38th NSW Tasar Championships – Longbottom and Kristi leading the race

by Nic Douglass on 3 Apr 2015 38th NSW Tasar Championships – Rick Longbottom and Kristi Ruus-Atkinson on Navy Sailing lead the Championships after dominating a tricky race track on day one.

The shifty sou’easterly breeze, which swung at times over 90 degrees set the scene for a challenging three races for the first day of a nine-race series for the 34 competitors. The race organisers from Lake Illawarra did a great job to get all three races away, let alone finished.

Martin Linsley and Russell Ford on Lass were the first to win a heat, followed by Hugh and Anna Tait on Serendipity, with regatta leaders Rick Longbottom and Kristi-Ruus Atkinson rounding out the top three. All three were able to take advantage of an isolated right-hand puff at the start, which left several of the fleet becalmed on the line.

The gun in race two was taken by father and daughter class stalwarts Rob and Nic Douglass who led the race from start to finish. They were notified onshore that they had been OCS along with a few other top contenders, so the official win was presented to Brad Stephens and Jenny Overton, with Anton and Vicki Lynar in second and Glenn and Vanessa Collings, in their return to the class in third.

Rick Longbottom and Kristi Russ-Atkinson continued their consistency in race three, leading around every mark bar the last, when the Douglass’ got on the right side of a Westerly puff to slip into first on the last leg, with Martin Linsley and Russell Ford in third.

After day one, Rick Longbottom and Kristi-Ruus Atkinson on Navy Sailing lead from Hugh and Anna Tait on Serendipity, with the Vivace team of Brad Stephens and Jenny Overton rounding out the podium.

There are three races to be sailed tomorrow and Sunday as part of this nine race series, so it will be all on tomorrow. No doubt once a drop comes into play there will be some interesting action on the scorecard.

For more information on the Tasar visit event website.

Full results

Plc	Sail No	Boat Name (Boat Type)	Skipper/Crew	From	Race 1 3-Apr	Race 2 3-Apr	Race 3 3-Apr	Drop	Total
1	2898	Navy Sailing	Rick Longbottom Kristi Ruus-Atkinson	CYC/WSC ACT	3	4	2	0	9
2	2925	Serendipity	Hugh Tait Anna Tait	NSC NSW	2	5	4	0	11
3	2903	Vivace	Bradley Stephens Jennifer Overton	BSC NSW	5	1	8	0	14
4	2852	Far Out	Glenn Collings Vanessa Collings	SBSC VIC	4	3	9	0	16
5	2853	2sheepstations	Bernard Streater Sarah Streater	GRSC NSW	15	6	6	0	27
6	2763	More Edge	John Balass Heather Forton	BSC NSW	7	9	13	0	29
7	2947	Prime Suspect	Anton Lynar Vicki Lynar	BSC NSW	14	2	14	0	30
8	2114	blew n	Bruce Hilleard Jenny Sorensen	GRSC NSW	9	14	10	0	33
9	2914	Lizard	David Hart Jackie Morison	SPASC NSW	10	21	5	0	36
10	2349	like lightning	Chris Johnson Lorna Morrison	GRSC NSW	13	13	12	0	38
11	2813	LASS	Martin Linsley Russel Ford	CYC ACT	1	OCS (35.00)	3	0	39
12	2896	Hellfire	Kirstin Norris John Force	RANSA ACT	16	8	15	0	39
13	2888	Agamemnon	Chris Parkinson Jenny Day	SPASC NSW	12	7	21	0	40
14	1885	stormbringer	Dan Bromelow Mark Bromelow	M16FSSC NSW	11	10	22	0	43
15	2619	Galah	John Dransfield Jesse Dransfield	M16FSSC NSW	6	OCS (35.00)	7	0	48
16	2603	RATz	Gary Ratcliffe Robyn Ratcliffe	GRSC NSW	20	12	16	0	48
17	761	Madman	Sean Mullin Fiona Powell	DAC NSW	8	19	26	0	53
18	2952	Tasared Twice	Gavin Brown Robyn Brown	BSC NSW	19	23	11	0	53
19	2345	1 to get ready	John Campbell Lea Foster	RQYS NSW	23	11	19	0	53
20	2710	Chukkel	Rob Douglass Nicole Douglass	JBSC NSW	21	OCS (35.00)	1	0	57
21	2902	Eagle Eye	Noel Borel Els Leenaars	BSC NSW	17	16	27	0	60
22	2567	Sea Ferret	Tait Fortier Will Mckenzie	JBSC NSW	24	20	17	0	61
23	2895	Sidewinder	James Belton Kate Burgess	PRSC ACT	30	15	20	0	65
24	2819	Firefly	Derek Hadwen kelly saltman	BSC NSW	18	24	23	0	65
25	2900	Puzzle	Simon Brown Andrew Foulkes	CYC ACT	22	18	30	0	70
26	2953	Boogie Time	Ben Walker Cath Walker	BSC NSW	31	25	18	0	74
27	2588	What A Pearler	Andrew fINNEY Yanni Shaw	GRSC NSW	27	22	28	0	77
28	1878	Tranquil Shaw's	Cameron Shaw Eva Shaw	GRSC NSW	25	27	25	0	77
29	2581	Afternoon Delight	Davd Cull Matthew Cull	CSC NSW	28	17	33	0	78
30	2894	Javelin	Richard Blessington Michale Skene	CYC ACT	29	26	24	0	79
31	1901	Bubbles	Helen Impey Tristan Butterworth	WSC NSW	26	29	29	0	84
32	1912	Cruz'n		Mark Hooper Pip Hooper		GRSC NSW	32	28	31	0	91
33	2841	Woooo Hoooo!!	Mark Kelly Susan Kelly	GRSC NSW	33	30	32	0	95
34	2139	String Theory	John Haines Mark Furka	GRSC NSW	DNC (35.00)	DNC (35.00)	DNC (35.00)	0	105