Capital Insurance ACT Optimist Championships

Capital Insurance ACT Optimist Championships - Day 1

by Matt Owen on 27 Oct 2017

Big Crowd going into the bottom mark. - Capital Insurance ACT Optimist Championships Day 1 Matt Owen

103 Optimists lined up for day one of the ACT Optimist Championships in three divisions, open, intermediate and green fleet. These young sailors smashed out four races in glorious 8-14 knot breeze. Parents looked on from the wall of Lake Burley Griffin at the Canberra Yacht Club, as the boats came in for an action packed finish, with the line 30 meters off the shore.

Day 1 Open fleet Leader Finley Scade - Capital Insurance ACT Optimist Championships Day 1 © Matt Owen

In the 41 boat Open division Finley Scade started the regatta fantastically with two race wins but a fifth in race three opening the door for Joshua Whitten and Jonathan Tuite to close the gap. Finley came home with a second in the last race, giving him a bit of start going in to day 2. We asked Finley what he thought went right out there - “I think I just started in the right place. I was on the first shift before everyone else, and felt quick up wind.”

The view for parents watching from the shore wasn't bad.... - Capital Insurance ACT Optimist Championships Day 1 © Matt Owen

In the 38 boat Intermediate fleet Stella Hurley and Ben Costandi finished the day on equal points. “it was a really good day and everyone sailed really well. I’ve been to Canberra twice now. The wind was a bit shifty to start but it picked up and got better. I was happy with my starts.” Stella and Ben go into day two with 20 points ahead of Markus Sampson and Reece Hartnett on 21. More to come!

103 Boats launch onto a glassy LBG - 30 minutes later racing started in 10knots! - Capital Insurance ACT Optimist Championships Day 1 © Matt Owen

Green fleet Sailors had a great time on the small course, with enough breeze to challenge everyone but close enough in for parents to cheer every gybe on the wing mark. With the course half in Lotus bay itself it made for a great spectator arena.

Conditions for tomorrow look even better with 15+ knots booked in for the 12.00 o’clock start.

ACT Optimist Championship 2017 - Results:

Intermediate Fleet

Plc	Sail No	Boat Name (Boat Type)	Skipper/Crew	From	Race 1 28-Oct	Race 2 28-Oct	Race 3 28-Oct	Race 4 28-Oct	Drop	Total
1	1332	Starlight	Stella Hurley	HHSC	3	1	12	4	0	20
2	1564	Benny Buoy	Ben Costandi	GRSC	4	11	2	3	0	20
3	1619	Speed Machine	Markus Sampson	RPAYC	1	6	8	6	0	21
4	1697	Boatcraft	Reece Hartnett	HHSC	10	3	6	2	0	21
5	912	Raptor	Albie Brown	RPAYC	2	2	1	18	0	23
6	1676	LONGREACH	Cameron Scade	GRSC	5	5	10	10	0	30
7	1645	UnderDog	Ben Crafoord	Scots	9	9	3	15	0	36
8	883	Iceberg	Will Troop	RPAYC	16	16	4	1	0	37
9	1745	Avenger	Orlando Springer	RPAYC	17	4	9	7	0	37
10	1736	Bob	HANNAH Kernohan	GRSC	14	18	5	9	0	46
11	1777	K Bunny	Henry Myers	Scots	13	7	25	5	0	50
12	1432	Green Eyed Monster	Kye Rivers	Gosford	6	10	11	24	0	51
13	1476	TBA	Wil Rivers	Gosford	12	14	16	12	0	54
14	1466	Commando	Kye Williams	RPAYC	15	15	7	20	0	57
15	709	Tom's Tub	Thomas Whitehead	Scots	8	12	13	29	0	62
16	1715	Wallygator	Walter Tuite	RPAYC	11	19	17	19	0	66
17	1309	For The Wind	Douglas Cassidy	RSYS	18	13	15	25	0	71
18	1545	Ewings	Brodie Ewings	GRSC	28	23	14	14	0	79
19	1667	Pocket Rocket	Ellen Murray	SLMASC	19	25	19	16	0	79
20	1611	Shimmer	Caitlin Nash	HHSC	23	22	24	11	0	80
21	1730	Wild Ox	Spencer Oxnam	DAC	33	8	18	22	0	81
22	1038	Trigger Happy	Hanako Tomishima	NSC	24	21	20	17	0	82
23	1408	Captain Obvious	Fionn Walters	CYC	27	30	21	8	0	86
24	708	Blaze	Nathan Goh	NSC	29	17	22	23	0	91
25	1357	Lucky 7	Oliver McLachlan	RSYS	26	20	23	28	0	97
26	1571	Beat It	Lachlan Jones	WSC	7	35	31	30	0	103
27	1457	WeatherOarKnot	Grace Morrow	NSC	30	26	30	21	0	107
28	1721	na	Lucy Ferguson	Ascham	25	24	33	27	0	109
29	1211	The Beast	Nathan Pearce	RPAYC	21	28	28	36	0	113
30	898	Captain Zoom	Piper Attwood	RPAYC	31	27	29	26	0	113
31	1646	1646	Charlie	Scots	22	33	27	33	0	115
32	1334	Hunter	Gemma Ashton	HHSC	34	DNF (39.00)	32	13	0	118
33	1076	Torpedo Ray	Matthew Yun	NSC	32	32	26	31	0	121
34	1627	Swallow	Isobel Payne	RSYS	20	29	DNF (39.00)	DNC (39.00)	0	127
35	535	Ocean Commotion	Poppy Smith	CYC	35	31	34	34	0	134
36	1079	Horse Power	Julia Pearce	RPAYC	36	37	37	32	0	142
37	678	Mr Monster	Rose Boyce	NSC	37	36	35	35	0	143
38	534	Top Mark	Eve Biseker	CYC	DNF (39.00)	34	36	37	0	146

Open Fleet

Plc	Sail No	Boat Name (Boat Type)	Skipper/Crew	From	Race 1 28-Oct	Race 2 28-Oct	Race 3 28-Oct	Race 4 28-Oct	Drop	Total
1	1685	FAIRWINDS	Finley Scade	WSC	1	1	5	2	0	9
2	1248	Deja Vu	Joshua Whitten	GRSC	2	3	3	5	0	13
3	1575	The Mightiest Muppet	Daniel Links	Rpayc	11	2	2	1	0	16
4	1631	Sea Ya Later	Bridget Conrad	GSC	8	4	6	4	0	22
5	1606	Better Knot	Jonathan Tuite	RPAYC	6	6	1	13	0	26
6	1743		Ryan Ewings	GRSC	3	7	13	18	0	41
7	1594	WHOOSHKA	COOPER BELLINGHAM	RPAYC	5	13	20	7	0	45
8	1669	shifts happen	Luca Gambacorti	WSC	16	8	11	10	0	45
9	1772	Vitesse	Ethan Lozevski	DAC	38	5	8	3	0	54
10	1604	Blossom	Olivia Williams	RPAYC	7	10	21	16	0	54
11	1782	TBC	Keizo Tomishima	NSC	19	21	4	12	0	56
12	1473	Thing A Me Bob	Joel Beashel	SLMASC	10	9	10	29	0	58
13	884	Optimistic	Matthew Quinlan	HHSC	12	25	7	15	0	59
14	1729	Silver Arrow	Bayley Taylor	RPAYC	20	14	17	8	0	59
15	1735	Ba Boom	Eva Attwood	RPAYC	13	23	12	11	0	59
16	1753	Nocky1	Samuel Ezra	WSC	14	12	26	9	0	61
17	1028	Ponyo	Clover Norman	WSC	15	17	15	17	0	64
18	1600	CIK	Trent Beashel	SLMASC	9	16	23	22	0	70
19	1647	NO NAME	WILL DESTRO	WSC	4	29	16	23	0	72
20	1679	Knot Tide Up	Ian Louis	CYC	22	24	9	20	0	75
21	1338	Catching Fire	Mitchell Kruse	CYC	24	19	34	6	0	83
22	1035	Tigerlily	Sienna Brown	RPAYC	18	22	19	28	0	87
23	1620	Under The Radar	Logan Radford	SLMASC	21	27	18	21	0	87
24	923	Tommy Gun	Thomas Quinlan	HHSC	17	20	28	27	0	92
25	1633	Afterburn	Rohan Stannage	RSYS	28	11	35	24	0	98
26	1747	The Phoenix	Ellis Merrett	RPAYC	27	33	25	14	0	99
27	1061	111	Quentin Burns	WSC	23	15	30	32	0	100
28	1325	Orion	Isaac Freeman	HHSC	26	32	24	26	0	108
29	1294	WaveRunner	Dylan Ryan	SLMASC	29	18	29	36	0	112
30	1602	Aldabra	Claudia Freeman	HHSC	33	26	22	35	0	116
31	1701	Double or Nothin	Ava Whitten	GRSC	DNC (42.00)	DNC (42.00)	14	19	0	117
32	1731	Skullduggery	Oscar Verity	RPAYC	25	30	33	31	0	119
33	1693	BOLT	Jacob Marks	SCOTS	34	28	32	34	0	128
34	1348	Jaws	Nicolas Livermore	HHSC	35	31	39	25	0	130
35	1502	(TBA)	Asher Ryan	SLMASC	36	35	27	33	0	131
36	1404	Breeeze	Harry Smith	CYC	31	37	31	37	0	136
37	1356	Just Keep Sailing	Xavier McLachlan	RSYS	32	38	37	30	0	137
38	1269	Hike	Luc Boucher	CYC	30	34	36	39	0	139
39	1440	Coolhull	Harry Ashton	HHSC	37	36	38	38	0	149
40	1650	Weather or Knot	George Calligeros	Scots	DNC (42.00)	DNC (42.00)	DNC (42.00)	DNC (42.00)	0	168
41	1426	Aerodynamic	Zane Goodridge	DAC	DNC (42.00)	DNC (42.00)	DNC (42.00)	DNC (42.00)	0	168