Australian Womens Keelboat Regatta 9-11 June 2012


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Amelia Martin, Friday, 23 March 2012

The lady skippers of RYCV boats need to be congratulated!!!! Ladies if you are reading this, hope you can come to the girls night out on 29 June at RYCV and share your experiences. Here is a wrap up of the only female regatta in Australia thanks to Peter Campbell(Sail World.com) inc photo.

Series Results [AMS] for Division 123 up to Race 6 (Drops = 1)
Place Ties Sail No Boat Name Skipper From Sers Score Race 6 Race 5 Race 4 Race 3 Race 2 Race 1
1   R31 PENFOLD AUDI SPORT C Darcey RYCV 9.0 2.0 [6.0] 3.0 2.0 1.0 1.0
2   R363 TOP GUN E Foster RYCV 11.0 1.0 2.0 [6.0] 4.0 2.0 2.0
3   S292 JUNGLE JUICE J Dean RMYS 15.0 [8.0] 3.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 3.0
4   R141 NOUANNIE T Stanford RYCV 18.0 6.0 [15.0F] 1.0 1.0 5.0 5.0
5   R1121 EXECUTIVE DECISION J Norbury RMYS/RYCV 22.0 5.0 1.0 [9.0] 5.0 7.0 4.0
6   R362 DUCKMOBILE K Macfarlane RYCV 30.0 4.0 5.0 4.0 8.0 [10.0] 9.0

Series Results [IRC] for Division 123 up to Race 6 (Drops = 1)
Place Ties Sail No Boat Name Skipper From Sers Score Race 6 Race 5 Race 4 Race 3 Race 2 Race 1
1   R31 PENFOLD AUDI SPORT C Darcey RYCV 6.0 2.0 [4.0] 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
2   R363 TOP GUN E Foster RYCV 10.0 1.0 2.0 [4.0] 3.0 2.0 2.0
3   S292 JUNGLE JUICE J Dean RMYS 14.0 4.0 3.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 [4.0]
4   R1121 EXECUTIVE DECISION J Norbury RMYS/RYCV 16.0 3.0 1.0 5.0 [5.0] 4.0 3.0
5   R141 NOUANNIE T Stanford RYCV 22.0 5.0 [9.0F] 3.0 4.0 5.0 5.0

Series Results [PHS] for Division 123 up to Race 6 (Drops = 1)
Place Ties Sail No Boat Name Skipper From Sers Score Race 6 Race 5 Race 4 Race 3 Race 2 Race 1
1   R31 PENFOLD AUDI SPORT C Darcey RYCV 18.0 5.0 8.0 [9.0] 3.0 1.0 1.0
2   R363 TOP GUN E Foster RYCV 22.0 7.0 2.0 [15.0] 8.0 3.0 2.0
3   R362 DUCKMOBILE K Macfarlane RYCV 24.0 3.0 5.0 2.0 4.0 [12.0] 10.0
4   S292 JUNGLE JUICE J Dean RMYS 26.5 [13.0] 3.0  6.0 5.0 9.5 3.0
5   AUS61 TIGRIS D Mason RMYS 28.0 2.0 4.0 1.0 6.0 15.0 [16.0]
6   AUS4464 GATSBY T McCall SYC 30.0 4.0 [17.0F] 11.0 1.0 8.0 6.0
7   R141 NOUANNIE T Stanford RYCV 31.0 11.0 [17.0F] 3.5 2.0 9.5 5.0

Let the results speak for themselves!!! Well done Royals Boats. What a fantastic achievement.

From Sailworld.com.....

"The 22nd Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta was sailed over the weekend of 9th to 11th June 2012 on Melbourne’s Port Phillip. Bellerive Yacht Club sailor Colleen Darcey has led a crew of Hobart yachtswomen to an outstanding victory.

Sailing the borrowed Archambault 31, Penfold Audi Sport, the Tasmanian crew won all three handicap categories, AMS, IRC and PHS, against a strong local line-up of mainly Victorian teams.

The regatta is the only major keelboat series for all-women crews in Australia and is hosted by the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron.

Going into today’s sixth and final race, the Tasmanians had already won the IRC rating category but held only slender leads in the other two handicap categories.

Displaying excellent tactics and crew work in the very light, 5-6 knot north-easterly breeze, they finished third in fleet to record a second place on corrected time under both AMS and IRC rated handicaps and win both categories. A fifth under PHS was also sufficient to also take out that category.

Penfold Audi Sport finished with a four point winning margin under IRC, a three point margin under AMS and four points clear under the arbitrary PHS handicap.

The Victorian yacht Top Gun, an Adams 10 skippered by Erin Foster from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, was runner-up in the three categories, winning today’s final race.

The winning crew comprised skipper Colleen Darcey, Sally Rattle and Michelle Edwards who normally sail in Hobart on Sally’s yacht, Archie, Lauren Davison, who crews on Archie and Taspaints, Caroline Walker, who races on Invincible and Pisces, as does Sarah Baldwin, and Heather McCallum, who crews on Ramrod.

The women are variously members of Bellerive Yacht Club, the Derwent Sailing Squadron and Geilston Bay Boat Club.

Consistency was the key to success in the regatta, with Penfold Audi Sport notching up an IRC scorecard of 1-1-1-1-[4]-2 for 6 points, while Top Gun’s card was 2-2-3-[4]-2-1 for 10 points. Third overall went to Jungle Juice, another Adams 10 helmed by Janet Dean from the host club, on 14 points with a card of [4]-3-2-2-3-4.

In the AMS category, the Tasmanian crew sailed the Archambault 31 to placings of 1-1-2-3-[6]-2 for a net 9 points, winning from Top Gun on 11 points with a score of 2-2-4-[6]-2-1, with Jungle Juice third on 15 points from placings ot 3-4-3-2-3-[8].

In the PHS category, Penfold Audi Sport finished with 18 points from a score of 1-1-3-[9]-8-5; Top Gun with 22 points from placings of 2-3-8-[15]-2-7; third placegetter Duckmobile [Kathy Macfarlane] on 24 points from a score of 10-[12]-4-2-5-7."

by Peter Campbell

 

 

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