Audi Sydney Southport Race - Twenty boats finished

by Lisa Ratcliff on 26 Mar 2007 Twenty boats have now finished the Audi Sydney Southport Yacht Race with all but one of the remaining 14 at sea due to cross in quick succession before 7.30pm tonight thanks to the cool and gusty 30-35 knot sou’easter which is currently blasting onto the south east Queensland coastline.

Results for half of the six handicap divisions have now been confirmed with Ray Roberts’ Quantum Racing claiming first place in IRC Division 0 ahead of the line honours winner, Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban, and second over the line, Grant Wharington’s Skandia.

Karl Kwok’s Beau Geste is the confirmed winner of IRC Division 1, an impressive result for the brand new Reichel/Pugh 45 sailing in its second race after being launched in New Zealand in January.

Beau Geste, representing the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, beat Sydney boats Wot Yot, a Nelson/Marek 52 skippered by owner Graeme Wood, and another Reichel/Pugh design, Yendys, owned by Geoff Ross.

IRC Division 2 top honours have gone to Queensland boat Wedgetail owned by Bill Wild. Last night the crew were holding onto the handicap lead in very heavy conditions and praying winds wouldn’t abate. Their prayers were answered with consistent strong breeze all night.

Wedgetail beat West Australian yachtsman Alan Brierty and his Corby 49 Limit, which suffered steering damage yesterday, and Syd Fischer’s Farr 50 Ragamuffin.

A few boats required assistance to enter the Gold Coast Seaway this morning, Michael Martin’s Frantic suffering a broken tiller and engine problems during the race and Howard de Torres’ Nips n Tux finishing with a broken water pump and flat batteries.

Conditions in the Audi Sydney Southport continue to take their toll on the fleet with Queensland boat Lloyds Business Brokers Too Impetuous the latest retirement. This brings the total number of retirements to eleven from a starting line up of 45.

Retiring this morning with fuel leaks, Rudy Weber’s restored 1981-built Too Impetuous looked to have a pre-race bet with neighbour Ian Thomson of a case of Verve sewn up when Thomson’s Identity Crisis pulled into Newcastle for six hours on the first night.

Now Identity Crisis, which is bringing up the rear and is due in the early hours of tomorrow morning, is set to win the wager.

Both Barry Kelly’s Typhoon and David Beak’s Mr Beaks Ribs retired overnight, the former with sail damage.

Here is the latest race data from the official site, links are not live.

Standings At racetime 01:21:40 - 26 March 2007, 10:40am
The time as at which these standings is expressed is Eastern summer time

EST. ELAPSED

YACHT NAME

LAT

LONG

DTG

SOG

COG

TIME & SPEED

LINE HONOURS Overall

1

Ichi Ban

Finished

01:05:13:57

13.1

Matt Allen NSW

25 Mar, 6:13pm

2

Skandia

Finished

01:05:53:07

12.8

Grant Wharington VIC

25 Mar, 6:53pm

3

Quantum Racing

Finished

01:06:59:10

12.4

Ray Roberts NSW

25 Mar, 7:59pm

4

Wot Yot

Finished

01:08:18:49

11.9

Graeme Wood NSW

25 Mar, 9:18pm

5

Yendys

Finished

01:08:38:49

11.8

Geoff Ross NSW

25 Mar, 9:38pm

6

Loki

Finished

01:09:20:10

11.5

Cameron Miles (owner Stephen Ainsworth) NSW

25 Mar, 10:20pm

7

Beau Geste

Finished

01:09:21:06

11.5

Cameron Ward (owner Karl Kwok) Hong Kong

25 Mar, 10:21pm

8

Wedgetail

Finished

01:11:02:35

11.0

Bill Wild QLD

26 Mar, 12:02am

9

Limit

Finished

01:13:22:40

10.3

Alan Brierty WA

26 Mar, 2:22am

10

Ragamuffin

Finished

01:14:25:24

10.0

Syd Fischer NSW

26 Mar, 3:25am

11

AFR Midnight Rambler

Finished

01:14:35:51

9.9

Ed Psaltis NSW

26 Mar, 3:35am

12

UBS Wild Thing

Finished

01:15:34:10

9.7

Geoff Lavis NSW

26 Mar, 4:34am

13

Getaway-Sailing.com

Finished

01:16:03:41

9.6

Peter Goldsworthy NSW

26 Mar, 5:03am

14

Jazz

Finished

01:16:34:02

9.5

Chris Bull UK

26 Mar, 5:34am

15

Frantic

Finished

01:17:07:11

9.3

Michael Martin NSW

26 Mar, 6:07am

16

Sailors With Disabilities

Finished

01:17:32:36

9.2

David Pescud NSW

26 Mar, 6:32am

17

Splash Gordon

Finished

01:18:12:40

9.1

Stephen Ellis NSW

26 Mar, 7:12am

18

Pla Loma IV

Finished

01:19:00:44

8.9

Scott Denton NSW

26 Mar, 8:00am

19

Nips-N-Tux

Finished

01:19:45:27

8.8

Matt De Torres NSW

26 Mar, 8:45am

20

MRZ

Finished

01:20:14:06

8.7

Phillip Rowe NSW

26 Mar, 9:14am

21

Amante

Finished

01:21:00:27

8.5

Dennis Cooper NSW

26 Mar, 10:00am

22

Zen

Finished

01:21:24:39

8.5

Gordon Ketelbey NSW

26 Mar, 10:24am

23

Horwath BRI

27° 58' S

153° 27' E

1.1

8.6

24

01:21:47:25

8.4

Tony Levett NSW

2nm N of Surfers Paradise

26 Mar, 10:47am

24

Alacrity

28° 07' S

153° 35' E

10.5

14.0

312

01:22:47:42

8.2

Matthew Percy QLD

5nm N of Fingal Head

26 Mar, 11:47am

25

Margaret Rintoul II

28° 10' S

153° 38' E

15.0

13.5

320

01:23:17:51

8.1

Mike Freebairn QLD

4nm NE of Fingal Head

26 Mar, 12:17pm

26

Integrity

28° 26' S

153° 46' E

31.6

7.0

12

02:01:46:12

7.7

Andrew Stoeckel NSW

14nm NE of Cape Byron

26 Mar, 2:46pm

27

Crossing

28° 36' S

153° 43' E

40.4

12.4

28

02:02:47:20

7.6

Simon May / Bruce Marshall NSW

5nm NE of Cape Byron

26 Mar, 3:47pm

28

Zephyr

28° 42' S

153° 39' E

45.4

5.9

8

02:03:00:22

7.5

James Connell NSW

4nm S of Cape Byron

26 Mar, 4:00pm

29

Impeccable

29° 02' S

153° 34' E

66.1

4.9

28

02:05:58:21

7.1

John Walker NSW

8nm NE of Evans Head

26 Mar, 6:58pm

30

Kioni

29° 05' S

153° 41' E

68.7

7.0

312

02:06:54:38

7.0

Nick Athineos NSW

12nm E of Evans Head

26 Mar, 7:54pm

31

Phillip's Foote Witchdoctor

29° 05' S

153° 28' E

70.6

7.6

332

02:07:36:04

6.9

Maurie Cameron NSW

3nm N of Evans Head

26 Mar, 8:36pm

32

Equinox

29° 14' S

153° 39' E

77.7

8.1

0

02:06:18:42

7.1

Owen Muyt NSW

12nm SE of Evans Head

26 Mar, 7:18pm

33

Salona

29° 36' S

153° 40' E

98.8

7.0

12

02:13:29:27

6.2

Phillip King NSW

18nm SE of Yamba

27 Mar, 2:29am

34

Identity Crisis

30° 03' S

153° 20' E

127.2

8.6

8

02:14:19:37

6.2

Ian Thomson QLD

4nm E of N.W Solitary Is

27 Mar, 3:19am

Bear Necessity

Retired - at Port

Andrew Dally NSW

Cyrene 3

Retired - at Port

Michael Selby NSW

Dream*

Retired - at Port

Ian Gleeson QLD

Fincorp More Witchcraft*

Retired - at Port

John Cameron NSW

High Anxiety*

Retired - at Port

Mark Benson NSW

Lloyds Business Brokers - Too Impetuous*

Retired - at Port

Rudy Weber QLD

Mr Beaks Ribs*

Retired - at Port

David Beak NSW

Mr Kite*

Retired - at Port

Buckland & Hunn NSW

Occasional Coarse Language*

Retired - at Port

Warwick Sherman NSW

The Goat*

Retired - at Port

Bruce Foye NSW

Typhoon*

Retired - at Port

Barry Kelly NSW

Night Nurse

Scratched

Russell McCart QLD

Notes Dream - Retired to Cape Hawke Fincorp More Witchcraft - Retired to port at Coffs Harbour High Anxiety - Arrived at Coffs Harbour - 2100 hours Lloyds Business Brokers - Too Impetuous - In Coffs Harbour Mr Beaks Ribs - In Coffs Harbour Mr Kite - In Coffs Harbour Occasional Coarse Language - Arrived at Coffs Harbour The Goat - In Coffs Harbour Typhoon - In at Coffs Harbour

Key Unless otherwise indicated, all positions are obtained by a report from a GPS transceiver on the yachts. No Report     Position unknown. Deduced Reckoning     No report received — position deduced using previous known position. Estimate     No report received — position estimated. Radio report     No report received — position obtained by radio from yacht. Sighting     No report received — position obtained by a sighting of the yacht. Interpolation     No report received — position interpolated from earlier and later known positions.