RBYC Racing News 17 01 2008

Important Update for this weekend!

There will be no Mystery Race as was scheduled for this Saturday 19th Jan 08. Instead, for the division boats there will be a Centre Course race, call it a Malta Cup warm up ( Malta Cup race scheduled for Feb 2) if you will. Courses and instructions are straight out of the RBYC Sailing Instructions booklet issued 1 October 2005, pages 26 & 27.

Saturday's race program will be:

1400 Etchells - Non Aggregate race

1405 Combined Divisions - Non Aggregate race (PHD)

1410 Jubilees - Vanessa Cup Season Aggregate - Race 21

1400 Combined Divisions - Saturday Pursuit Summer Series - Race 1 (from Tower)

The majority of the Lasers will be packing up and leaving this Saturday. Any Lasers still racing will be doing so off Sandringham Yacht Club.

By the way - don't forget to enter Top of the Bay Regatta. Click here to enter. We also need volunteers, so click here to volunteer or simiply email sailing@rbyc.org.au

Someone made a mistake in the last Racing News regarding the winner of the Dragons Prince Philip Cup in Hobart. It was actually Gordon Ingate from NSW. Read all about it courtesy of Australian yachting journalist Peter Campbell....

Ingate wins Prince Philip Cup 2008 Galeforce north-westerly winds on Hobart’s Derwent River today forced The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania race officials to abandon the seventh and final race of the Prince Philip Cup, the Australian Championship for the International Dragon Class,     Race officials waited until 1300 hours before abandoning racing, with the northerly wind averaging 35 to 40 knots on the river, squalls gusting to 65 knots.   With the series decided on the best five of the six races sailed,  the 2008 winner of the Prince Philip Cup is the veteran Sydney yachtsman Gordon Ingate, helming Whim,  with Tasmanians Nick Rogers and Simon Burrows as his crew.   Ingate, near 82 years of age and a Dragon sailor for 52 years, is believed to be the oldest yachtsman ever to win an Australian national yachting championship in any class.   It is the first Prince Philip Cup victory for Ingate, an Australian representative at the America’s Cup, Admiral’s Cup and Olympic Games and skipper of the close runner-up yacht Caprice of Huon in the 1972 Sydney Hobart Race.   However, it was the ninth Prince Philip Cup win for Nick Rogers, also a former Dragon class world champion, and the second for Simon Burrows.   Ingate said this afternoon that Rogers and Burrows had played a key role in his victory. “I’ve been blessed with two very good Tasmanian crew….they’re excellent crew and I pay them a lot of respect because they have put me up where we are,” the octogenarian skipper said.   Second place in the 2008 Prince Philip Cup has gone to another Sydney crew, Ian McCrossin, Martin Burke and Rick Hall, sailing Riga, third to the Tasmanian boat Kirribilli II, sailed by Andrew Crisp,  David Graney and John Gardiner.   Second place had to be decided on a countback after both boats scored equal points.   The top 10 placegetters in the 2008 Prince Philip Cup, announced this afternoon at The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, were:   Whim (Gordon Ingate, NSW) 19.7 points Riga (Ian McCrossin/Martin Burke, NSW) 24.7 Kirribilli II (Andrew Crisp, Tas) 24.7 Leander (Hugh Wardrop, Tas) 37.7 Hotspur (Ken Stevenson, WA) 46.7 Sassafrass (Sandy Anderson, WA) 46.7 Aquila (Jock Young, Tas) 48.4 Mystere (Wayne Wagg, Tas) 56.4 Amazing Grace (Tony Moody/Charles Stanton, Tas) 69.0 Gilt Dragon II (Ian Malley, WA) 76     Image courtesy of Tasmanian photographer Jane Austin. Arthur, you've still got a chance!