitor, Andrew Dally and his same design Khaleesi will be there too, hoping to level the score.

Among the front runners for the series are those at the top of the CYCA’s Blue Water Point Score (BWPS): Matt Allen’s Carkeek 60, Ichi Ban, the overall winner of the SBBC, Paul Clitheroe’s TP52 Balance, ADA Celestial, Sam Haynes’ Roger’s 46, reigning Rolex Sydney Hobart overall winner Darryl Hodgkinson’s Cookson 50 Victoire and St George Midnight Rambler, the Ker 40 owned by Ed Psaltis/Bob Thomas/Michael Bencsik.

Despite being damaged in the SBBC on Tuesday, Rob Hanna’s Shogun from Victoria is also set to take part. Although the TP52 is at the top of the BWPS leaderboard, she cannot win as she is not a competitor in the non-droppable Hobart race which will decide the winner.

Missing from the start line will be Patrice. Tony Kirby received the good news from McConaghy that his replacement bulb has arrived in Australia, so the Ker 46 will hopefully be back on the water next week.

The CYCA Trophy-Passage Series, combined with the Bird Island Race sailed earlier this month, and the non-droppable Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, will decide the Southern Cross Cup. Held every odd year from 1967 to 2001, it was reintroduced last year as an annual event. Teams consist of: Ichi Ban, Victoire, Wild Rose (CYCA Blue), Balance, Celestial, St George Midnight Rambler (CYCA Gold) and Ariel, Black Sheep and Occasional Coarse Language Too (CYCA White).

 Entrant:

Sail No	Boat Name	First Name	Last Name	IRC Div 1	IRC Div 2	ORCI	PHSTCF
421	ADA CELESTIAL	Sam	Haynes	1.267		1.2503	1.3020
8778	AFTER MIDNIGHT	Mark & Greg	Tobin		1.145	1.1376
A140	ARIEL	Ron Forster	Phil Damp		1.079	1.0579	1.0832
52002	BALANCE	Paul	Clitheroe	1.356		1.3444	1.3798
33345	BLACK SHEEP	Derek & Martin	Sheppard		1.118	1.0881	1.0922
CAY65	CARO	Maxilimilian	Klink			1.4326
R33	CHUTZPAH	Bruce	Taylor		1.196	1.2010
5200	COUGAR 11	Anthony	Lyall	1.365
6808	FLYING CLOUD	Howard	Piggott		1.083	1.0739
6492	HANSON CON MATERIALS	Larki	Missiris		1.092		1.0885
B330	HARTBREAKER	A Walton	A Breidahl	1.277		1.2623	1.2601
AUS01	ICHI BAN	Matt	Allen	1.504
AUS47	INDIAN	Craig	Carter	1.339		1.3300	1.4700
46	KHALEESI	A&P	Dally		1.183	1.1779
6935	L'ALTRA DONNA	Andy	Kearnan		1.059	1.0270
8975	LAST TANGO	Phillip	King			1.0977
G54	MOODY BUOYS	Steven	Richardson			1.0945	1.0600
18889	NINE DRAGONS	Bob	Cox		1.187
8008	OCC.COARSELANGUAGE 2	Warwick	Sherman		1.179	1.1769	1.1554
AUS8899	ONESAILS RACING	Ray	Roberts	1.409
6953	SAILORSWDISABILITIES	David	Pescud	1.338		1.3302
9201	SELKIE	Anthony	Booth				0.9306
AUS280	SHOGUN V	Robert	Hanna	1.386		1.3842
8338	ST GEORGE MIDNIGHT R	Ed Psaltis/	Bencsik/Thomas		1.193	1.1848	1.2302
226	SWISH	Steven	Proud	1.246		1.2353	1.2569
AUS5299	VICTOIRE	Darryl	Hodgkinson	1.352		1.3264
248	WAX LYRICAL	Les	Goodridge		1.145	1.1238	1.0886
L77	WHISTLER	Jory	Linscott		1.052	1.0071	1.0300
AUS10001	WILD OATS XI	Robert	Oatley	1.973
4343	WILD ROSE	Roger	Hickman		1.047	1.0355
7013	XPRESS	Mike West	Andrew Parkes		1.082