12ft Skiff Interdominions

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Bill E Goat

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The 51st 12ft Skiff Interdominions kicked off yesterday with the Handicap start Invitation Race. A great win for Forbsey and Little Dick and Fastest time to that polished pair Glenda and Johnny Schultz (who only sail together one regatta a year)

The regatta is run by Lane Cove Sailing Club out of Hunters Hill Sailing Club. There should be some great viewing from Clarks point in Hunters Hill, with the boats rigging next to it.

Worth a look to see all the home made carbon rigging

Reunion tonight with 140 old skiffies there.

Schedule and details can be found at Lance Cove Website

Regatta program with a good history of the contests Regatta Program

The image below was taken from Clarks Point

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Can attest to the great viewing. Took some guests from Melbourne up for a cruise up the river and they loved watching the 12's. The green coloured 12 looked the best of the bunch with a yellow boat also looking reasonable at times.

Shifty conditions bought the reigning champions unstuck at one mark where they dropped it in on the drop. Murray Press also looked impressive.

Should be a good series.

 
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these boats always look so frigging hot (well, except maybe when looking at how they are finished from closer than a metre, in which case they are surprisingly rough in places).

Frigging sex on water.

 
Bill E Goat

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Some great photo's by Rolf Lunsman, but you have to login to facebook to see them, shame they can't get the results up before the photo's

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Article from Yaffa Publishing by Di Pearson, SLAM 12ft skiff media

http://www.mysailing.com.au/news/father-beats-son-at-12ft-skiff-interdominions

Father beats son at 12ft Skiff Interdominions

11 Jan 2011

There is a number of father and son combinations sailing at the SLAM 12ft Skiff Interdominion being sailed on upper Sydney Harbour this week, but today a father and son thrashed it out from opposing boats and both came up with the goods.

At the helm of Dimension Polyant (Aus) is Nick Press and at the helm of Gemmell Sails is his father, Murray Press; both sail for Lane Cove 12ft Skiff Sailing Club, host of the Interdominion.

Racking up a third and a win in Races 5 and 6 today, Nick and his crew Brad “Yabba” Yabsley have a commanding 13 point lead in the series.

And following the two races, sailed in a tricky breeze that clocked between east-nor-east and nor-east, with the pressure anywhere between 10 and 20 knots, Gemmell Sails, has moved up to third place overall after scoring third and second places in some of the most exciting racing of the Championship so far.

Murray Press and his crew Ben Gemmell missed out on winning Race 6 by just one second to consistently well-sailed Garde, crewed by Brett Hobson and Alex Johnson from Woollahra Sailing Club, who move into second place overall now that the first drop of the series has come into play.

Murray Press was more than happy with second place – he beat his son home by one place and nearly two minutes. “It happens rarely, so it’s good to beat him,” Murray said with a big smile. “I’m looking forward to giving him a bit of curry around the dinner table tonight.

“Our good results have kept us in the mix. It was a funny sort of day; too much breeze some of the time and not enough some of the time, but the No.2 rig was the right way to go. There was a lot of debate amongst the guys as to whether to go out with the No. 1 or 2. It was a bit hard to pick,” he said.

Nick Press and Yabsley were happy with their day’s work. “We can keep this up if we continue doing the little things right. We just have to keep it ticking along and stay out of trouble,” Yabsley said.

He described the day as: “Full pressure one minute, under pressure the next. Racing was a lot closer in Race 6, the front pack got away from the rest.”

Others were not so lucky today, none more so than veterans Jack Winning and Brett Phillips on Vantage Real Estate (Lane Cove). They broke their rudder pin towards the end of Race 5, but found a replacement in time to hit the course for Race 6, but it was not to be.

“We got hit by a rain squall just before the start (Race 6) and went for a swim. We decided to stay in the water until we were ready to start, but BT Towage came along and wiped out our backstay. Just not our day,” Winning commented.

Many others found themselves back on the beach at Hunters Hill SC too. Among them, Maersk Line (Jakub Ronowizc/Craig Nicholson) from Lane Cove had Barking Mad (Martin Debelle/Ian Terley) from Woollahra SC round up into them. Both came ashore minus a fair bit of their rigs.

“It was pretty ugly and it happened so quickly,” Ronowizc said.

One sailor who came ashore smiling was Alison Chapman, who is new to the class. Sailing with various partners this week, she has finished four of the six races sailed, exceptional for a first-timer, and even more so because she only weighs 48 kilos, a big ask in these hard to handle boats.

A champion sailor in the Cherub, Flying 11 and 29er classes, the WSC skipper is taking it in her stride. “I’ve never steered from the wire (trapeze) before, but we’re getting better every day. We had a few kite problems today. We were a bit unlucky, but at least we finished,” Chapman said.

“It’s a fun boat, but it’s a bit heart-stopping going downhill in a bit of breeze,” she said, adding she would continue in the class.

Hosted by Lane Cove 12ft Skiff Sailing Club, with the cooperation of Hunters Hill Sailing Club, the 51 st SLAM 12ft Skiff Interdominion continues with two further races tomorrow and finishes on Friday, 14 January.

Further information and results will be posted at: www. skiff.org.au/

Di Pearson, SLAM 12ft skiff media

http://www.lc12ftssc.org.au/interdominion/index.htm

 
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OK here is the final rundown of photo galleries. Thanks for all the comments and tagging to date.

Invitation Race Thu 6 Jan: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=267021&id=536584662&l=8b18de4810

Races 1 and 2 Fri 7 Jan: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=267584&id=536584662&l=307a1153fb

Race 3 Sat 8 Jan:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=267680&id=536584662&l=b6b98b45f1

Race 4 Sun 9 Jan: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=267994&id=536584662&l=d4d5c55e36

Races 5 and 6 Tue 11 Jan: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=268734&id=536584662&l=1b0cdab1ac

Races 7 and 8 Wed 12 Jan: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=269247&id=536584662&l=71685f23a0

Races 9 and 10 Fri 14 Jan: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=269807&id=536584662&l=6d6bfd5cb2 If you would like hi res copies of any of the shots please let me know.

 
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And another video

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