2016 Sail Port Stephens - Top performances

by Lisa Ratcliff on 18 Apr 2016 2016 Sail Port Stephens - The ninth Sail Port Stephens finished yesterday, Sunday April 17, in some of the best winds of the week-long regatta and close to 100 crews luckily escaped the powerful thunderstorms that stalled a few miles to the south of the competition arenas.

A leisurely Commodore’s Cup series on the Monday to Wednesday in 12-15 knot sou-easters and brilliant sunshine for the first two days turned into light nor’easters for the first two days of the Pantaenius Port Stephens Trophy, Friday and Saturday, incorporating the NSW IRC Championship.

From the forecast, Sunday started out as a race against the clock to get the schedule completed before the change unleashed, but amazingly the approaching dark clouds and rumbling thunder stopped short, allowing crews to close out their final inshore passage race and offshore windward/leewards in mainly dry conditions.

In cooler southerlies, 12-13 knots, the Performance Cruising Division One and Performance Racing fleets tussled for last points on an inshore passage race course, both divisions finishing snugly at the top.

Performance Cruising

Performance Cruising Division One trophy went to L’Attitude, Jon Short, Miles Bastick and Rob Hunt’s Beneteau 40.7 (Cruising Yacht Club of Australia), from Kiwi designer Greg Elliott’s Elliott 1350, Fortuna, on a countback.

“This is the first regatta I’ve flown a spinnaker in four years; when we entered Performance Racing we thought it would be non-spinnaker division…ooops,” Short said with a grin prior to the final trophy presentation for all Pantaenius Port Stephens Trophy prize-winners.

“The incentive created by the beautiful Port Stephens scenery was a contributing factor plus today we had two locals on board and they were helpful keeping the boat in favourable current,” Short added.

In Greg Elliott’s words, he and wife Jo drag their home around the track. The couple left New Zealand a couple of years ago to cruise and enter regattas with the fiberglass production boat Greg designed. “It was an idea I had, to go back to the places I’ve raced at and past but never been able to cruise around and get to know,” he said.

“I think Port Stephens is fantastic; it’s a magic spot. We are heading north again, back to the Whitsundays and definitely we’d like to do the Hamilton Island series again. This regatta to me feels like it’s based on that series with nice touches like the free sausages put on the other night (by Pantaenius).”

Third in division one by two points off the tied first and second placed boats was Michael Kirby’s local Nsx38 She’s the One (PSYC).

Dennis Cooper’s always well-sailed Sydney 36cr Amante (CYCA) created a comfortable six point break in division two results, too good for Dave Griffin’s Titan 36 Al Fresco (RMYC) and David Ashton’s Radford 10.6, TenSixty (MYC).

Performance Racing

An average age of 60-something only helped Barry Jackson and his Beneteau First 40 crew on Alibi (Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club) achieve the division win, their best result in six Sail Port Stephens.

“The weather suited us, light to medium winds and we enjoyed the courses,” Jackson said. “We had very good competition in our division and win, lose or draw, the sportsmanship in our fleet was great.”

Alibi’s last time at Sail Port Stephens was two years ago and they lost the series by one point. This time they beat Peter Mayo’s Sydney 38 Austral from Lake Macquarie by a single point. Third was another Lake sailor and SPS keen supporter, Len Payne and his Lidgard 10.6 Kerinda.

The first-ever Super 11 NSW title played out among the eligible Super 11s racing within the Performance Racing fleet. Adrian Walters’ pocket-rocket Shaw 11m Little Nico (Middle Harbour Yacht Club) wrestled with Thomas Woods’ Farr 36od Toy Story, yet another Lake boat, over five races and proved the stronger.

Hicko Shield – Spirit of Port Stephens trophy

The Hicko Shield – Spirit of Port Stephens trophy, awarded annually by organiser Corlette Point Sailing Club to the crew who embody the regatta spirit of fun and fair competition went to Derek Sheppard (Black Sheep). Sheppard is a Sail Port Stephens ‘lifer’ having competed at all nine, plus three of the late Roger Hickman’s (Hicko) crew helped put Black Sheep through its paces during the Commodore’s Cup and second part Port Stephens Trophy.

The Beneteau 45 also flew Wild Rose’s flag during the series, a poignant reminder of Hicko’s champion Farr 43 and the outstanding yachtsman, a friend to so many in the sailing community who died from a brain tumour in March.

Final worlds from the race officer Denis Thompson

“These regattas tend to go well if the weather behaves and we had good wind and great weather all week, even on the final day when we could see things turning pear-shaped just to the south. For a small club and community, Corlette Point Sailing Club put on a great event, they really work hard. We hope to see as many competitors and class fleets as possible for next year’s anniversary event.”

A final thanks to this year’s supporters: Destination NSW, Pantaenius Insurance, Gill Australia, d’Albora Marina Nelson Bay, Port Stephens Council, Newcastle Airport, Hunter Parking, 222 Offshore and Port Stephens Strata.

Next year marks the 10th anniversary regatta of the event, April 17 – 23, 2017 and organisers are already making plans to commemorate the milestone.

Results:

NSW IRC Championships

Series Results [IRC Div1] for D1 up to Race 6

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		AUS001	ICHI BAN	Matt Allen	CYCA	6.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
2	6R	421	THE GOAT	Sebastian Bohm Bruce	CYCA	19.0	2.0	4.0	5.0	3.0	3.0	2.0
3		6952	CELESTIAL	Sam Haynes	CYCA	19.0	3.0	3.0	2.0	5.0	2.0	4.0
4		7771	BALANCE	Paul Clitheroe	CYCA	23.0	5.0	2.0	4.0	2.0	5.0	5.0
5		52152	KOA	A Kearnan / P Wrigle	CYCA	25.0	4.0	7.0F	3.0	4.0	4.0	3.0
6		GBR5211L	FRANTIC	Michael Martin	NCYC	35.0	6.0	5.0	6.0	6.0	6.0	6.0

Series Results [IRC Div2] for D2 up to Race 6

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1	1.0S	18889	NINE DRAGONS	Bob Cox	MHYC	20.0	1.0	4.0	2.0	1.0	5.0	7.0
2		6081	NEXT	Phil Tomkins	CYCA	20.0	5.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	2.0	4.0
3		5588	GOODFORM	Joe De Kock	NCYC	21.5	2.0	6.0	1.0	5.5	4.0	3.0
4		46	KHALEESI	Andrew&Pauline Dally	MHYC	24.0	7.0	1.0	8.0	2.0	1.0	5.0
5		52542	BLACK JACK TOO	Peter Harburg	RQYS	28.5	6.0	2.0	5.0	5.5	9.0	1.0
6		8338	SHOWTIME	Mark Griffith	RPAYC/RMYC	34.0	4.0	5.0	4.0	9.0	10.0	2.0
7		7075	QUEST	Bob Steel	RPAYC	38.0	3.0	7.0	6.0	10.0	6.0	6.0
8		33345	BLACK SHEEP	Derek Sheppard	CYCA	41.0	8.0	8.0	7.0	4.0	3.0	11.0
9		8009	OCC. COARSE LANG ONE	R Alder/ W Bailey	RPAYC	51.0	10.0	10.0	9.0	7.0	7.0	8.0
10		5944	RISK	Creg Moore Chris Her	RPAYC	58.0	11.0	11.0	10.0	8.0	8.0	10.0
11		M400	IGNITION	Ian Bower	LMYC	60.0	9.0	9.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	9.0

Series Results [IRC Div3] for D3 up to Race 6

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		N349	SCHOUTEN PASSAGE	Rob Howard	NCYC	13.5	1.5	2.0	2.0	2.0	1.0	5.0
2		7722	JUSTADASH	Philip Dash	MHYC	14.5	1.5	1.0	7.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
3		MH20	THEPHILOSOPHERS CLUB	Peter Sorensen	MHYC	22.0	3.0	3.0	1.0	4.0	8.0	3.0
4		36111	MAGIC	Peter McNamara	RPAYC	27.0	5.0	4.0	6.0	5.0	6.0	1.0
5		5845	BOTANY ACCESS COCOMO	Justin Brownbill	MHYC	33.0	6.0	5.0	3.0	7.0	5.0	7.0
6	3.0S	5915	STORMAWAY	J Stening C Gunn	MHYC	34.0	7.0	6.0	9.0	3.0	3.0	6.0
7		3430	KOMATSU AZZURRO	Shane Kearns	CYCA	34.0	8.0	7.0	5.0	6.0	4.0	4.0
8		6807	PRECISION	John Anet	MHYC	46.0	4.0	8.0	10.0	9.0	7.0	8.0
9	4.0S	A164	STICKY	Richard Harris	SASC	53.0	10.0	10.0	4.0	10.0	10.0	9.0
10		16129	WAILEA	Neil Padden	MHYC	53.0	9.0	9.0	8.0	8.0	9.0	10.0

Performance Racing

Series Results [EHC Div1] up to Race 5

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		401	ALIBI	Barry Jackson	RPAYC	22.0	7.0	2.0	5.0	4.0	4.0
2		M62	AUSTRAL	Peter Mayo	RMYCT	23.0	4.0	7.0	8.0	3.0	1.0
3		5708	KERINDA	Len Payne	RMYCT	25.0	3.0	4.0	9.0	6.0	3.0
4		543	LITTLE NICO	Sonja Walters	MHYC	31.0	10.0	12.0	3.0	1.0	5.0
5		MH60	TSA MANAGEMENT	Tony Levett	MHYC	31.5	12.0	9.0	6.5	2.0	2.0
6		67	COLORTILE	Warren/Kristy Buchan	CSC&RMYC	32.0	2.0	8.0	2.0	10.0	10.0
7		4100	THE BANSHEE	Corinne Feldmann	CSC	34.0	1.0	3.0	11.0	12.0	7.0
8		370	SHES THE CULPRIT	David Odowd	LMYC/NCYC	36.0	5.0	10.0	4.0	8.0	9.0
9		M102	TOY STORY	Thomas Woods	LMYC	37.5	8.0	5.0	6.5	7.0	11.0
10		11011	ANGER MANAGEMENT	Phil Arnall	NCYC	42.0	9.0	6.0	10.0	9.0	8.0
11		AUS183	BREEZIN	Brad Sewell	SLMASC	43.0	6.0	1.0	12.0	11.0	13.0
12		415	ARCH RIVAL	Steve Connors	DSC	46.0	17.0C	17.0C	1.0	5.0	6.0
13		SA780	RUM AN RACIN	Mark Hillis	WWSC	70.0	11.0	11.0	18.0S	18.0F	12.0
14		WS40	MAKO	Michael Tarrant	RMYCT	88.0	17.0C	17.0C	18.0S	18.0S	18.0S
14		RF5095	DARE DEVIL	Sibby Ilzhofer	NCYC	88.0	17.0C	17.0C	18.0S	18.0S	18.0S
14		AUS6135	RUMBO	Guy/Clark Holbert	CPSA	88.0	17.0C	17.0C	18.0S	18.0S	18.0S

Series Results [Super 11] up to Race 5

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		543	LITTLE NICO	Sonja Walters	MHYC	6.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
2		M102	TOY STORY	Thomas Woods	LMYC	9.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
3		AUS183	BREEZIN	Brad Sewell	SLMASC	15.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0

Performance Cruising

Series Results [EHC Div1] up to Race 3

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1	1.0S	6563	L'ATTITUDE	R Hunt/J Short /M Ba	CYCA	13.0	10.0	2.0	1.0
2		2041	FORTUNA	Greg Elliott	CYCA	13.0	7.0	3.0	3.0
3		5713	SHES THE ONE	Michael Kirby	PSYC	15.0	9.0	1.0	5.0
4		5822	QUEST 3	Brendon Gregg	RMYC	17.0	5.0	10.0	2.0
5		6813	VIRAGO II	Dave Rooke	RPAYC	19.0	4.0	9.0	6.0
6		7041	L'ESPRIT	Peter Byford	RPAYC	20.0	2.0	11.0	7.0
7		11044	KERAZY	Rob Curtis Glenn Tai	RPAYC	21.0	12.0	5.0	4.0
8		500	ANTIPODES OF SYDNEY	Greg Newton	CYCA	22.0	1.0	7.0	14.0
9		6702	JOIE DE VIE	Rob Aldis	MHYC	23.0	11.0	4.0	8.0
10	3.0S	8336	2XCESS	Mark Scharfenberg	SLMASC	25.0	3.0	13.0	9.0
11		6608	ELUSIVE	Rick Pacey	RYCV	25.0	6.0	6.0	13.0
12		W108	JAB	Mark Skelton	WASC	27.0	8.0	8.0	11.0
13		7089	LOISEAU	Graham Raspass	CYCA	39.0	15.0C	12.0	12.0
14		7775	FIREFLY	Ian Edwards	RPAYC	42.0	13.0	14.0	15.0

Series Results [EHC Div2] up to Race 3

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		6609	AMANTE	Dennis Cooper	CYCA	13.0	10.0	1.0	2.0
2		6636	AL FRESCO	Dave Griffin	RMYC	19.0	8.0	8.0	3.0
3	9.0S	MYC7	TENSIXTY	David Ashton	MYC	28.0	9.0	5.0	14.0
4		6593	LU LU BELLE	Peter Lewis	MHYC	28.0	11.0	12.0	5.0
5	1.0S	4002	STOCKADE	Grant McKellar	BBYC/GRSC	29.0	22.0	6.0	1.0
6		6584	KELSEA BLUE	Adrian Williams	GSC/RSYS	29.0	14.0	9.0	6.0
7	4.0S	5758	CAMPEADOR	Jonathan Threlfall	RSYS	30.0	19.0	7.0	4.0
8		6571	PASSION	David Edmiston	GFS	30.0	13.0	10.0	7.0
9		3958	YOUNG PRETENDER	John Townsend	PSYC	32.0	21.0	3.0	8.0
10		B46	CHAMPAGNE ON ICE	Rhonda Nyquist	PSYC	33.0	4.0	19.0	10.0
11		6307	MACSCAP	Peter McClelland	MHYC	36.0	20.0	4.0	12.0
12		7109	BELLS BREEZE	Julian Bell	PSYC	37.0	3.0	18.0	16.0
13	2.0S	511	GRANNY JEN	David Rowe	GSC	39.0	2.0	20.0	17.0
14		6940	INCEPTION	John Sprague	GSC	39.0	5.0	14.0	20.0
15	2.0S	63344	KOKO	Roy Leslie	GSC	40.0	23.0	2.0	15.0
16		2200	ZAHN	Seamus Campbell	RMYC	40.0	18.0	11.0	11.0
17		6232	MORTGAGECHOICE RUMBA	R Carr/K Burke	MHYC	41.0	17.0	15.0	9.0
18	1.0S	7788	ALLSAIL DANCING STAR	R Waddy/ A Bower	RMYC/RPAYC	42.0	1.0	22.0	19.0
19		6740	EVEN FINER	Geoff Dilworth	GSC	42.0	12.0	17.0	13.0
20		37137	AEOLIAN	Bruce Thomas	GSC	44.0	7.0	16.0	21.0
21		4301	OBSESSION	Gary Macleay	SLMASC	47.0	16.0	13.0	18.0
22		259	JIA	Chris Bebb	GSC	51.0	6.0	23.0	22.0
23		3267	IN THE MOOD	Keith Masters	RMYCBROKENBAY	61.0	15.0	21.0	25.0#
24		6942	SMOOTH CRIMINALS	Ray Harley	PSYC	77.0	26.0C	26.0C	25.0C
24		3425	GWHIZZ	J Veale / G Davey	GFS	77.0	26.0C	26.0C	25.0C

Commodores Cup 2016

Series Results [EHCDIV1] up to Race 3

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		108	JAB	Mark Skelton	WASC	14.0	10.0	1.0	3.0
2		3033	ZENITH	Ian Coleman	MH	17.0	5.0	5.0	7.0
3		415	ARCH RIVAL	Steve Connors	DSC	18.0	14.0	3.0	1.0
4		7075	QUEST	Bob Steel	RPAYC	21.0	13.0	6.0	2.0
5		62	AUSTRAL	Peter Mayo	RMYCT	22.0	8.0	9.0	5.0
6		11044	KERAZY	Rob Curtis Glenn Tai	RPAYC	23.0	12.0	7.0	4.0
7		102	TOY STORY	Thomas Woods	LMYC	27.0	4.0	17.0	6.0
8		11407	PELAGIC MAGIC	Simon Dunlop	RPAYC	28.0	3.0	8.0	17.0
9		4100	THE BANSHEE	Corinne Feldmann	CSC	29.0	19.0	2.0	8.0
10		11011	ANGER MANAGEMENT	Phil Arnall	NCYC	33.0	18.0	4.0	11.0
11		349	SCHOUTEN PASSAGE	Jan Howard	NCYC	34.0	9.0	12.0	13.0
12		6563	L'ATTITUDE	R Hunt/J Short /M Ba	CYCA	35.0	6.0	15.0	14.0
13	2.0S	5713	SHES THE ONE	Michael Kirby	PSYC	37.0	2.0	16.0	19.0
14		8009	OCC. COARSE LANG ONE	R Alder/ W Bailey	RPAYC	37.0	17.0	10.0	10.0
15		33345	BLACK SHEEP	Derek Sheppard	CYCA	39.0	16.0	11.0	12.0
16		445	LUNACY	Chris McSorley	CYCA	41.0	11.0	21.0	9.0
17	1.0S	B46	CHAMPAGNE ON ICE	Rhonda Nyquist	PSYC	44.0	1.0	22.0	21.0
18		500	ANTIPODES OF SYDNEY	Greg Newton	CYCA	44.0	15.0	13.0	16.0
19		215	KNOT READY	Geoff Campbell	CPSA	48.0	7.0	19.0	22.0
20		2041	FORTUNA	Greg Elliott	CYCA	49.0	20.0	14.0	15.0
21		6813	VIRAGO II	Dave Rooke	RPAYC	61.0	23.0	18.0	20.0
22		10174	MIZ BEHAVIN	William Dicker	JBCYC	65.0	22.0	20.0	23.0
23		7775	FIREFLY	Ian Edwards	RPAYC	72.0	27.0C	27.0C	18.0
24		67	COLORTILE	Warren/Kristy Buchan	CSC&RMYC	75.0	21.0	27.0S	27.0R
25		6135	RUMBO	Guy/Clark Holbert	CPSA	81.0	27.0C	27.0C	27.0C
25		5095	DARE DEVIL	Sibby Ilzhofer	NCYC	81.0	27.0C	27.0C	27.0C

Series Results [EHCDIV2] up to Race 3

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1	1.0S	6740	EVEN FINER	Geoff Dilworth	GSC	15.0	1.0	1.0	13.0
2		6593	LU LU BELLE	Peter Lewis	MHYC	15.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
3		6307	MACSCAP	Peter McClelland	MHYC	18.0	10.0	4.0	4.0
4		6571	PASSION	David Edmiston	GFS	22.0	3.0	2.0	17.0
5		7080	MINNOW	Les Pongrass	CYCA	25.0	14.0	9.0	2.0
6	3.0S	6609	AMANTE	Dennis Cooper	CYCA	27.0	16.0	8.0	3.0
7		7788	ALLSAIL DANCING STAR	R Waddy/ A Bower	RMYC/RPAYC	27.0	12.0	7.0	8.0
8		6232	MORTGAGECHOICE RUMBA	Robert Carr	MHYC	28.0	17.0	10.0	1.0
9		6887	NIGHTINGAIL	B Spannenberg J Davi	CYCA	30.0	8.0	11.0	11.0
10		6584	KELSEA BLUE	Adrian Williams	GSC/RSYS	33.5	7.0	20.0	6.5
11		37137	AEOLIAN	Bruce Thomas	GSC	34.0	15.0	3.0	16.0
12		6940	INCEPTION	John Sprague	GSC	36.0	18.0	6.0	12.0
13		511	GRANNY JEN	David Rowe	GSC	38.5	19.0	13.0	6.5
14		7	TENSIXTY	David Ashton	MYC	40.0	6.0	19.0	15.0
15	4.0S	3267	IN THE MOOD	Keith Masters	RMYCBROKENBAY	41.0	4.0	17.0	20.0
16	12.0S	5708	KERINDA	Len Payne	RMYCT	41.0	20.0	12.0	9.0
17		1367	SUMMER SALT	P Gleeson	NCYC	41.0	9.0	18.0	14.0
18		6914	MONICA'S DAUGHTER	Jeff Robinson	RANSA	45.0	2.0	21.0	22.0
19		6636	AL FRESCO	Dave Griffin	RMYC	46.0	13.0	15.0	18.0
20		7109	BELLS BREEZE	Julian Bell	PSYC	48.0	11.0	27.0C	10.0
21		29	SCOTS WHA HAE	Simon Macks	NCYC	55.0	22.0	14.0	19.0
22		259	JIA	Chris Bebb	GSC	58.0	21.0	16.0	21.0
23		47	NUTCRACKER	Paul Bertholli	NCYC	68.0	23.0	22.0	23.0
24		6767	BIG BLUE	Stephen Phillips	WYC	81.0	27.0C	27.0C	27.0C
24		6942	SMOOTH CRIMINALS	Ray Harley	PSYC	81.0	27.0C	27.0C	27.0C
24		3425	GWHIZZ	J Veale / G Davey	GFS	81.0	27.0C	27.0C	27.0C