Rager takes Adelaide to Port Lincoln line honours

by Peter Campbell on 2 Mar 2002 Gary Shanks’ wellknown Adelaide ocean racing yacht Rager this morning took line honours in South Australia’s major ocean race, the Quin’s
Blue Water Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln race which started off Outer Harbour at 3pm yesterday.


Rager, an Elliott 56, crossed the finish line at 06.53.51 hours today about 51 minutes outside the race record after a fast but at times rough
dash across the Gulf St Vincent and Spencer’s Gulf.



The race, with 76 Racing division boats and 15 Cruising yachts, started in a 25 knot southerly which freshened during the night to 30 knots with
a short steep sea.



Three Cruising Division yachts, which had started five hours ahead of the Racing Division fleet, finished next, AKT 2, Jack Didyk’s 13.4m
Bavaria, followed by Windtorque, Gordon Penner’s 17m Roberts design cruiser, and Sooner or Later, a Farr 13m skippered by Phil Newton.



Fourth boat to finish and second in the Racing Division was the Victorian yacht Prowler, an Elliott 14.3m sloop skippered by Joe Westerlo, at
08.42.30.



In another surprise result, the third Racing Division boat to finish, at 08.52.20, was Carpe Diem (Christopher Riggs) the Adams 54-footer which
was better known when raced in Sydney as Aspect Computing by David Pescud.



The former Queensland yacht G-Wizz (Greg Patten) crossed at 08.53.15 while Stephen Ainsworth’s Swan 48, Loki, from Sydney and winner of
this week’s AYF Australian IRC Championship, finished at 09.06.47.


Almost six minutes later came David Urry’s Farr 40 One Design, War Games, at 09.12.19 with Geoff Boettcher’s MBD 41, Secret Mens
Business, finishing close astern at 09.13.16.



The rest of the fleet should finish by early this afternoon, but the Port Fairy yacht, Monkey Puzzle, skippered by designer Peter Young, retired
and motored to Port Lincoln with an injured crewman, arriving mid-morning.



Corrected time results will not be known until later today.



Race web site: www.plyc.com.au