Cruisin’ at Hamilton Island

by Rob Kothe on 29 Aug 2004 A record 91 boats, almost half the boats in the entire regatta, were sailing in Cruising division at Hahn Premium Race Week at Hamilton Island.

Big boats like the Oyster 68 In the Mood, the Dashew 62 Moonshadow from San Mateo, California, down to the Morgan 780 Marissa, and the Sonata 8 Nessie.

Going into the last race in the series, the leading group included Nick Bruijn’s O.D and Max Prentice’s CCC Apples.

Max Prentice, corporate Salvationist from PPB had previously sailed his Jarkan 12.5 She’s Apples Two at Hamilton Island but this year decide chartering was easier.

The chartered Bavaria 47, became CCCC Apples for this event and its sail wardrobe received a boost with spinnakers and headsails from his Jarkan.

With all his regular Sydney crew including Max’s wife Valerie, there was one local addition, Peter Haliday from Airlie Beach, who provided the local tour guide input.

Peter commented ‘We did not really think we had a chance in this big division, but we had a first up win and looked like heroes, we enjoyed that a lot, so every day we tried harder and harder. The beer in the ice chest mid-cockpit was hardly being touched by the end of the regatta.’

Amazingly there was a start line incident between series leader Nick Bruijn’s Farr 1020 O.D. and second placed CCCC’s Apples and with O.D. losing in the protest room, Prentice and his crew won the series.

Second in the class was John Collett’s Radford 11.4 Serein and third was Roger Hart’s Grizzly Adams, celebrating the 10th anniversary of his Hamilton Island Race Week win in 1994.

Max Prentice nursing a serious headache this morning, summed up the benefits of the Cruising division, We’ve raced PHS with windward leeward up here before, but the Cruising division races are just so pleasurable. They are really idyllic, wonderful scenery and every day we saw whales, turtles and porpoises, it’s a great way to have a relaxing holiday’

Total points after
Race 6 - Lindeman Is race - Saturday 28/8

Boat Name Skipper Points Place

CCCC'S APPLES Max Prentice 470 1

SEREIN John Collett 464 2

GRIZZLY ADAMS Roger Hart 462 3

O.D. Nick Bruijn 455 4

LE BATEAU Robert Maidment 450 5

OUTSIDER Bo Wharton 449 6

REX Greg Maguire 448 7

JAMATA Michael Milne 443 8

DIABLO John Stokes 439 9

SERENITY III Denis Spinley 430 10

SARABANDE Basil Diethelm 427 11

SEA HAWK. Rob Sceales 425 12

THE PROBE Tim Lewis 425 13

NESSIE William McMillan 423 14

FORCE ELEVEN Tristan Gourlay 422 15

BYO Dave Turner 413 16

OCTET Bruce Moore 410 17

LEGLESS Don & Bill Walter 408 18

NIGHT OWL Ken Hart 408 19

IN THE MOOD Tim Casey 406 20

TALON Alan Kendall 404 21

MARISA Reaburn Reynolds 404 22

MARIE LYNETTE David Buzzard 402 23

NAUTA Telvin Jarrold 401 24

WINDSONG Jim Watson 393 25

VICTORY Robert nelson 388 26

HULLABALOO Jim O'Keeffe 380 27

BIMINI 2 John Hennessy 377 28

TUCANA Dean Corbett 377 29

EUROPA David Poynter 375 30

FARRAGO Paddy McCutcheon 367 31

BOARDROOM John & Kim Clinton 367 32

AVANTI Philip Cormie 365 33

LADY ELIZABETH II Richard Whyte 365 34

THE MAJOR Alan Stark 360 35

SILVERSHOT David Perkins 358 36

SUPER MAC Russell McLaughlin 357 37

TOP GEAR David Price 354 38

KIND OF BLUE Peter Lamble 330 39

ROPABULL Michael Roper 323 40

SILHOUETTE John Flower 308 41

SUPERTRAMP Alan Pick 306 42

CHINA BEAR Andrew Clubb 304 43

L'ATTITUDE Stephen Clarke 302 44

SEA QUEST Graham Friend 297 45

RAG TOP Dudley Jacobs 277 46

RELISH IV Bill Bailey 276 47

SCALLYWAG Shane Parkes 275 48

HAVANA John Jamieson 272 49

SPIRIT Brad & Maryke Barker 271 50

LA VIDA Campbell Pennefather 260 51

MANDALA Gerard Webb 259 52

SCARBOROUGH Ken Down 258 53

HELTER SKELTER William Andrews 241 54

JIGSAW Ian Galbraith 240 55

BALTIC Dennis Lever 237 56

MOONSHADOW George Backhus 236 57

WAY TO GO Julian Bowker 225 58

PREMIER CRU Robert Hampson 222 59

CHATOILLE MOI Craig Warren 215 60

RUMBA Shane Wilkinson 212 61

WINDSPIRIT Terry O'Hare 211 62

RUFFIANS AT SEA Tony Fenton 205 63

CHORSE John Smith 204 64

DREAMER Malcolm Edwards 199 65

RAINBOW Gordon Syme 199 66

TASATAC Doug Barry 198 67

MOONDANCE Adrian Zadro 193 68

POINT OF SAIL David Spencer 177 69

CAROLINE Glenn Smith 173 70

SPAR WARS III Roderick West 171 71

DAIKIN FALCON Matthew Percy 168 72

LIBRIAN Stanley Barnes 167 73

CHILLE Michael Tilden 162 74

RUMSAIL David Stoopman 157 75

TROPICAL SPIRIT Doug McCarthy 153 76

SOUTHERN SWELL Brian Barnes 139 77

WARBLER Anthony Brown 135 78

JASAMBRI Grant Pollock 133 79

LADY ELEANOR Rick Pacey 131 80

DEAR FRIENDS Geoff Bell 131 81

FLYING FOX Tony Oxlade 128 82

ST JACQUES Brian Pozzey 105 83

JACANA Peter Beard 103 84

COURTESAN James Lynch 103 85

CATAVENTO Steve Bickley 100 86

SINSAIL Barry King 82 87

BRONTE Chad Davis 76 88

GOLDFINGER Louisa Fitzgerald 74
89

CAPRICORN DANCER Garry Dinnie 61
90

PRINCESS DESPINA Ian Begley 18 91