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[Team WIld]

GS suggested it so Ill start it. I know ASBA has a FB page, however for the SA site post live reports, pics, stories, sailing conditions etc. Good wing and fair sailing to all.

[Turkey Slapper]

And the Winner is!

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[MR.CLEAN]

make 'em good and we'll toss them on the front page

[Team WIld]

And the Winner is!

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[Team WIld]

make 'em good and we'll toss them on the front page

THANKS MR. CLEAN Did you make the Slapper the official Australian foreigh correspondant yet?

[TD Floater]

And the Winner is!

mmmm pole

[Team WIld]

And the Winner is!

mmmm pole

Congrats Lickety-split provisional winner race 1.
http://www.bellerive...SA1/01RGrp7.htm

[Turkey Slapper]

And the Devil came 7th!

It must be banned!

[Tasj]

photos will be here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james975

[GybeSet®]

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but Tassie devils won and filled the larger amount of the top placings !

nice work Sam

i take it that was a passage at plus 3 hours ? weather ?

[steveromagnino]

Nicely done lickety split not a bad race history so far!

[facthunt]

looks pretty light

[Turkey Slapper]

ASBA facebook says 0-12 with the glassouts on the last leg to the finish!

GS, passage race today!

tasj, good to see some pics!

But looking at the pics, as up at Airlie last year, mabe some thought might have to go into measuring code zero's! Mmmmm

[MR.CLEAN]

Nice pics tasj. If you have any that show the fleet rather than one or two boats, please send a link.

[Trevor B]

Wot's "Fang to the Max"?

[Berndty]

Wot's "Fang to the Max"?

Have a look at the pic link posted above. There is a few photos of it there.

[83TER]

Well done to Sam and his team for a win yesterday it was an interesting day with light and consistent breese for 70% of the race, we found the first hole in which Zippier were able to take advantage of and took the lead around the last mark, on the final leg we found another hole and the rest of the fleet sailed up to us and Zippier and then the breese came in just enough for us both to stay out in front and then once we finished there was a total glass out with half of the fleet not finished so it was a tough day at the office. The breese is up for today currently 20 to 25 kts and about 12'c Yum

[Team WIld]

Well done to Sam and his team for a win yesterday it was an interesting day with light and consistent breese for 70% of the race, we found the first hole in which Zippier were able to take advantage of and took the lead around the last mark, on the final leg we found another hole and the rest of the fleet sailed up to us and Zippier and then the breese came in just enough for us both to stay out in front and then once we finished there was a total glass out with half of the fleet not finished so it was a tough day at the office. The breese is up for today currently 20 to 25 kts and about 12'c Yum

Sounds like a great day today, but 12 degrees your all bloody mad! 83 can you write a decent story for Mr clean? Or encourage a few others to put in snippets and I will try and put it all together for a Front page Anarchy story. Maybe if highlights can be provided and I write it you can pass it around and make sure it is a true representation of the racing before clean posts it on the front page! Thoughts???

[itkiwi]

Cheers for the photos TasJ. Any chance of some interior photos of the sporties in the car park?

[Team WIld]

I will try and put it all together for a Front page Anarchy story.

you should join the association or Bellerive Yacht Club before you start talking for them, they should be given the right of their own publicity

Cleans recent history 'Front Paging' Aussie event news from Third party or Unauthorised sources is not what an org would risk

I'm assuming you are aware?
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now theres an idea he could do something on your boat sports 8 XX and building plans, it being the fastest ever, or even something from your racing/club ?

Mate just trying to help and as suggested I could forward the collation of feedback to someone down there..Forget it! It is all too hard.

[Turkey Slapper]

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[GybeSet®]

Wild

hell man JOIN its obvious you wanna be involved,
Your fucking boat is the BLACK CAVIAR in the ASBA ranks fer chrissake

DS in Qld is your main man, and you'll get a better info stream than you have been
who knows you may be the best publicity officer ever seen

I think like me you are wishing you were at the racing now, good news for you is that Airlie is coming up soon

you'll be there right ?

[Team WIld]

please stop posting inaccuracies, it doesn't help too much to mislead even if you are just repeating them from bad sources

they will be countered, if this were a game similar to rock,scissor paper i can assure you facts beat opinion beat guesswork

are you 'in' for Airlie

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re deleting, you've quoted it !!

you go first then

Done

[Team WIld]

Blokes world, Lickety split and Go Majik 1,2,3 in both races today.

http://www.bellerive...com.au/topyacht

News pics etc????

Well done Blokes World, puts Qld in its rightful place!

[Team WIld]

Kaito, Blokes world, tickety boo in race 4.

Standings day 2

Lickety split 9.0
Blokes worls 10
Kaito 11

Tight at the top with Go Magik in fouth on 19 points!

[Tasj]

photos from day two are currently uploading.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james975

[Team WIld]

photos from day two are currently uploading.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james975

Cheers and thanks for the pics.

[Timmys_Trick_Turkey]

Curious rig mods for Go Majik. Following the RL24 style of high aspect mainsail, with the spider 22 style of cut down headsail, and no bow pole. Thats a lot of unused boom. It'd be good to get some thoughts on how that worked for them in the light. Were there restrictions in this race in relation to changing mainsails ?

[TD Floater]

Ummm, spend a bit of time in the ASBA proposal thread, see how well it's worked for them. That is their standard main.

[Turkey Slapper]

Curious rig mods for Go Majik. Following the RL24 style of high aspect mainsail, with the spider 22 style of cut down headsail, and no bow pole. Thats a lot of unused boom. It'd be good to get some thoughts on how that worked for them in the light. Were there restrictions in this race in relation to changing mainsails ?

Sportboats are a rating rule so measured main has to be used unless you bolt a smaller one on!

I say rating rule loosly, if you make your boat rate well, you will be banned!

[Team WIld]

race 5 Kaito, tickety boo then Blokes World
Race 6 Tickety boo, blokes world then Monkey Business

Good day for Tickety boo` as lickety split holds third overall only a few points ahead of Tickety boo. There looks to be a race now for Third and first with Blokes World just one point ahead of Kaito.

PHS has it first Tickety boo from Blokes world and Monkey business.

Still 1 race to go today so check back later.

[Tasj]

Still 1 race to go today so check back later.

No.

The last race wasn't started due to the conditions.

Photos will be up as soon as the carrier pigeons take off.

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[furcoat]

Still 1 race to go today so check back later.

No.

The last race wasn't started due to the conditions.

Photos will be up as soon as the carrier pigeons take off.

Forecasting snow in SE Aus tomorrow guys - better pack the mohair kites.

[Team WIld]

Still 1 race to go today so check back later.

No.

The last race wasn't started due to the conditions.

Photos will be up as soon as the carrier pigeons take off.

Forecasting snow in SE Aus tomorrow guys - better pack the mohair kites.

Thanks for the heads up. Are they going to try and run 3 races tomorrow instead of 2?

[Turkey Slapper]

Still 1 race to go today so check back later.

No.

The last race wasn't started due to the conditions.

Photos will be up as soon as the carrier pigeons take off.

Forecasting snow in SE Aus tomorrow guys - better pack the mohair kites.

15 yesterday and forcast 12 deg today! Snow tomorrow, brrrrr!

Might have to put a shirt on up here in brisbane in sympathy!

Getting close on the leader board!

Was it another girl another planet that lost a rig? Or another race another mast as it was refered to up here for years! Whoops! Nice looking zepher in the pics!

[Bill E Goat]

[GybeSet®]

Forecast for Sunday until midnight
No wind warning for Sunday for Derwent Estuary
WindsWest to northwesterly 10 to 20 knots, possibly 25 knots at times during the early evening.Seas0.5 to 1 metres.

Monday 9 April
No wind warning for Monday for Derwent Estuary
WindsWest to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending south to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots around midday.SeasUp to to 1 metre increasing to 1.5 metres around midday.


Weather Situation
A cold front will cross Tasmania during the evening bringing a colder southwesterly change. A low to the southeast will combine with a strong high south of the Bight to maintain a cold south to southwesterly flow across the state through Monday which should ease on Tuesday as the high moves closer. The high is then expected to move slowly to the north of Tasmania during Wednesday and Thursday maintaining a westerly airflow.


lol, when do the wind warnings start below 40 degrees south, at 50 knts ??\


could be Mick Hinchey weather again, wins are his debut in asba racing ?

[Tasj]

day 3 photos are slowly going up at the moment.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james975

lol, when do the wind warnings start below 40 degrees south, at 50 knts ??

translation required


...and to think that we had two 38 degree days a month or so ago during the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta.

[Sandgroper Yachting]

Saw a couple of awesome wipeouts today.
Top Gear managed to bowl out with the keel on the wrong side and seemed to stay down for a good couple of minutes.
The tip of their rig was well and truly under water.
Go Magik showed the keel off a couple of times as well.
A couple of Shaws were showing off thier bulbs at times.

[steveromagnino]

Nothing wrong with testing self righting :-). Good luck for warm weather and good breeze tomoro:-)

[Tasj]

all of today's shots are up now

Saw a couple of awesome wipeouts today.

Lickety Split
Tickety Boo
Shaw Contracting
Shaw Contracting
link

yesterday;
Ellusive

[Tasj]

Good luck for warm weather and good breeze tomoro:-)

thanks


Hobart area 6 - 12
Partly cloudy. Scattered showers with possible hail

[GybeSet®]

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tasj

I think you've just schooled a bunch of photogs on how to cover a regatta

in hell conditions at that

awsome work

[Tasj]

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tasj

I think you've just schooled a bunch of photogs on how to cover a regatta

in hell conditions at that

awsome work

Thanks! it helps pass the time
(I'm not out their to take photos though)

sail world have an article up about sundays racing.

[Turkey Slapper]

Tazj, thanks for the pics, great job!

Here's hoping there is a managable breese down there today for the guys to get 3 good races in, no gale but still cold by look of it!

Qld boat to win, magic a bit like anthrax, all false hype and fear!

You wont belive the weather up on morreton bay today, 10knots, no cloud and 30degs!

Good luck guys!

[Barman]

With one race to go Blokes World has a 2 point buffer over Kaito! With the 3 Shaws a further 9, 11 &17 points behind!

Good luck Blokes World & go Queensland.

Who would have thought, 4 light boats and a M24 in the top 5. Looks like a great series, drive carefully home!

[GybeSet®]

(penultimate) race 7 results marked 'provisional' .... however might be a good story in there

27 minute race and Kaito 1 second off an elapsed time win !

Shaws, T7s firing blanks elapsed time 6th, 7, 8, 9 & dnf

weird

BOM obs. HOBART (ELLERSLIE ROAD)
Time Dir Spd-kts Gust-kts

11:30am W 12 26 knts

12:00pm S 11 20 knts

12:30pm WSW 12 17 knts

to 26knt squirts at start-time, 90^ swings as it eased

[GybeSet®]

With one race to go Blokes World has a 2 point buffer over Kaito! With the 3 Shaws a further 9, 11 &17 points behind!

Good luck Blokes World & go Queensland.

Who would have thought, 4 light boats and a M24 in the top 5. Looks like a great series, drive carefully home!

yeah and with the dropped heat hanging over their heads, EQUAL !

confident they'll both beat their drops tho

is series 1 drop?

[Tasj]

Big wipeout for blokes world near the finish of last race. DNF I think.

2 races today.

31 knots max recorded, but more breeze up the course I'd say.


All over.

[GybeSet®]

[Turkey Slapper]

Results!

http://www.bellerive...BSA1/series.htm

Well done to all in a tough series by look of it, weather condition wise!

Top 2 real close after todays dnf!

[(p)Irate]

31 knots max recorded, but more breeze up the course I'd say.


All over.

Thank god.

[Tasj]

Thank god.

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[Barman]

Fuck! Looks like I jinxed em :-(

[(p)Irate]

Fuck! Looks like I jinxed em :-(

Thanks Barman, and that was before we tore that kite, but after we had broken our will to live. :-)

[TD Floater]

Revenge of the sym!

[Barman]

Fuck! Looks like I jinxed em :-(

Thanks Barman, and that was before we tore that kite, but after we had broken our will to live. :-)

Did you see what happened to BW?

[(p)Irate]

Fuck! Looks like I jinxed em :-(

Thanks Barman, and that was before we tore that kite, but after we had broken our will to live. :-)

Did you see what happened to BW?

No. That wipeout pictured was in the first race today. In the second race it started in about 5 knots then built. We started with new #1 heady. Fast off the line, crossed in front of BW. Think we were in front of them at mark 1. Didn't look like they had broken anything at that stage but had just lost out in the shifts. We tore the masthead on the drop. Then on the 2nd work the breeze built to 30. We'd already broken battens in both our #2's and didn't want to destroy the #1 so went home. Nothing (more) to lose.

So, in a nutshell, we didn't see what happened to BW.

On behalf of all Tasmanians I'd like to apologise for the weather (and I never normally do). That was not normal Hobart Easter weather. Certainly destroyed our game-plan.

But congrats to Kaito. Two kids and a local teenager on board plus Heath, Darren etc freezing their nuts off. Commiserations to Brett and the BW team but above all bad luck to Sam who sailed a brilliant regatta in a new boat. He had no local advantage. The Tamar and Derwent are much further apart than Boags and Cascade!

[Tasj]

Photos are heading your way right now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james975/

Revenge of the sym!

... My link

[Tasj]

Did you see what happened to BW?

see attached

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[(p)Irate]

Did you see what happened to BW?

see attached

Oh, shit.

[Bill E Goat]

Did you see what happened to BW?

see attached

Self righting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Nearly as bad as having a Symmetrical

[Timmys_Trick_Turkey]

Did you see what happened to BW?

see attached

Self righting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Nearly as bad as having a Symmetrical

First few pics showed the assy still set, dragging the mast down,the keel down, and the bulb intact. The last shot has a wave in the way, but looks like either the keel retracted, or the bulb fell off...

[Tasj]

I dont see a keel on that boat anymore... Did the bulb break off ?

no.

you can just see the bulb in some of the other shots
http://www.flickr.co...31107@N07&s=rec

http://www.flickr.co...975/7060446479/

[Tasj]

this one might be better
blokes world

All photos are up now.

Regatta Tally;
1 patrol boat ( temporary overheating issue i hope)
1 broken mast
2 rudders
1 boom vang
1 camera lens i think

probably lots more damage, but suprised there wasn't more obvious sail damage.

Day 4 article:
http://www.bellerive...om.au/node/5616

[GybeSet®]

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holy snappin' duck shit

set he prawn net smack in front of the 'Snow Plough' ! !



Danger Will Robinson

[GRUMPY]

this one might be better
blokes world

All photos are up now.

Regatta Tally;
1 patrol boat ( temporary overheating issue i hope)
1 broken mast
2 rudders
1 boom vang
1 camera lens i think

probably lots more damage, but suprised there wasn't more obvious sail damage.

Day 4 article:
http://www.bellerive...om.au/node/5616

Good onya Tas. Thanks for posting all the pics and some bits of story. You were there, that matters.

[Barman]

Bad gybe and they went in! Not in the hunt in the last day apparently, Kaito was the better sailed boat on the day and the results showed that. Impressed by the Kaito crew in the tuff conditions.
They spent some time on their side balancing they boat "skiff" style trying to get the chute in and sails down!According to BW crew!
All good there off on a weeks holiday in Tassie now!!

[lickety-split]

BW broke their rudder, deliberately kept the boat on the side whilst dropping sail and gathering kite.

[GybeSet®]

Bad gybe and they went in! Not in the hunt in the last day apparently, Kaito was the better sailed boat on the day and the results showed that. Impressed by the Kaito crew in the tuff conditions.
They spent some time on their side balancing they boat "skiff" style trying to get the chute in and sails down!According to BW crew!
All good there off on a weeks holiday in Tassie now!!

BW broke their rudder, deliberately kept the boat on the side whilst dropping sail and gathering kite.

yeah in the photos you can clearly see crew out on the mast area holding it down

dunno barney, WHERE WAS Blokes relative to the (line honours) Zippier before the breakage, they had the necessary Time break ...

and then some

I reckon BW had it

Kaito stepped up to the task in hard conditions hey, bullets on the latter 3 (of 4) days kinda telling

[lickety-split]

Zipper was way ahead, they sailed a very tidy race

Zipper was way ahead, they sailed a very tidy race

[facthunt]

Bad gybe and they went in! Not in the hunt in the last day apparently, Kaito was the better sailed boat on the day and the results showed that. Impressed by the Kaito crew in the tuff conditions.
They spent some time on their side balancing they boat "skiff" style trying to get the chute in and sails down!According to BW crew!
All good there off on a weeks holiday in Tassie now!!

BW broke their rudder, deliberately kept the boat on the side whilst dropping sail and gathering kite.

yeah in the photos you can clearly see crew out on the mast area holding it down

dunno barney, WHERE WAS Blokes relative to the (line honours) Zippier before the breakage, they had the necessary Time break ...

and then some

I reckon BW had it

Kaito stepped up to the task in hard conditions hey, bullets on the latter 3 (of 4) days kinda telling

needed to finish with 2 shaws between bw & kaito, wasnt unfolding that way aparently

[lickety-split]

Correct

[GybeSet®]

"needed to finish with 2 shaws between bw & kaito, wasnt unfolding that way aparently"

why ?, what am i missing ?

BW was ahead on points going into the final, no ?

(2 points)

[facthunt]

"needed to finish with 2 shaws between bw & kaito, wasnt unfolding that way aparently"

why ?, what am i missing ?

BW was ahead on points going into the final, no ?

(2 points)

that was the word from the horses mouth , however looking at the score card i would have to agree with you.

[GybeSet®]

"needed to finish with 2 shaws between bw & kaito, wasnt unfolding that way aparently"

why ?, what am i missing ?

BW was ahead on points going into the final, no ?

(2 points)

that was the word from the horses mouth , however looking at the score card i would have to agree with you.

Okie

all BW had to do ( given K scored 3rd) was beat the 4th paced boat on corrected time
No easy task as she was apprx 5 min behind at the completion of an earlier lap ( according to photo data)

exif data on james photos ( they are in time sequence ) shows they were on track somewhere between 1:30 & 2:30 mins behind Z and similarly ahead of 2nd place MC

(MC 4:19 behind Z at finish, race data not photo)

very close

original 'date & time' photo data has appropriate shots, Z finishing, BW in the water, MC finishing w/ BW splashed in the background

& oh yeah, bloody 'awsome race' to Zip ( the double!) and Mustard Cutter

[Tasj]

Blokes World were the stand out classy sailors every day except the last day, I suspect they didn't eat their Vegemite.

They finished several minutes ahead of 2nd place in most races, with a max gap of about 7 minutes in one race.
Everything Blokes World did was close to perfect on the first 3 days, I only spotted one sloppy kite drop, but even that was no worse than the average drop for the fleet. On the last day they were struggling by their standards, perhaps they had equipment issues well before the wipeout.

In the first race of the day they were only one second ahead of Kaito (who had a brilliant day)

Zippier zipped everything together on the last day from my point of view.
For the record the course was shorter than every other day.

[Sandgroper Yachting]

I didnt see the first race of the last day but did manage to watch the last race.
Blokes World had a shocker of a start and Zippier & Mustard Cutter made massive gains on the left hand side of the course.
Blokes World did make up a huge amount before the rudder went.

The boys on BW said they kept it on its side to get the sails down so they didnt flog themselves apart with no reliable way of steering away to keep the rig pointing the right way.
Once the rudder went it was all about boat preservation.

[Trevor B]

Wot's "Fang to the Max"?

Have a look at the pic link posted above. There is a few photos of it there.

I saw it on the "link posted above," I just wanted to know what it was.

[(p)Irate]

Wot's "Fang to the Max"?

Have a look at the pic link posted above. There is a few photos of it there.

I saw it on the "link posted above," I just wanted to know what it was.

It's Fred Barrett's FBYD 6.4. He broke the rig in the States a month ago so decided to cut the cabin top off while he was at it. Great job to get it finished in time and the rig tune is great as it seems a lot faster. It does look a lot different with the flush deck. We've been ribbing him about his Not Sure 640.

[GybeSet®]

Trev, Fred designed the flashy very pro Van Munster-built GP 26 prior to this sportsboat, similar to what Jim Donovan did ( GP26 >> 20somethin SB)

6.4 appears to share a bit of a FB signature look, if taking the GP into account

[(p)Irate]

Trev, Fred designed the flashy very pro Van Munster-built GP 26 prior to this sportsboat, similar to what Jim Donovan did ( GP26 >> 20somethin SB)

6.4 appears to share a bit of a FB signature look, if taking the GP into account

Brett sailed with Freddo at the Nats but pretty sure the 6.4 was drawn well before the GP26. The drawings were on the wall at the Hood loft in Hobart in 2006 if I recall correctly.