Loki from Full Bore in Adelaide to Port Lincoln race

by Peter Campbell on 3 Mar 2002 The Sydney yacht Loki, which last week won the 2002 AYF Australian IRC Championship, has continued her successes this weekend by taking
out the IRC Division of the Quin’s Blue Water Classic offshore race from Adelaide to Port Lincoln.

Loki, an imported Swan 48 owned by Cruising Yacht Club of Australia member Stephen Ainsworth, won the 155 nautical mile race to Port
Lincoln by 20 minutes on corrected time from Full Bore from Port Lincoln and Ticket of Leave from Melbourne.



Full Bore, a new Sydney 38 owned by Port Lincoln abalone diver David Buckland, was having its first long offshore race after contesting the
Australian IRC Championship sailed off Adelaide’s Outer Harbour.



Ticket of Leave, a Beneteau 40.7 owned and skippered by Kevin Wood, Commodore of Sandringham Yacht Club, took third place on
corrected time, followed closely by Santana II, Keith Finch’s modified Farr 42 from the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia, fifth place going
to another Sydney 38, In the Mystic, chartered by Kym Clarke.



IRC Division results were announced just before today’s trophy presentation for the 52nd Adelaide Port Lincoln Race which earlier saw the
oldest yacht in the fleet, the Tasman Seabird Reprieve, skippered by David Barnfield, from the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron, named
as PHS Overall and Division II honours from Wambam (Neil Dalrymple) from the CYCSA, which was also placed first in PHS Division I.



With Loki’s owner, Stephen Ainsworth, having to fly to Melbourne for a wedding over the weekend, principal helmsman Tony Kirby took over as
skipper.



Loki also won the Simrad Cup Henley Sprint, a 12 nautical mile beat to windward along the Adelaide beaches before the fleet set sail on a
south-westerly course across the Gulf St Vincent, through the Investigator Strait and across Spencer’s Gulf to famous fishing port.



Loki won five of the seven races in the Australian IRC Championship, conducted jointly by the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron and the
Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia. Ticket of Leave placed second.



With Full Bore the top-placed Port Lincoln Yacht Club entry in the Quin’s Blue Water Classic, owner/skipper David Buckland was elated with the
performance of his new boat in the hard, fast race in breezes of 20-25 knots.

“It was a great race,” Buckland said. “There is no doubt the Sydney 38s are top class IRC racers.



“We are only new to the boat and are pleased with our second place…next year we will be looking for a Port Lincoln win!” he added.



A fleet of 71 Racing Division yachts and 15 Cruising Division boats took part in the Adelaide to Port Lincoln Race, with seven retiring from the
Racing Division.



Many of the fleet will stay on for the traditional Quin’s Lincoln Week Regatta, this year linked close to Encounter 2002, a three month long series
of events commemorating the bicentenary of the expeditions to two famous navigators, Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin.



As each charted the coastline of South Australia, English and French ships met in Encounter Bay on the southern coast of the State, in April
1802.



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