Sharpie Nationals - Tasmanian crews lead on the Derwent + images

by Peter Campbell/Jane Austin images on 1 Jan 2010
Consistent sailing in fresh breezes has placed the Tasmanian crew of Ric Buchanan, Andrea Declerk and Nick Johnston with a two point lead after three heats of the National Sharpie Australian championships on Hobart's River Derwent.

Sailing One Hump or Two, Buchanan and his crew have handled the conditions on their home waters faultlessly, with placings so far of 2-4-2, giving them a two point margin from South Australians Malcolm Higgins, Sam Sanderson and
Andrew Chisholm, whose placings with Blur have been 5-2-3.

Third overall, two points further back, are Queenslanders Andrew Wells, Jason Beebe and Sam Reid, who won the opening heat with Jess and have followed this with a sixth and fifth.

The other heat winners have been All Scoobed Out (Dave Higgins) and Bread Run (Jason Heritage) both from South Australia.

The Lightweight Sharpie is an adult-crewed, high performance centreboard dinghy which derives its name from its narrow, hard-chine hull that was developed from the International 12 square metre class used in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

A fleet of 27 boats from Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania is contesting the seven heat series, with heat four scheduled to start at 2pm tomorrow, Saturday, 2 January.

67th Australian Sharpie Championship - Progressive Results

Sail No	Boat	Helm	Crew	Category	Points	Place	R1	R2	R3
T900	One Hump or Two	Rick Buchanan	Andrea Declerk & Nick Johnston	Open	8	1	2	4	2
SA893	Blur	Malcolm Higgins	Sam Sanderson & Andrew Chisholm	Open/40	10	2	5	2	3
Q906	Jess	Andrew Wells	Jason Beebe & Sam Reid	Open/40	12	3	1	6	5
SA909	All Scoobed Out	Dave Higgins	Anthony Mitton & Mark Kretschmer	Open	13	4	8	1	4
SA920	Bread Run	Jason Heritage	James Davis & Mark Beaumont	Open	14	5	10	3	1
SA858	Savage Mood Swings	John Weigand	Justin Kennaway & Sam Heritage	Open/40	22	6	4	10	8
N885	Mr Freeze	Todd Curry	Hayden Sellers & Brad Curry	Open	30	7	6	17	7
SA831	2MC's & 1 DJ!!	John Heywood	Harry Fisher & Zane Hacker	Open	30	8	13	7	10
WA910	Vita Brevis	David Meehan	Rhyss Edwards & Brendan Green	Open/C	31	9	11	8	12
T825	Nutpatch Nougat	Drew Latham	Nick Carter & Andrew Rostron	Open	33	10	9	15	9
WA821	Impact	Craig Mann	David Nixon & Chris Plummer	Open/40	34	11	12	9	13
T846	Dump Truck	Nick Fleming	Will Logan & Alex Bourke	Open/40	35	12	14	5	16
N883	Smoke	Michael Forster	Andrew Forster & Ben Phillips	Open/C	38	13	16	11	11
T816	Get Smart	Tim Muir	Charles Donnelly & Marcus Carter	Open	44	14	3	13	28
SA912	Wet Dream	Darryl O'Toole	Barry O'Toole & Brad Day	Open/50	45	15	7	18	20
SA895	In Hindsight	Daniel Rantanen	Matthew Carter & Chad Baker	Open	48	16	28	14	6
N812	Rocket Fuels	Dean Souter	Mark Ablett & Michael Denny	Open/C/J	48	17	15	16	17
T889	Gun Smoke	Paul Burnell	Tom Ransley & Steve Salter	Open	57	18	17	12	28
N902	Mainiac	Ian Richardson	Alex Marzano & Dylan Zanin	Open/C/50	57	19	20	23	14
SA884	Pre-Mature	Ellen Fisher	Cameron Larkin & Brad Windram	J	58	20	21	22	15
SA897	Killing Me Softly	Greg Hammet	James Bowling & Chris Thorne	Open/50	60	21	18	24	18
N747	Roger Ramjet	Derek Milligan	John Fisher & Andrew Breen	Open/50	60	22	19	19	22
SA699	Rhythmstick	Steve Luders	Angus Hughes & Brad Luders	Open/50	63	23	24	20	19
N736	Chilli Factor	Chris Ablett	Eric Hines & Grant Warner	Open/C/50	64	24	22	21	21
SA856	Freak on a Leash	Adam Cotton	Rohan Lillie & Peter Knispel	Open	76	25	23	25	28
WA734	Run to Paradise	Tony Aisbett	Jeff Darby & Gary Reed	Open	78	26	28	27	23
T610	Head	David Golding	Ishmael Konstantinidis & Guy Roberts	Open/C	79	27	25	26	28

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