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Southern Cross Cup- Strong overseas teams ...... 4 Biggies - with John Brooks ...... 9 Letters - Readers views on sponsorship , handicapping ...... 11 News- New Zealand's Super-Maxi ...... 14 Electronic Ocean Racer - Push-button navigations ...... 16 Book Reviews - PentaComsta t's Guide To Radio ...... 20 Across The Wind- With Bob Fisher ...... 22 Admirals Cup '87 - Full report by Peter Campbell ...... 24 What's New- Gadgets & Gojastsfor the offshore racer ...... 34 Young Endeavour- Captain Cook would be proud ...... 40 Gold Coast Drama -Ashore and afloat in Jupiter's race ...... 44 News From All Ports - Peter Blake's Plans, PNC Class ic...... 51 Offshore Handicapping- CHS and IOR (Aust) reviewed ...... 55 Yachtsman Of The Year- L ine-up of sailing ta lent ...... 59 New Customs Rules-Alan Lucas on the attack ...... 60 Canberra's Ocean Racers - Land-locked sailors at sea ...... 62 Range Rover Regatta- New concept for CYCA ...... 64 Ocean Racer Award-John Parker top yachtie ...... 67 All About Winches- Guide to good grinding ...... 68 Akarana-Historic ketch from New Zea land ...... 70 Designs-Admira ls Cuppers, Quarter Tanners ...... ·...... 72 Inshore- Top Soling, E22 sailors for Australia ...... 76 Offshore Calendar - National and International Events ...... 78 Bound For Bali- New concept in Indian Ocean ...... 82

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OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 3 ITH three weeks to go to the yachts to be included in teams. The compete in the series as a final tune-up closing date for late entries, the rating band will now be 30.0-70.0 IOR for the AW A Southern Cross Cup W Cruising Yacht Club of Au­ as against 30.0-40.0 feet IOR. starting on December 16. There will stralia officials were expecting a fleet of In addition to the overseas teams, also be a Southern Cross invitation race more than 170 yachts to contest the there will be an Australian National on December 12. AW A 43rd annual Sydney-Hobart race. team and teams from each Australian Most top IOR racers in Australia are In fact, if overseas entrants for the State. expected to contest the selection trials Southern Cross Cur international tea ms South Australia and Western Australia for the Australian team, including Ron series fulfil early expectations, the fleet will be sending their strongest teams in Elliott's new Dubois One Tonner from record of 179 starters could be bettered. If the countries which have indicated they will be sending teams to the South­ Large fleet expected for ern Cross Cup all come, the fleet for the series, Australia's equivalent to the Admiral's Cup, will be the biggest since 1975 with 12 or 13 teams competing. AWA Sydney-Hobart Britain, winners of the 1985 AW A years, as will Tasmania, while the Au­ Melbourne and Warren Johns' new Southern Cross Cup, New Zealand, stralian, New South Wales and Victo­ Davidson One Tonner, to be launched winners of the 1987 Admiral's Cup, rian teams will be chosen from a five­ late October in Sydney. Sailing master along with Germany, Hong Kong, race selection series from November aboard Johns' boat, to be named Beyond Papua New Guinea, the United States 27-December 6. The series, to be known Thunderdome (Mad Max fans will know all have said they will be entering teams. as the Grand Prix Ocean Cham­ the significance) will be sailmaker Bob The Germans, two-times winners of the pionships and Southern Cross Selec­ Fraser, fresh from a similar role aboard Admiral's Cup, have never taken part tions, will see the top three yachts Gary Appleby's Swan Premium II, the and this will be first time in a decade that becoming the Australian national team, top Australian boat in the Admiral's the United States has fielded a team. the others going into their State teams Cup. This year the rating band for the according to eligibility. Another new boat from Melbourne is Southern Cross Cup has been extended States which will have already com­ a new Davidson One-Tonne~ built by up to 70.0 feet IOR, to allow maxi rated pleted their team selections will also Ken Jago for Chas Jacobson and named Once A jolly Swagman. The three AC team boats, Gary Ap­ pleby's Sagaciou s V (ex Swan Premium OFFSHORE II), Peter Kurts Madeline's Daughter (ex Swan Premium III) and Lou Abrahams' THE MAGAZINE OF THE CYCA Ultimate Challenge (ex Swan Premium I) are back in Australia and will certainly Flag Officers and Directors be campaigning again for Australian Commodore: Arthur Cooley selection. Vice-Commodore: David Kellett The top-performing Another Con­ Rear Commodores: David Hundt cubine, skippered by John Parker, 1987 Leslie McClean AW A Ocean Racing Yachtsman of the Treasurer: Leigh Minehan Year, is likely to seek a national team Directors:John Brooks berth as will Bernard Lewis' maxi, Maurice Cameron Sovereign, now eligible for Southern Richard Cawse Cross selection, and sailing in great David Fuller form. Gordon Marshall The Ocean Racing Club of Australia, James Morris which will conduct the selection trials, General Manager:John Terry expects at least 22 yachts to take part in the series, either as contenders for the Club Committees Australian, New South Wales or Victo­ Management & Finance: rian teams, or as a final tune-up for the A. Cooley (Chairman} Southern Cross Cup. A rule of entry Sailing: will be that any yacht which finishes in D. Kellett (Chairman} the top three on the pointscore, must be prepared to sail for the National team, House: Youth Sailing: M. Cameron (Chairman) irrespective of whether the yacht has L. McClean (Chairman) already been chosen in a State team. Development: Delegate to the Offshore Committee " We want to make sure that Australia J. Morris (Chairman} Y.A.N.S.W. is represented by the best three yachts in D. Kellett (Chairman) Publications: the country," ORCA director Bob Fras­ J. Brooks (Chairman) Sailing Secretary: er said. "On selection the team will go Brian Hayden into an intensive final training program­ Membership: me as a team, with ORCA planning to J. Morris (Chairman) Cruising Yacht Club of Australia New Beach Road, provide the team with weather informa­ Yard & Marina: Darling Point, NSW 2027 tion and coaching to ensure that Austra­ D. Fuller (Chairman) Telephone: (02) 32 9731 lia wins the AW A Southern Cross Sydney-Hobart Race: Telex: 72278 SEA YSEA C up." G. Marshall (Chairman) Fax: (02) 32 9745 New Zealand, winners of the 1987 Admiral's Cup, had some reservations on being able to raise a strong team, but

· 4 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 the latest report is that there will be aformidable Kiwi trio here in December comprising Admiral's Cup team yacht Goldcorp plus Swuzzlebubble VI and Fair Share, the sistership to Propaganda. On the plus side is the news that the United States will be competing for the first time in more than a decade. The US team will comprise the 45-footer Side­ winder and the 54-footer Jubilation, with the third US boat most likely to be chartered here. The Reichel/Pugh designed Sidewin­ der, owned by Randy Short of San Francisco, was the topscoring yacht, outside of the One-Tonners, in the Champagne Mumm Admiral's Cup, and was skippered by John Bertrand, the Californian champion helmsman. jubilation, a German Frers design, was recently fitted with a new keel and rudder designed by Reichel/Pugh Yacht Design, with excellent results, including second place in Class A of the San Diego Yachting Club, first in Class A in the Ahmanson Series at Newport Harbour, and first in Class A in Long Beach Race Week. Sidewinder rates 34.6 feet IOR while Jubilation rates 42. 9 feet. Hong Kong will field a particularly strong team. Keith Jacobs is having a BULBOUS BOW new One-Tonner built in Australia ofa bulk canier while Irvine Laidlaw is chartering Dave frames tl,is Hood 23 Forbes new Farr SO-footer. Jacobs' boat ra cing on Sydney is being built in Melbourne by Ken Jago Harb our. (Pie by while McConaghy Boats are building David Clare). Forbes' boat. No details are known about the third Hong Kong yacht. to press no details had been received. until November 11. While country chal­ The Germans keep saying that they Entries for the 1987 AW A Sydney­ lenges must be made by early Novem­ will have a team here for the Southern Hobart Race officially closed on Octo­ ber, the actual teams need not be nomin­ Cross Cup, but when this edition went ber 31 but late entries may be accepted ated until about a week before the Southern Cross Cup. ADELAIDE yacl,tsman Mario Min11 zzo will be bringing /,is recently la1111ched Benetea11 First The Australian Ocean Racing Cham­ Cla ss 12 to Syd11 ey for th e So111/, ern Cross C11p in Dece111b er and th e A WA Sydn ey-Hobart. pionship and Southern Cross Selections will comprise five races: November 27 - 90 nm; November 29 - 27 nm; December 4 - 27 nm; December 5 - 27 nm; December 6 - 27 nm. The CYCA this year will again use a double-line start for the AW A Sydney­ Hobart, with the Southern Cross Cup team yachts, Maxis and Division A yachts going off the front line. Among the early entry for the AW A Sydney-Hobart were: Amigo Diable (ex Amira), Anaconda, Au­ ssie Rules , Balandra, Big Schott, Chutz­ pah, City Limits, Destiny, Dictator, Dou­ ble Trouble, Dry White, Evergreen (ex Even 60ft Laurent Giles design), Farrago (ex Boom Boom), Group Therapy, Hornet, Insatiable, Marara, Margaret Rintoul II, Middle Harbour Express, Midnight Magic (ex The Manly Ferry), Moonrager Again, Mystique, Never Satisfied, Padam II, Prime Factor (ex Prim e Suspect, Prime Minister), Prime Minister (ex Prime Times), Singa­ pore Girl, Southern Cross, Sovereign, Spirit.

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Lin each) 18F 71 81 12H 14 C 12 K Jl 16C 6 - OFFSHORE - SUM MER 1987 ------OUT H Australia's tea m for the Southern Cross Cup series in Sy_d­ Sney, will be the strongest m his­ tory follo wing an unprecedented spend­ ing spree by some of the State's bes t yachtsmen. There are five new or revamped boats with a total value of over $1m vying for the three spots in the tea m. And in addition to that fl eet, Dick Fidock's new Duncanson 38-footer, Dictator, and John Howden's new Davidson designed Three-quarter Tonner, Invader, provide an added boost to the new !OR season. The enterprising Mario Minuzzo has just recently launched his new First Class 12 from the Beneteau stable. He previously owned the highly regarded Wateifrontier. The new boat as yet is un-named pending the finalisation of an adventur­ ous $24,000 sponsorship package in­ volving intrastate airline company Ken­ dall Airlines and the Lincoln Cove Yacht Charter Co. at Port Lincoln. Six of Minuzzo's crew are from Port SA's Strongest Tea111 Lincoln on SA's Eyre Peninsula - about a 40 minute fli ght from Adelaide. And Kendall Airlines have been fl ying the crew to Adelaide to link up with the res t for Southern Cross of the tea m for training and racing. By Geoff Kingstone Minuzzo, who is contemplating the possibility of building the Beneteau from which the bulb was removed. She Former SA and Steak 'n Kidney 12- range of boats in Adelaide under licence now rates 30. 7 and with Minuzzo's new metre skipper Fred N eill has been en­ to the French manufacturer, visited one boat should account for two of the gaged to steer Gil Finlay's Farr 40, Short of the company's fiv e factories recently places in the three-boat team . Circuit. to observe the production-line process it Urry, who enjoyed grea t success with In a recent brief encounter with a employs so successfull y. War Games, has named his new boat beacon in the gulf, Neill survived re­ More War Games and will share the helm latively unscathed. He got a little too His new boat was speciall y prepared with the highly regarded Wayne Souls­ close and eventually had to cut the for the Sydney boat show, after which it by. Urry and his crew will be the best spinnaker free to save any further was shipped to Adelaide where Minuzzo prepared of all the SA crews in Sydney, embarrass ment. But the widely re­ completed the instrumentation and having trained three days a week and spected Neill, who has former SA 12- finalised the sail inventory. sailed on weekends for the past six metre sewerman/mastman Peter Wall­ The boat is a sister ship to Pho enix, in months. Smith on board, is confident he and the which Harold C udmore sail ed to the top of the points score table in the 1985 Admiral's C up. She rates 31.73. ballas t. The containers were emptied Admiral's Cup yacht when the water was no longer required. Veteran ocean racer and Soling cham­ out for cheating One container w~s cut up and thrown pion Reg Kemp, who will helm the N International Jury in London overboard before the end of the race and boat, spea rheads the Port Lincoln con­ others were hidden under the engine. tingent of six crew including former SA A enquiring into the water ballast cheating claims, has disqualified the The Jury found that the installation of 12-metre crew Steve Kemp and Andy the pump and containers was planned by Dyer, plus C has Chambers, Ken Web­ Austrian yacht I-Punkt from all races of the 1987 Admiral's C up for "gross the Austrian charterer, Thomas Friese ber and David Raleigh. The Port Lin­ and the permanent paid hand, Tom coln involvement is ai med at eventuall y infringement of the rules and gross breach of good sportsmanship" . Swift. upgrading the vi brant fi shing port as a Andrew Cape, a UK-based yacht centre for !OR boa ts. The Jury has also referred its findings to the national yachting authorities of designer and sail maker, revealed the David Urry has also taken delivery of each of the crew members who sailed cheating to journalists during the subse­ his new Farr 40 from Franklin Yachts in aboard I-Pu nkt in the C hannel Race and quent One Ton Cup in Germany, where NZ. The boat, claimed to be identical to the Fas tnet Race fo r possible disciplinary I-Punkt was also penalised for rules N Z's celebrated Propaganda, is remark­ action. Australian Andrew Cape sa il ed breaches. ably light and stiff. In fact it was because in both races whil e another Australian, The International Jury did not enquire of the tremendously successful weight­ Greg Prescott was aboard in the Fastnet. into allega ti ons that two of the British saving planning that went into the boat, The Jury found that water was Admiral's Cup yachts had ca pita li sed on above deck, that she is probably too pumped in and out of plas ti c containers a "grey area" of the rules on water stiff. aboard I-Punkt using a two-way bilge ballas t during the Admiral's C up. When first rated she came out at 31.4 pump. The water-fill ed containers were • Full story on Admirals Cup, appea,,s on and so some serious surgery was per­ then placed on the windward bunks as pages 24 - 31. formed on the new state-of-the-art keel

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 7 AW A Southern Cross Cup Series 1987 Dec 12 - Invitation Race Dec 16 -Race One, 24 nm Olympic Dec 17 - Race 2, 180 nm Olympic Dec 18 - Race 3, 180 nm offshore Dec 21 - Race 4, 24 nm Olympic Dec 26 - Race 5, 630 nm Sydney­ Hobart.

er. She is a development, an update, of Singapore Girl and Chutzpah, and in­ corporates many of the features of Syd­ ney-Hobart winner Ex-Tension . Howden built the boat, with help from crew and friends, in 16 months. She is of Western Red Cedar and kevlar construction, carries Sobstad sails and according to Howden, who will helm THE rugged Ea st Coast of Tasmania will soon be a familiar sight once more for yachtsmen the boat, Invader is "very, very light and heading south in the 1987 AWA Sydney/Hobart race. (Richard Bennett pie). we expect her to be very competitive, especially in light airs," says Howden. crew can crank up Short Circuit to make "thrilled to bits" with her. "The rating She raced for the first time on Octo­ her very competitive. band is critical for the Hobart race," said ber 3 and because of the lack of time Bob Francis, one ofSA's most experi­ Fidock. "But we are looking to win our Howden does not intend to do the enced and respected ocean-racers, is the division (Ill) ." Sydney-Hobart race. Instead he will other main challenger for one of the Another exciting addition to the IOR concentrate on the Lincoln Week regatta three places in the SA team. His ageing fl eet is John Howden's Davidson­ in February. Holland 40, Renegade, has been largely designed Three-quarter Tonner, Invad- rebuilt to bring her down to the mini­ * * * mum rating. Francis has ordered a new wardrobe of sails from Ray Brown, has Cup team selection although built ex­ re-rigged the boat and fitted a new Late Rally For pressly for the contest. It is available for low-profile keel. Southern Cross and would be an ideal Whichever boats comprise the team, replacement for Kiwi. Its syndica te head it will be the strongest ever to represent Kiwi Team Del Hogg, won Southern Cross four SA. By Jeanette O'Shea years back with Pacific Sundancer, part of In the past the team has included U ST six weeks before entries closed New Zealand's three boat Bruce Farr­ mostly old boats with crews whose Jfor the Southern Cross Cup, World designed trio. passions have ranged between sailing Cup and Admiral's C up winners, New Ian Gibbs, skipper of 1985 Admiral's and having a good time. Zealand did not have a team. Cup trialist, Swuzzlebubb le and B-team This time things are very much diffe­ Team organisers, Royal Akarana member at the last Southern Cross rent. The boats are new and the crews Yacht Club could not even contemplate series, has told Orchard that he is understand the disciplines needed for selection trials. "We have three in­ available and another 1985 trialist, Barn­ success. terested skippers", said club commod­ storm could be third team member if the With a share of the luck, it would not ore, Graham Orchard, but we are wait­ Admiral's Cup boats don't make it. be unreasonable to anticipate a fourth ing to know what the Admiral's C up Orchard said even if the glamour placing as the best possible result in the yachts are doing before making a deci­ yachts do become available there could hot fleet of 10 boats, which will include sion''. be a struggle to man them. New Zea­ teams from England and New Zealand. Peter Walker's Kiwi has been sold in land's leading sailors have had a deman­ Cowes to a Swedish owner. Propaganda ding year - America's C up, World Dick Fidock*'s new * *Duncanson 38- and Goldcorp are returning to New 12-Metre Championships, Admiral's foter, Dictator, is the latest in a fl eet of Zealand by ship and co-owner of Prop­ Cup. Two Whitbread round the world five boats that have kept Fidock to the aganda, Adrian Burr says a decision over race campaigns - Peter Blake's Stein/ager forefront of SA yachting in the past Southern Cross would be made shortly. Challenge and Grant Dalton's Fisher and decade. " Unfortunately the mast was left be­ Paykel maxi - are rapidly committing The first two were two 30-foo t van hind" , said Burr. Some work is being race crews. Several top yachtsmen are Der Stadt designs, Karee/ah, and Ceda­ done on it in Britain. It's coming back immersed in dinghy campaigns fo r next lion. Then came the S&S 34 Morn ing later but might not be in time for year's O lympic Games. Hustler and Kestrel, which Fidock sailed Southern Cross". " I don't think that's the case," said in three Sydney-Hobarts. Goldcorp owner Mal Canning is be­ Tom Dodson, Kiwi's tactician and direc­ Dictator, built by his son Richard, lieved to be a little " campaigned out" tor of North Sails, Auckland. "If some­ who has taken a mould of the impressive after two years and team representation body came along with Propaganda, Go ld­ Duncanson design, is a stripped-out at Southern Cross, 1985, Kenwood Cup corp and Fair Share, and a reasonable racer of cedar and kevlar construction. and Admiral's Cup. He says he is sponsorship package, New Zealand Rating 28.2 she was launched in Febru­ planning to sell the boat and build would have the best Southern Cross ary and since then, with John Gleeson at another for Kenwood C up next year but team it could hope for" . the helm, lost only one race on IOR. it is understood the boat is available · 'Tm sure everyone wants to go sail­ Fidock has geared Dictator for the A Wellington yacht, Fair Share, a ing at Christmas, it's just a matter of the Sydney-Hobart and at this stage is sister to Propaganda , missed Admiral's organisers saying here we go".

8 - OFFSHORE SUMMER 1987 0 __b_ · QQ_es_ _ hank God for Pat Cash, but in match racing rules. At the Liberty Cup T ocean racing, league, union, the series off N ew York a radical method of Kiwis gave us a hammering in interna­ dealing with close encounter protC'l6ts is tionals this winter and it has been planned in which a jury following the suggested that, in each case, the reason competitors around will rule im­ was the sa me, lack of preparation. mediately on the infringement, if possi­ At a Sportsmans Lunch in August ble, and an offender may, for instance, 0.R.C.A. C hairman and Admiral's be ordered to do a 360 degree turn, Cup tea m Manager, David Hundt, de­ penalty enough in a match race . A scribed in detail the scene at Cowes as similar system was successfully tried at the New Zealand tea m stamped their the World M axi meeting O ff N ewport superiority on the rest of the world's in June. ocean racers. This would certainly reduce the num­ T here was little doubt that the Austra­ ber of protest room hea rings after each lian boats were as fa st as anything at race and probably do away with many Cowes, faster than most, but the team of the 'sea lawyer' protes ts which so could not get its act together. In the marred the 1987 Ameri ca's C up defen­ wake of the N ew Zealanders who sailed der trials in 1986-87. Yes, I know the no fa ster generally but, above all, made strategy behind that, but it still mar red no mistakes, the rest floudered in appa­ By John Brooks the series and if this 'on the spot fi ne' rent confusion. system had been in use I doubt if it D avid Hundt's detailed analysis of allegations that two of the British A-C would have occurred. where we went wrong fo cussed on the tea m boats (a mongst others, it should be Australian tea m 's preparation compared noted) had been shipping and, ahhh, t the A.W.A. O cean Racer of the to that of the N ew Zealanders. With unshipping, abnormal amounts of water A Yea r awards in Se ptember John their selection trials completed 6 weeks ballas t in contravention of the rule Parker Anoth er Concubine ca me out as prior to ours, the Kiwis entered an (22.2). the big winner refl ecting the top season extended period of intensive tea m Considering a few things that hap­ he and his crew had in 1986/ 87. Howev­ training. pened in Keil during the World One er, I can report that the judges had a D avid's description of their prepara­ Ton C up in this regard, the whole affair difficult time se parating the top conten­ tions reminded me of the gruelling is a time bomb and if any evidence of ders in a list which included John Eyles programme designed by Gordon cheating actually comes to li ght then the Indian Pacific, A. W . A. Sydney-Hobart Reynolds for the 1973 Australian tea m . very least that will happen is that the winner Tony Dunne Ex- Tens ion, Jim T here were other similarities to be British team will be J isqualified, mov­ Inglis Boundary Rider and Bruce Staples found too, in the Kiwis absolute cohe­ ing the Australian tea m up to second Witchcraft II. siveness and tea m spirit afloat and place in the Admiral's Cup res ults and T ony Dunne won the A.W.A. ashore, something the Australian teams spoiling David Hundt's tidy prediction Rookie of the Year award and this too have apparently lacked in recent years, in the process . was a difficult choice for the j udges to the casual observer. because the list of nominees included Jeff The N ew Zealanders heavy training Bush Bushfire and some highl y recom­ schedule continued when the tea m got n the U .S., some interesting develop­ mended crewmen, Lachl an Gilbert to the U .K. , overlooking no area of Iments include an extensive overhaul So uth ern Cross, Harry Hertzberg Once weakness in tuning or preparation and of N orth America's premier ocean rac­ More Dear Friends, Shane Kea rnes Army when the Admiral's Cup finally got ing event, the Southern O cean Racing Sailing Club - Balandra and D arren under way they came out of the gate like Conference (S. 0 . R. C.). A different fo r­ Williams Sovereign. However, Tony thoroughbreds, consistently perfo rming mat will , the organise rs believe, redress Dunne's first season in ocean racing was ones at that. According to D av id Hundt, most of the competitors grievances fr om little short of sensa tional and he got the it was their meti culous preparation that 1987 and previous regattas. nod. In this category just to be nomin­ made the difference. The Australians Amongst the co mplaints were - lack ated was a big wrap. trained hard too, but were not able to of windward work (Hamilton Island Out of the nominations fo r Rookie of put in the huge number of man hours at Race Director please note); the series the Year ca me the fo llowing gem: it. takes too long to complete fo r the During one of the training sessions Ending his presentation on a high avera ge working yachtie; a lack of fac ili­ sailing on Sydney H arbour he en­ note, David pointed out that, very ties fo r the big boats. All had contri­ quired " When do I stop winching in often, the tea m that finish third in the buted to a drop in 1.0.R. entries and, this headsa il ?", to whi ch he was told regatta got up to win the Admiral's C up evidently, a suggestion by some maxi - "Wind it in li ke a man, I will tell next time around, so we could be in line yacht owners that they might take their you when to stop. " He dutifu ll y did for a win in 1989, given the right ki nd of business elsewhere. T he new format as he was told and, winding fu rious­ preparation, and O.R.C.A. is going to will include provision fo r sponsored ly, popped the headsail sheet block make certain of that. boats in a 'professional' division with, straight out of the deck. A sheepish O f course, he made this prediction incidentall y, an entry fee of U .S. $5 ,000. voice behind him cried out " You ca n before a British journalist made public Another new approach conce rns stop now." D

OFFSHO RE - SUMMER 1987 - 9 THE FASTEST SHAPES LOOK LIKE THIS •••

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O FFSH O R E - SUMMER 1987 - 11 cured 80% of the meaia value of this ever said that the O . R. C. existed purely hulls would emerge and nearly all yachts major televised event. Clea rly the event to secure support fo r Admiral's Cup would be built to the maximum class sponsor is always in a better position to competition. I was under the impression length. T he advantages of this are ca pitalise on publicity opportunities that the O.R. C. existed fo r the benefit threefold. while the individual sponsors are taking of ocean racing as a whole and event a) T he "cqmpetitive" life of a hull their chances on having chosen a fas t sponsorship provides support fo r every­ could conceivably be 10-1 2 times the entry to support. one in the sport, individual sponsorship existing "competitive" li fe. In the long run, I believe that Austra­ does not. In that context, to paraphrase b) Manufac turers of production yachts li a was one of the major benefi ciaries of Steve Black's own words - losing an would be in a better position to standar­ the fa r-sided decision on the part of the occasional individual sponsor would be dize design and size leading to a greater ORC, and the ruling ensures that there a small price to pay fo r preserving the avail ability of competitive yachts. will never be an occasion when an quality of the competition. c) Predictably racing yachts would settle Australian tea m is refu sed entry in a into almost identical sizes enabling a world class event because of their indi­ Measurement Handicap res ultant standardization of deck gear vidual team sponsor. Rules and fittings. Stephen W. Black, Of course there would be a lot of T is obvious from the history of Executive Director, experimentation in sail plans, however nearly all measurement rules that they United States Yacht Racing Union, I given the competitive life of current have been abj ect fa ilures for offshore N ewport, Rhode Island, USA Rigs and Sails this should be an accept­ yachts and generall y. Proof of this lies in able cost of development. the di ffe rent rules that have been im­ John Brooks comment on posed over the years and the changes Joseph Abraham Jnr Steve Black's letter to the commonl y referred to as " rule develop­ NEWCASTLE NSW Editor ment" in the I.O.R. rule. None of the rules tried have resulted in consistent TEVE Black's letter tends to affirm long term fl eet growth. 1.0.R. Uplift in South Sthe thrust of my June column rather T he obvious ques tion is why, and the Australia than dismiss it. H e confirms the fears answer is simple. Any rule that inhibits expressed in the column by making the the principles of the phys ics of yacht read with grea t interes t the first edi­ alarming statement (for the C. Y. C. and design are doomed to failu re because I tion of the new " Offshore". With other ocean racing clubs) -"Losing an they are not producing the bes t/fas tes t equally great interest I read the article by occasional event sponso r would be a available yacht. O bviously there needs Geoff Kingston on IOR racing in South small price to pay for preserving the to be some method of relating perform­ Australi a. quality of the competition" . ance to handicap and I would suggest I ag ree completely with the descrip­ It may be a small price to pay fo r the fo llowing. tion of the current IOR situation. those who do not need it such as the 1. The Offshore measurement rule be However, I find it heartening to see an Ocean Racing Council itself and pre­ broken into 8 classes, the classes will ever-increasing number of boat owners sumably the United States Yacht Racing have the fo ll owing ratings and in each adopting a more " relaxed" spending Union of which Steve is Executive class the rating shall be equal to the style when it comes to choosing and Director, but for those saddled with the maximum L. O.A. building a new racing boat. This attitude res ponsibility of actually conducting 9.14m (30') Maximum L.O.A. is, I feel , a self-perpetuating thing, once major events it is a very high price 11. 27m (37') Maximum L.O.A. one does it, it prompts others to do the indeed and the loss could reall y affect the 12.2 m (40') Maximum L. O.A. sa me, to remain competitive. 'quality of the competition'. Event 13.71m (45') M aximum L.O. A. Personall y, I have seen this attitude at sponsorship maintains the 'quality of the 15.23m (50') Maximum L. O .A. its ve ry beginnings. I am part of a crew competition' fo r the entire fl eet, not just 18.28 m (60') · M aximum L. O.A. currently putting the finishing touches the few who are individually sponsored. 21.33m (70') Maximum L. O.A. to what will become the most recent T he O.R. C. recognised this when it 24.38m (80') M aximum L. O .A. addition to the IOR fl eet in Adelaide. absolved the Royal Ocean Racing Club 2. L. O.A. = L.W.L. x 1.1 5 T he boat is a T hree-quarter Ton David­ of compliance with the new rule in 3. S.P.L. = J X 1.3 son, owned by John Howden. She is staging the Admiral's C up and note that 4. Maximum "Working" Sail Area built of a composite of timber and the C. Y. C. was refu sed a similar waiver 12.2m (40') L.O.A. 77.0sq.m . exotics, and is a state-of-the-art Three­ when it applied, although the current (828 . 52sq. ft.) (Disproportionate Sail Quarter Tonner. Her des ign was taken C. Y. C. Sydney-Hobart sponsorship Area to apply to each other cl ass). and refin ed to the bes t fe atures of ag rec:: ment pre-dates the new rule by 5. All yachts to comply with A.B. S. Indulgence (winner of the 1986 T hree­ over 18 months. In other words, the res t Construction Rules . Q uarter Ton worlds) and is an evolution of us have been told that we may have to 6. A grandfather clause to apply to of Singapore Girl and Chutzpah fr om the do with less event sponsorship to pave existing yachts, e.g. I. O. R. M axi cur­ Eastern States. the way fo r individual sponsorship. rently 25.29m (83') L. O .A. would be We will be launching the boat, to be Steve Black goes on to suggest that eligible fo r 24.38m (80') class . call ed Invader, in late Augl!st/earl y the Australian Admiral's Cup tea m H andicapping between the eight cl as­ September. I feel it would be a good might not have been able to compete in ses could then be fi ne tuned to perfo rm­ fo llow-up article on the emerging IO R 1987 but for the new O .R.C. rule, an ance, eventuall y it could be expected fl eet in So uth Australia. Kee p up the exercise in twisted logic since the ruling that all classes would have an equal good work - at least a publica tion that was specifically waived fo r the Admir­ chance of handica p honours. gives IO R sailors the lates t info rmation. al's Cup. I would suggest that within a very Tom Anderson, Even if that were not the case, who short period of time, almost identical Belair, SOUTH AUSTRALIA D

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Bob Gear Elected A YF President OB Gear, the manager of the recent B Australian Admiral's Cup team in ----­I England, has been elected President of I the Australian Yachting Federation, tak­ NEWCASTLE'S ing the place of another Tasmanian, M Bicentenary Celebrations Frank !kin. 3 in 1988 will include an Gear, who was A YF Vice-President ocean race from Sydney to from Tasmania, and chairman of the the Port ofNewca stle and a A YF Offshore Committee, won the return race over the position in a ballot from Percy Sparrow, weekend ofJanuary 29-31. The event is being President of the Victorian Ya ch ting sponsored by the Maritime Council and A YF executive member Services Board and will be from Victoria. There was also a ballot organised by the Cruising for the position of Vice-President, with Yacht Club of Australia to Colin Crisp, chairman of the Training link up with a major Policy Committee (from NSW) defeat­ aquatic festival in the Port. ing Barry Scott, chairman of the Coaching Committee (from Victoria). Fred was the original skipper of the David Don, former Hon. Treasurer day skipper a chance to demonstrate South Australian 12-metre in the last of the CYCA, and current President of their skills and the skills of their crews. America's Cup Defence, but later joined the Yachting Association of NSW, was SPL is delighted to be sponsoring the Syd Fischer as skipper and team mana­ races." elected unopposed as Hon. Treasurer of ger of the Sydney 12-metre, Steak 'n the AYF. Kidney. Flag Officers Buy Bob Gear has been sailing offshore Szechwan since 1960 in Tasmania and has been a SPL Sponsoring CYCA regular competitor in Sydney-Hobart HE well-performed Davidson 39, and Melbourne-Hobart races. He pre­ Twilights T Sz echwan, has been bought by a sently races a Farr 37 in Hobart. He syndicate of prominent CYCA mem­ recently retired after a long term as CTOBER 7, 1987 marked the start bers, including Commodore Arthur President of the Tasmanian Yachting O of the Cruising Yacht Club of Cooley and Rear Commodore David Association. Australia's Twilight Series on Sydney Hundt, from MHYC member Warren He has had a long association with the Harbour. The races will run weekly Jones and plan to campaign her in this Admiral's Cup selection trials being until December 9 and after a Christmas year's major summer races. chairman of the selection panel in 1983 break, rocommence on January 13 and Szechwan, one of the best One Tan­ and an A YF observer in 1985. This year run through until March 16. ners designed by Laurie Davidson, rep­ he conducted the trials for the Ocean Some 70 yachts compete each week resented Australia in the Clipper Cup in Racing Club of Australia at Sandring­ and each race takes between one and two Hawaii and in 1981 was a member of the ham Yacht Club. hours. Yachts are divided into two winning New South Wales team in the divisions, with starting time at 5 p.m. Southern Cross Cup. The same year she Sir James To Sail in Round early in the season, then changing to 6 won her division in the Hobart race, Australia Race p.m. as the days lengthen. then being owned by Jeremy Whitty. This year's Twilight Series is being Since being bought by and extensive­ IR James Hardy will join his old sponsored by SPL (Australia) Pty. Li­ ly refurbished by Warren Johns the Ssailing mate Fred Neill in sailing part mited. SPL are the suppliers of Software timber sloop has regained her competi­ of the Australian Yachting Federation's AG's ADABAS Database Management tiveness but has been sold by Johns with Round Australia Race in 1988 aboard a System and NATURAL Fourth Gen­ the launching of his new Davidson 40. 50-60 footer which Neill is putting eration Language, COMSHARE Built by John McConaghy using the together for the historic circumnaviga­ U.K. 's SYSTEM W and COMMAN­ latest exotic materials and construction tion. DER E.I.S. and the OMICRON range techniques, the new boat will be cam­ Neill and Hardy have sailed together of Financial and Business Software. SPL paigned in the Australian Southern for many years, particularly aboard Sir also _provide a full range of consulting Cross Cup selection trials at the end of James' former ocean racer Police Car, as services. November. well as in the Clipper Cup and Admir­ With offices situated in Sydney, Mel­ The new boat is a sistership to Mad al's Cup. bourne, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Au­ Max, which sailed as Gold Corp in the Neill is among more than 40 yachts­ ckland, Wellington, Singapore and winning New Zealand team in the men in all states who have indicated Hong Kong SPL is able to offer exten­ recent Admiral's Cup. Sailing master their intention to compete in the sive technical support, project manage­ will be Bob Fraser. Bicentennial race and is looking for ment and consulting for all products sponsorship to either buy or build a they distribute. Sail for Cancer - March suitable 50 to 60 footer for the 7500 This is the first time SPL have partici­ 1988 nautical mile race. Neill has sailed in pated in the sponsorship of a major nine Sydney-Hobarts, two Clipper sporting event. Mr. Vic Opperman, HE annual Sail for Cancer will be Cups and three Admiral's Cups and is managing director of SPL said: "The T held on Sunday, March 6, 1988. putting together a strong crew, includ­ Twilight Series is always strongly con­ Yachts and motor cruisers, small and ing several 12-metre crew. tested but in addition, gives the every- large, are invited to join the Sail for

14 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 Cancer. The Sail supports leukaemia tee are looking for volunteer Liaison Phillip's Choice Race from and cancer research and treatment prog­ Officers to look after our overseas and rammes. Last year $50,000 was raised interstate yachties. Botany Bay with the help of Sydney's yachties! The Hosting Committee run by Bus­ N annual race for a restricted fleet The money is raised by inviting ter Rickard, have been looking after our A of11 ocean racing yachts is planned guests to join you for the day; they visitors for quite some years now, and for Australia Day, January 26, 1988, donate $16 to the fo undation. Boatow­ it's very popular with " locals" and from Botany Bay to Sydney Harbour. ners may invite their own gues ts, or "visitors" alike. The inaugural event will be "stage­ allow the Foundation to organise a party If you have any interes t in sailing and managed" so that the 11 yachts enter the of our supporters. would like to get involved, this is the H arbour just ahead of the First Fleet Each guest brings a picnic lunch, and perfect place to start. You will meet lots re-enactment - but in future years it all enjoy a rare opportunity to enjoy of people from all walks oflife, and have will be a proper race. Sydney Harbour from a private boat. plenty of fun round the Christmas The limit to 11 yachts will com­ T he Sail for Cancer "fleet" rendez­ period. We organise entertainment at memorate the fact that Captain Phillip's vous is off Rushcutters Bay at 11. 00 the Club throughout the month of First Fleet comprised 11 ships and will am., and cruises to the Opera House, December - it's just one big party!! also mark his decision to move the then to Bradleys Head, Manly East and Our recruitment night is November settlement from the shores of Botany West, and to our picnic area, rafting off 16, 6.00pm, at the Cruising Yacht Club Bay to Port Jackson. Quarantine, Stores and Little Manly where refreshments and savouries will The Phillip's C hoice offshore race is Beaches . be served. We require both males and being organised by the Botany Bay Please join us for a great day, and to females - so come along and see what Yacht Club. More information from give your support to a very worthy it's all about - obligation free! Di Rob Hilcher (02) 281 1460. cause. Jane or Pamela will be able to Pea rson & Maryrose Heffernan will be answer any questions you may have, available on the night to answer any please ring 371 0400. queries you may have - they have both been extensively involved with the com­ ORCV's address in Liaison Officers Needed mittee for quite some years now. Melbourne for Sydney-Hobart Any enquiries prior to recruitment night can be directed to the Club on HE Ocean Racing Club of Victoria HE AW A Sydney-Hobart Yacht 32-9731 during business hours, or by T has a new address: T Race is on again soon, and the phoning Di Pea rson after hours on 105 Nott Street, Port Melbourne, 3207. C ruising Yacht Club Hosting Commit- 337-4443. Tel: (03) 646 4677. Fax: (03) 646 4798. BUYING? 'Jolly DogsAre We'

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16 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 nicall y pin point a yacht's position to time, Sat-N av units tailored fo r pleasure few parag raphs are dedicated to the within a few hundred metres with push craft hit the market at a fraction of the newcomer. Transit Sat-Nav fi xes a button ease being quite a novelty original cost. yacht's position by measuring the clop­ amongst yachtsmen. It particul arl y ex­ pier shift in radio fr equency broadcast cited the imaginations of some skippers N aturally, the "Captain Cook" by the satellite as it passes, giving a who saw at las t the possibility of being school of yachts men sneered at the series of ranges from the sa tellite. T he able to get rid of those lay about, T ransit sa tellite navigati on system de­ position of the satellite is known in know-all navigators. spite the low cost and many still do, terms of orbital parameters and the augmenting their blood pressure trying ground position or sub track of the Fortunately, there were then 27,001 to make safe landfa ll after several days of satellite is calculated by the computer passage making under solid overcast, reasons why this was not about to built in to the ship 's receiver, which then happen overnight, the latter reason using D .R. only. calculates the ship's position and dis­ bei ng that the Sat-Nav coul d not, at that H owever, most Austra li an yachtsmen plays it as latitude and longitude co­ time, be used during races. T he M agna­ embraced the new fa ngled gadget with ordinates. vox paid its way on Ball yhoo because the gusto because Sat-N av was then and still yacht spent most of its li fe making is the only reliable electronic fixing aid passage from one maj or internati onal available in these waters. The Americans T here are presently 9 Transit sa tellites race to another, but few other yacht and Europeans luxuriate in LO RAN and in polar orbit forming a 'cage' inside owners coul d justify the expense. DECCA and a host of convenient ra dio w hi ch the ea rth rotates. It is obvious beacons and V.H.F. Omni ranges, but that if you are near to either pole, transit T he repeal of the rule against electro­ in the South Pacific all we have, fo r the satellites will be above the horizon more nic nav igation aids changed all of that most pa rt, is the Transit system. frequently than if you are near the and all owed yachtsmen to bring them­ equator. In other words, at low latitudes selves up to date with some fo rty years T he 'old' T ransit system is now quite the time between convenient satellite of progress in navigation . In a very short fa miliar to most yachtsmen so the next passes is greater. I>

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Nor do the satellites form a symmet­ speed and direction sensors can expect rical cage. They tend to precess and position fixing accuracy of 100-500 Current Status either bunch up or separate erratically metres at bes t and 1-2 nautical miles at T he Transit system was supposed to throughout the year, so the time betwen worst. be in the process of phasing out and passes is irregular. When the satell ites Accuracy can be degraded by poor originally scheduled for shut down by are bunched up a 'window' forms which siting of the ships antennae, it should be 1994 to be replaced by the Global may ca use a few hours wait from one outside all spars and rigging and well Positioning System (see O ffs hore Aug series of usea ble passes to the next. clear of other aeri als. Fix accuracy is also '87). However, the 1986 Space Shuttle For the signal to be useable a transit very dependant on precise boat speed disaster stopped G. P. S. deployment cold. satellite must be at least 10 degrees and heading data, and for bes t results a above the horizon. Less than that and steady heading shoul d be maintained T he G. P.S. N avstar satellites were the ionosphere distorts the radio signal during the fixing process, which may supposedl y designed fo r launch exclu­ as it passes through at a shallow angle. take up to 15 minutes. sively by space shuttle so until that programme recommences, and the sche­ Neither is the signal of any use when the The Sa t-Nav computer can cancel out satellite passes high overhead, for error induced by the boat's movement dule keeps receding, G. P.S. deployment reasons to do with the limitations of the and this da ta c.an be entered manuall y or would seem to be on indefinite hold. transmitting and receiving antennae. automaticall y through a standard inter­ Recentl y, however, the U. S.A.F. face. I fee l that a Sat-Nav that is not announced that some G.P.S. sa tellites All of the foregoing means that good directly interfaced with boat speed and will be launched by alternative means, fixes may be close together, then a gap heading is firs t not worth having. T he primaril y Delta II rockets, commencing of a couple of hours may occur, but on average error induced by inaccura te in 1989. This would expand the current the whole in medium latitudes you speed and heading data (or none) is 0.2 coverage window of approximately 6 shoul d get one good fix every hour at n. m, for every 1 knot error in ships hours a day but the full system is still a leas t and the computer can forecast the velocity. long way off. times of passing and elevation of the Another weakness in the Sat-Nav Consequently, T ransi t is a system sa tell ites. In between fixes, it's back to receivers built for pleasure craft is that which will be in use well into the next old fas hoined D.R. and most Sat-Nav they are usuall y single channel receivers. decade and the U S Navy has something units have the facility to do that for you. T he Transit sa tellite emits signals simul­ like 6 spare sa tellites (if they have not Transit Sat-Nav is very accurate. taneously on 150 mH z and 400 mHz so launched any recently) and ample Scout Some early research using a fixed , land that the atmospheric refraction of the launch vehicles to keep the system fully based receiver gave an avera~e radial signal can be measured and corrected operational. error in the order of 30 metres. Howev­ for . T he cheaper receivers only make If you already own a Sat-Nav receiver er, a yacht with a well sited aerial and its use of 400 mHz and ignore the refr action the system is probably good fo r another computer interfaced with accura te boat correction. 10 years at least and if you are holding off in expectation of the more accurate and continuous fi xing G.P.S. system, you could be waiting fo r a long time. M eanwhile, in terms of cost, G.P.S. receivers are still back in days when Ball yhoo first brought yacht navigation into the electronic age (i .e. around $25,000), which is a lot to pay fo r a unit SYMBOL OF which can only provide about 6 hours coverage a day. At the moment its main use is by surveyors, engineers and EXCELLENCE. geologists. Loran The world's most prized satnav is the Magnavox 4102. Some years ago I was amused by the It has won acclaim fo r its rugged reliability and ease of use story of a keen Australian yacht owner who picked up a LO RAN receiver wherever blue water sailors cruise. It's truly world class overseas, 'cheap'. He was both baffled satnav. Now with more useful features than ever before. and angry when he coul d not get it to For information and brochure contact: work in Sydney. T he LORAN net, like Decca is very Coursemaster Autopilots Pty Ltd, much owner orientated, by which I 7 Smith St., Chatswood, NSW 2067. mean that the transmitters are sited to provide coverage where those who pro­ Phone (02) 417 7097. vide them , primarily the Americans, want it. T his LO RAN coverage is con­ fi ned to U .S . waters, the Atlantic and parts of the Mediterranean. N evertheless, LO RAN is one of the most widely used navigation aids in the world . U nli ke Sat-Nav it provides con­ tinuous coverage, w hich makes it prac­ tical for close-in si tuations such as favourite fi shing spots, offshore marks and channels. It can also be effectively

18 - OFFSH O R E - SUMMER 1987 Part II used by aircraft, again unlike Sat-Nav, and is extensively us ed by all branches of the U.S. military and Coast Guard. Consequently, LORAN receivers for yachts are even cheaper than Sat-Nav units and provide continuous fixing to accuracy in the order of 100 metres, which is about the same as two dimen­ sional G.P.S. in its degraded mode for civilian use, all of which would be grea t if it was available in the South Pacific. Oddly enough, and belatedly, there is a move afoot to build a LORAN C net in Australia. Full covera ge would re­ quire 15 stations at a cost of around $140 million, which seems doomed to fai lure in the current economic climate. A more limited system of 5 transmitters costing approximately S40 million would ser­ vice the south-east and east coasts but I doubt that the sand-gropers would be very impressed by that as part of it would be coming out of their taxes. good reasons fo r this, including the fact sort of thing you would put on the If an Australian LORAN net was to it can't quite compare with Sat-Nav or average yacht. become reality, and despite the excellent LORAN for fix accuracy, but it is rather OMEGA is supposed to give fixes to technical and safety reasons in favour of a pity that overseas market forces have 1-2 n. m. accuracy. I have never used it it, I sincerely doubt that it will , then you prevented development of a cheap, myself but I have been told by profes­ would see LORAN aerials sprout on compact OMEGA unit. sional mariners that OMEGA accuracy ocean racers faster than Cascade bee r As a result, OMEGA sets continue to in Australian waters is nowhere near cans at Constitution Dock. But don't be expensive, bulky and power hungry that dependable, although the differen­ hold your brea th; if the Department of whi ch makes them unattractive to yach­ tial version used in aircraft is quite Transport will not upgrade Air Traffic tsmen despite the fact that, apart from popular with the jet jockeys. Control hardware that belongs in the Sat-Nav, OMEGA is the only long All of which makes you wonder why steam age, even with a user pa ys policy range navigation aid available in Austra­ all the hoo-hah over OMEGA's intro­ in effect, what chance has LORAN C lian waters. duction to Australia. In the first place it system got of gaining a toehold. Buck­ was alleged to be a certain nuclear target leys, but we can dream, ca n't we? Integrated with Sat-Nav through a for the Russians because the American computer, OMEGA can be very effec­ submarines use OMEGA for missile Omega tive, the two systems updating each targeting, but it is nowhere near accu­ OMEGA is the one modern naviga­ other and, like LORAN, OMEGA pro­ rate enough for that purpose. In fact, as tion system, apart from high-tech exoti­ vides continuous radio signal. This inte­ a modern elec tronic aid , OMEGA has ca such as inertial navigation platforms, grated system is used in commercial not li ved up to its publicity but, in the that did not get the "toy version for ships and on some big cruising yachts absence of LORAN and GPS, it remains yachties" treatment by manufacturers and round-the-world racers, but the the only alternate to Sat-Nav in the after November 1983. There are some package is very expensive and not the South Pacific. D

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20 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 NO. 1 AUSSIE ADMIRAL'S CUP 1987 COMPLETE FRASER WARDROBE Sailors in the know, know ... FRASER SAILS

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U.S.A. SAN FRANCISCO (415) 521 4470 NEWPORT R.I. (401) 84 7 8870 ANNAPOLIS MD (301) 268 8531 . ' D ID you cheat?' is the ques­ tion which is asked of every skipper and crew member of each of the competing boats in the Champagne M umm Admiral's C up in a letter they will have received from the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Its second question is, 'Do you know of anyone who did chea t?' T he British club is holding a full enquiry into allegations of chea ting dur­ ing the most presti gious ocean racing series in the world fo ll owing the revela­ tion by an Australian crewman aboard the Austrian tea m yacht, 1-P/u nkt, that By Bob Fisher IYRR 22.2 was regularly broken. That, should you be unaware, is the rule which concerns the shipping, unship­ Matters more pleasant You will notice that there is no ping or shifting ballas t and water. It To matters of a more pleasant nature ... mention of the windless San Diego reads, 'From 2100 on the day before a there is in the Southern Hemis phere a because this venture is aimed at specta­ race until she is no longer racing, a yacht race in whi ch I would like to participate. tor interes t and the regatta at N ewport is shall not ship, unship or shift ball as t, It is of 1600 miles and all of them are there to provide some heritage and will whether movable or fi xed, or take in or downwind. Organised by the Mauritius be held before the summer when the discharge water, except for ordinary yachting authorities it goes fr om Grand winds disa ppea r. T elevision is the name ship's use and the removal ~J bilge Baie at the north-west corner of the of the game and ProSail is guaranteed water'. island, across the Indian Ocean, to full coast-to-coast coverage on the cable N ow that it has been revealed that Durban. It is a biennial event and the sports network ES PN, the one for aboard I-Pl unkt there were ten 20 litre 1987 race has just taken place. which Gary Jobson ca lled the America's plastic containers were fill ed with water Sydneysider Keith Bell amy, who C up races from Fremantle. Race Cams and stowed on an upper windward bunk now runs a spar business in Capetown, and the like will be there to record the when going to windward or close said on arrival in Durban, 'It was the action and Jock Wes t, the ProSail M an­ reaching, then drained fo r downwind best ocean race I have ever sailed '. aging Director is determined that the sailing, the witch hunt is on for young Of course, he chose a ULDB fo r his regattas will be a tes t of men rather than and old. Fingers are pointed in all the boats. 'They will be within 25lbs of directions and legal action is threa tened ride, a Bill Lee designed Santa C ruz 50, as anyone of moderate sensibilities each other', he told me, adding, 'we are by some at whom those fingers have determined that each boat shall be exact­ pointed. would. My preferences are well known for this type of boat, as Biggies recorded ly the sa me as the next'. T he practice is as bad as that of a few ProSail 's boa ts are designed, not un­ years ago when water was introduced in the las t issue (and to keep him in the picture, we ca rried on winning with surprisingly, by Laurie D avidson, a man into the bilges of boats being measured. with a wealth of glass fibre 12-metre O wners received stiff sentences, ban­ Barra cuda, even when Noel Robbins ca me on board to steer , to such an extent experience that few others can match. ning them fr om ra cing for long periods, The project manager is ex-patriate Porn, and the same should happen fo r anyone that we won the RORC Points Cham­ pionship for the C hannel H andica p Roger Marshall , a m· .. who spent many who is proved to have chea ted under hours in the Madison A venue offi ces of class). 22.2. Sparkman & Stephens. T he firs t two T he rule is one w hich has to be Keith's are now similarl y motivated. owners are Dave Vietor, who has been observe.cl with honour, as do manv He plans to be aboard a 70ft U LDB fo r around the T welves since the ea rl y others in yachting and while deliberate the next race - me too - and I would seventies, and Russell Long, who cam­ cheating is maybe commonplace in have thought that it was an ideal race for paigned Clipper fo r 1980. Both of them some of the Mediterranean countries (as any Australian who wanted to get out of will skipper their own boats but are in was proved at the 1986 O ne Ton Cup the rut. September 1989 sees the start of the process of hi ring the help - the best and suspected strongly at the Sardinia the next one and before it there will be that money ca n persuade - to build a C up the sa me year), every effort must three or fo ur short races much in the racing tea m. be made to stamp out the practice . style of Antigua Race Week. Take it The third boat has been bought by a C heating can only be ca rried out fr om me, M auritius has all the rig ht Connec ticut computer whizz who plans successfull y with the connivance of ingredients - sun, rum and coconuts! to hire all the crew and aft erguard and everyone on board and I cannot believe manage the tea m from the sidebenches that there are that many chea ts around while the fo urth boat, it is understood, (except in those countries where it exists Sponsorship in USA is under negotiation to a major U S as a nati onal pas time and they get great T hat las t bas ti on of anti-sponsorship, corporation. pleasure out of chea ting on everyone the United States of America, has tum­ T he tea ms will be full y sponsored from their business associates to their bled. N ot onl y has the SORC gone with a maj or taking the boat name and wives). T hat being so the RORC's ce, mmercial, with sponsorship fro m minors grabbing other avail able 'bill­ questionnaire should bring in the evi­ Audi cars, but there is to be a fu ll-on board' space on the boa t. T he size of the dence that the Club needs. professional circuit for fo ur identical advertising will be limited, particul arl y A week before the enquiry was due to glassfibre 12-metres . ProSail , as it is on the fo re and aft sa ils, sponsors' begin Alan Green, the RORC Secretary, known, is up and running with five (o ne spinnakers are quite di ffe rent however. said that he had had 'several interes ting is the operational spare) boats under Just to keep the whole thing sweet there replies' and that the res ponse was good. construction in Rhode Island and a will be a U S$1 million prize fun d in the One suspects that there may be some programme of regattas fo r next year in first year. 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24 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 Admirals Cup '87

HE days when a yacht owner crew aboard a yacht in events such as the could call his ocean racing slooJJ Admiral's Cup. The 1987 Champagne T Drake's Prayer or Ragamuffin or Mumm Admiral's Cup in England will some other such nautical or traditional almost certainly be the last where crews, name and then campaign her for inter or at least key members such as helms­ national competition are fast coming to men and tacticians, are true-blue an end. amateurs. In fact, while the Australian and New Only among the 12-metres are heroic Zealand teams were certainly still all and patriotic names of yachts still the amateurs, with the exception of the vogue, and there too the inroads of "paid hands" retained by a couple of the commercial sponsorship are en­ Australian owners, big money was cer­ croaching. tainly being paid to the professional And so it seems are the days of the skippers of the British and some Euro­ corinthian or amateur sailor prepared to pean boats.

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SWAN PREMIUM II , Gary Appleby's One Tonner, hard on the heels of Austria's Pinta and New Zealand's Propaganda d11ring Admiral 's C11p ra ce on Christchurch Bay, and LEFT, sheflies spon sor's spin11aker past 111ore traditional ketch on The Solent. (Perer Ca111pbell pies). ABOVE, Gest11ring Italian bow111an aboard Merope as th e kite comes 0111. (A llspo n pie).

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 25 SYDNEY yachtsman Gary Appleby, in his first Admiral's Cup , finished with top Australian yacht in Admiral's Cup. (Peter Campbell pie) . RIGHT, R egular helmsman at Cowes Week: HRH Prin ce Philip at th e wh eel (Al/sport pie) . BELOW LEFT, American boat Blue Yankee chases the leaders towards Th e Needl es and BELOW RIGHT, Close ta cking between Germany's Diva and another big boat. (Al/sport pies) .

LEFT: Britain 's Indulgence poivers into th e 111indward 111ark, and ABO VE, one of th e rare wam1 a11d s111111y days at Cowes in A11g 11 st. (Al/sport pies) . Admirals Cup '87 Such is the price of progress in grand became Swan Premier I while Sydney had kept out of protest-provoking inci­ prix ocean racing following the lifting of yachtsman Gary Appleby's Swan Pre­ dents, but I doubt that we could have restrictions this year on sponsorship and mium II was originally launched as beaten the Kiwis. But the Australian the recognition of that sponsorship Sagacious V. Both owners dropped the team sailed well, particularly in the final , under Rule 26. No one can deny, of ongoing traditional names of their ocean 605 nautical mile Fastnet Race, to with­ course, that sponsorship is essential if racers to give the sponsor "naming stand strong efforts by the Irish, the Australian and New Zealand yachting rights." Germans, the United States and the teams are to continue to be competitive It has to be worthwhile. The support Danes, to hold third place. with the Europeans, to meet the huge from the team's two major sponsors, This was New Zealand's first win in costs of shipping yachts and flying Bond Brewing and the ANL shipping the Admiral's Cup, the world cham­ crews to England for the Admiral's line, made the difference in enabling pionship of ocean racing, becoming Cup. Australia to make what amounted to the only the fourth nation to have its name It's all very well to have wealthy strongest challenge at Cowes in 1979. engraved on the base of the fine gold cup owners or syndicates prepared to put In the fiercest competition in the in 30 years of competition. The others together a state-of-the-art ocean racer, 30-year history of the Admiral's Cup, are Britain, the United States, Australia campaigning it for selection and then the three Australian yachts and their and Germany. New Zealand's best pre­ prepared to foot the bill for new sails crews did exceptionally well to finish vious effort, in five past challenges, was and maintenance during a tough, third among the 14 national teams, third in 1985. month-long campaign in the UK. The beaten only by the New Zealanders and Encouraged by that effort, the Kiwis personal cost of each to the three Austra­ the British. began planning to win the Cup in 1987 lian owners, Peter Kurts, Gary Appleby In my view, after having covered almost immediately. As soon as the and Lou Abrahams, would not have left seven Admiral's Cup series in England, team returned to New Zealand, a work­ them much change from between the effort of the Swan Premium Austra­ ing group was set up with well known $400,000 and $500,000 each. lian team was the best team performance Auckland yachtsman and naval architect On top of that, total team costs well since Australia won the Cup in 1979. In Don Brooke as 1987 team manager­ exceeded $1-million in airfares, accom­ fact, it was equal or even better than that designate. Anyone who had been in­ modation and general living expenses in effort, bearing in mind the advantage volved in past NZ challenges for the a very expensive country like England. gained by Australia when opposition Admiral's Cup was invited to attend Each Australian crew member contri­ yachts fell by the wayside in the gale­ monthly "think-tank" metings at the buted $500 towards that cost, plus his swept Fastnet Race. Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. own personal out-of-pocket expenses of This year both Australia and New A small group of enthusiastic owners being four to six weeks away from Zealand went into the Admiral's Cup as agreed to build potential Cup yachts, home and taking leave from work. the best prepared teams ever shipped including two identical Farr One Ton­ Sponsorship of yachting events is from the Antipodes, for the first time ners. Only five boats turned out for a nothing new, with A WA sponsoring the with yachts that matched the latest Sydney-Hobart and the Admiral's Cup European boats in design and construc­ r------, itself under the on-going sponsorship of tion, gear and sails. The latest state-of­ Champagne Mumm, the French-based the-art, lightweight One Tonners built champagne company. Australian teams only a few months before the Cup had II//J1/111olfh I !Yau!nl11/uril Pl//. 11,f I in the past have also received spon­ no advantage in design changes, con­ sorship from Dunhill and ANL shipping struction advances or in sail-cloth de­ FREE :----- I but as a team Australia was until this velopments. The stabilisation of the Discount year restricted in what it could offer a IOR rule, plus the introduction of ABS sponsor in return. scantling regulations for new hulls, has Catalogu Fortunately, the Royal Ocean Racing made yacht design and building equit­ Club and the Offshore Racing Council able throught the world. (the international govering body of The one disadvantage that the Austra­ ocean racing) this year amended Rule 26 lian and New Zealand teams did have to enable teams and their individual was in being without their yachts to yachts to name their team and yachts continue crew training for between two after the sponsor of his products. For the and three months, and then having only purists it may well have been a shock, about 12 to 15 days of sailing on The Solent and Christchurch Bay before the o Fully illustrated but for the realists who have had to dig o Over 4,000 items Admiral's Cup itself began. deep into their pockets for the honour of □ Tremendous sav ings representing Australia in international With their inherent skills in offshore □ 48 hour dispatch sport, it was a welcome change of heart. racing, the sailors from Down Under □ Supermarkets in Sydney Veteran Sydney yachtsman Peter made the best of their opportunity in and Brisbane Kurts, for example, had been to Cowes Europe this year, the two teams from □ Major credit cards accepted three times in the past with yachts the Antipodes outsailing all but the bearing such names as Love and War, British - and they were in their home Call for FREE Catalogue Once More Dear Friends and Drake's waters. The New Zealanders got their (02) 939 1055 Prayer . Last summer he launched his act together just that bit better than their NAME ______latest ocean racer and named it Made ­ cousins across the Tasman and deserved line's Daughter, but in deference to a their fine victory - a successful com­ ADDRESS ______major team sponsorship from Bond bination of long-term team planning, CITY ______Brewing, Kurts campaigned the Farr 44 three excellent boats, three outstanding STATE ____ P'CODE ____ as Swan Premium III in the Swan Pre­ crews, and a determined, nationalist team effort. Whitworth 's Nautical World Pty.Ltd. mium Australian Admiral's Cup team . P. 0. Box W52 Warringah Mall, Similarly, Melbourne yachtsman Lou Australia could have beaten the Brits N.S.W. 2100 I Abrahams' Ronstan Ultimate Challen~e had our team made fewer tactical errors, L ------os ._. OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 27 Admirals Cup '87

tight selection series with Kiwi, a new Farr 44, gaining the medium-rating berth and Propaganda , a Farr One Ton­ ner, and Goldcorp, the revamped Mad Max, a Davidson One Tonner, making up the two other places in the team which under new RORC rules set a minimum total rating figure of 95.0 feet !OR. A US TRALIA 'S Admiral's Cup team bunched at the leeward end of the line for the sta rt of race The trials were held early in New one of the Southern Cross Cup on The Solent off Cowes. (Peter Campbell pie). Zealand and team management then set about turning their "enemy" crews into her from 17th to 25th, and costing the weed-slowing effect on Swan Premium I one closely-knit team, embued with one team 16 points. But for this incident, can be gauged by the placings of the sole aim - to win the Admiral's C up with Swan Premium Ill, steered by Iain British and NZ One Tonners which had for New Zealand. They held three long Murray to a. fine fourth, and Swan been astern of the Australians after some weekend sailing seminars, with the three Premium I, 28th, the Australian team 50 miles of the race. Bevan Woolley's boats and crews racing together, and would have been only 10 points behind Farr One Tonner Propaganda, with Peter continued combined crew meetings af­ the then leading team, Denmark. As it Lester and Brad Butterworth sharing the ter the yachts were shipped to· England was, Australia was fifth, behind De- helm, won the Channel Race from the aboard ACT 8 along with the Australian nmark, Italy, Holland and the United British boat, Jamarella , also a Farr de- boats. States. sign, skippered by Olympic gold medal- Thus the Kiwi team arrived in Cowes Not that the New Zealanders fared list Rodney Pattisson, one of the highly- with each owner, skipper and crew any better. They ended up equal sixth paid pro skippers in the British team. member knowing the others personally with Britain in that first race, a 30-miler Thus, Britain came out on top in the and prepared to work in as a team. In sailed in the typical Solent conditions of race, and jumped from equal sixth with contrast, the Australians never got flukey winds and boat-stopping tides. New Zealand, to first in team standings together before reaching Cowes, other . Race two was the first long offshore and 27 points in front of the Kiwis. The than several technical meetings between race, the 210 nautical mile Channel Race Danes slid to third, Australia lifted to skippers and tacticians, and several ma­ and the results saw a dramatic change of fourth but was now 109 points behind jor crew changes were made between team positions, but not so for the the British instead of eight points ahead. the time of the selection trials in Mel­ Australians. A series of tactical errors by Potentially Australia could have been bourne and the Admiral's Cup in the highly experienced afterguard of within a couple of points of the British. Cowes. Peter Kurts' Swan Premium III saw the But potential doesn't win international At Cowes, the "colonial teams" - Farr 44 slip badly in the fl eet before even events of the calibre of the Admiral's Australia, New Zealand and the United reaching the first mark of the course in Cup. Only the results count - and ~ot States - worked well together in run­ the English Channel and never recover just results on the course, but also in the ning special trial races on Christchurch to finish dispiriting 36th overall. Of four protest room. Bay in the two weeks before the Cup. It tactical decisions that had to be made at Lou Abrahams and his helmsman, was obvious then that the Kiwis would various stages of the race, the afterguard Bernie Case, were to find that out to be the team to beat. Their boats were got three of them wrong. their chagrine, in the protest room after fast, their helmsmen equal to the bes t, Gary Appleby's Farr One Tonner, race three, the first of two round-the- but most of all their sail-handling tech­ Swan Premium II, sailed an excell ent race buoys races on Christchurch Bay, to the niques were outstanding. The Austra­ to finish ninth, with Lou Abrahams' west of Cowes. lian crew work, with· newcomers staging a remarkable mid-race recovery All three Australians got a brilliant aboard, was at times quite sloppy. to be 11th. The Dubois One Tonner, start in this first race on Christchurch The Kiwis maintained that superb which had been first on corrected time at Bay, following the prediction by team crew work and sail handling throughout the first mark, lost a dozen places during meteorologist Roger Badham (ex A u- the Admiral's C up itself, combining the night when seaweed caught on her stra lia IV weather man) that there would with fine helming, sound but generally keel and rudder. With the yacht surfing be major windshift to the right early in conservative tactics, and competitive at 12-13 knots, the difference in speed the race. In fact, at the weather mark the boatspeed, to achieve winning team made by the weed was not noticed by first time the Australian team was on a efforts from the second race onwards. those aboard. Only the fact that other winner, with Swan Premium III second Australia's three boats were certainly One Tonners were overtaking finally boat around the mark and Swan Premium comparable in boatspeed with the three prompted the crew, at daybreak, into II the second placed One Tonner. New Zealanders, with Swan Premium I checking the keel. Swan Premium I was in the main being a Dubois One Tonner (her sis­ Swan Premium I regained most of the bunch of One Tonners at that stage tership Irish Independent Fu ll Pelt was places lost with a fine display of fast pacing it with several larger yachts top AC boat in the Fastnet Race), Swan reaching, but the Australian team cer- which had been on the wrong side of the Premium II a Farr One Tonner similar to tainly has missed the opportunity to wind shift, including the big US boat Propaganda, and Swan Premium III, a become the topscoring team in the Sidewinder. The One Tonners were still Farr 44 near sistership to Kiwi - and Channel Race, with points multiplied by with Sidewinder at the end of the two rating lower. Overall crew work lacked three (in the short races, they were reaching legs. slightly on the Kiwis but where we multiplied by two, in the Fastnet by As they rounded the mark in a bunch, really fell down was in tactical decisions five). As it was, Australia did move up Swan Premium I did a crash tack, claim- and in protest-provoking incidents. one place to fourth in team standings, ing that Sidewinder had forced her to do In the first inshore race, the only one but the British, the New Zealanders and so by tacking in her water. The Austra- this year on The Solent off Cowes, the Danes were now ahead of them. lian boat lost way, slipped back onto the Swan Premium II clipped the stern of Just how much opportunity was lost, mark, also being hit by an overtaking Goldcorp on a square run and took a 20 firstly by the tactical mistakes aboard yacht. Sweden's Civic, whose helmsman per cent of placings penalty, dropping Swan Premium III and then by the was obviously confused by having a

28 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 Admirals Cup '87 yacht sailing backwards on starboard passage inside of SP I and hit and holed tack. her on the port quarter, at the gunwale. The FLOOK Safety Anchor in glide mode Helmsman Bernie Case protested This time the Jury found in favour of S P both Sidewinder and Civic, with the I. former contesting the issue, Civic ack­ The overall results of race four nowledging her fault and accepting a 20 favoured the big boats, a tide change per cent penalty. The Australians, who giving them a vital advantage midway had neither attempted to re-round the through the race. It was also the best day mark or fl y an "I" fla g, went into the of the Cup series for the Americans with protest confident of winning the protest Gary Weisman steering Insatiable, a Nel­ against the U S boat, showing a video of son/M arek 45, to victory over Sidewin­ the incident which they claimed clearly der, a Reichel/Pugh 45, steered by John showed they were forced to tack to Bertrand, the Californian former tacti­ avoid a collision with Sidewinder. The cian/helmsman aboard Tom Blackaller's International Jury found otherwise, U.S.A. at the last America's Cup. Ire­ finding that both yachts had tacked land's Turkish Delight finished third, simultaneously with a "poor ta ck" by Australia's Swan Premium III a fine the Australian boat being the cause of fourth, New Zealand's Kiwi fifth. her hitting the mark. In a race that favoured the big boats, Swan Premi um I received a 20 per cent New Zealand's two One Tonners sailed penalty, dropping her from 23rd place an exceptional race, with Propaganda (she had fallen back nea rly a dozen sixth, Goldcorp eight - all three N Z FLOOK™ placings during the incident) to 31st and boats beating all three British to give costing the Australian team another 16 them the lead on team standings for the The Flying An,,Q}l.QE points. With Swan Premium II eight and first time in the series. Propaganda and Developed in Australia , THE FLOOK is a new type of Swan Premium III ninth overall, the Goldcorp were the only One Tonners on anchor with incredible "flying" capabi lities . potential was again there for a fine corrected time among the firs t 16 plac­ When launched THE FLOOK takes off and flies out effort. But ... ings, a result that was the outcome of through the water at a glide of 5 to 1 until it lands The N ew Zealanders had a superb just concentrated steering, fa ultless tac­ on the seabed . day, with Peter Les ter steering Propagan­ tics and brillaint sail-handling at every A quick rearward jerk on the line opens its unique da to her second successive win, Kiwi mark of the course. differential pantograph and drives the flukes into finished third and Go ldcorp 10th. This With only the Fastnet Race to sail, the ( the sand or mud . brought the Kiwis within one point of N ew Zealand team looked near certain t:\ The special geometry of the Britain which produced a fourth by of victory, barring accidents. T heir team I+\ pantograph ensures the harder Jamarella , a seventh by Indulgence and a total was now a massive 895 points, 109 -~ \ you pull the deeper the fluke s 16th by Juno. Australian held third berth ahead of Britain on 786 and 230 in front •· , dig down . but the margin between the two top of Australia on 665. But the Australians' teams and third was now 150 points. third berth was far from secure, with the Trouble seemed to dog Lou Abra­ Americans lifting to 662 points after hams and in race four, the second their excellent result in race four, the inshore race on Christchurch Bay, the Danes on 612, the Irish 578 and the With THE FLOOK it is no longer necessa ry to know Dubois One Tonner was involved in Germans on 577. the depth of water. Your vesse l can be taken straight two incidents caused not by her but by In the first four races Australia had to its desired position and the anchor sent out ah ea d other One Tonners attempting· to force lost 48 points in the protes t room, but to embed itself at just the right distance for good their way into the ruck at the rounding even with these the task of overhauling anchoring . marks. · New Zealand was a formidable, if not Australian Patent No. PH8676. lnternat1onal Patent Pending. At the weather mark the first time, impossible, one. However, Australia Britain's Jamarella and Germany's still had two boats in the first 10 on 'P"A.. , HUI..MISON Saudade ca us ed confusion by coming in individual results, as did Britain, but the .,,lT . MAilINE PTY. UJIIITED on port tack and tacking in front of Kiwis had all three boats in the top seven other yachts coming in on starboard. - and that's what counts. I------Please send me more information about Protests against Jama re/la were later dis­ Fortunes varied in the Fastnet Race I the Flook flying safety anchor. missed, surprisingly, but the damage with wind and tide, and although the had been done as far as Swan Premium I New Zealanders lost ground midway I Name ______was concerned. She was forced to tack through the 605 nautical mile race down I twice and the strong running tide carried the English C hannel, across the Irish Sea Address ______her onto the mark. Helmsman Bernie to Fastnet Rock and back to finish at I Case called for the "I" fl ag, thinking he Plymouth, they ca me home strongly to I .could accept a 5 per cent penalty (two hold a comfortable winning lead and code ___ places) rather than lose time and more take the Admiral's C up for the first time 1----- placings in re-rounding. in six attempts. 1 Phone No ______Wrong! The sailing instructions had T he British were topscorers in the been amended before race one to elimin-. Fas tnet Race, with the One Tonners I Boat Type & Size ______ate the " I" fl ag alternative penalty but again sweeping home up the C hannel Send coupon to: PO Box 318, Collaroy Beac h , 2097. I 99 South Creek Road, Dee Why, N.S.W. 2099 Australia. for some reason Case was not aware of from Bishop Rock under spinnakers, I Telephone• (02) 981 3866. Telex• AA7329. Fax• (02) 982 8543 the change. In the protest room later snapping at the transoms of the bigger Swan Premium I received another 20 per boats. Sixteen of the first 17 boats on FLOOK'" cent penalty. But her day of disasters corrected time were One Tonners, with I Th e Flying Anch_g.[ was not over. At the leeward mark the Irish Independent Full Pelt, the Dubois I Dutch boat Mean Machine tried to force a 40, winning from Britain's funo and I

JFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 29 tently and they seemed to lack the national spirit which underlined their previous efforts at Cowes. The Danish, like the Australians, a fully sponsored team, began with a flourish in the light winds on The Solent, their three Japanese-designed SWAN boats looking exceptionally fast . But in the heavier breezes they faltered although their big boat, Original Beck­ HOLE in the gunwale of Swan Premium I was one of man y mishaps for Lou A b'rahams' On _e mann Pletjjerner (a trade name), finished Tonn er at Cowes. Later, on th e way to Tilbury Docks by truck, th e hull was holed again - thi s second of the higher rating boats in the time by a tree! (Peter Camp bell pie) . Fastnet. ]amarella, followed by N ew Zealand's place with Britain in the Champagne Top individual yacht of the Admiral's Propaganda. Mumm World Cup, and winning the Cup w as the Bruce Farr designed N .Z. Lou Abraham s, who had celebrated 12-metre world championship with KZ One Tonner Propaganda (rating 30.59) this 60th birthday rounding Fastnet 7 in Sardinia, not to mention the same with placings of19-1-1-6-4. Second was Rock (a cake, candles and party hats but yacht's record-breaking streak of wins at another Farr One Tonner, Britian's no champagne) led the Australian fl eet the America's Cup. Jamarella (rating 30.54) with placings of with a fine sixth w hich enabled the team New Z ealand finished with 1365 14-2-4-23-3 and third the big US boat, to hold third berth against the Irish and points on the board, 84 in front of Sidewinder, a Raichel/Pugh 45 (rating the Germans. Swan Premium II finished Britain with 1281 points, and a massive 34. 99) , with placings of 3-20-5-2-13. 15th after sailing a conservative race, 260 points ahead of Australia with 1105 Then in order came: Denmark's Ori­ w hile S wan Premium III was a sound points. The Irish finished fourth with ginal Beckmann Pletjjerner Oeppeson - 19th, the fo urth-highest placed among 1038, followed by Germany with 992, rating 34.51), Irish Independent Full Pelt the bigger boats. U.S.A. 972, Denmark 947, France 926, (Dubois - 30-49), N ew Zealand's Gold­ The end res ult was a magnificent and Austria 759, Spain 732, Hollnd 640, corp (Davidson - 30.58), Kiwi (Farr - well deserved victory for N ew Z ealand, Italy 631 , Sweden 494, Belguim 341 34.47), Swan Premium II(Farr - 30.55), the culmination of a rem arkable year of _points. Indulgence (Andrieu - 34.52). and Au­ sailing success , including winning the The Germans never looked as good as stria's Pinta Oude/ Vrolijk - 34.21) . Kenwood Cup in Hawaii, sharing first in the past. Their boats sailed inconsis- Swan Premium III, a Farr 44 finished CHAMPAGNE MUMM ADMIRAL'S CUP 1987 SERIES RES ULTS -TEAMS Provisional - after 5 races Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Date 30/07/ 1987 31 /07/'-.987 03/08/ 1987 05/08/ 1987 08/08/1987 Length 23.5 21 3.6 28.7 28.2 591.0 Factor X 2 X '.l X 2 X 2 X 5 CL Team Sail No. Yacht Name Skipper/Owner Rat, R.1 R.2 R.3 RA R,5 Total 1 NEW ZEALAND KZ 296 Goldco rp R.Dodson/M.Canning 30.58 18 111 66 70 160 425 KZ6161 Pro paga nda B.Woolley/A.Burr 30. 59 48 126 84 74 195 527 KZ 6191 Ki wi P. Walker/ Admiral's Cup C 34.47 70 72 80 76 115 413 Total 136 309 230 220 470 1365 2 UNITED K 180 Jamarell a R. Pattisson/ A. Gra y 30.54 58 123 78 38 200 497 KI NGDOM K 505 Juno A.Hurst/M. Peacock 30.50 24 108 54 0 205 391 K 919 In dul gence H.Cudmore/G. Walker 34.52 54 105 72 72 90 393 Total 136 336 204 110 495 1281 3 AUSTRALI A KA Z SM Swan Premium I L. Abrahams/L. Abrahams 30.55 30 96 24 14 185 349 KA 3000 Swa n Premium II P. Kurts/P. Kurts 34.31 78 21 68 78 120 365 KA 4000 Swa n Premium III G. Appl eby/ G. Appleby 30.55 36 102 70 48 135 391 Total 144 219 162 140 440 1105 4 IR ELA ND IR 1780 Jameson Whiskey R.Burrows /B.ButJrns 30.55 10 99 16 0 150 275 K 1036 Turkish Delight M. Mansfield /H. Bez man 34.21 62 42 52 80 100 336 K 243 Irish Independent T. Power/S. Fein 30. 49 60 84 49 24 210 427 Total 132 225 11 7 104 460 1038 5 GE RMANY G 1909 Container G. Ei erm ann / U. Schuetz 30.52 8 11 7 49 44 160 378 G 1919 Saudade U.Mares/A.Buell 30. 55 44 87 38 0 175 344 G2994 Di va B. Beilken/P. Westphal-Lan 34.42 0 90 62 38 80 270 Total 52 294 149 82 41 5 992 6 U.S. A. us 18968 Sidewinder J. Bertrand/R. Short 34.99 80 69 76 82 145 452 US4111 0 Blue Yankee S. Benj amin / R. Towse 34.20 6 3 57 so 105 221 us 41 241 Insa ti able G. Weisman/Krehbiel/Tank 35. 18 74 39 42 84 60 299 Total 160 111 175 216 310 972

30 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 Admirals Cup '87 yacht sailing backwards on starboard passage inside of SP I and hit and holed tack. her on the port quarter, at the gunwale. The FLOOK Safety Anchor in glide mode Helmsman Bernie Case protested This time the Jury found in favour of SP both Sidewinder and Civic, with the I. former contesting the issue, Civic ack­ The overall results of race four nowledging her fault and accepting a 20 favoured the big boats, a tide change per cent penalty. The Australians, who giving them a vital advantage midway had neither attempted to re-round the through the race. It was also the best day mark or fly an " I" flag , went into the of the Cup series for the Americans with protest confident of winning the protest Gary Weisman steering Insatiable, a Nel­ against the US boat, showing a video of son/Marek 45, to victory over Sidewin­ the incident which they claimed clearly der, a Reichel/Pugh 45, steered by John showed they were forced to tack to Bertrand, the Californian former tacti­ avoid a collision with Sidewinder. The cian/helmsman aboard Tom Blackaller's International Jury found otherwise, U.S .A . at the last America's Cup. Ire­ finding that both yachts had tacked land's Turkish Delight finished third, simultaneously with a "poor tack" by Australia's Swan Premium III a fine the Australian boat being the cause of fourth, New Zealand's Kiwi fifth . her hitting the mark. In a race that favoured the big boats, Swan Premi um I received a 20 per cent New Zealand's two One Tonners sailed penalty, dropping her from 23rd place an exceptional race, with Propaganda (she had fallen back nearly a dozen sixth, Goldcorp eight - all three NZ FLOOK™ placings during the incident) to 31st and boats beating all three British to give costing the Australian team another 16 them the lead on team standings for the The Flying An.,Q/1.Ql points. With Swan Premium II eight and first time in the series. Propaganda and Developed in Australia, THE FLOOK is a new type of Swan Premium III ninth overall, the Go ldcorp were the only One Tonners on anchor with incredible "flying " capabilities . potential was again there for a fine corrected time among the first 16 plac­ When launched THE FLOOK takes off and flies out effort. But ... ings, a result that was the outcome of through the water at a glide of 5 to 1 until it lands The New Zealanders had a superb just concentrated steering, faultless tac­ on the seabed. day, with Peter Lester steering Propagan­ tics and brillaint sail-handling at every A quick rearward jerk on the line opens its unique da to her second successive win, Kiwi mark of the course. differential pantograph and drives the flukes into finished third and Goldcorp 10th. This With only the Fastnet Race to sail, the the sand or mud . brought the Kiwis within one point of New Zealand team looked near certain &;; The special geometry of the Britain which produced a fourth by of victory, barring accidents. Their team ' pantograph ensures the harder Jam arella, a seventh by Indulgence and a total was now a massive 895 points, 109 · ' you pull th e deeper the flukes 16th by Juno. Australian held third berth ahead of Britain on 786 and 230 in front dig down . but the margin between the two top of Australia on 665. But the Australians' teams and third was now 150 points. third berth was far from secure, with the Trouble seemed to dog Lou Abra­ Americans lifting to 662 points after hams and in race four, the second their excellent result in race four, the inshore race on Christchurch Bay, the Danes on 612, the Irish 578 and the With THE FLOOK it is no longer necessary to know Dubois One Tonner was involved in Germans on 577. the depth of water . Your vessel can be taken straight two incidents caused not by her but by In the first four races Australia had to its desired position and the anchor se nt out ahead other One Tonners attempting· to force lost 48 points in the protest room, but to embed itself at just the right distance for good their way into the ruck at the rounding even with these the task of overhauling anchoring. marks. · New Zealand was a formidable, if not Australian Palent No. PH8676. lnternahonal Patent Pending. At the weather mark the first time, impossible, one. However, Australia Britain's Jamarella and Germany's still had two boats in the first 10 on 'P"A.. , DUI..MISON Saudade caused confusion by coming in individual results, as did Britain, but the Jft1lT. MAllINE PTY. UNITED on port tack and tacking in front of Kiwis had all three boats in the top seven other yachts coming in on starboard. - and that's what counts. Please send me more information about Protests against ]amarella were later dis­ Fortunes varied in the Fastnet Race ------­the Flook flying safety anchor. missed, surprisingly, but the damage with wind and tide, and although the had been done as far as Swan Premium I New Zealanders lost ground midway Name ______was concerned. She was forced to tack through the 605 nautical mile race down twice and the strong running tide carried the English Channel, across the Irish Sea Address ______her onto the mark. Helmsman Bernie to Fastnet Rock and back to finish at Case called for the "I" flag, thinking he Plymouth, they came home strongly to .could accept a 5 per cent penalty (two hold a comfortable winning lead and code ___ places) rather than lose time and more take the Admiral's Cup for the first time placings in re-rounding. in six attempts. Phone No ______Wrong! The sailing instructions had The British were topscorers in the been amended before race one to elimin­ Fastnet Race, with the One Tonners Boat Type & Size ______ate the " I" flag alternative penalty but again sweeping home up the Channel Send coupon to: PO Box 3 18, Collaroy Beach, 2097. 99 South Creek Road, Dee Why, N.S.W. 2099 Australia. for some reason Case was not aware of from Bishop Rock under spinnakers, Telephone: (02) 981 3866. Telex : AA7329. Fax: (02) 982 8543 the change. In the protest room later snapping at the transoms of the bigger Swan Premium I received another 20 per boats. Sixteen of the first 17 boats on FLOOK'" cent penalty. But her day of disasters corrected time were One Tonners, with Th e Flying Anch!JI. was not over. At the leeward mark the Irish Independent Full Pelt, the Dubois Dutch boat Mean Machine tried to force a 40, winning from Britain's funo and

JFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 29 Admirals Cup '87

13th overall, while Swan Premium I, a strongest ever Admiral's C up fl eet, our N ew Zealanders or the British with a Dubois sistership to Full Pelt, was 14th bes t effort since 1969, but we could have concerted tea m effort. And sailing as a overall. done better. The Swan Premium team team is the keynote of the Admiral's IN SUMMARY: Australia can be had the boats - it was the human Cup. But we certainly were not dis­ pleased with this third placing in the element which could not match the graced. D

I-Punkt crew were all quizzed indi­ vidually by the race jury, but without Water Ballast Row the promise of immunity, none of the three who had brought this controversy into the open were prepared co admit anything. Boils Over No sooner has the I-Punkt con­ troversy broken, then the British HE Royal O cean Racing Club I-Plunkt 's West German owner, Thomas Admiral's C up tea m came under the was due to begin in mid­ Friese, instructed the yacht's regular spotlight when two N ew Zealand j our­ T October a full scale International crew members to fill plastic containers nalists disclosed to The Times that one Jury inquiry into allegations that several with water which were then smuggled crewman aboard Indulgence had confes­ yachts, including British boats, made aboard the yacht before each race, and sed to them that the British had dumped illegal use of water ballast during the then thrown overboard before the yacht extensive amounts of water fr om their recent Admiral's Cup. At the same time, finished, to dispose of evidence before integral tanks when sailing off the wind the Austrian and Wes t German yachting scrutineers checked the leading boats. as a way around the Rule to lessen authorities had promised to convene The Australian crewman admitted to weight and thus increase speed. inquiries into revelations that I-Punkt, Barry Pickthall and N ew Zealand radio The report brought a flurry of indig­ one of the team which represented journaist Larry Kea ting just before nant denials from British team captain Austria in the Admiral's Cup in England boarding I-Plunkt fo r the long offshore Graham Walker, owner of Indulgence, and later sailed for Wes t Germany in the race of the One Ton C up that the crew skipper H arold C udmore and helmsman One Ton Cup at Kiel, had fl agrantly was not only doing it in the One Ton Eddie Warden O wen who admitted that breached the IYRU rules on the use of Cup, but had also done the same thing he had been discussing the iss ue with the water as ballast in IOR races. in the Channel Race of the Admiral's two journalists but suggested that there The shock allegations of cheating at Cup. "The owner called on the nigger must have been a misunderstanding this top level of ocean racing which (paid hand) to go down below and fi ll over what he said. "We certainly have came into public light during the One the bags," he told Pickthall and Kea ting. not used water ballas t," he said emphati­ Ton Cup, immediately resulted in calls "We carried about 200kg of water in cally. by Australia and N ew Zealand to the disposable fold-up plas tic water bags Indulgence's two One Ton tea m maces RORC to hold a full scale investigation. which were fill ed up via a two-way ]amarella and Juno did carry full water Both Australian and N ew Zealand ocean bilge pump. Later I asked the owner not tanks however, and once the fu rore over racing authorities said that such allega­ to do it again during the Fastnet Race, the allegations had died down, one tions of chea ting in the sport would but the sa me thing happened on the way respected source within the tea m ex­ react strongly against future prospects of back fr om the Rock." plained chat the two crews had been gaining sponsorship fo r Admiral's C up According to the Australi an, the bags doing nothing more than exploit a teams. of water were stacked in the top bunk on rather badly worded rule to the limit. There were rumours back in 1985 of the windward side of the yacht, then T he IYRU Rule headed 'Shipping, yachts, particularly the Europeans, tak­ transferred to the opposite bunk when unshipping or shifting bal las t: Water, ing aboard extra water in mineral water they tacked. O nce off the wind, the reads - "From 21:00 on the day before bottles and containers during the extra water was emptied out through the race until she is no longer racing, a Admiral's C up. As a res ult, the RORC the cockpit drains and the bags remai ned yacht shall not ship, unship or shift set a maximum of one litre of drinkable empty until the next windward leg. Just ball as t whether moveable or fi xed, or liquid per crew member per day for this before the finish, the paid hand cut the take in or discharge water, except for year's series . But it seemed apparent to bags into small pieces and threw them ordinary ship's use and or the removal _many at Cowes that this was being overboard to dispose of the evidence. of bilge water". exceeded by several crews. There were T he fo llow-up story on page one of But what constitutes ordinary use? suggestions of protes ts, but no action. "The Times " prompted Austrian sail­ According to Barry Pickethall British maker Herbert Raudaschl to w rite to the offshore coash Bill Edgerton suggested But at Kiel, the water ballas t iss ue Wes t German Yachting Federation on that crew, sailing with tanks fi lled be­ boiled over. An Australian crew mem­ September 2 admitting that illegal water fo re the 21:00 dealine, then had the ber of I-Plunkt admitted to English ball ast had been pumped aboard I-Plunkt option of using up extensive amounts as yachting writer Barry Pickthall that the during the C hannel Race, although he soon as possible in the event of light crew of the Japanese-registered O ne did not know about it two of his fellow• weather - a prac ti ce RORC Commod­ Tonner had pumped more than 200 Austrian countrymen had told him so ore Robin Aisher said was no different litres of illicit water ballas t onboard the on August 21. to gliders dropping ballas t. Lacer he yacht w9-en racing offshore to improve 11. ud a further 200-250 litres of water qualifie d this by saying that there was stability upwind and thus speed. and it is the equivalent of having three nothing to stop the crew on his 40ft T wo other crew who sailed aboard heavy crew members on the windward rated Farr design Yeoman XXVI all I-Plu nkt during the O ne Ton Cup con­ rail , giving a significant advantage in a taking a shower in order to get rid of the firmed his story, but all three as ked to li ghtweight boat going co windward. In ballast, while another source said that remain anonymous until the offi cial I-Plun kt's case the advantage was 0.2 water merely pumped out through the inquiries were convened. Ac:;cor ding to knot. sink plumbing also constitutes proper Pickthall's report, all three alleged that Ac the end of the O ne Top Cup, the use. □ -

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Zulu ¼ tonner, Osaka Bay, Japan. u[!} ON THE WARPATH!

RITERS from so many magazines have helped to to sail and build boats since they came to Australia. The story of create the legend of the Zulu Tribe, Bob Ross with "come back in twenty five years when you have learnt to sail" W 'Who the hell is Bill Dodds' and Mark Russell in the has passed in to fo lklore in Victoria and the victories of the Zulu classy intellect mag, the Innovators; "Interviewing Bill Dodds Tribe, a list of triumphs which will perhaps only be repeated if is like going 15 rounds with Professor Julius Sumner Miller". Zulu decide to do it again with the new ¾ tonner is legend. A visit to Zulu Land on Southern Victoria's Bellarine Bouncing Bill replies; "We are turning a pigs ear into a silk Peninsula is a fascinating experience, quotable quotes, achieved purse. Zulu have been asked to take this well known boat, dreams, exciting product and stimulating activity. It's a bit like which has been well campagined but never quite made it, and finding a plate of jam tarts spilt in a garden with heaps of ants try to help . circling around the goodies. Zulu is part of a series of small factories dubbed 'The " It really was a choice of new boat or a radical cut job, and Toyshop', each section has guys working on projects for virtually a rebuild. This boat was presented to Zulu as a hi gh clients, in one corner is a Solar Car being developed for Ford, in tech example of Yacht Building - Well if one inch ply with another a roof which looks like a roof but incorporates all sorts Kevlar skins is high tech, I'm Robert Redford!" of goodies for supplying energy into the house, in another (Nobody will deny the truth of the man!) . workshop a Polynesian burre complete with simulated Thatc'i., "We've chopped the transom right out, put a couple of foot another with cedar shingles, all spot on replications of the on behind A.G.S. (After Girth Station). This should help the actual. owner hike his wallet out and aft as movable ballast (full of the But Zulu is yachting, and stands alone. The family Dodds is a dough he has saved in buying a new boat!). That should help the close knit lot; Simon, Tessa, Audrey and Bill who have learned righting moment!

32 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 r,,,_..'11-tU ON THE WARPATH!

We've Zulu'ed the interior with two massive Kevlar beams fore and aft, thrown all the cupboards away, put the components we have to have aboard in a location to help the yacht do its job. As far as we're concerned, we have homes to live in and yachts to race on, and priorities should be sorted." Zulu tail or their custom se rvices, both in concept and application, to best fulfil clients specific requirements. All ideas and alternatives are discussed at length to ensure customer satisfaction. Zulu's first big one-off project has just been commissioned; "That is 'ShakaZulu ' Peter Walker of the Cruising Yacht Club has been brave enough to ask us to build a 65 foot Gunsmoke boat, it reall y should be a killer, very quick in the water, a 'Kell design' again, sort of a rounded off 'Fl ying Colours'. Hull and Z ulu Tribe celebrating their win in the 'Mirage Reso rts' Regatta. deck all one, minimised windage, no compromises, - well maybe ShakaWalker has some compromises in mind that we must talk about - he has two double beds and 1 single one head proven race winning half and quarter tonners as well as a soon to tail - now to me someone's not going to get much sleep off to be released 30 foot comfortable racer/ cruiser that shoul d watch - there'll be more watching than 'off watching'! prove very competitive under both the IOR and Channel The boat is really our style of philosophy, we have always Handicap systems. wanted to get boats on the water at the right price by using our A large part of Zulu's future is in export. Volume production development technologies and Shaka could cost about 10% of is on for yachts, and Zulu has an exportise in product and the boats it is designed to sa il past ... " content whi ch the Japanese are already seeking. A ½ ton IOR There is something beautiful about a big boat, the maxi and racer 'Cruzulu' will be in Japan for the Tokyo Boat Show. Zulu mini maxis are a joy to behold, but it must be admitted that a have had the guys from Japan working with them in Geelong certain deviant delight for Dodds is shown when they refl ect on developing the yacht they want. This yacht is completed with the fact that a little killer ¼ like lmazulutu pinches the sil ver fastidious attention to detail and finished to a standard not found from mega buck boats. in production yachts in today's market. Yukio Shintani, Zulu's "We were in a regatta a couple of weeks ago w here one maxi Japanese Racing Distributor call this high accessory content, there equall ed 42 of our little quarters in dollar terms." rated boat 'The Nippon Tuck Racer'. All this is only part of Zulu 's huge involvement in the Insc rutable these Australian, Pommie, Zulu , Samurai War­ yachting industry. Production capacity still exists for the nors.

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OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 33 New X-10 Universal a bulb keel for increased stability, in­ has a voltage output of 110, 220 or creased accommodation and comfort 230V. The unit weighs 48kg. Makers ON STAN has released a new tow­ below, a single swept back spreader rig claim 'no fill-ups dawn.to dusk' - about R ing ring specifically designed to without runners for fast, fun sailing. 9-12 hours continuous running without meet A. Y. F. revised safety standards. 38 refuelling. It has a fuseless circuit break­ mm diameter with 4 mm diameter er that stops overloads. m~t~rial giv_es the lightest weight and Altogether, the Yanmar YDG2000E m1mmum size. is the ideal power source for the cruising The new style universal has been yachtsman - almost vibrationless and designed with concentric rings to con­ quiet as Y anmar genius can make it! trol the bending and resultant stress of Enquiries to Hassett Machinery Sales the joint ensuring longer life and greater Pty Ltd, 24 Maroondah Highway, torsional strength. Ringwood Vic, 3134. Phone (03) Ronstan have also reversed the tele­ 870 2944, Fax (03) 870 2600. scopic tiller extension so the inner tube is on the out board end for easier operation. Marine Medic Coastal Kit HEN you're injured, a red Ronstan Sailfast RF 3000 W flashing light and a siren are the most welcome of sights, if you make it AILFAST is a new non-staining that far that is. Accidents afloat are silicon based spray lubricant with S compounded by isolation, restricted or excellent anti friction properties, de­ delayed access to specialist care and signed to be sprayed on all areas of sail inexperienced help. The First Aid Kit is and power boat equipment subject to usually made up of headache tablets, friction. Sailfast will keep your blocks, band-aids and an assortment of bottles, travellers, winches and bolt ropes run­ all contained in lunch box with assorted ning free for maximum performance and reliability. It is the best lubricant for fishing tackle. The Marine Medic Coastal Medical boats of all kinds as it does not easily Kit is a high grade trauma treatment kit wash away. Laurie Davidson stated on a recent that is specifically designed to overcome Sailfast is easily applied to any surface trip to Australia that he does not believe these problems, its emphasis being on with the pressure pack spray. The lubri­ he could currently design a better, more high quality care and user friendly. It has cant does not run off the fitting onto the up to date yacht than the Davidson 34. evolved over many years experience on deck like other lubricants due to the In fact he has recommended to an oil rigs and merchant vessels, sail and paste-like qualities it displays when American buyer who wishes to build a power vessels. sprayed on any surface. state of the art Three Quarter Ton The kit is contained in a waterproof Yacht, that he purchase the Davidson 34 marine grade vinyl bag. The kit will Davidson34 from Australia. float with all items inside and has wrist The boat is built to the highest stan­ HIS most successful three quarter tether. There 28 different items which dard by Ken Jago Yachts, builders of are backed up by a prompt re-order T ton design is now available with Admiral's Cup, Southern Cross Cup several updates and additions. The boat service. Instructions are simple and con­ standard yachts. Boats can be supplied cise and are on a waterproof laminated can now be purchased in various forms, with A.B. S. certification if required. For and to any- stage of completion, from card. It allows stabilisation of most further information please contact Mel­ commonly encountered injuries usmg basic hull, deck, keel, rudder to com­ bourne (03) 598-0459, (03) 783-6166. plete sail away. the best hospital grade materials avail­ The boat is offered either as a top Yanmar's new able. flight 1.O.R. Racer (but at reasonable Day Kits are only $69 and more cost) or a club Racer - Cruiser. The mini-generator comprehensive Weekend Kits $89 in­ I. 0. R. racing version features a new AILORS, with a well-founded fear cluding postage. updated Davidson design keel together Sof petrol-driven motors on small Available from Australian Marine with the latest Saildrive propeller in­ craft will appreciate the new L Series Technology, PO Box 561, Gosford, stallation, a double spreader racing mast Yan mar Diesel generator. It is claimed 2250 N.S.W. Tel (043) 25-2054. and medium weight full race fitout to be the smallest ever made. It has a below. This configuration guarantees weight and size that so far has been race winning performance, as being available only with a petrol driven shown by Chutzpah which is easily generator. winning the O.R.C.V. winter series Designated Model No. YDG2000E, it regatta on both I. 0. R. and Channel has direct fuel injection system em­ handicap, with Fire & Ice the latest ploying Y anmar built nozzles and launched boat in a close 3rd place. pumps that meticulously measure fuel Singapore Girl winning the Brisbane to feed. It has a recoil starting system Southport race then being D.S.Q. for a coupled to a decompression device that start line incident, then placing second in gives instant starts at temperatures the S.C.O.R. series by one point. down to -SC. Electric or hand start is The boat is also now available in club available. racing-cruising configuration. It features The Yanmar air-cooled diesel generator

34 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 other functions offered by the sailing warmer suits, gloves, boots, buoyancy monitor to be selected. These functions liners and lifejacket. include a resetable log, a total log, a The Musto Offshore jacket is also countdown timer, an elapsed timer and designed to be used with the Musto a battery voltage indicator. Multifit Safety Harness and Safety line The cruise repeater is fully sealed ... a comforting thought with the AW A against the elements and is very robust. Sydney-Hobart around the corner. It uses an LCD display which is back-lift Musto is quickly becoming synony­ for night use. The cruise repeater may mous with safety, comfort and practica­ also be used as an addition to an existing bility. BOC racers, Sydney Harbour Hornet 4 system. crews and the America's Cup teams The addition of the cruise repeater have all elected Musto the suit to have. allows a full Hornet system to sell for Ian Treleaven, skipper of Starlight less than $3000 (inc tax) complete with Express and director of Musto in Austra­ chart table and cockpit displays. The lasia, says the Musto range is the most national distributor, Peter Green Ship­ complete in the world. "We can offer a chandlers, believe this will put the Hor­ range of dedicated wet weather clothing The 'Flook' Flying Anchor net 4, its proven accuracy and reliability, to suit the dinghy sailor, light weight with the reach of many cruising yach­ Inshore suits, a coastal range and of YDNEY flier and inventor, Philip tsmen. course the new Offshore suits ... " SDulhunty may be set to revolutio­ More information from Peter Green "Our 'dry' suits are proving very nise the way in which boat owners Shipchandlers, 12 Polo Ave, Mona popular with foredeck crews, and the anchor their craft with the development Vale, NSW 2103. Phone: (02) 997-5411. Offshore Range has become 'de rigeur' of an new anchoring system, the Flook among ocean racing crews in recent (pronounced as in look). months". Dulhunty originally devised the Flook It's a Musto The· Musto range has proven incred­ Flying Anchor in conjunction with a at sea! ibly adept at keeping water out. In Swedish associate to anchor his sea plane recent British testing conducted for the and has since been assisted by the Royal ET weather gear for Australia's Royal National Lifeboat Institution by Australian Navy who made the original W boaties has never been an easy the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, prototypes. choice, but thanks to an English en­ the clothing beat the opposition by in Made from galvanised steel, the Flook gineer, his sailing prowess and his analy­ excess of 100% in water proofing. is now available in 5kg and 10kg sizes. tical approach to solving a problem as Further information, Ian Treleaven, The 5kg is suitable for runabouts and old as boating itself the choice is now Musto Australia, 14-16 Buckland Street, small yachts up to 25 feet long while the clear cut. Chippendale, NSW, 2008. (02) 10kg anchor will hold vessels up to 45 Musto wet weather gear is a protec­ 319 2133. feet long. When launched into the water tion system aimed at ultimate comfort, from a boat it automatically takes off performance and safety. and flies out through the water at a glide It is the brainchild of former engineer, angle of 5 to 1 until it lands on the sail maker and champion yachtsman seabed. Keith Musto. Musto has given the A quick rearward jerk on. the line boating world a new deal in wet weather opens its unique differential pantograph gear. A system that can keep water and drives the aerodynamically designed where it belongs, on the outside of the flukes into the sand or mud. The harder garment. you pull, the deeper the flukes dig down A concentrated development prog­ into the bottom. ramme by Musto has seen the arrival of The Flook is distributed by Dulmison the Offshore jacket, highly suited to Marine Pty Limited, 99 South Creek Australasian conditions, and timed to Road, Dee Why, NSW. 2099. Australia. meet the rigorous regatta calandar in Telephone (02) 981-3866. It will be these waters over the coming months. available through chandlerys nationlly The Musto Offshore jacket and for a recommended retail price of A$90 matching trousers represent the for the 5kg and A$135 for the 10kg thoughts and experience of leading anchor. yachtsmen and women around the world. Featuring an extra high, fibre & pile lined collar, 2 oz polyurethane B G expands its Hornet 4 lining which is fully vented with neop­ system rene coated nylon outer, the distinctive BROOKES and Gatehouse has ex­ new Musto suits are rapidly gaining panded the ever-popular Hornet 4 sys­ popularity, especially with added fea­ tem, a favourite with Half and One Ton tures like fibre pile lined pockets and racers, offering the system in a budget refl ective tape on the front ... package with a new cruise repeater on Musto have fo ll owed a practical path, deck. a combination of old and new materials This allows boat speed, wind speed are tested for use in their range. and wind angle to be displayed on deck The Offshore suit is part of an through the one repeater, and allows the Offshore range which includes body

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 35 High visibility speedo New Silva 5000 Electronic system Compass YOU'VE seen the jumbo-sized instru­ HE Silva 5000 is an advanced elec­ ment repeaters on the masts of exotic T tronic compass developed by the maxi, 12-metre and IOR ocean .racers. world's foremost manufacturer of com­ They need high-tech instrument sys­ passes - Silva Sweden AB. It provides a tems to drive them. Now there is an digital and analog compass course with affordable alternative for the budget selectable damping from 1 to 120 club racers or yacht with minimum seconds. Difference between true and instruments called the Maximeter. required course (total error over a time), Australian-made, the Maximeter is a CMG - course made good and tactical function. stand-alone, digital speedo system that is priced around $1400 from shipchand­ will connect to virtually any existing The Silva 5000 comes with one of the lers and leading boat builders. pulse-producing water speed device finest and best fluid dampened transduc­ Distributed thoughout Australia by such as paddlewheels or impellers us ed ers of fluxgate type available with elec­ Macson Trading Company, 44 Alexan­ tronic deviation to provide unsurpassed with VDO, SR Mariner, Seafarer and dra Pde, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, 3068. performance even in the roughest seas. Brookes & Gatehouse instruments. It Phone (03) 489-9766. Agents in all needs only the ships 12-volt DC power Output for connection to Sat-Nav, tac­ states. supply, the input signal and a suitable tical computer or repeater instrument. mounting place. The high contrast display and excel­ TWC Advanced Electronic lent night illumination gives easy read­ The Maximeter is designed to be ing even from an angle. Deviation table, Charging Regulator mounted on deck or at the mast, where required courses etc are easily program­ ONVENTIONAL regulators are it can be seen by all the crew. The 38mm med with large watertight pushbuttons high digits are in high visibility "day­ C imprecise and restore battery and the values are stored when power is charge levels to approximate 70% of glo" colours. off. maximum. This decreased charge leads More information from Peter Green The Silva 5000 is the latest addition to to sulphation with a resultant decrease in Shipchandlers, 12 Polo Ave, Mona the well known Silva thousand series of battery life, charge inhibiting and even­ Vale, NSW 2103. Phone: (02) 997-5411 highest quality marine instruments and tual failure. The TWC regulator now

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OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 37 -J ~ 1111111 V 11 IClJV amounts to a 'chartering smorgasbord' factured by Barlow Marine in Sydney starting his sailmaking business just of bareboat, skippered cruises for sing­ while Barlow Marine handle exclusively three years ago at Lane Cove. In recent les, skippered group or family charters the Sparcraft spars, spinnaker pole fit­ seasons the MacDiarmid loft has grown and 4-wheel drive/sailing safaris. tings and snap shackles and Penguin to dominance in classes such as the J24, According to Joe Pathe, a fleet of 10 deck hardware. Dragon, Cavalier 28, Adams 10, En­ new Beneteau yachts ranging from 28 to Further enquiries to Peter Shipway, deavour 26 and in skiffs in the 12s and 42 feet, will be in operation within two Marketing Manager, Barlow Marine, 52 18s, while many club racers have bene­ years. Wentworth St, Granville, NSW. Phone fited from the experience and speed the Contact Tropical Sailing Holidays on (02) 637-9333. loft has developed. (02) 419-7544. Enquiries to MacDiarmid Sails, 32 Dick Hayes joins Burns Bay Road, Lane Cove, 2066. Penguin Marine Deck MacDiarmid Sails Phone (02) 427-5565. Hardware YDNEY J24 sailor, Dick Hayes, has Solo Yachtsman's New HE world famous company Pen­ Sjoined MacDiarmid Sails. Hayes, Invention T guin Marine Hardware manufac­ who was most recently Advertising turers of the Penguin range of deck Manager for Australian Sailing Maga­ AN Kiernan, the solo around the hardware has joined the Barient­ zine, will assume responsibility for sales Iworld yachtsman who sailed the Spir­ Sparcraft team. and marketing. it of Sydney into sixth place in the BOC This alliance gives Penguin a solid Dick's sailing experience extends to Challenge domonstrated a new inven­ environment where product design, in­ considerable one design sailing - having tion, the McIntyre Water Scoop at the novation and development can flourish. taken part in J24 world championships, Sydney International Boatshow. Penguin started the big boat block busi­ while ha has considerable ocean racing Jointly developed by Kiernan and ness back in 1979, when everybody else experience which includes Sydney to yachting equipment experts Don McIn­ was paying attention only to small Hobart races, Sydney to Noumea, Clip­ tyre and Jack Christoffersen, the inven­ boats. By concentrating on require­ per Cup (now Kenwood Cup) in tion was tested by Kiernan during his ments of big boats, Penguin quietly Hawaii, Big Boat Series in San Francisco 27,000 nautical mile solo voyage. The turned the industry around. They have in addition to considerable time in race retractable water scoop greatly assists now introduced many new sizes to their tuition. He is past president of the J24 the solo or short-handed yachtsman in range to cater for boats between 30 feet Association. that it scoops sea water automatically up to the maxis. Ian M acDiarmid has made a great filling the water ballast tanks essential in Barient winches continue to be manu- impact on the Sydney sailing scene since short-handed racing.

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OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 39 Young Endeavour Nears Australia ...

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SKIPPER of the Young Endeavour, Captain Chris Blake (left) with his executive officer, Commander Frank Allica, who will take over the brigantine for the Royal Australian Navy when she reaches Sydney in January. (Peter Campbell pie). Caetain Cook Would Be Proud By Peter Campbell, who sailed aboard Aboard her on the long voyage to The chosen dozen represent a wide Young Endeavour, Britain's magnificent Australia, calling only at Rio de Janeiro, cross-section of intelligent, healthy and Bicentennial Gift to Australia, on the eve of are 24 sail trainees, aged between 18 and enterprising young men and women. her departure from Cowes in August. The 25 - 12 from Britain and 12 from Only a few had ever sailed before brigantine is due to reach Fremantle in early Australia and half of them girls. The joining Young Endeavour, only two West November and will then visit all major ports professional crew of 12 includes experi­ Australian lads getting the chance to sail in Australia. enced British sail training ship officers aboard a tall ship, the West Australian and instructors and four Royal Austra­ sail training ship Leeuwin , before flying lian Navy personnel who will take over to England. APTAIN James Cook RN ~om!lland of the ship in Sydney. Before Young Endeavour set sail from C would have been proud of them In less than three· weeks of sailing Cowes I was invited by her Captain - and SO will Australia when the trials in the English Channel before Chris Blake, to spend a day aboard the youthful crew of the brigantine Young Young Endeavour sailed for Australia the brigantine during her final sailing trials Endeavour sail her into Fremantle in early young men and women had developed on The Solent. November. into competent seaman (seapersons?), In overall length 115 feet (44m) Young Young Endeavour, Britain's Bicenten­ dashing aloft and out onto the yardarms Endeavour is about the same size as nial Gift to Australia, left Cowes, Eng­ with enthusiasm and self-assurance, Cook's Endeavour, but that's where the land, on the start of her 14,000 nautical scrubbing the deck and even peeling similarity ends. The original Endeavour mile voyage to Australia on August 3. spuds in the gallery with the same was a bluff-bowed, beamy Whitby col­ She is due in Fremantle on November 5. enthusiasm. lier, oak-planked and fully square­ After calling at ports around the But then Captain Cook had to press­ rigged. Autralian coasts, she will be handed gang most of his motley crew for the Young Endeavour, while carrying over to the Australian Government as a Endeavour - the crew of Young En­ square-sails on her foremast, is also sail training ship in Sydney on January deavour came running for the job. The 12 fore-and-aft rigged. She is built of steel 25, 1988, before taking part in the Australian sail trainees were chosen and was designed specifically as a sail Parade of Sail on Sydney Harbour on from 7000 original applicants from ev­ training ship by England naval architect Australia Day. ery State and Territory. Colin Moody. The hull and rig design

40 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 incorporates many modern thoughts in Endeavour to furl the square-sails. Born student at the University of NSW in safety, particularly since the loss with all in Queensland, Anne has been an ex­ Sydney. hands of a sail training ship in the change student to the United States and " I had done some sailing in catamar­ Atlantic in recent years. sees in this voyage another opportunity ans and dinghies and when I was chosen While Captain Cook in his voyages of to increase her personal awareness and I wondered how I would enjoy a long discovery in the Pacific with Endeavour develop new skills, capabilities and voyage on a big sailing ship, living in had the then-ultimate in accurate friendships. close quarters for several months," she navigation equipment such as a sextant Kevin Parkinson, 24, originally from said. and a chronometer, You ng Endeavou r has Gerald ton, WA, but more recently liv­ " But the people who selected the 24 satellite navigation, radar, on-board ing in Perth doing a degree course •in young British and Australian trainees computers, facsimile weather reports environmental health, initially had a have done an exceptional job in their and marine radio capable of voice or slight advantage over his fellow trainees. choice of compatible people who telex communication around the world. He had sailed for a month aboard the already are working as a team". Built at Lowestoft, in East Anglia, WA sailing training ship L eeuwin before Like most of the sail trainees, both the Young Endeavour carries some 5,500 going to the UK to join Young En­ Britons and Australians, Kate was sea­ square feet of working sail on her main deavo ur . " I came from a yachting town, sick when Young Endeavour sailed down and foremasts, including three square­ but never took it up - I'm regretting the Channel to the Island ofJersey . "We sails - a lower coarse, topsail, and that now," he told me as the Young all felt miserable at times, but there was top-gallant. Endeavour heeled under a freshening always a friendly arm around you if you It was a rewarding experience, not breeze. were leaning over the rail being sick." only to sail aboard such a fine sailing The conversation ended as Captain Kate was drawn to the adventure of the ship, but also to meet the youthful crew Blake called for the trainees to go aloft voyage. She has already travelled over­ who are now sailing Young Endeavour to to furl the coarse, the largest of the seas, spending a year in Denmark as a Australia. square-sails. Rotary exchange student in 1983. Take Braedon Earley, a 20-year-old Navigator for the day was Lt. Louise Just before she left Australia, her from a cattle station on the Roper River, Scullion, 25, one of the four RAN mother gave her a book which she says near Katherine in the Northern Terri­ officers aboard Young Endeavour who has continued to facinate her - her tory. Tall and laconic, Breadon quickly will take over the command of the great-grandfather's log book which he established a reputation in the social brigantine next year. The others include kept when he sailed to Australia in the circles of London with his colorful, the executive officer, Commander 1830's. Kate is a young woman with a Crocodile Dundee version of bull­ Frank Allica, who will command the strong sense of history, regarding the throwing, crocodile and buffalo hunting ship when it become's Australia's firs t voyage of the Young Endeavour as a way in the Territory. national sail training ship. "My last job to represent a "country with a future as Braedon and his fellow young Austra­ with the Navy was buying harpoon well as a past" as Australia celebrates its lians were gues ts at a Buckingham missiles and standard missiles for sub­ Bicentenary. Palace garden party and visited Mrs marines and Fl 1 l s - this will be some­ Among the yo·ung Britons aboard Thatcher at No 10 Downing Street, thing quite different, a real challenge," Young Endeavour are two Scots - James establishing a fine reputation as young he told me. Fraser, 22, a soldier in the Scots Guards ambassadors for their country. "They Young Endeavour's navigator is Com­ and Andrew Campbell, 23, a bearded come from such a wide variety of mander Gary Sproule, and the engineer young man from the Highlands. backgrounds that they are giving every­ is Chief Petty Officer Rod Wells, fresh Andrew pipes Young Endeavour in and one they meet a different insight into from RAN patrol boats working out of out of port, and for the visit aboard by Australia and Australians," Australian Darwin. the Queen for her launching, James High Commissioner in London, Doug Lt. Louise Scullion is no stranger to wore his ce remonial red jacket and M cCelland told me, during a visit to the sailing - in fact, she is a world cham­ traditional busby helmet - and he is Australian Admiral's C up team at pion, having crewed for another RAN taking them is his sailbag to Australia. Cowes. The High Commissioner later officer, Lt. Richard Longbottom, in Another young Briton who quickly sailed down the Solent aboard Young , winning the Laser dinghy world cham­ made himself popular with his fellow Endeavour when she left from Cowes, pionship in England last summer. sail trainees is Sean Stevens, a 22-year­ disembarking before the brigantine At the wheel, her eyes alternating old fi sherman from Bonchurch on the cleared The Needles. between compass and the huge sails Isle of Wight. When Young Endeavour As she departed, Young Endeavour above her, was Kate Ford, 22, originally anchored in Beagle Cove on the Cornish fired a 21-gun salute from her two from Tamworth and now a medical coast of the way back from Jersey, it was t> specially made brass cannons. T he Royal Yacht Squadron fired 17 guns in reply as the Duke of Edinburgh took the salute. Young Endeavour's voyage to Australia has fo llowed the route of the First Fleet to Australia via Enerife in the Canary SAIL trainees aboard Islands, Rio de Janeiro and Tristan de the Young Cunha. She did not call at Cape Town. Endeavour, out on The 12 Australian sail trainees aboard th e yardarms as they Young Endeavour come from every State furl the squaresails and Territory and a wide background of aboard the brigantine. their own endeavours. There are 12 British Anne Gibbon, 24, from Melbourne, a and 12 Australian management trainee with BP Australia , youngsters aboard the quickly developed the qualities of a fine ship, soon to reach seamen, with no qualms about going Australia. (Peter aloft and out on the yardarms of Youn}? Campbe ll pie).

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 41 GIRLS make up half the 24 trainees aged between 18 and 25 who are sa iling aboard Young Endeavour on her maiden voyage to A ustralia. (Peter Campbell pie).

Sean who organised the fis hing - and a I'm fa lling asleep on my feet aft er the Cowan, 20, a phys ical education student catch of 80 mackeral for breakfas t. night watches. Everyone gets on so from South Australia; Paul M ainwaring, O ne young woman who is continuing well . They could not have chosen a 21, a medical student from Sydney; her professional career aboard the bri­ more com pi table crew" . Carolyn Morey, 19, an outdoor educa­ gantine is 24-year-old Adrienne Brown, And what will she gain out this tion student fr om Canberra; Trevor a Journalist from Brisbane. Adrienne, Bicentenary adventure? " I have got to Upson, 23, a clearance diver from Bris­ who worked with the Sunday Sun as a become more tolerant, tidier and with a bane who has just completed nine years general reporter, is sending articles back greater sense of discipline," she said. service with the RAN; Andrew Shelver­ to Australian newspapers and maga­ "There are pluses on all sides , in learn­ ton, 22, a merchant navy cadet fr om zines , and also doing voice reports fo r ing to sail , in as tronomy and navigation. Hobart, who is studying fo r a Diploma ABC radi o during the voyage to Au­ I'm getting my sea legs but the fi rs t time of N autical Scienc at the Australian stralia. I went up the 100-feet mast I was Maritime College in Tasmania; " I was completely green when I terrified - it's a helluva climb" . Tom Warner, 18, an economics stu­ joined the ship, but I didn't get seasick T he other Australians among the sail dent at the University of Western Au­ on the voyage to Jersey," Adrienne told trainees are: Karen Braithwaite, 23, a stralia, a fo rmer school captain of Christ me, " It's been brilliant aboard so fa r, but teacher fr om Melbourne; Tiffa nie C hurch Grammer, at Claremont, WA.

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42 - OFFSH O RE - SUMMER 1987 ABOARD th e Young Endeavour during sea trials on Th e Solent in England it's all hands 0 11 deck to trim sa ils and later aloft to furl the square sai ls 011 the brigantin e. (Peter Campbell pies) .

And how does the modern-day Cap­ tain Cook, in the presence of Captain Chris Blake, see his new crew of Young Endeavour. Captain Blake, who has been com­ manding sail training ships in England and Hong Kong for the pas t nine years commented: "They are shaping up very well , they've had lots of sailing and a lot of social entertainment and have handled themselves well at each scene. "They are all very presentable young m en and women representing their two countries", he said " They are also very com pa table - I don't ca re if they cannot sail, so long as they get on well together. They have been involved w ith painting the Young Endeavour. 16-18 before sailing to Adelaide where and rigging the ship - they worked " But, Captain Cook would have been the crew will spend Christmas. alongside the unionists fitting out the proud of these young Britons and Au­ From there Young Endea vour will call ship. stralians." at Robe on December 27, reaching " How are they shaping up? I've been Young Endeavour is due to reach Fre­ M elbourne on December 31 and ·staying saili ng for 28 years and have not shaped mantle and stay in port from November there until January 5. up yet but by the time they leave the 6-9. She then sa ils for Albany, staying She will arrive in Hobart on January ship they'll be experts is sailing a square­ there from November 9-10. 10 and sail for Sydney in the T all Ships rigged ship. She will then visit Port Lincoln from Race on J anuary 14. "All of them have above-average in­ November 16-1 8, Portland November Young Endea vour will be handed over tell igence and have quickly adapted to 22-24, before sailing around to N ewcas­ by the British Government to the Au­ li fe aboard ship and to the working of tle and staying there from November stralian Government on January 25 on the ship . Certainly they are far superior 27-29. Australi~ Dat, under her new fla g, and crew than Cook would have had on the Young Endeavour will be in Brisbane w ill take part in the spectacular original Endeavo ur. fr om December 2-5 before sailing south Bicentennial Parade of Sail on Sydney " Usuall y they ca m e w ith sore heads . again to Southport from D ecember 6-8, H arbour. via the press gangs who banged them on then Coffs H arbour from D ecember H er Australian sail training program­ the head, brought them aboard and they 9-11. m e, under the control of the Royal were sent almost immediately. These From there she w ill sail to Launces­ Australian Navy, will start almost im­ youngsters ca me running to sail aboard ton, bei ng in port there from D ecember m ediately.

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 43 Jupiter's Gold Coast Yacht Race

SOVEREIGN, Bernard Lewis' maxi, took line honours in the second annual jupiters Gold Coast Race, but light winds off the NSW North Coast stymied her bid to break Apollo's race record. (Ian Grant pie). CEAN racing towards the war­ Gold Coast Race, sponsored this year by race has proved ideal for owners keen to mer winter sun may become an Jupiters Casino and Conrad Internation­ have a long-race shakedown and two 0 obsession with southern blue al Hotel, has confirmed its acceptance by short course regattas added to their water sailors within the immediate fu­ the keenly-competitive ocean racing boat-tuning plan for the summer '87- ture. sailors: '88. Queensland's Pacific · shore based This classic over 380 nautical miles clubs, Southport and Mooloolaba, are attracted entries from New Zealand, about to realise the promotional poten­ Tasmania, Victoria, A.C.T. New South • tial of their facilities following highly Wales and the host State, Queensland. ... and 1n successful racing last August. The standard of the fleet particularly There is no doubt that the Sydney- in I. 0. R. showed that the timing of this the protest rootn! CREW members of Russell Dean II Included in this year's fleet was the relax offshore at impressive Bernard Lewis-owned, Dave Southport Yacht Kellett-skippered maxi Sovereign and a Club after th eir representation of some of Australia's ordea l in galeforce best 1.0.R. performers. winds off Cook Among them were several high­ Island on the NSW performance Davidson-designed T hree North Coast. At left Quarter Tonners, Tony Dunn's 1986 is radio operator A WA/ Sydney-Hobart race winner, Ex­ Audrey Brown, wife Tension, John Eyles' XXXX/ Ansett of the skipper, who Hamilton Island race week champion, kept a constanr radio India/I Pacific, the consistent Singapore co ntact with race Girl (Tony Poole) and Bruce Staples headquarters at S011thport. (Ian XXXX/ Southport classic and Austra­ Grant pie). lian Airlines Brisbane-Gladstone race winner, the Farr 40, Witchcraft 11.

44 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 hy Ian Grant Adding the competitive nature of these ocean racing combinations to the proven standard of Bill Currie's Once More Dear Friends now sailed from Melbourne, New Zealand's record­ breaking Davidson 55 Starlight Express, Graham Lambert's Too Impetuous and Southport's remarkable 11.2 metre light displacement maxi-chaser, Boundary Rider, and Sydney-Noumea race win­ ner, Nadia IV, confirms the popularity of this new end-of-winter racing prog­ ramme. In the week leading up to the Jupiters race up the northern rhumbline to the playground of the Pacific, Queensland's Gold Coast, several top Sydney sailors set their boat-on-boat bets with the standard wager being the normal jug of Bundy and Coke. Veteran Jack Rooklyn and his sailing master, Graeme "Friz" Freeman, were in the Bar at CYCA on race morning and held little concern for the bar talk on Sovereign's assault on the famed Gerkin's (Apollo) race time of 49hr.19min.41sec set in the inaugural race last year. Friz took a break from the Kookabur­ ra 12 metre camp to play a major role in Apollo's unique line honours/corrected time double. Sovereign was freely tipped to lower

ABO VE: Sydney sloop Dr Dan moves north wa rds in a light southerly off th e coast of Sydney . LEFT, Sydney-Hobart ra ce winner Ex-Tension clears Sydney Harb o11 r after, BELOW, the melee at th e start ofJ11pit ers Gold Coast Race. (Pies by David Clare and Ian Grant).

the ra ce time by some hours, but there was one thing wrong - they forgot to advise " Hughie" to lay on the co rrect wind speed and direction. When David Hilton, heir to the Hil­ ton Hotel Family and vice president of Casino operations at Jupiters on the Gold Coast, fired the start signal fr om HMAS Freemantle at 1400 hrs there was next to no wind. Sovereign started in clear air down the line while Bushfire (Michael Spies) ancl Racardi (John Gould) were bes t served from the committee boat end in the 79 boat fleet. Sovereign , with Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Peter ("Pod") O'Donnell picking the

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Jupiter's Gold Coast Yacht Race

ca me the ques tion shouted from the foredeck to the rear-guard; "Hey, Kel­ lett check your bearing. Are you bloody sure we are not heading south, this is Bass Strait weather." Despite blowing out her No 1 genoa on Sunday night and the No 2 earl y the next morning, Sovereign was back on target for the record when she weath­ ered South-West Solitary Island. But a little north of Yamba she was dumped for another four hours and Apollo's race time lived for another year. Sovereign completed the course in 51-52-25, 2-32-44 outside Apollo's time. The two Davidson sloops, Starlight Express and Dr Dan, ended their private match racing duel split by only 40 minutes to take the minor line honours placings. They were fo llowed by Bound­ ary Rider just under four hours later. Skipper Jim Inglis said, " You just had to SEA QUESTA managed to get clear of the rnelee at the start of the Jupit ers Cold Coa st Race as be at the ri ght end of the line squalls". she headed down Sydney Harbour and out to sea. Skippered by Peter N icolson, Seaques tafin ished "Each time one came through Sta r­ fourt h overall. (David Cla re pie). light Express and Dr Dan, particularly eyes out of the wind was, as expected, "Our sewer staff will always remem­ north of Cape Byron, put a lot of first to clear North H ead. ber this race with sail changes on each distance on us. They carried spinnakers Ex-Tension, with the crafty Max Tun­ side of the unusual squally pattern, " said off the front of the squall while we had bridge and Lawson Abbott playing their Kellett. During one particular squall of two-sail working gear to handle the role in triple T (TACTICAL THINK deep black cloud, rain and bags of wind, scraps of the back. " TANK) headed Dr Dan (Rod Muir), Evelyn, Oohn Fraser) and Sta rlight Ex­ press (Ian Treleaven) as they took a fi x on Barranjoey Head. Sovereign put some distance on the fl eet while the soft Eastly held but after dusk it was a different story. "We were parked 400 metres to sea of the land breeze off Terrigal and there was a progression on Nav li ghts sailing straight up the beach. Big displacement boats just sti ck in that sort of stuff and there is very little you ca n do about it," said Dave Kellett later. "When the morning mist cleared we were not in great shape - perhaps 30 boats were ahead of Sovereign. Even the comforable cruiser/racer Polar Bear was in front of us, and what they said certainly did not lift our enthusiasm." The first morning sked placed Dr Dan ahead of Starlight Express and Evely n, with India n Pa cific holding time on the fl eet. But there was intense fru stration in the first 15 hours with many fa lling into the theme of the sponsor Jupiters Casi­ no-Trade the yacht's wheel for a thrill of a flutter and 24 hour-a-day excitement and with a bit of lu ck your ship could come m. Some gambled and lost while others BUSHFIRE makes caught outside the wind line spat thei r th e most of th ege ntle chips. sea breeze as she Offshore racing can be a lottery as rea ched northwards Sovereign proved in her first Jupiters towards th e Cold race, with all chance of a record lost Coas t. Skippered by Ceo.ff Bush, with only a 5.5 knots average logged in Bushfire finished the first 15 hours to Crowdy Hea d. eighth overall. Finall y she hit back to reveal her true (Dav id Clare pie). speed potential.

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48 - OFFSHOR E - SUMMER 1987 Jupiter's Yacht Race Boundary Rider produced another great performance, confirming she can handle all conditions. The 37-footer, designed and built by Jim Inglis set the yachting circles in a whirl last Easter when she completed the 308 nautical mile Australian Airlines Brisbane Glad­ stone race in a little over 29 hours, to set the third fastest time ever behind the former Whitbread Maxi, Castaway En­ terprise, and Starlight Express, who broke Windward Passage's one year old record of 28hr. 57min. 6sec. As expected the IOR struggle proved LIGHT winds off exciting with Indian Pacific, Two Im ­ Sydney Heads as petuous, Witch craft 11, Marloo, Ex­ Ex-Tension and Tension and Singapore Girl correcting Marloo 111ove slowly out with a good chance on Monday's out to sea in search of PM sked. th e south easterly Too Impetuous finishing almost seven seabreeze . (David hours behind Sovereign, correct out with Clare pie). a good average of 7. 77 knots to be best in Div 1. Indian Pacific, finis hing another duced the fastest overall corrected speed performances on the water had to face two and a half hours astern, corrected 7.90 knots. the protest jury, for different reasons. out at 7.80 to the best in Div 2, while But in unusual circumstances all three Lambert and Eyles survived but Poole Singapore Girl, 21st over the line, pro- Division winners w ho produced great (Singapore Girl) was penalised 20% for

Mirage Resorts totype of a new dimension of yacht pects alive in the three race to count regatta racing with a proposed deal series with a creditable third for 2-3 Regatta between Innovator Bill Dodds and Bob score card, compared to Im azulutu's 1-1 Ansett to launch BUDGET - A - and the Michael Spies-skippered Dun­ fter the storm fed winds which -ZULU at regatta venues. canson Bushfire best of the others on blew home the Jupiters race Sorensen, who had not been at the points with a 6-4. A tailenders, Southport Yacht helm in a major race for 12 months, In the best wind of the series, a 10-12 Club officials were confident of fair showed he was hot to trot when he knot northerly, Sovereign sailed the 8 sailing breeze for the three race Mirage sorted out the way to go was to sea nautical mile course in 59 min 20 sec. Resorts regatta. where the wind was more constant. She was shaded of a dual honors win by Sailing conditions were far from per­ T hese tactics paved the way for a Witchcraft 11 (Bruce Staples) with Singa­ fect. However, this did not affect some runaway win of 12½ minutes from the pore Girl third. clever tactical racing in the soft unpre­ former Harold C udmore Holland Holt Ima z ulutu with her 6th placing dictable wind pattern. Half Tonner Sil ver Sham ro ck (Richard finished the series with 292 pts and a John Eyles suffering from a combina­ Gregory) and Magic Dragon, All an successful defence of her 1986 title win. tion of withdrawal symptoms from a Mitchell's Whiting 31. A fifth placing allowed Bushfire a two hard fight in the protest room and the A featu re of this absorbing race was point split for second ahead of Silver dreaded power of Bundy and Coke, the line honours battle over a shortened Shamrock who finished with 277 pts. withdrew from the series with some course between Sovereign and the light The Arbitrary title finished in a de­ rumour that Indian Pacific was sold. displacement Boundary Rider. Sove,·eign served win for former world Hydra H owever, the withdrawal of Indian Paci­ became stuck in the fl at winds all owing ca tamaran skipper Col Metcher. Metch­ fic and her major sparring partner, Ex­ Boundary Rider to es tablish a 3 minute er, who recovered a small Swarbrick Tension, failed to affect the raci ng stan­ advantage with only six miles to sail sloop from a desolate beach on the dard. from Point Danger to Burleigh Bluff. A central New South Wales coast, skip­ The baby of the Z ulu ocean racing late race, two sail reaching wind which pered the rebuilt sloop to an outright tribe, Im azulu tu, skippered by former picked up from 4 to 12 knots allowed win in the series. world 18ft skiff champion Peter Soren­ Sovereign to sail a minute a mile faster The Metcher skippered Starlight with sen who won the 1986 Rookie of the gave her line honours by three minutes. 1-2-10 for 285 points to finish two year award for his wins m the Similar late race winds proved the points clear of Boundary Rider (13-1 -2) Mooloolaba YC Kawana Waters-Ansett difference between lmazulutu and the with Paul O'Hare's Flyaway relegated to Sunshine Coast Ocean racing cham­ high performance Petersen designed third on countback after finishing equal pionship and the So uthport YC Q uality Marloo (George Girdis) . Girdis did ev­ with Boundary Rider. Inns Series last year was in the fl eet to erything right, including taking full use Southport's speciali st small boat defend his title. of the ebb flow-out of the Seaway to set sailor, Noel Leigh-Smith, sa il ed the Sovereign, Starlight Express, Boundary up his winning chance, but while she Atkinson Desperado (rating . 6727) to a Rider, Singapore Girl and a small but had minimal opportunity to use the three point win over the modified very competitive JOG Fleet offered freshening wind lmaz ulutu, back in che Masnn Time and Money 111 (.6797) some interesting comparisons in saili ng fl eet, was advantaged on her faster skippered by Mark Livingstone. The performance, in the 24 boat !OR 27 sailing angle. Sorensen won the race by new Mal Jones Atkinson Two Desper­ Arbitrary and 7 JOG division fl eets. 18 seconds, reflecting the importance of ados, which won the first race of the Im azulu tu, the high performance longer use of the sea breeze. series to finish with 1-4-4 lacked the Steinman Quarter Tonner is the pro- Silver Shamrock kept her title pros- upwind speed to match the leaders. Jupiter's Gold Coast Yacht Race not observing a safe distance at sea after · in the main. The sea is Milky white, the the sloop was in safe water 20 nautical sunset. wind is 40 knots and building with each miles off the coast. After an anxious While all of the Racing Rules drama squall." night, Russell Dean II berthed at the was unfolding in the Southport Yacht The voice of Audrey Brown aboard SYC marina at 11.30am. Club committee room, a real life drama Russell Dean II gave indication she was Audrey Brown said later: "That was was happening in atrocious weather tired like all other four crew members my worst experience at sea. It was conditions east of Cook Island on the including husband Michael, John Laird frightening, but comforting to know the north New South Wales coast. and John Brown (no relation) . officials had the fix on our position". Out of a pitch black wet and windy night came the voice of a concerned "We have had bad weather for 18 The second Gold Coast Race was an woman at sea. Race controller Doug hours and all of our time has been taken exciting race, but with wild moments at Lee, who maintained a 24 hour listening up with keeping the boat moving - sleep sea and the torment of an unpredictable watch, alerted all area rescue operations has been impossible", she said. But their weather pattern. But competition indi­ when he heard: "We are out of control Cole 31, was designed to survive and cated at the Gala presentation at Jupiters in establishing our position and are common sea safety prevailed in deci­ Casino that they would race again next concerned of the lee shore and exposure sion-making on board. year. to the Windarra Bank and maybe Fido's "Please issue a Pan Alert on our Jupiters, realising the exposure poten­ Reef. behalf," Audrey asked by radio. At tial and the amazing growth rate of this "Heavy squalls are coming through _3.30am the Gold Coast Seaway Tower race, will again be the major sponsor in and we are down to No 4 and two reefs established radar contact and confirmed 1988. Mooloolaba SCOR ooloolaba Yacht Club's suc­ cessful Kawana Waters - M Ansett Sunshine Coast Ocean Racing ~hampionship .always attracts a good standard fleet and this year's series STARLIGHT was no exception. EXPRESS chased Included in the 1.0.R. Division were Sovereign to the Gold Ex-Tension (Cark Ryves), Indian Pacific Coa st but had line (Tim Chambers), Singapore Girl (Tony honours all to herself in Poole) and the Farr 40's who finished the SCOR series at first and second in the Australian Air­ Mooloolaba, as well as lines Brisbane - Gladstone race, Witch­ gaining other trophies . craft 11 (Bruce Staples) and The Gambler (Ian Kenny). Stradbroke Island. points into the final. However, the · The 1986 champion Imazulutu, rating Mail Box lost her keel in her brush tactical skill of Carl Ryves, who relen­ .6577, the second lowest in the 16-boat with the Rock and her crew, under tlessly pressured Singapore Girl at the fleet, was favoured to win following her skipper Leigh Atkins, bailed with buck­ start of the final heat, sailed in perfect Mirage Resorts regatta success. ets for 2½ hours before abandoning ship 10-12 knot east south-east winds, paved This year MYC officials, headed by at sea. They were rescued by the crew of the way for the Hobart champion to win Tim Moore, arranged a new racing Elusive skippered by Peter Loganzo. the series. She finished second behind format for SCOR to co-incide with the Terry Passey skipper of Foolish Be­ Imazulutu and four minutes clear of fleets contesting both the Jupiters and haviour said "it was a miracle no others Singapore Girl. Mirage Resorts events. For the first time hit the Rock. We were forced to take Perfect Vision , rating . 7650 compiled a in the history of SCOR the racing evasive action ourselves. 3-2-5-7-7 to win the Performance Hand­ started away from Mooloolaba with the "The conditions were some of the icap Division over Boundary Rider and Southport-Mooloolaba race for IOR worst that we have raced in. As we Valiant (David Boyd). and Performance Handicap divisions. slowly slugged north the colder, wetter As expected, the JOG series featured When the morning fog lifted the fleet and windier it got." another exciting boat on boat match race experienced perhaps one of the toughest Ex- Tension again revealed her strong between Desperado and Time and Money medium distance ocean races contested wind sailing reputation to finish 14 111. off the Queensland coast. An unstable minutes clear of Singapore Girl with Noel Leigh-Smith with placings of trough to the east dumped torrential three mins to The Gambler, to take the 1-2-1-1-2, finished on 27. 75 points to rain, lightning, hail and a tough 20-25 major points in !OR while Boundary edge out Time and Money 111 (2-1-2-2-1) knot headwind on the fleet. Rider overcome a . 9100 rating to score a 26 points with Mooloolaba's Image (3-3- Starlight Express, reefed down to suit dual honours win in Performance Hand­ 3-3-3) 20 points. the conditions, gained line honours in a icap from Mooloolaba's Pabati 111 In all races over excellent courses the little over 15 hours beating Boundary (Tony Woodcock) and the Pittwater crews enjoyed the tight racing format Rider by 2 hours with The Gambler third. sloop Perfect Vision Oim Anning). with buoy-rounding mistakes generally Imazulutu was one of the first to Singapore Girl continuing on with her affecting the overall placings. Ima z ulutu , withdraw in a drama-packed race. There fine performance only to lose the Jupi­ who had her back to the wall after was a fullscale rescue mission for the ters race overall IOR on protest kept this withdrawing from the Southport­ crew of the Mooloolaba sloop Mail Box hot IOR fleet honest in the short course Mooloolaba race with rig fitting failure, which was abandoned at sea during races off Mooloolaba. won three of the five races but her 8th torrential rain and high winds after She never won a race, but with placing in race four ended her title striking Boat Rock off Cylinder Beach, placings of 2-2-2-3- led Ex-Tension on chances.

50 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 ~Q___~ ,~ort~-- i • ------1 V REMANT LE Sailing Club is plan- Fning a unique group of ocean races and cruising rallies from Australia to Bali in M ay-June, 1988 as an Australian Bicentennial event. Fleets of racing and cruising yachts will converge on the tropical island from Fremantle, Dampier and Darwin in Australia to meet with yachts from Singapore and Djarkata. ~ .:>? The Bali Circuit, planned to be a biennial event in the Indian O cean, is - o,Nu,,).., _,."-,~ being organised by Fremantle Sailing ------Club in associati on with Darwin Sailing Club and the Hampton Harbour Boat and Sailing Club at Dampier_ In all, nine race/cruise passages are scheduled, with fl eets for monohull yachts, multihull yachts and cruising yachts starting from : < • Fremantle - Saturday, May 21, 1988 • Dampier - Thursday, M ay 26, 1988 • Darwin -T hursday, May 26, 1988 All fl eets are expected to reach Benoa Harbour, Bali, about June 1-2, and the combined fl eet will take part in a gala rally off Benoa Harbour on Monday, June 6. Yachts fr om Dj akarta and Singa­ pore are also expected to compete in the Sail Rally and in other sailing events off Bali fo r the visiting yachts. Several Tall Ships are also expected to be in Bali at the time. The racing and cruising fl eets will be subj ect to Category 1 safety regulations, with a minimum LOA of 9.15m fo r racing and cruising monohull yachts. Multihull yachts must be ocean going vessels complying with minimum sta­ bility requirements of the A YF and meeting Category 1 safety rules . All yachts will be required to meet minimum crew requirements of three fo r cruising yachts, five for racing mul­ tihulls and for racing monohulls, five fo r yachts up to 10.7m LOA and six fo r Bound for Bali in 1988 larger ra cing yachts. What makes this race unique is that By Peter Campbell time in the history of gruelling race, not only will it be the longest ocean Fremantle will be a stopover (in place of race/cruise passage out of Australia to a covers, spinnakers and crew clothing. Cape Town) with the FSC res ponsible fo reign country, but it will be the only Apart from being such an interesting not only fo r hosting the fl eet but also event in the world where yachts will race off the West Coast of Australia as taking over communications as the fl eet depart from fi ve ports in three di ffe rent part of the Bicentenary, the Bali Circuit crosses the Indian O cean. countries for one des tination - Bali. will be an important practical tes t fo r the Further information on the Bali Cir­ In addition, the racing fl eet from extensive communica tion and sea safety cuit, 1988, can be obtained fr om Fre­ Fremantle will sail a course that will link planning being undertaken by Fremantle mantle Sailing Club, Success Harbour, them with the yachts starting from Sailing club fo r the 1989-90 Whitbread M arine Terrace, South Fremantle, WA Dampier. The course for both racing Round-the-Worl d Race. For the first 6162. Phone: (09) 335 8800. monos and multis from Fremantle will be from Fremantle to Northwest Island tion of James M ort and Bill D avis, and to a Cardinal Marker off Port Hedland Couta Boat crewed by an assortment of well known and thence to the fi nish in Benoa H ar­ yachting identities, sailed a consistent bour, a total distance of 1620 nautical Outsails E22s, series in the best 'Couta' boat tra dition miles. T he cruising fl eet from Fremantle J24s - one hand fo r the boat and one fo r the will sail di rect to Benoa, a distance of can. 1450 nautical miles . T he Port Hedland he T ransfi cld, run over seven hea ts A broken gaff in heat 5 would have and Darwin fl ee ts will also sail direct. T by Royal Brighton Yacht Club, cost Kate the series had second place Dispensa tion from !YR rule 26 is was taken out by K ate, a restored getter, Double Exposure, not broken her being sought to allow the names and 'Couta' boat. boom in the fi nal heat. Coincidentally a logos to be displayed on hulls, sa il K ate sa il ed by the fea rsome combina- well known sailmaker crewing on K ate , t>

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 51 lneULB .~ronn O· Q_o_rt;_s __ had been sailing on Double Exposure the First Light to Apollo Bay previous day . Third place was taken by the irrep­ harles M cMillan's Nelson/M arek ressible Barry Bennet sailing Hi Hopes C One Tonner First Light won over­ by one point fromJ24 Little Town Blues. all I. 0. R. honours in the 1987 Mel­ With entries of approximately 50 bourne to Apollo Bay race. yachts, including Ocean Racers, Etchell First Light had a comfortable 3.25 22's, J24's and Couta boats, the race min. margin over Glen Sargent's David­ officials laid good lines and courses son One tonner Blue Max II placed which contributed to an enj oyable series second. Peter Goodman's Dbl Audacity sailed in convivial spirit. placed third, holding out Drake's Prayer, skippered by David Hales, by only 30 McDonald Wins Own seconds. The C hannel Handicap Division was Trophy won by Robin Hewitt's big Lexen de­ ashing ex-Royal Melbourne Yacht sign Yoko from Audacity and Black D Squadron Commodore John Magic. M cDonald won the J.H. McDonald Yoko also took out the V.Y.C. Divi­ winter series run by R.M.Y.S. ,sion from Len Kint's Farr 2 Tonner John instigated this series in the late Nitro and Breakaway sailed by G. Troon. sixties. Entries of around 100 yachts Line Honors went to Sandy Kelso's attest its popularity and his victory is a Mini-Maxi H elsa/ II who finished com­ most fitting tribute. fortably ahead of Drake's Prayer and The pursuit handicap format of the Yoko. McDonald series ca used a number of interesting incidents between yachts that Chutzpah Takes Winter don't normall y meet on the race course Series and attracted quite a large spectator following from the St. Kilda he Ocean Racing Club of Victoria's Breakwater. 'Club Marine' I.O.R. Winter series LINE ABEAM as Big Schott, Nadia IV T and Another Concubine power to windward John Leggoe took second place with was won by C hutzpah, Bruce Taylor as they head to sea in recent CYCA short Halcyon, from Ralph Worth's Antares, and Hank Schite's Davidson 3/4 Ton offshore ra ce. (David Clare pie) by a narrow points margin. design. . The _series sailed in predominately light airs, consisted of five 'Olympic' course races and the Melbourne to Apol­ lo Bay Ocean race . Chutzpah's placings of three firsts, a second and a fo urth to count gave her a comfortable eight point margin ahead of Gino Knesic 's evergreen Db1 Savage, which placed second. In this series, dominated by T hree­ Quarter Tonners, Mike Walkers new Steinman 3/4, Chris' Choice was placed third just ahead of the Db1 Audacity owned by Peter Goodman. First division was won by Drake's Prayer sailed by David H ales, by one point, from C harles M cMillan in First Light with Glen Sargent's Blue Max II third. Second divisions result were the sa me as the overall. In the Channel Handicap division Savage reversed the I.O.R. result by takmg victory two points ahead of Chutzpah. Third was Rob. Sill 's veteran HA LF TONNERS crossing tacks on Sydney Dubois 40 Black Mag ic. Harbour. Record fleets of Another interesting feature of this yachts are cu n-ently racing series was the trial of the new Australian offshore and insh ore with I.O.R. T.C.F. within the fl eet res ults Sydney clubs showing a this was for observa ti on with no troph; marked upsurge in interest awarded. Under this system the first in th e sport. (Dav id Clare eight placed yachts were the same as in pie) the I.O.R. section, although so me posi­ tions within those eight changed.

52 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 to Papua New Guinea. Crews will have the opportunity to attend a sing-sing Offshore Racing Grows and see the spectacular dress of native people performing their traditional dances. in Papua New Guinea Crocodile stea ks will be se rved during a trip to the Kokoda Trail and a visit to APUA New Guinea will be repre­ Moresby Yacht Race. sented in the Southern Cross C up the famous Bomana War Cemetery is on P In designing the four-race series the the calendar of events. by veteran Di Hard which has cam­ organisers have adopted a new format The stopover in Samarai will all ow paigned for PNG in the Admiral's C up which should have considerable appeal and in two Southern Cross C up series. yachts a few days to cruise among the to the IOR ra cing fraternity and to the beautiful islands in the Milne Bay area The second yacht will be Indigo which adherents of cruising. There is plenty of which is one of the fines t cruising is now owned by a PNG Syndicate and hard competitive racing, but this is grounds in the South Pacific. previously sailed for Holland in the supplemented by some unique adven­ In addition to major cash prizes and Admiral's Cup. A Dubois 44, Indigo is tures and so me superb cruising. currently undergoing trials and crew trophies to line and handicap placeget­ training in PNG waters in company The races and their start dates are as ters in each race, yachts will compete for with Di Hard . follows: a series handicap prize of $10,000 and A third yacht to complete the team is Townsville-Cairns 23 rd April, 1988 trophy. to be named, but is expected to be Cairns-Port Mores by 4th May, 1988 The Nissan Coral Sea Classic is an chartered in Australia following selec­ Port Mores by-Samarai 11th May, 1988 Endorsed Bicentennial Activity. tion trials for the national and state Samarai-Townsville 25th M ay, 1988 Enquiries are being received from as teams. The series commences one week after far away as the United States and the Hamilton Island Race Week and offers organisers are confident that the 1988 Nissan Coral Sea Classic substantial cash prizes in addition to Nissan Coral Sea Classic seri es will trophies. The stopover in Cairns will become recognised as a major interna­ RGANISATION is well advanced tional event. allow yachts to compete in the popular for the 1988 Nissan Coral Sea Application forms are available from O one-day Fitzroy Island Race. Classic which is expected to see a fl eet in the Race Director, Royal Papua Yacht excess of 40 yachts cross the Coral Sea in The break in Port Mores by will pro­ Club, PO Box 140, Port Moresby, the main event - the Cairns to Port vide crews with a colourful introduction Papua New Guinea.

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OFFSH ORE - SUMMER 1987 - 55 Na me A US Poi11 ts !OR Points Pla ce Pla ce It is obvious that AUS TCF success­ also of grea t concern. Chutzpah 1 491 1 494 fully met the obj ec tives of the group that This is an expensive and futil e prop­ Savage 2 478 2 482 fo rmulated it. osition when considered by the owners Audacity 3 475 4 474 Whether it is the most suitable cure of cruiser/racers designed without any Chris' Choice 4 473 3 477 fo r the malaise affecting our O ffshroe consideration of !OR. Drake's Prayer 5 464 5 469 fl eets is another matter entirely. The manager of Hood Sails M el­ First Light 6 461 6 468 By increasing the competitive level of bourne, Col. Anderson, fe els what is N uzulu 7 451 8 451 older !OR yachts, and ignoring those needed is an inexpensive rule that en­ Fire & Ice 8 451 7 453 Apoll o II 9 450 12 430 cruiser/racers of non-IOR origins, we courages people to race and provides Lawless 10 438 13 427 are applying a bandage where a trans­ equitable handicaps. C hallenge II 11 435 10 442 plant is warranted. The only realistic alternative to A US Blue Max II 12 431 9 442 T here are strong feelings in the local T C F currently ava ilable is the Channel Shenandoah II 13 431 19 418 yachting community against the wide Handica p System which is very popular C hallenge III 14 425 11 433 spread introduction of AUS TCF. It is overseas and has had the effect we are Highwa y Patrol 15 420 15 426 felt that any local adjustments made to looking for: increase of fleet numbers. The Roperu nner 16 416 17 423 !OR will prej udice the development of Of the total entries in the ORCV Black Magic 17 41 5 18 419 Good N ews 18 414 16 425 our !OR fl eet ca using us to be less series, 48 were under IOR and 53 were Maxwell 19 412 14 427 competitive at an International level. under C H S. Of the CH S entries, 24 did Aquila 20 401 24 388 Ross Lloyd, the manager of North not enter !OR. In the overall results, A US TCF did Sails Victoria, was very conce rned about This high degree of initial acceptance not show any tendency to lift the plac­ the necessity to continue our !OR fl eet shows the yachting community's per­ ings of older yachts too dramati cally development. He felt it would be wrong ceived need for this type of handicap with reference to their IOR fini shing to give older yachts an artificial co m­ ORCV stalwart Robert Green felt places. petitive ege that may result in potential that CHS had more to offer than AUS As one woul d expect, the changes in owners deciding not to proceed with the T CF due to its wider appea l. He attri­ the higher positions were affected less construction of new yachts. buted this to the nature of CHS, its than those further down the table. A pol­ The articulate, and often outspoken, measurement formula's effect on TCF's lo II, the leading older boa t that signifi­ owner of The Roperunner, Peter Robin­ and its relatively low cost. cantly improved its place, gained 20 son stated that " messing around with an While A US TCF fulfills the obj ectives points under A U S T CF and fini shed International rule is a travesty, you set for its use, which refl ects grea t credit within 1 point of seventh place. either race under it or you don't" and on those who formulated it, there seems In individual hea ts two of the older that local variations of the !OR "sponsor little reason for its widespread introduc­ IOR yachts placed in the fi rs t three mediocrity not excell ence." tion when there is an International rule, under AUS TCF. A pollo II won race 2 T he requirement fo r a yacht to be in existence, that provides us with more and The Sting fini shed third in race 5. !OR rated to be eligible fo r AUS T CF is extensive benefits.

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HE purpose of any yacht racing handicap system is to offer all Black Ma~ic - competitive aga in - fo llows Highland Fling and Jade. T competitors equal opportunity of success. The complexity of this prob­ lem is highlighted when one considers the diversity of the types of yachts - The Answer? racing at most Australian Yacht Clubs. Two basic types of handicap systems ance potential. mulae used, remain arbitrary. Competi­ .are available and are currently in opera­ Both systems have their own particu­ tors can manufacture a favourably low tion. O ne system handicaps the yacht on lar negative elements. handicap by recording a series of per­ its past performances, the other hand­ Performance based systems, despite formances below the potential of their icap is derived by a measurement for­ the accuracy of data and constant review yacht and crew to enhance their chance mula that reflects the yacht's perform- and refinement of the mathematical for- of success in more prestigious events.

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It is interes ting to note that same event. is not illustrated by the nominal posi­ among those most relatively advantaged The measurement type systems used tions but rather the change in relative are the Adams 40 and the Farr 1104 and recently are by nature developmental in positions between the two systems. . 2 Ton designs. T he latter two designs that they encourage design and con­ were most harshly dealt with by !OR struction optimisation to attain the high­ rule changes in the late 1970's. es t possible performance abilities fo r the TABLE 1 One surprise is that Appollo II, the desired handicap. Yacht CHS IOR veteran O cean Racer, has a higher rela­ T he attitude, and degree of prepara­ Savage 1 2 tive difference than all but Chutzpah , tion neccessary to be competitive in this Chutzpah 2 1 this may be due to the improvements type of racing, the tendency of yachts to Black Magic 3 20 made on the yacht over the years. lose their competitive edge quickly and Fire & Ice 4 7 C HS appears to interpret perfo rmance the time and funding neccessary to Challenge III 5 9 potential in a similar way to the !OR campaign these yachts successfull y pre­ Good N ews 6 15 without going easy on Go-Fas t boats. clude this level of competition from the Aggro 7 29 T he Adams 11 . 9m T urb o gives Challenge majority of yachtsmen. Midnight M agic 8 25 III8.21 mins. under !OR and 7.37 mins. The Channel Handicap System pro­ Lawless 9 17 under C H S - no gift. vides a realistic alternative to systems of Shenandoah II 10 19 T o illustrate the magnitude of the both types currently in use. In essence it Pheonix 11 21 effects of C H S time correction fa ctors is a measurement rule, denying the Appe llo II 12 10 against those ofIOR, a sample of yachts possibility of performance manipula­ has been selected. Farr 37 Good News has tion, that removes design optimisation Savage, the modified Van De Stadt been chosen as scratch boat with an by maintaining a secret measurement Dbl, gains enough under CH S to re­ elapsed time of 100 minutes and all margins relate to time all owed to the formula. verse positions with the Davidson ¾ The concept of Channel Handicap Ton Chutzpah. subj ect yacht by Go od News. appeals in that by taking into account Veteran Dubois 40, Black Mag ic, over­ both the age and design characteristics of takes much newer !O R designs to fill TABLE 3 each yacht, duplicity of usage and leng­ third place. Yacht IOR Margin CHS Margin TCF mins. TCF mins. thened competitive li fe is ensured. The Non !OR Adams 40 Aggro is placed apparent penalties incurred, under the Good N ews . 7740 1. 05 1 seventh, when under IOR she has no Piccolo I .7699 .53 1. 008 4.27 rule, fo r the use of exotic materials and chance. Pheonix . 7609 1.72 1. 023 2.47 complex rigs also help to limit the cost In this series the sa me yachts share the Silhouette .7401 4.58 .992 5.95 of owning a competitive yacht. first two places under both !OR and Chutzpah . 7327 5.64 1. 016 3. 44 The O cean Racing Club of Victoria CH S, illustrating that CH S is not ine­ Savage .7318 5.77 1. 004 4.68 has been running a Channel H andicap quitably hard on newer IOR and has Lawless .6971 11. 03 . 942 11. 57 Division concurrent with the 1987 Club enabled well sailed yachts of older !OR M arine IOR Winter Series. vintage and non-IO R des ign to be more T he largest gain by fa r is that of In Table 1 comparative placings are competitive. Pi ccolo I with over 3. 7 min-100. The shown for the leading yachts under C H S Table 2 shows the corrected time other positive changes were between with their fl eet positions under IOR. compari sons of a variety of yachts, .5-1. 5 mins/100. Chutzpah lost 2.2 mins/100 while Savage los t about 1. 1. It can be seen fro m the above that the TABLE 2 majority of T. C. F. differences whilst Name Design/T ype IOR CHS Relative being significant are not extreme except min. min. Difference fo r Pi cco lo I which is good news for Turbo Adams 11. 9m 89.54 120.90 35.02% other Farr 1104 owners. Aggro Adams 40 82 .61 105.90 28.20% From the O . R. C. V. T rial during the Challenge III Frers 43 82 .37 11 2.60 36.70% winter, and the outstanding support it is Scorpion Fa rr 2 Ton 81.71 106.50 30.30% getting overseas, CH S can provide Au­ 81.21 11 2.50 38.53% Appollo II Lexen 45 stralia with a handicap system that will 80.55 105.50 30.97% Midnight Magic N antucket 43 fill the gap that has been opening be­ 79 .18 105.82 33.64% Black Magic Dubois 40 tween the existent measurement rules 77.40 105 .10 35 .79% Good N ews Farr 37 and perfo rmance handica pping. 76.99 100.80 30.93% Piccolo I Farr 11 04 Yachtsmen who do not wish, or Pheonix Davidson 37 76.09 102.30 34.45% cannot afford, to own a no compromise 74.74 101. 80 36.21% The Sting Kaufman 37 racing yacht will not be limited to 99 .20 34. 04% Silhouette S&S 39 74.01 Performance handica p racing. Chutzpah D avidson ¾ Ton 73 .27 101. 60 38.67% Ideall y, C H S will provide equitable 100. 40 37.20% Savage Dbl M od 73.18 handica p racing to mixed fl eets, contain­ 70. 28 94 .30 34.1 8% Shenandoah II Compass 38 ing fro m O ne Design Racers likeJ24's to Zulu Steinman 33 70 .20 96.30 37. 18% M axi's. 35. 12% Padam Duncanson ¾ Ton 70 .01 94.60 C hannel Handicap System offers 94.20 35. 13% Lawless Green ½Ton 69.71 yachtings over-worked, and largely un­ 69 .14 93.70 35 .52% Eas tern M orning S&S34 heralded, group of administrators a real Cole 31 65.92 90.70 37.59% Astarte aid in furthering the growth of our sport A verage Difference 34. 77% and the enj oyment of its participants.

58 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 (Vic) - successful defenders of the Little America's Cup international catamaran challenge. • Brett and Kathy Dry land (WA) - world Hobie 18 champions. • Glen Coulton (Vic) - world Flying 15 champion. • Trevor Barnabas (NSW) - world 18- footer champion. • Paul Eldrid (WA) - world Mirror dinghy champion. • Barry Watson (NSW) - world Con­ tender class champion. • Brad Shafferius (NSW) - world A class catamaran champion. • Jessica Crisp (NSW) - IYRU world women's champion in sailboards; IYRU youth champion in girl sailboard sec­ STUART WALLACE, 1987 Ampol Yachtsman of th e Year. tion; member of world Windsurfer champion team. USTRALIA may have lost the • Winning Australian team in Windsur­ A America's Cup and managed only fer world team championship - Jessica third in the Admiral's Cup, but 16 World Crisp, Stuart Gilbert, Chris Lawrence, obviously there is no shortage of inter­ Greg Butchart (all NSW). national sailing talent in this country, For the first time, a special Ampol judging by the remarkable line-up in the Australian Youth A ward was made at 'fleet' for the 1987 Ampol Australian Champions the luncheon, the winner being young Yachtsman of the Year Award. Tasmanian Paul Burnell, the world The 1987 winner, Victorian Stuart champion in the International Cadet Wallace, received his award from the dinghy class for the second consecutive original winner, Jock Sturrock, another in Ampol year. Like the Laser, the Cadet is a class Victorian, at a star-studded luncheon at that spawned many international and the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Olympic sailing champions, not the Sydney on October 15. Star-studded, least being Jock Sturrock. Award Fleet There were three finalists for this not just by the winner and the 13 other nominations, but also by the many Youth A ward - Paul Burnell, Jessica previous winners who flew in from Crisp and Paul Eldred, each of whom around Australia for this 25th Ampol was also nominated for the major Au­ Australian Yachtsman of the Year pre­ stralian Yachtsman of the Year Award. sentation. Ampol Australian The CYCA Morna Room looked like Yachtsman of the Year a Who's Who of Australian yachting 1963 Jock Sturrock going back two-and-a-half decades, 1964 Bryan Price with something like 75 per cent of past 1965 Sir William Northam winners present. Jock Sturrock,' Austra­ 1966 Trygve Halvorsen lia's first Olympic yachtsman and first Magnus Halvorsen skipper of an America's Cup challenger 1967 Craig Whitworth (Gretel, 1962) was there, so too was Iain Bob Miller Murray, John Bertrand, Ben Lexcen, 1968 John Cuneo Colin Beashel and Sir James Hardy, all 1969 Carl Ryves of America's Cup fame, along with 1970 David McKay earlier winners such as John Cuneo, PA UL B UR N ELL, inaugural Youth Award 1971 Syd Fischer David Forbes, Mike Fletcher and Syd winner. 1972 John Gilder Fischer. 1973 David Forbes Almost all of the nominees for the ated for the 1987 Ampol Yachtsman of 1974 Peter Hollis award, chosen by a panel headed by the the Year: 1975 Kevin McCann editors of Modern Boating magazine, • The crew of Kookaburra III, who 1976 Tom Stephenson were at the luncheon, to see Jock Stur­ defended the America's Cup in 1987. 1977 John Bertrand rock present yachting's most prestigious • The winning Australian team in the 1978 Brian Lewis trophy to Stuart Wallace. Hog's Breath 1000 Hobie catamaran 1979 Mike Fletcher Wallace, the Australian Yachting Fed­ marathon in Florida, USA - Ian Bash­ 1980 Peter O'Donnell eration's youth racing coach, who ear­ ford, Bill Sykes and Bob Muggleton, all 1981 Sir James Hardy lier this year was named Victorian Yach­ from NSW. 1982 Mark Bethwaite tsman of the Year, was chosen for his • Steve Shimeld (NSW) - world Moth 1983 John Bertrand performance in becoming the first Au­ class champion. Ben Lexcen stralian to win the world championship • Stuart Wallace (Vic) - world Laser Alan Bond in the singlehanded Laser, the world's class champion. 1984 Chris Cairns most competitive dinghy racing class. • Paul Burnell (Tas) - world Cadet Scott Anderson But it was a tough choice for the dinghy champion for second successive 1985 lain Murray selection panel with 16 world champion year. 1986 Colin Beashel sailors among these 14 finalists nomin- • Simon McKeon and David Churcher 1987 Stuart Wallace

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 59 basing his yacht in the east and fl ying does not make the situation sound as drugs to Europe. His case went to court severe as it reall y is. It is not touristy but LIFE-A-LINE but was throw n out for want of evi­ nor is the la w against prematurely leav­ dence. He, incidentally, was the cousin ing the boat underlined. EMERGENCY RADAR of one of Australia 's top politicians, a Supposing, though, that educa tion fa ct that makes one wonder if strings continues to fa il. What does a label on REFLECTOR & VISUAL weren't pulled to bail him out. the topsides after the event achieve? How LOCATING DEVICE In both the above cases the people does it stop visitors prematurely going • Visible to 3N. miles involved were not true cruising types . as hore? The simple answer is, it doesn't, • Radar reflection to 18N. miles They bought a boat with the intent to so again we find no evidence supporting • Gas operated - no power Its use. run drugs under the cloak of innocent needed Another problem the label is aimed at sailors. Granted, the average customs Once activated, a Helium-filled radar officer could sca rcely be expected to is that of boats overstaying their alloted reflective baloon is released on a 38 know the difference, but there is still no one year in Australia and es pecially of metre tether. Visible by eye up to 3N. justifica tion in throwing a net over all of their being sold without payment of Miles and with radar detection response import duty and taxes . But again the of 18N. Miles in U.S. coastguard tests; us in the hope of ca tching one or two in even in darkness, fog or rough seas you thousands. question; how does it prevent this? The errant visitor determined to avoid our are never alone. Wh y not use us? Why not open, instead outrageous fifty fi ve percent duty will of close, the line of communications simply remove the label and do his bes t between the boating fraternity and cus­ to blend into the background, finding a toms offi ce rs. Treat us as people w ho buyer w hen it is judged that the hea t is want drug trafficking stopped as much off It 's a dumb thing to do but no as any other citizen and things might dumber than the means of preventing it. happen. Only recently I witnessed w hat There are two ways of preventing might have been a suspicious situation this. One is to reduce the duty to a on a Barrier Reef island and tried to sensible level so that it does not encour­ communicate with a customs plane that age duty evadence and the other is to catch the buyer through registration. All Australi an boats must be registered one way or another so w hy ca n't illegall y imported boats be traced aft er the event and the new owner slugged? Like buying a stolen ca r, you soon lea rn to Customs check the history before parting with fle w over the next day . It did not hard earned cash. answer. Are we below their dignity or So w hat good is going to come of the was their radio turned down? Either new labelling law? Darned if I ca n see it way you can bet your boots we were and m y view is shared with a number of being buzzed with suspicion, not as a boarding offi ce rs I have interviewed. potential ally. They are as annoyed as anyone because But let's say we are all running drugs. it creates more work for them with no What will a bright orange and black sign promise of achieving its end w hile do to stop us? The trafficker with a promising fr iction between visitor and minimum of grey matter does not sa il offi ce rs. They say it was a political into port loaded to the gunwales with decision arrived at without reference to drugs. He offloads on an island or an them. Like generals behind the lines, the isolated part of the coas t before cl ea ring politicians have sent down orders that in then he returns to coll ect and distri­ are blind to reality and only make the bute his ca rgo. By then his boat has the battle more difficult. sea l of approval on its topsides, a fa ct Like all good democracies , we offer that will detract most customs office rs. alternati ves to this des picable law. But In this context labelling might well such is their na tu re that one must encourage traffickers. reassess the meaning of the word 'demo­ Then there is the problem of visitors cracy'. One alternative is to visit cus­ illegall y going as hore before clea ring toms ports onl y, checking in as you go customs. As noted ea rlier, this is nea rl y and never stopping at any anchorage or always the product of ignorance and is non-customs port; the other is to put up best fo ught with educa tion prior to a bond of fi fty fi ve percent of the boat's arrival, not a sledge hammer aft er the value, returnable on departure. This is event. A simple answer here would be rather li ke the Australia Card logic. LIFE-A-LINE to demand more ac ti on from our hi gh Sure, it is not compulsory as long as you don't mind surrendering all your born The only radar reflector suitable for life commiss ions overseas . It is my ex peri­ rafts & lifeboats to have met S.O.L.A.S . ence that an Australi an consul ate will ri gh t,. requirements. May also be worn on life not bother to personall y answer ques­ Sadl y, la w is rapidly taking the atti­ jackets or attached to a danbuoy. tions about customs. 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O FFSH O RE - SUMMER 1987 - 61 HE double victory (line honours and corrected time) by the Can­ T berra Ocean Racing Club's Nadia IV in the 1987 Club Mediterra­ nean Sydney to Noumea yacht race is anberraS another milestone in the short history of this unique club. Formed in 1984 by a small group of dedicated inland-water sailors, this club, with its first yacht, the veteran racer Ocean Mercedes IV, was seventh across the line and sixth on corrected time in the gale-ravaged 1984 Sydney to Hobart a successful first season, was for sale in race. At the end of that season the club Perth. had won the Cruising Yacht Club of We found racing the fractionally ri g­ ged Nadia IV much more demanding Racers Australia's Blue Water Championship and the Illingworth Trophy. than Mercedes IV and this gave our in Division one Arbitrary, a creditable ex-dinghy sailors a chance to prove 16th in the Sydney Hobart race and The club also received the ACT themselves. T his they did, and in our fourth in the AW A Ocean Racing Sports Team of the Year A ward and first season with Nadia IV gained Championship added to the long list of two members won individual awards, I second overall and a Division one win in this club's achievements. was named the Canberra Yachts Club's the 1985 Montagu Island race, winning Yachtsman of the Year, and for'ard the CYCA's Division one (!OR) LOPS by Teki Dalton hand Ulli Tuisk won that club's Crew of and Illingworth trophies, and placing the Year trophy. third in the Blue Water Championship. This inland club had its beginning At the end of the successful 1984-85 Last season started off badly for the during 1979 after a Queanbeyan soli ci­ season, the club decided to sell Mer­ club. A broken mast 50nm from the tor, Jonathan Bell, took part in a cruise cedes IV and look for a new boat which start of the Sydney to Vanuatu race and to Lord Howe Island on the 45ft Melte­ would be more competitive and also another broken mast during the 1986 mi, which had been chartered by the provide a further sailing challenge to the Montagu Island race halted our momen­ Pacific Sailing School. Bell was so im­ crew. The Farr 40 design had impressed tum for big points in the CYCA's early pressed by the yacht that the owner of most of us, particularly after Indian offshore races. By any standard, the Meltemi, fo rmer Cruising Yacht Club Pacific had won the 1984 Hobart race. I 1986-87 season was a success. Third Commodore Bill Psaltis, suggested to was asked to find a boat and within a place in the CYCA's Division one (!OR) him that he should form a syndicate of few days had found that Nadia IV, after LOPS and Illingworth trophies, second members of the Canberra Yacht Club to

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Not only did Meltemi provide the Canberra sailors with an opportunity to NADIA IV, the Canberra Ocean go ocean racing and cruising, it gave Ra cing Club's many of them the chance to meet other latest-and most ocean yachtsmen and be part of the successful yacht, 'offshore' scene. took the line N ine of the original Meltemi syndi­ honours and cate members, Gunnar Tuisk, his co rrected ti111e brother Ulli, Jon Bell , Mike Matthews, double in the John Fereday, George Littler, Jack Sydney-Noumea O'Halloran, George Snow and I met at race. She will the end of January 1984 and agreed to represent the form the Canberra Ocean Racing Club. Club in this I was authorised to contact yacht yea r's AWA brokers throughout Australia for a boat Sydney- Hobart suitable for ocean racing and cruising. race. (David The meeting also asked O'Halloran, a Clare pie). lawyer, to advise on a suitable constitu­ tion. O 'Halloran suggested a modified The club has always had a steady 'they wouldn't get a ride on a boat if ski-club constitution and this was tu rn-over of members. T he switch in they didn't own it'. For a long time we accepted. Steps were also taken to legal­ 1985 fro m Mercedes IV to Nadia IV were looked upon w ith the suspicion ly incorporate the new club. saw several members leave beca use thei r that we were 'taxa tion' spies in the last We were looking for about 24 m em­ interests were cruising rather than racing bas tion of private enterpris~ , the C ruis­ bers and a club arrangement was an ideal even though Nadia IV was perceived ing Yacht Club. It was my view that we way to run the boat and administer all by us to be very suitable for both. At didn't have to defend our presence in the the functions. It also provided a buffer present we have four Sydney members yacht clubs of Sydney by explaining between the boat and the members so and we have fo und that the mix of w ho we were and how we made our that they felt they were m embers of a Canberra and Sydney m embership to be li ving, but rather how we behaved as cl ub that ow ned a boat, not j ust part­ of benefit to the club's management and individuals and succeeded as a group of owners of a boat. sa iling program. Nadia IV now reg­ peo ple with a common interest. At the end of February 1984, the clu b ul arl y competes in the CYCA summer At the end of the 1984-85 season this had fo und its boat. Mercedes IV, a twili ght series, races w hic h are difficult attitude was beginning to soften, even famous yacht which had represented to full y crew from Canberra. though many regarded the high 1984 Australia in the 1975 Admiral's Cup and Ya ch ti ng observers believe the Can­ Hobart placing a bit lu cky. However, with a good race record, was fo r sa le in berra cl ub m embers to be the most the consistently high placings in the long Sydney at a good price. I fle w to Sydney dedicated sailors in Australia. Over the offshore races since then and the fact for an inspection, and, armed with a lot last three years the C ruising Yacht C lub that, in the las t three seasons, the cl ub of photographs, presented them to a of Australia's race program was for has not been out of the top trophy m eeting of members and potential 30nm races on alternate Saturdays and winners li sts, have been regarded not as m embers. The purchase was approved overnight races of 90 to 170nm starting lu cky but the res ult of good organisa­ and the club had its boat at the begin­ at 8 pm on the other Fridays. tion, dedica ted and competent crew and ning of March 1984. For the Sa turday races crew members the ability to start each race with a well T he financial arra ngements are sim­ w ho do not sleep on the boat at the found boat. By now , the club concept ple. The cl ub joining fee then was $100- CYCA on Friday night have a ca r was being understood and res pected by it is now $500 - a returnable debenture journey leaving at 6 am on Saturday and other yacht owners and their crew. D of $4000 - now $5500 - and a co mmit­ the return trip that evening. For the m ent to pay call s made during the year, overnight races the crew m ust leave w hich are about $300 each quarter, Canberra by lunchtime on Friday to join TEKI DALTON depending on the rate and cost of the boat in time. Som e crew members A bookseller in Sydney and Canberra fo r 32 maintenance or replacement items. and their fa milies and friends have a years, Teki Dalton taught himself to sail i11 An essenti al part of the club was t·o harbour cruise on Sundays and re tu rn to 1963 on the 110w waterless Lake George. He provide the members w ith equitable use Canberra that evening. sailed a Gwen 12 and a Contender on Lake of the boat throughout the yea r. T his For many yea rs the Canberra ocean Burley Griffin 1111til the early seventies and involves preparing a crew roster for all racers fo und some difficulty being after a break to devote som e tim e to business the ra ces during the season and provid­ accepted by Sydney sa il ors. At the and family , joined the Melte111i syndicate in ing for a balance of experi enced and new C ruis in g Ya cht C lub of Australi a, 1979. crew members. Members may book the where many of the Canberra crew ha ve He was chosen as the reg ,.tla1' skipper for boat for short cruises or social days joined as country members, they were Mevcedes I V and Nadia I V an d was re­ providing it _does not cl as h with the regarded by many as 'a group of public spo nsible for the last three summers race and racmg or mamtenance program. servants paying to sa il ' and even worse crewing progra m.

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 63 Sovereign's Double • in Range Rover Ragatta

ERNARD Lewis' maxi yacht Sovereign set a cracking pace up the MAXI yacht Sovereign looms ou t of th e Sovereign was outright winner of coast coming in approximately seven darkness to lead the fleet to sea in 11ight time B the Range Rover Regatta taking and a half hours ahead of Nadia I V start to ina11g11ral Range Rover Rega tta fro 111 both line honours and !OR first place in w hich took second place on handicap as Sydney to Port Stephe11s and ret11m. (David the two races of the inaugural Regatta to well as second across the line in both Clare pie). Port Stephens and back to Sydney over races. the October long weekend. The first race of the Range Rover Regatta started at 7pm on Friday with 32 yachts lining up on a perfect spring SPONSOR'S prod11ct got pride of place ashOl'e at Port Stephens where th e yachties, th eir fa milies night on Sydney Harbour. Win~s were and friends, enjoyed Range Rover hospitality after th e ra ce from Sydney. li ght with 4 knots from the west gra­ dually building up over the night to a 13 knot nor'easter pushing Sovereign north to finish at 9.48 on Saturday morning. Canberra Ocean Racing Club's Nadia I V crossed the line at 5.22pm followed by John Eyles' Indian Pacific at 9.39pm. The return race from Port Stephens started at 2pm on Sunday October 4, with a brisk 15 knot nor'easter w hich switched to the north west before bea t­ in g up to 30 knots. Winds then steadied during the night with Sovereign ha ving a fast reach down the coast then beating up the Harbour to finish in just eight hours and 58 minutes at 10.58 on Sun­ day night, setting a time which will be hard to beat in next year's Re gatta. Nadia I V crossed the H arbour line at 2.02 am on Monday with India11 Pa cific only 37 minutes behind Nadia IV An elated David Kellett, sailing mas-

64 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 ter of Sovereign, said, " After the weekend's racing we are feeling opti­ mistic about the Southern Cross C up trials and confident about a berth in the Australian Southern Cross Cup Team. Our performance on long and short races is very encouraging. "With seven of the crew of 21 being trainees who will do the Tall Ships Race with us in January, Sovereign performed exceptionally well in the varied condi­ tions in both 90 miles races, " Kellett added. T he two race Regatta was the first time Range Rover has been involved in sponsorship of ocean racing. T he Regat­ ta combined the best in yacht ra cing

ROUGH seas at the en tra nee to Port Stephens as the crew of Cruising Division ketch Wine Dark drops sa ils. Uackie D ea n pie) .

with excell ent partying opportunities at Port Stephens for crew and families. Range Rover and the C ruising Yacht Club hosted a beach party on Saturday night, complete with bush band, then crews were treated to a beach breakfast on Sunday morning with a jazz band playing on the beach while crews pre­ pared the return race to Sydney. □

LEFT: Photograp her Jack ie Dean's big flashlight il/11111inated Indian Pacific as th e sloop sa iled towa rds Sydney Heads afte,· th e night time start to th e Range Rover Rega tta. BELOW: These 111e,nbers of th e crew of Sovereign had good reaso n to RANGE RO VER Regatta spon so rs wrned on a champagne breakfast celebra te after the maxi yacht 's do11ble victory in the ra ce to Port fo r ya chtsmen, their fa milies and friends during tropl-1y presentations at Stephens. The 80jooter also ivon the doub le in the race back to Sydney. Port Stephens. More than 500 people ca me to th e postrace party. Uackie Uackie Dean pie). Dean pie).

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 65 Navstar 20005 Next Generation Navigation

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inches By Peter Shipway

II winch manufac turers li st basic times to turn the drum once and number of pounds of pulling force specifica ti ons in their ca talogues consequently in second gea r (when you developed fo r every pound of pressure A with such things as height, turn the handle clockwise) you need to exerted on the lever (a standard 10" drum and base diameter, weight etc. rotate the handle 8.4 times to turn the winch handle). T he key word is being easil y understandable. H owever, drum once . theoreti ca l. If a winch with a power there are some specifica ti ons that need Larger winches are usuall y full y ratio of 20: 1 were 100% effi cient, the 10 explanati on to the every day sa il or. The geared. However, in small er two speed poun ds of input fo rce on a handle would two most prominent are gear ratio and winches the first gea r often has a gear produce 200 pounds (10x20) of pull by power/vel ocity ratio. ratio of 1 :1 in first gea r. This mea ns it the winch. However, due to fri ction, no Gear ratio is simply the number of provides direct drive instead of a geared winch is 100% efficien t. T he bes t way to turns required on the winch handle to reduction in first gea r, in other words reduce fri cti on (a nd thus improve turn the winch drum one co mplete one turn of the handle represents one effi ciency) is to replace metal-to-metal revolution. For example, the two speed turn of the drum. sliding contact with roll er bearings. Barl ow or Barient N o.27 has a first gea r Gea r ratio is easy to understand, but ratio of 2. 1: 1 and a second gear rati o of power or velocity ratio is a little more The fo rmula used fo r fin di ng the 8.4: 1. This mea ns in first gea r (when difficult to comprehend. Power ratio power rati o of a winch is you turn the handle anti-clockwise) you calculates theoretical mechani cal 2 x Hand le lengt h x Gea r ra t1 0 POWER RATIO need to rotate the winch handle 2. 1 advantage. Power ratio tell s us the Drum Diameter

68 - OFFSHORE - S UMMER 1987 As you can see from this formula, a If both winches are turned at the same larger handle gives more power ratio speed Winch B, with the lower gear and while a shorter handle produces less power ratios, is faster by approxim_atel_y ON SALE DEC 1 power (but more speed because the 30 percent, that is 30 percent more !me 1s circumference of the circle travelled by pulled in with each turn of the hand!_:. the winch handle is shorter). How big should a winch be? The very OFFSHORE'S The higher the power ratio, of course quick and easy answer is that it shou_ld AWA the longer it will take to wind in the line. be big enough, yet fast enough, to do its This may not be as important on a job properly and efficiently. If it's a real SYDNEY-HOBART cruising boat as a racing boat, but if it struggle for a crew to grind in the last does make a difference it could be worth few inches to trim the genoa, then SPECIAL the extra investment of buying a two­ basically the winches aren't powerful EDITION speed or even a three-speed winch. The enough or the crew isn't strong enough. high gear (lower power ratio) can then It 's easier to get your winch selection 1987 be used for most rapid operations and correct in the first instance rather than the low gear (highest power ra tio) used have all muscle and no brains in the when the going gets tough. It's like crew. * Complete listing of all switching to low gear in a car when If the luff tension of the genoa cannot entries driving up a steep hill - the engine be adjusted readily, again the halyard deli vers more power, but the car goes winches aren't powerful enough. In * History of Australia's slower. With a winch you simply re­ other cases a winch may be powerful most famous blue water verse the direction of your grinding. enough but geared incorrectly, so that it We at Barlow/Barient have gone is too slow in one gear and not powerful classic further than Power Ratio providing enough in another. The problem is most Power Advantage Ratio (PAR). PAR at critical with genoa sheet winches which * Full report on all major long last gives you a realistic way to can be excruciatingly slow if too much Australian Offshore evaluate a winch's true output. PAR is grinding is required in the highest (and racmg not theoretical, you can't calcul ate PAR, slowest) gear ratios. you must measure it! We introduced The same with secondaries which 1988 International PAR through necessity as we found that may be used for spinnaker trimming, * the improved and new designs were the fast speed (1st gear) is not powerful calendar pulling more than older models even enough to trim the spinnaker except in when they had identical Power Ratios. very light air and the more powerful DON'T MISS IT! The PAR number tells you that if you second speed is so slow that it is apply 100 pounds of force to a standard impossible to trim fast enough to avoid 10 inch winch handle, you will be able a collapse. A winch with a big spread of to pull the PAR number of the winch in gear ratios may be fine for a halyard, pounds. For example a Barient 36 has a since there is little premium on speed of PAR value of 5700 which means that if the final adjustment, but for genoa and 100 pounds input is applied to a Barient spinnaker trimming a more efficient ALSO ON SALE 36 then that winch will pull 5700 winch with closer gear ratios would be DEC1 pounds. Consequently, if 50 pounds is better. applied to a handle you will get one-half One solution for the above is 3 speed of the PAR 5700 -;- 2 = 2850 pounds. winches widely used on larger yachts OFFSHORE'S All of the PAR values for our winches and those grand prix racers. Most 3 were determined in the Barient labora­ tory in San Francisco by measuring the speed winches incorporate a mechanism that allows the winch to be locked m 1st MELBOURNE- actual output force developed by each winch as it is subj ected to a 100 pound and 2nd gear for spinnaker or light air HOBART pull on a 10 inch winch handle. The rope trimming. For example with the Barient SPECIAL used is wire, instead of line to attain the 3 speed winches by simply pulling out a bes t repeatability. button on the 3 speed lever the winch is EDITION locked in 1st and 2nd gear only but with How much line can be pulled in with a simple push of the shift lever the winch each turn of a winch handle? This is a 1987 is set for automatic shifting between 1st, question we are often asked. It can be calculated by the formula:- 2nd and 3rd gears. In addition to selecting your winch rr (3.142) x DRUM DIAMETER * Full entry listing size, you must also consider the drum GEAR RATIO material. Aluminium winch drums are Full report on all Therefore, the hi gher the gear ratio of heat trea ted and hard anodized. They are * the winch, the less line pulled by each black in colour and have the advantage Victorian and turn of the handle. to the racing yacht of being light in Tasmanian ocean racing For example, take two winches A and weight. It is generally recommended not B both having a drum diameter of 4 to use wire on aluminium winch drums. 1988 International inches. C hrome-plated bronze drums are sil­ * WINCH A 1st GEAR 2nd GEAR ver in colour and very rugged. They are yachting calendar Gear Ratio 3.4:1 9.5:1 suitable for all uses. The gold winch Power Ratio 17:1 48:1 drums seen on traditional wooden Line pulled/tum 3. 7" 1.3" * Lots, lots more! WINCH B 1st GEAR 2nd GEAR yachts are polished bronze drums. The Gear Ratio 2.5:1 7.4: 1 most rugged drum material of all is Power Ratio 12.8: 1 37. 7: 1 stainless steel - used on larger winches DON'T MISS IT! Line pulled/ tum 5.0" 1.7" where the loads are extreme.

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 69 on the res toration of the Kauri hu ll while other craft smen at the Royal N ew Zealand N avy concentrate on making A Historic the enormous O regon spars. The coll os­ sal racing boom is believed co have measured 44 ft , five ft longer than the boat itself, while the club topsail , se t on top of the gaff-rigged main, co wered Bicentennial nearly 60 ft above the deck. In ra cing trim, Akarana set two jibs, one behind By the other with the first of them tacked Bruce Stannard down at the end of a bowsprit that Gift thrust outboard fu ll y 12ft fr om the stem. With a spinnaker up she ca rried close to 2,200 sq ft of sail , almost twice the sail area of a modern 39 footer. Akarana is li sted on the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron Register of 1888 and she is known to have successfull y co m­ peted against the cracks like M agic, Waitangi, Peri , Oithona, Sirocco, Sao and Meteor. In his book Little Shi ps of N ew Zealand, Ronald Carter records that although Akarana rated only 5 tons in N ew Zealand, she was declared six and a half tons in Australia because cj1f a rule alteration and she was therefore fo rced to race in the 10 tons and under class. Even so, Carter says, she won first prize of £140 at th e Melbourne Centen­ n 1887, Robert Logan, the white Th e classic ew Zeala11 d built gaff cutter ary regatta on Hobson's Bay. Carter bearded Grand Old Man of N ew Akarana reaches out of Sydney's Lavender records that when Akarana sa il ed to I Zealand yacht design and boatbuild­ Bay under a cloud of sail . Sydney (on her own bottom) she com­ ing, sent one of his most bea utifully peted in the Anniversa ry regatta here in crafted vess els down the ways at his kingly detailed res toration prior to the 20 tons and under clas s and "saved famous yard on Auckland's north shore. handing her back to the Australian her time quite easily from the then She was the magnificent 39ft gaff cutter people as a bicentennial gift. Akarana , Sydney crack yacht, Sirocco." Akarana, the Ki wi fli er whose graceful , whose name derives fr om the M ao ri In her ori ginal condition, Akarana gilded clipper bows, adorned by the word fo r Auckl and, is to be taken home was literall y a showpiece fo r N ew Zea­ burnished black fig urehead of a Maori on July 4 fo r seven months of non-stop land craft smanship. After her twin vic­ maiden, was to sail her way into the work by John Salthouse, one of N ew tories in the centennial regattas she trans-Tasman history books. In the fo l­ Zealand's most distinguished wooden beca me one of the star attractions at the lowing year, Akarana touched the fines t boat builders. Salthouse and a tea m of Grea t Exposition held in Sydney in yachts Australia could muster when she wooden boat speciali sts will concentrate 1888. She was a racing machi ne par won two of thi s country's most coveted excell ence and in her austere, dark var­ sporting prizes, the centennial regattas nished saloon with no bulkheads and in both Mel bourne and in Sydney. It just two black lea ther ches terfield style was a feat made no less remarkable by couches running up i!1to __ the eyes of,the the fac t that although she had neither boat, she was ·t he · fo'l"erun\-i er of the head nor galley, Akarana had to cross modern stripped-out ocean racer in the turbulent Tasman, on her own which virtuall y every crea ture comfo rt bottom , to deliver her chall enge to the is sacrifice d fo r greater speed afl oat. colonial cracks in Australi an waters. She When the restoration work is com­ was the epitome of the classic, narrow­ plete, Akarana is likely to go on a gu tted, plank-on-edge concept that national tour whi ch may see her com­ marked Victorian yachting as a time peting in races in all state ca pitals. when fea rl ess go-for-broke sailors se t Akarana is also expec ted to be given clouds of sail on towering mas ts. T he pride of place at the N ew Zealand cutter craze ca me and went as swiftly as exhibition at Expo '88 in Brisbane the boats themselves and today, save fo r where she will go on display alongside Akarana and a handful of others, mostl y Kiwi Magic, N ew Zealand's fibregla ss in N ew Zealand, they have vanished hulled Ameri ca's C up chall enger. Akar­ completely. ana will return to a permanent home in All of which is why Australi ans, Sydney as the fl agship of the Australian conscious of the previous little that N ational Maritime Museum which is remains of our maritime heritage; will under constructi on in Darling Harbor applaud the imagination and generosity and wi ll open in October next year. shown by N ew Zealand Prime Minister Anyone who has photograp hs or de­ David La nge recentl y when he tails which might ass ist the res torati on is announced his government's intention Akarana on the hard i11 Sydney prior to her asked to contac t the museum's deputy to acquire Akarana and fu nd a pa insta- return to A uckla11 d for restora tio11 . director, Gavin Fry on 27 9111 .

70 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 AIRFR1ME FROM SOBSTAD

So advanced we had to patent it. There is no sail like it anywhere. Made for the sailor who demands the ultimate high technology sail, the Airframe by Sobstad consists of a framework of carefully engineered Kevlar straps oriented to eliminate stretch in all directions, not just the primary direction. The result: Greater longevity, astounding shape-holding ability, and all in a sail lighter than ever thought possible. Remember, don't ask for imitations. There aren't any. We 've got the patents to prove it.

SOBSTADs Julian Everitt - Backlash 1987 SPRINT Julian Everitt has further developed this design to be more competitive with reference to the Big Boat place in IOR teams with total rating restrictions. Underwater he has added a NACA 63 high aspect ratio keel, 1.3 ft . deeper than the old keel, and a thinner 12% NACA 4 series left section for the Canard. A new fractional rig gives an addi­ tional 128 sq.ft. upwind and 40 sq.ft. downwind. / T he yacht's IOR rating will increase to 34. 2 ft. as a result of these changes. CONTACT: ,/ JULIAN EVERITT YACHT DESIGN I , 128 HIGH ST. COWES ISLE OF WIGHT U.K. By Rob Williams

JOUBERT/NIVELT 42 T his design took overall IOR honours at the 1987 SORC. T he yacht, named Sprint, was rating 32. 95 ft. in this series. She was built in Ontario by Scorpio Yachts utilising elements from all over

SURVEY ONE- QUARTER TON This boat is designed with a slight orientation to light air performance. It features fine sections fore and aft with a narrow beam at the waterline. The easily driven hull has a relatively conventional beam aft which precludes the neccessity of transom stacking by the crew. Another version of this boat is plan­ ned with a 15cm. increase in overall length for heavy air optimisation. CONTACT: SURVEY ONE 31 PAISLEY ROAD RENFREW SCOTLAND PA4 8JH.

/ / NISSAN - QUARTER TON I / _/ T his design is based on the 1987 ORC !_/ rules and will have a working CSF I / : / factor. T he boat has a fuller afterbody than the successful Attacke design and has an elliptical keel with a small bulb fo r lowering centre of gravity and end plate effect. It is to be built in R Glass and carbon fibre . CONTACT: GEORG N ISS AN YACHT DESIGN BLOMKAMP 7 2000 HAMBURG 53 WEST GERMANY

72 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 the world. Her keel was from Precision Foils of Tampa, Florida USA, her rud­ der from Herve in France and her mast Farr One Tonner Top from Reckmann in Germany. Sails were by North. DIMENSIONS: Yacht at Adtniral's Cup LOA 12.72m BMAX3.895m DSPL 6365 kgs. B 3.72m English yachting writer and author Barry Pickthall, takes a close look at CONTACT: Propaganda, the Bruce Farr-designed One Tonner which led the New JOUBERT/ NIVELT Zealand team to victory in the recent Admiral's Cup and which also was the YACHT DESIGN 426C HATCH ST. top-scoring individual yacht at Cowes. MYSTIC that the builder had constructed the two C.T. 06355 composite hulls li ghter than planned, USA this went little way towards explaining the massive discrepancy. In the end, both crews were forced to cut 500mm of lead from the bottom of their keels and fit wooden shoes to the foi ls in order to compete in the New Zealand trials. As a result, the two fought over third place in the tea m , never able to match the performance of the Lawrie Davidson designed Goldcorp or larger Farr drawn Kiwi. It was only after the trials when Propaga nda's rating was checked once more, that her measurement anomaly was finally solved. Faced with a serious CGF (s ta­ bility) problem , the computer spewed ISPLACING a level of prepara­ out a new rating close to 30ft , well tion of planning not seen at below the One Tonne limit whi ch D Cowes before, New Zealand's allowed her crew to replace 44mm of three-boat team of Propaganda, Go ldcorp lead under the keel. As the result, and Kiwi won the Champagne Mumm Propaganda's rating went up to 30.59ft Admiral's C up from 13 other nations, and transformed her performance. beating Britain by a significant 84 points "We're still not quite sure why the and leaving the Australi ans trailing third two boats were initiall y so fa r off their by a fu rther 178 points adrift. design rating" Geoff Stagg, who runs Just how did the New Zealanders Farr International, stated after the achieve such a brilliant result against the Admiral's Cup. "We can only ass ume strongest line-up in the history of the that the boat's undistorted lines lend C up? T heir bes t previous res ult was in themselves to meas uring discrepancies if 1985 when they finished third to the BRIAND 44FT DESIGN German and British teams. In fact, their T he yacht Corum. sponsored by the planning for victory in 1987 started Swiss watchmaker, was built to this immediately that series ended, but Philippe Briand design. wasn't just a straight-forward road to The boat was built by Beneteau C us­ success. tom in unidirectional prepreg with hon­ "We won this event 24 months ago eycombe core and carbon reinforce­ with planning, dedication and a full year ment. spent maximising the performance of Corum's keel, with integral bulb, and our boats" Bevan Wooll ey, skipper of high aspect rudder were developed from the top scoring One Tonner Propaga11da, Dassault Aviation computer modelling proclaimed in Plymouth after the and were built by Speedwave. Fastnet. Her sails were from AMG, an Six months before, however, the pic­ offshoot of the French Kiss 12 Metre ture did not look at all bright for this campaign. Bruce Farr design. La unched at the same DIMENSIONS time as her sistership, Fa ir Share, built LOA 13.3m DSPL 7300 kgs for fe ll ow New Zealander Del Hogg, BMAX4.0m BEAM 3.86m both yachts, dubbed design 1/82 by SAIL AREA 97 sq .m. Bruce Farr, ran into a controversy over CONTACT: their ratings. PHILIPPE BRIAND Far from being O ne Tonners, the two LE DESIRE boats came out of measurement 0.6ft A VENUE MEVILLAC, higher than the 30. 5ft limit - a figure LA VILLE EN BOIS that stubbornly remained despite 4 re­ 17000 LA ROCHELLE measurements! Bruce Farr could not FRANCE believe it, and though it was fo und later

OFFSH ORE - SUMMER 1987 - 73 the equi pment is not set up correctly." scores in the 200 mile C hannel Race and The controversy did a great deal of second inshore event, culminating their damage to Farr's credibility 'Down­ Admiral's C up campaign with a 4th under' and as a result they lost fo ur other placing in the Fastnet to give them a orders. " It was not a happy time fo r 30pt lead in the overall standings over a anyone, but thanks to Bevan Woolley in second Farr One Tonne design - particular, who had a great dea l of fa ith Jam arella - racing fo r Britain. in our beliefs, the programme did not go The two boats were not of the sa me off the rails" Stagg said. design. Woolley and Hogg had called Woolley and his crew were rewarded for a boat with an enhanced reaching fo r this perseverance with fi rst place and running ca pability while J amarella's owner, Alan Gray , specified the need fo r top performance up-wind. Her design, N o. 1/85 which was copied fo r the Dutch entered Mean Machine and Au­ stralia's Swan Prem ium II, was developed from the lines of Sirrius I V, the boat robbed of a win in las t year's One Tonne World's in Spain after she fell into a calm patch and dropped fr om 1st to 18th in the high scoring long distance race. Some of Sirrius' famed light air per­ formance was sacrificed in the interes ts of greater speed in moderate conditions as well as improve her running and reaching abilities by developing a new WHEN YOU'RE keel design, adding fullness to the for­ DOWN TO YOUR ward sections and providing a cleaner LAST CHANCE, IT run aft . T he design was also 0.25ft longer on the waterline than Propaga nda, HAD BETTER BE A 300kg lighter and carried less sail. Both GOOD ONE! shared the sa me swept back trapazoidal keel and rudder designs however, shun­ ning the current popularity for eliptical Today over 20 of the foils which Farr slates as being mere world's navies, armies marketing ploys that only work well off (in cluding the Australi an the wind. and New Zealand armed Ironicall y, tlie performance of the two forc es) entrust their designs did not match Bruce Farr's sa fety to RFD expectations. Far fr om being slower eq uipment . So too do down wind than Propaga nda, ] ama rel/a's thousands of pleasure consistent ability to outsail the N ew boat owners, Zea land One Tonner in all conditions commercial fi sherm en except when two-sail reaching, promp­ and charter boat ted owner Alan Gray to suggest that operators. RFD Fa rr's offi ce may have muddled the manufacture 4 to 25 plans when the two desi gns were sent person liferafts out in the post! with fu ll y automatic " Yes that has us baffled, and I can ca nopies for racing , only suggest that sails Uamarella's main­ crui sing , fishing , sail was cut fuller than Propaganda's) and chaf1 er boats and the grea ter experience of ] am arella 's commerci al shipping. principal afterguard, Rodney Pattission With over 16 service and Lawrie Smith, must have played a and sal es ce ntres part" Stagg said at the end of the series . Au stralia-wid e, RFD But the Admiral's Cup is not won on provides a complete a single performance. It is a tea m event back up fac ili ty for al l and in this age of hi-tech professional­ RFD products. ism , one slip can knock a country from the top. T here was no better example of this at Cowes than the performance of Wes t Germany. Victors in 1983 and '85, their fo rmidable tea m approach made For further information, contact .. To: RFD Safety Marine Ply . Lid . them pre-seri es fa vourites to retain the VIC 2-4 Simpson St.. Moorabrn YES! Please send me more information on T rophy fo r a record third successive 3189 . Tel (03) 555 -5211 term this time. Instead, they finished 5th ::::: Liferafts ::::J Fender Lock ::::. Life Jackets NSW 7 Kent Rd . Mascot 2020 behind Ireland whose tea m incl uded a Tel (02) 667 -0208 Name : ...... last minute charter (Sardinia Cup win­ OLD 1/36 Randall SI .. Slacks Creek 4127 . Tel (07) 808 -1988 Address: ...... ner. Fu ll Pelt) and a re-vamped Castro design that fail ed to make the British WA 18113 Stockdale Rd .. o·connor ...... P/code :...... 6163 . Tel. (09) 331 -2022 . tea m two yea rs ago. □

74 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Here's the most innovative development in safety at sea in the last 1987 years ... the new Kannad 406 Satellite EPIRB.

The new Kannad 406 Distress Beacon is a unique breakthrough in search and rescue operations. Quite simply, the Kannad 406 removes the search from search and rescue operations. Now, your position can be pin-pointed within one nautical mile in a matter of minutes or hours, (depending on your position on the globe). Thanks to global satellite coverage, your emergency signal can be picked up an'ywhere in the world - either on land or sea. Currently, the Kannad 406 is undergoing type approval from the Australian Department of Communications and is expected to be released shortly. Already, the Kannad 406 satellite EPIRB is manufactured to IMO and UK standards, and is type approved by the relevant French authorities - CNET, CNES, the Merchant Marine Department and the Civil Aviation Department. Using the SARSAT-COSPAS global satellite coverage, your emergency signal can be picked up anywhere in the world using two transmitting frequencies - UHF band 406, 025MHz to pin-point and identify through the satellite's network and VHF band 121 , 5MHz used for the final homing procedure. No longer do you have to hope that an aircraft will detect y'our EPIRB signal. The Kannad 406 transmits instantly to four satellites (as used by Systems ARGOS, BOC and Transatlantics) which then send your signal to the land station, who in turn contact the nearest search and rescue centre notifying them of where you are (to within one nautical mile) and who you are. Your radio call signal is also coded into the satellite transmission of your Kannad 406 EPIRB. How much Is your life worth? SECUMAR 8S10 SECUMAR 12 KSL life jacket life jacket Secumar BS10 - the lightweight A robust life jacket for tough inflatable life jacket that utilises a weather. Inflatable either manually patented folding system that is or fully automatically. Suits two extraordinarily flat and very purposes: (1) full harness and comfortable to wear. The BS10 double ended lifeline, (2) life jacket. inflates automatically on contact Easy to wear with waist and crotch with water or can be manually strap. Bright orange buoyancy inflated by a pulling toggle. Used chamber (10kp/22Ibs buoyancy) universally for shipping, offshore oil protected by a strong cover. With rigs and tenders, army and naval whistle, fitting for water activated services. The BS1 0 can be worn battery, oral inflation valve. over the top of a safety harness. Used by NSW Maritime Services Board boat crews and Maritime pilots. onshore By Peter Campbell

HE world's top keel boat sailors will The three world keel boat cham­ the Australian O lympic selection trials, Tbe in Australia in the Bicentennial pionships set down fo r January­ also being conducted on Port Phillip by Year to contes t world championships February 1988: Royal Brighton Yacht Club. The selec­ for the International Soling, J24 and • Solings - January 3-12, Royal tion trials for Solings and Stars are due Etchells 22 classes . T he Soling worlds, Brighton Yacht Club, Melbourne. Rac­ to start on January 15 and continue with 1988 the Olympic Year, will ha ve ing on Port Phillip. through to January 30. Selection trials particular significance with up to 50 • Etchells 22 - January 14-21, Royal for the other O lympic classes - Torna­ yachts from at least 15 nations compet­ Prince Alfred Yacht C lub, Sydney. Rac­ do ca tamaran, men and women's 470 ing in the seri es on Melbourne's Port ing on Palm Beach Circle. dinghy, Flying Dutchman, Finn and Phillip. • Etchells 22 - January 30-February 4, Division II sailboards - will be held in At least all the Soling skippers who Royal Sydney Yacht Sq uadron, Sydney. Adelaide from January 8-24. contested the recent Pre-Olympic yach­ Racing on Manly Circle. While interest in the three-man Soling ting regatta in Pusan, South Korea, plus T he Soling worlds will be a lead-up to as a club class has diminished in recent several more will be coming to Australia in January to contes t this major lead-up regatta to the 1988 Olympics. Several of them, particularl y the Americans, will World's Best Here For also contest the Etchell s 22 worlds off Palm Beach, Sydney, and possibly the J24 worlds on the M anl y Circle, off Soling,J24, E22 Worlds Sydney Heads. SO L INGS racing in heavy seaway in the 1987 Pre-Olympic regatta off Pusan, Sou r/, Korea. Almost every on e of th e crews which competed will be in Australia in Janua ry for the 1988 wo rld championships on Melbourn e's Port Phillip. (Peter Campbell pie).

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76 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 ETCHELLS 22 .fleet racing on Sydn ey Harb our­ up to 45 yachts are racing each Saturday as they prepare for th e world championships injanuary . (Dav id Clare pie) . years with the grow th in popularity of cisco, has been sailing Soli ngs since E22s expand in S.A. 1984. He fini shed second in the 1987 the E22 (M elbourne and Port Lincoln he Dragon and Soling fl eets in have had the only regul ar racing fl eets) worlds at Kiel, Germany, won the N orth Ameri cans and the gold medal in T South Australi a are under siege the 1988 Olympics has seen a revival in from the ravages of nature and the the class in Sydney as well. Each the PanAmeri can Games. He plans to also contes t the Etchell s Etchell s, w rites Ceo.ff Kingston. weekend a small group of Soling enthu­ It has got to the point in the Dragons sias ts is training and racing out of 22 worlds, and possibly the J24s, a programme also envisaged by the veter­ w here skippers are turning to newspaper Middle Harbour, led by Jamie Wilmot advertising - apart from the usual who ca mpaigned in Europe during our an Dave Curtis, a former world cham­ pion in all three classes. word-of-mouth approach - in a bid to winter. scare up crews. In Melbourne, the driving fo rce be­ There is a population of about seven hind the Soling fl eet, w hich normally Huge fleets ofE22s boats but there are only fi ve that ra ce races out of Sandringham , is Ga ry regul arl y and des pite the apparent in­ Shea rd, the Soling skipper in the Los HE popularity of the Etchells 22 has crease in interes t in the class in WA and Angeles Olympics. Gary and Andy T grown dramaticall y in Australia, T as mani a, Bob Lanyon, State champion Allsep were the two Australian skippers primaril y at the expense of the Soling fo r the pas t two years in T riton, cannot (and promoters of the 1988 worlds) and Dragon cl asses, and interes t is ex­ antici pate a rekindling of interest in SA . during the Pre-Olympics at Pusa n. ceptionall y high with the worlds off The Solings are also struggling. There They ce rtainl y did a fine j ob as every­ Palm Beach in January. T here are now is now a fl eet of seven centred in Port one of the 19 crews will be in Melbourne E22 fl eets racing regul arl y with clubs in Lincoln , w hich made an unsuccessful in January. Most of them shipped their all State ca pitals, each conducting selec­ bid to stage the Olympic Trials. boats direct fro m Korea to Australi a. tion se ri es for the worlds. Under the The loss of that regatta appea rs to Countries represented at Pusan _we re rules 25 percent of a fl ee t are eligible fo r have taken the sting out of the enthu­ U.S.A. , Sweden, Denmark, the Soviet the world championships. sias m of many in the cl as s, which is Union, West Germany, N ew Zealand, In Sydney and on Pittwater, th e selec­ looking to a summer of club racing. Finland, France, Spain, J apan, N orway, ti on trials comprise club races and the The cl ass hopes to send a boat to Italy and Greece. NSW championships, the latter alone Melbourne fo r the Worlds and Olympic Acco rding to Gary Shea rd there w ill could attract 60 to 80 boa ts. C urrently, trials, and State champion Ross Haldane be three Itali an, three Wes t German and the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron club (Merrjig) be li eves Greg Allison could be three Finnish boats in Melbourne, possi­ races each Saturday are attracting up to interes ted in putting a campaign ble three United States boa ts. The East 45 E22s, providing close and spec tacul ar together. Germans, current world champions, are racing. Among the helmsmen doing While the Dragons and Solings are also ex pected, along with the Russians. well ea rl y in the season have been well sufferin g the Etchell fl ee t is expec ted to " We expect a fl ee t of 50 boa ts - it will known ocean racing yachtsman Grae me increase to 21 this summer. Paul Smith, be the strongest fl eet of Solings fo r a " Frizz le" Free man, steerin g Black Tmck­ w ho recently returned fr om the World world championship in Australi a - in er, and Stea k ' 11 Kid11 ey 12-metre helms­ championships in Boston w here he quantity and quality," Shea rd told me at man Phil Thompson, steerin g the as- ye t finished 30th in a fl eet of 54; and in a Pusan. un-named KA 248. T hompson fini shed se ri es in w hi ch he 'drew' the oldest boat, John Kostecki , winner of the Soling third in the 1985 E22 worlds, won by is hopeful that fo ur SA boats will make cl ass in the Pu sa n Pre-Olympic regatta, Iain Murray . it to Sydney fo r the Worlds in January. is a defi nite starter, as is fo rmer world Murray has also been sailing at times T he quota fo r SA is four and there are champion D ave C urtis, w ho fini shed with the E22 fl eet in Sydney but it's not fi ve boats with strong cl aims - current sixth at Pusan. Kostec ki sailed a fi ne known whether he is ca mpaigni ng to­ State champion Dave Morphett in Mel; se ries in the weather-shortened series at wa rds the 1988 worlds. Mark Beth­ David Henshall sa iling Exca libur, Geoff Pusan, notchi ng placings of 1-6-5-1-2. waite, a fo rmer worl d champion in Boetcher with A nna/ire, John Parrinton A fo rmer Lase r and J24 sa il or, Kostecki , Solings and J24s and two-times O lym­ in S 1111 11 neni111 e Drea 111 , and Smith in From St Francis Yac ht C lub, Sa n Fran- pian, is also ca mpaigning an E22. French Stick.

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 77 OFFSHORE CALENDAR INTERNATIONAL 18th Dec. 180nm O ffshore 28th RSYS - Spr series 21st Dec. 24nm O lympic E22 - 10th Heat Wo rl d C'ship Eli m Sydney-Hobart SOR- Heat9 DECEMBER 26th Dec. M HYC - Inshore Race Anchor Wetsuit T rophy, Port Phillip, 16th-26th AW A Southern C ross Cup, Sand ringham YC Sydney 29th RSYS -E22 - State C'ship on Sydney Harbo ur 26th AW A Sydney-Hobart & Manly C ircle (1 1th and 12th Hea ts World C'shi p Elim) Grand Pri x Offshore Series & Southern Cross C up 1988 tea m sel ections. Race 2 - 27nm. JANUARY DECEMBER Southern C ross Series - 2nd RSYS - E22- State C 'ship on Sydney Harbour Sydney-Hobart & M anl y C ircl e (13th and 14th Hears Wo rl d C'ship 2nd King of the Derwent, T as mani a Elim) 9th Bruny Island Race 4th Grand Prix Offshore Series & Southern Cross C up 11th Round T as mania Race, Hobart tea m selec tio ns. Race 3 - 27 nm. 5th RSYS - Spr Series 31st- E22 - 15th Heat World C'shi p Elim 10 Feb. Mil Milas , C hile J24 -Scace C'ship on Manl y C ircle C YC A - Sho rt O cean Race MAY M HYC - Inshore Race Grand Prix O ffs hore Se ri es & Southern C ross C up Weymouth British Olympic rea m se lectio ns. Race 4- 27nm. Selection 6th RSYS - E22 - State C'ship on Sydney Harbour & Manly C ircle (16th Heat Wo rld C'ship Elim) JUNE J24 -State C'ship o n Manl y C ircle Carlsberg Singlehanded, Grand Prix O ffs hore Se ries & Southern Cross C up Plymouth- Newport, U SA team selec tio ns. Race 5 - 27n m. Round Ireland Race 7th )24 (State C'shi p on Manly C ircle 9th C YC A - Twilight Race (last before X mas) 17th Bermuda Ra ce 12th RSYS - Squadron Regale - non pointscore all classes & divisions 21st Bali Circuit - from Fremantle, C YC A - Sho rt O cean Race (Invitatio n) Dampier, Darwin to Bali 16th C YCA - A WA Southern C ross C u p - Race I (24 miles) 17th CYC A - AWA Southern C ross C u p- Race 2 (24 JULY miles) 11th-22nd Europea n Offshore 18th CYC A - A WA Southern C ross C up - Race 3 (180 m iles) C hamps/Cork Week M HYC - C lub Marine C hall enge- Race I (20 30th- m iles) 13th Aug. Kenwood C up , Hawaii 19th M HYC -Club Marine C hallenge - Race 2 (15 m iles) 20th M H YC- C lub Marine C ha ll enge -Races 3 & 4 AUGUST (each 10 m iles) 6th Round Australia Bi centennial 21st C YC A - A WA Southern Cross C up- Race 4 (24 8th T wo handed Round Australia miles) NATIONAL AND SYDNEY 26th C YC A - A WA Sydney- Hobart (630 m iles) SEPTEMBER C ock of the Bay. Po rt Philli p, ORCV Prince Henry Cup, Lisbon, NOVEMBER Soli ng cl ass Aust ch ships, Port Phill ip, RBYC 1st-10th 1st RSYS- Dragons -Selection Se ries fo r Sayonara 27th RSYS - C h ri stmas C'ship Regatta Portugal C ha ll enge C up Yngli ngs- Australian C 'ship Sa rdinia Cup 6th M HYC - MMM5000 Night Race (S hort O ffs ho re Stella Folkboats - State C'ship 20th First Race Olympic Regatta, Trian gle- li t marks) RPA YC -Pittwater co C offs Harbour (3 10 m iles) 7th RSYS - Spr Series Melbourne- Ho bart and Melbo urne-Devonpo rt ·Seoul, Korea No. 1 Division- Duke of Gloucester C up starts, Porrsea, O RCV Quebec-St. Malo Multihulls N o. 2 Division - C arl eton C up 28th RSYS - C hristmas C'ship Regatta E22 - 7th Heat Wo rl d C'shi p El im 29th RSYS -Christmas C'ship Regatta SOR- Heat 7 30th RSYS - C hristmas C"ship Regatta 1989 C YC A -C ruise, Sydney Harbo ur venue 31st RSYS - C hristmas C'shi p Regatta M HYC - Inshore Race Dragon - Prince Phillip C up, Botany Bay MAY 8th RSYS -Dragons - Se lection series for Sayonara 6th Auckland to Fukuoka, Japan C hall enge C up C hallenger · JANUARY Route of Discovery 13th C YC A - Long O ffsho re, 180 mile c,bbage T ree 1st - Dragon- Prince Phill ip C up, Botan y Bay Island and return (Halvorsen Bros. Trophy) C offs H arbo ur-South port , SYC SEPTEMBER 14th RSYS -Spr Series . 2nd Dragon -Prince Phillip C up, Botany Bay E22 - 8th Hear World C'ship Eli m M HYC - Endeavo ur 24S - Australian 2nd Whitbread Round the World MHYC - In shore Race C hampionship Race 21st RSYS - Spr Series C ham pionship Regatta Week. E22 - 9th Heat Wo rl d C'ship Elim King of the Derwent, RY C T C YCA - Short O cean Race 3rd -D ragon - Prince Phillip C up, Botany Bay AWA SOUTHERN CROSS M HYC - Mosman daily cup Regatta (m ainly j og) M H YC - C hampionship Regatta Weck - Race I - passage to Port Hacki ng returning Sunday 3rd-10thSoling Wo rl d C hampionships, Port Phillip, RBYC CUP SERIES 1987 - Insho re Race- Cock of the C lub T rophy 4th -D rago n - Prince Phillip C up, Botany Bay 12th Dec. In vitation Race 27th C YC A - Grand Prix Offsho re Series & Southern M H YC -C hampionship Regatta Weck - Race 2 24nm Olympic Cross C up 4th-6th XXXX Go ld C oast Regatta 16th Dec. Selections, Race l : 90 mil e- Sea mark Island 5th RSYS - J24 -Australian C'ship, Manly C ircle 17th Dec. 24nm Olympic (Founders C up) - Dragon - Prin ce Phi ll ip C up, Botany Bay

WORLD SAILING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AUSTRALIA 1988 2nd J24 Class - Sydney, Jan 30 -Feb 4, 1988. E22- Sydney, J an 11 -23, 1988. Soling - Melbourne, January 3-12, 1988. World Youth Championships - Sydney, Jan ·18-28, 1988 . Mistral Sailboards - Sydney, January, 1988. 18-Footers- Sy dney, Jan 31 - Feb 7, 1988 . Fireball-Adelaid e, Jan 6-12, 1988. 505- Sydney, Jan 31 - Feb 17, 1988. 420- Lake Macquarie, J an 8-17, 1988. Contender - Brisbane, Dec 28, 1988 - Jan 12, 1989.

78 - OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 MHYC- Championship Regatta Week - Ra ce 3 30th RS~ - J24- World C'ship, Manly Circle Sum SOR-Heat 13 6th RSYS-J24 -Australian C'ship, Manly Circle Series Dragon - lnterport Teams Series - Dragon - Prince Phillip Cup, Botany Bay SOR- Heat II CYCA - Passage co Pittwacer via Offshore Park MHYC - Championship Regatta Week - Ra ce 4 MHYC - Inshore Race MHYC - Inshore Race 7th RSYS-J24- Australi an C'ship, Manly Circle 31st RSYS - J24- World C'ship, Manly C ircle 21st RSYS - Dragon - lntcrport Teams Series - Dragons- Prince Phillip Cup. Botany Bay Dragon - Selection series for Sayonara C hallenge CY CA-Short ra ce off Pi ttwater, Passage to MHYC- Championship Regatta Week - Race 5 Cup C hallenger Sydney, via Offshore Mark Twilight Race MHYC- Int. 505 South Pacific Championship, MHYC- Annual Match Racing C hallenge with 8th RSYS - J24S - Australian C'ship. on Manly Sydney Harbour SASC (Daydream Shield) Circle 22 nd RSYS - Dragon - lnterport Teams Series Twilight Races resume 24th C YCA -Twilight Race Dragons- Prince Phillip Cup, Botany Bay FEBRUARY MHYC - B & T Media Race 1st RSYS-J24- World C'ship, Manly Circle MHYC - Championship Regatta Weck - Race 6 27th RSYS - Sum Series 9th RSYS - Sum Se ries resumes MHYC- lnt. SOS South Pacific Championship, No. 1 Division-John Muston Memorial Cup Sydney Harbour J 24- Australian C'ship, Manly Circle Half Ton -Thelma Plate 2nd RSYS - J24- World C'ship, Manly Circle -Dragon-Prince Phillip Cup, Botany Bay SOR-Heat 14 MHYC- Int. 505 South Pacific Championship, MHYC- Championship Regatta Week - Ra ce 7 CYCA - Cruise to Broken Bay/Short Haul 10th RSYS - J24 - Australian C'ship, Manly Circle Sydney Harbour Passage Race - Dragon - Prince Phi llip Cup, Botany Bay 3rd RSYS - J24- Worl d C'ship, Manly Circle M HYC- In shore Ra ce MHYC - Championship Regatta Weck CYCA - Twilight Race No. 2 Division- H.M. Felton Trophy MHYC- lnt. 505 South Pacific Championship, 10th- Petersville Regatra, Port Phillip No. 3 Division-Janzoon Trophy 16th Sydney Harbour 28 th MHYC - Boat supplies two handed race 11th 4th RSYS-J24- World C'ship, Manly Circle Botany Bay and Return (26 miles) RSYS - J24 Australian C'ship, Manly Circle MHYC- lnt. 505 South Pacific Championship, - Dragon - Prince Phillip Cup, Botany Bay Sydney Harbour RPAYC- E22- World C'ship, Palm Beach MARCH Circle 5th RSYS-J24- World C'ship. Manly Circle 2nd CYCA - Twilight Race MHYC - Im. 505 South Pa cific Championship, 12th RSYS - J24- Australian C'ship, Manly Circle 4th CYCA - Short Harbour & Ocean Night Ra ce Sydney Harbour - Dragon - Prince Phillip Cup, Botany Bay MHYC- Club Marine Challenge Series 6th RSYS-Milson Memorial Cup, Lion Jug Trophy RPAYC-E22- World C'ship, Palm Beach Night Race to Pittwater (20 miles) - Heat 1 Circle (S OR Heat 12) lduna Shield OOGGP Race) Sum 5th RSYS- Sum Series 13th Series MHYC- C lub Marine Chall enge Series RSYS - J24- Australian C'ship, Manly Circle MHYC- Int. 505 South Paci fic Championship, CYCA -Twilight Races resume Double Header Triangles off Palm Beach Manly Ci rcle RPA YC-E22- World C'ship, Palm Beach Heats 2 & 3 on Pal m Beach Circle Circle Edwards Cup, Hood Summer series, !OR. RBYC RYCT-Sayonara Challenge Cup Elimination 14th RSYS - J24S - Australian C'ship, Manly Circle 7th RSYS - Dragon - Selection Series for Sayonara and Chall enge Cruise to Jervis Bay to meet Tall Ships Race Challenge Cup Challenger 6th CYCA - Sail for Cancer MHYC - Twilight Races resume MHYC - Int. 505 South Pacific Championship. RYCT- Sayonara Challenge Cup Elimination RPAYC-E22- World C'ship, Pal m Beach Manly C ircle and Chall enge Circle 10th CYCA -Twilight Race 7th RY CT - Sayonara Challenge Cup Elimination Tall Ships Race, Hobart to Sydney, RYCT/CYCA MHYC- Int. 505 World C'ship, Manly Circle and C hallenge 11th MHYC- lnt. 505 World C'ship. Manly Circle 8th RYCT - Sayonara C hallenge Cup Elimination 15th J24 - Australian C'ship, Manly Circle 12th MHYC - Int. 505 World C'ship, Manly Circle and Challenge C ruise t0 Jervis Ba y to meet Tall Ships Race 13th RSY S -- Sum Series 9th CYCA -Twilight Race RPAYC-E22-World C'ship, Pal m Beach No. 1 Division - Milson Silver Jug RYCT- Sayonara C hallenge C up Eli mination C ircle Hood 23- Australi an C'ship and Chall enge 15th- Olympic Class selection trials, Solings and Stars CYCA - Short Ocean Ra ce 10th MHYC- Twilight Race 30th MHYC - Inc. 505 World C'ship, Manly Circle RYCT- Sayonara Challenge C up Elimination 16th RSYS - Sum Series 14th RSYS- Dragon - Selection Series for Sayonara and Challenge SOR-Heat 10 Challenge Cup Challenger 11th RSYS-Twilight Race Cruise co Jervis Bay co meet Tall Ships Race RSYS v RPAYC Flag Officers team racing series RYCT-Sayonara Challenge Cup Elimination MHYC - Inshore Race- Chaos Cup (Bedlam MHYC - Int. 505 World C'ship, Manly Circle and Challenge Poin t and return) 15th RSY S - Dragon - Gold Cup Se ries 12th RSY S - Sum Se ries No. I Division - Fai rfax RPA YC-E22- World C'ship, Palm Beach MHYC- lnt. 505 World C'ship, Manly C ircle Cup, No. 2 Division- lntercolonia l Cup, Half Circle 16th RSYS - Dragon - Gold Cup Se ries Ton - Tarring Cup. Dragon - ERA Cup. 17th MHYC - Adams 10 State & Australian C'ship, MHYC - Int. 505 World C'ship, Manly Circle CYCA - Hunterford Hill Short Offshore Ra ce Manly Circle- Races l & 2 17th RSYS- Dragon-Gold Cup Series Reggata (2 x 12 m il e). Ix 30 mi le and 2 x Short RPA YC-E22- World C'ship, Palm Beach CYCA - Twilight Race Haul Races} C ircle MHYC - Int. 505 World C'ship, Manly Circle MH YC - Special Night Race off Manly 18th MHYC - Adams 10 State & Australian C'ship. RSYS - Dragon - Gold Cup Series Triangular/ Sausage Course off Manly (Lit Marks) Manly Circle - Ra ces 3 & 4 20th RSYS - Sum Series Jog (42 miles) IOR (72 miles) RPAYC- E22S- World C'ship, Pa lm Beach Hood 23S, (Australian C'ship) Inshore Race Circle 19th MHYC - Jog International Series and Bruce & Walsh SO RC Jog Race (30 miles) - Race I (Ocean Square on Manly Circle) Adams 10 State and Australian C'ship, Manly Circle - Race 5 · RPA YC- E22- Worl d C'ship, Palm Beach Circle 20 th CYCA - Twilight Race MHYC - Jog International Series and Bruce & Walsh SORC Jog Long Race (80 miles) - Race 2 RPAYC-E22- World C'ship, Palm Beach C ir cle· 21st RPA YC- E22- World C'ship, Palm Beach C ircle 22nd- Australia Day Regatta, Geclong and Advertiser 24th Cup. RGYC 23rd MHYC-Jog Internacional Series and Bruce & Wa lsh SORC 2 races, Manly Circle (8 miles & 11 miles)Jog Races 3 & 4 Bruce & Walsh Heats I & 2 RAN SA - RAN SA Regatta Porrsea-Flinders Race. ORCV 24th MH YC-Jog International Series and 13ruce & Walsh SORC 2 races. Manly Ci rcle (8 mi les & 11 miles) Jog Races 5 & 6 llruce & Walsh Heats 3 & 4 -152nd 1988 Bicentennial Royal Sydney Anniversary Regatta 25 th RSYS - J24 - World C'ship, Manly Circle MHYC - Jog International Series and Bruce & WalshSORC O cea n Race off Macquarie Light (20 miles) Jog Race 7 Bruce & Walsh Heat 5 26th RSY S - J24 - World C'ship, Manly Circle -Tall ships Grand Parade of Sail on ~ydney Harbour, 1st fleet re-enacm1ent 27th RSYS-J24- World C'ship, Manl y Ci rcle CYCA - Twilight Ra ce 28th RSYS-J24 - World C'ship, Manly Circle 29th RSYS - J24 - World C'ship, Manly C ircle CYCA - MS13 Sydney- Newcastle 13icentennial Ra ce/Cruise

OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 79 13th CYCA - Hungerford Hill, Shore Offshore Ra ce MHYC - Inshore Race 22nd CYCA -Winter Series Regatta 10th CYCA - Three handed race to Li on Island 25 th RSYS - Annual Prizegiving (2 x 12 mile, 1 x 30 mile and 2 x short Haul Races) 16th RSYS - Sum Se ries: Dragon- Archie Robert son 28th RSYS - Winter Series MHYC - Ansctt Pro-Am Ladies Harbour Race Trophy MHYC - Winter Series 16th CYCA -Twilight Race (Lase) Hood 23S - Richard Connell y Memo ri al Trophy 29 th CYCA - Winter Series MHYC - Media Ra ce- Inshore CYCA - Shore Offshore Regacca (Royal C lub's 19th RSY S - Sum Series Trophy) (4 x 12 mile and 2 x Short H aul Races) JUNE MHYC- Inshore Race- C rews Race SOR-Heat 16 4th RSYS - Winter Series C YCA - Shore Offshore Regacca (Royal C lub's CYCA-Cruise, Sydney Harbour Venue 17th M HYC- Winter Series Trophy) (4 x 12 m ile and 2 x Short H aul Races) 20th RPEYC- Small Boat Regacca Moec C hampagne !OR Se ties & Half Ton Cup 23rd RSYS - Va runa Trophy Race MHYC- Sydney tO Mooloolaba Race (480 miles) 5th CYCA - Winter Series Squadron Cup (overnight) Pore Phillip, RMYS J 24- Pore Jackson C'ship 11th RSYS - Winter Series MHYC -Keith Graham T rophy Se ri es at Gosford 21st Stan Gibson M emorial Race. Port Phillip, HBYC MHYC - Winter Seri es Passage Race to Pittwater 26th RSYS - Sum Se ries 12th C YCA - Winter Series Easter C ruise Nissan Coral Sea Class ic: 18th RSYS - Winter Series CYCA - Short O cean Race Townsville-Cairns, 23rd April MHYC - Winter Series MHYC - Inshore Race Cairns-Port Mo resby, 4th M ay Moet Champagne !OR Seri es & Half Ton Cup 27th RSYS - Easter Cruise Port Moresby-Sam arai, 11th M ay 19th C YCA - Winter Series 28 th RSYS - Easter Cruise Samarai-Townsville, 25th M ay 25 th RSYS - Winter Series 29th RS VS-Easter Cruise 24th RSYS-J24- Pore Jackson C'ship MHYC- Winter Seri es 30th RSYS - Easter Cruise MHYC -Keith Graham Trophy Series at Gosford 26th C YCA - Winter Se ri es 31st RSY S - Easter Cruise Do uble header on Brisbane Waters CYCA - C ruise to Jervis Bay and Ulladull a 25 th RSYS-Trans Tasman Challenge Cup Series JULY 26th RSVS-Trans Tasman Challenge Cup Series 2nd RSY S - Winter Series April 27th RSVS-Trans Tasman Challenge Cup Series M H YC- Winter Series 1st RSYS - Easter Cruise 28th RSYS - Trans Tasman Challenge C up Series Moet C hampagne !OR Series & Half T on Cup CYCA - Cruise to Jervis Bav and U lladull a 29th RSYS -T rans Tasman Challenge Cup Series 3rd CYCA - Winter Se ries RSYS -Trans Tasman Challenge Cup Series Australian Airlines Brisbane-Gladstone, QCYC 30th 9th RSYS - Winter Se ries 2nd RSYS - Easter Cruise MHYC - Winter Series CYCA - Cruise to Jervis Bay and Ulladulla MAY 10th CYCA - Wimer Se ries RSYS - Winter Se ries MHYC - Womens Australian Sailing C'ship, 1st C YCA - Winter Ra cing Starts 16th M HYC - Winter Series Sydney Harbour -Heat 1 & 2 7th RSYS -E22 - Kopsen Cup T ea m s Ra cing Series Moet Champagne IOR Se ries & Half Ton Cup 3rd RSYS - Easter C ruise M HYC- Ladies Skippers Winter Race C YCA - Winter Series C YCA - C ruise to Jervis Bay and U ll adulla 8th C YCA - W inter Series 17th RSYS - Winter Series MHYC- Wo m ens Australian Sailing C'ship, 14th RSYS - 1988 Squadron Cruise 23rd MHYC - Winter Series Sydney Harbour H eat 3 & 4 MHYC- Winter Series C YCA - Winter Series 4th RSYS- Easter Cruise 15th RSYS - 1988 Squadron Cruise 24th RSYS - Winter Series CYCA - Cruise to Jervis Ba y and Ulladulla CYCA - Winter Series 30th MHYC- Winter Series MHYC - Womens Australian Sa iling C'ship, 16th RSYS- I 988 Squadron Cruise M oet C hampagne !OR Series & Half Ton Cup Sydney Harbour- Heat 5 17th RSYS - 1988 Squadron Cruise CYCA - Winter Se ri es 5th RSYS - Easter Cruise 18th RSYS - 1988 Squadron C ruise 31st CYCA - C ruise to Jervis Bay and U ll adulla 19th RSYS - 1988 Squadron Cruise AUGUST 6th RSYS - Easter C ruise 20th RSYS - 1988 Squadron Cruise CYCA - C r6ise co Jervis Bay and Ulladulla 6th RSYS - Winter Series 21st RSYS- 1988 Squadron Cruise A YF - Round Austral ian Bicentennial O cean Race 7th RSYS - Ea ster C ruise Winter Series Starts C YC A - Cruise to Jervis Ba y and Ulladull a Leg I Sydney - Mooloolaba M HYC- Winter Series CYCA - 1988 Sydney-Gold Corn Ra ce Scare 8th RSYS - Ea ster C ruise Bali Circuit, Frem anrle SC: CYCA - C ruise ro Jetvis Bay and Ulladulla 7th C YCA - Winter Series Frcman rl e-Bali - start s Ma y 21 13th RSYS - Winter Seties 8th- 17thHamilron Island Raceweek. Whitsunday Yacht Dampier-Bali - starts May 26 Club, Q ld Winter Series Dinner Dance Darwin-Bali - starts M ay 28 C YCA - 1988 Wimer Series Ends 9th RSYS - Easter C ruise 14th PACIFIC SAILING SCHOOL

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OFFSHORE - SUMMER 1987 - 81 Farr top designer in Admiral's Cup RUCE Farr, the innovative N ew Zealander who led the trend into B fractional-rigged, light displace­ ment ocean racing yachts in the mid- 1970s climaxed a brilliant design career when his One Tonner, Propaga nda, achieved the pres ti gious position of top individual yacht in the 1987 Admiral's Cup. Propagan da was one of six Farr designs racing in the smaller fl eet of 14 teams totalling 42 yachts - and four of them finishing in the top 10 in the pointscore at the end of the five-race series . Apart from Propaganda, Britain's Jamarella was second, New Zealand's Kiwi seventh and Australia's Swan Premium II 10th in the pointscore in an outstanding per­ formance by any one designer. This year 20 des igners were repre­ sented among the 42 yachts, the sa me THE New Zea landers are deadly number in the bigger fl eet of 1985 which seriou s about th eir Challenge fo r the saw the influx of the European designers America's Cup in 1988 with a 90joot with their li ght displacement, fr actional waterline super-maxi sloep and plan ri gged O ne Tonners. T hat significant to launch th eir challenger in February 1 trend towards a greater variety 'of yachts irrespective of th e outcome of the lega l continued this year, although there were wra ng lings before the New York no significant breakaway designs as Supreme Court. At left, boat-builders co mpl ete the wooden mould fo r the there were in 1985. 100joot-plus hull, and above, an T he changes in one decade of ocean artist's impression of ho w th e racing and the design of ocean racing sup er-maxi will co mpare with a yachts is underlined when one puts the 12- metre. fl eet of 1979 and 1987 side by side. In 1979, three designers, Doug Peterson, Ron Holland and German Frers were the crea tors of 82 per cent of the fl eet. In the 1987 fl ee t, with twice as many designers represented in a smaller fl eet, the bes t that any designer could achieve was Judel/Vrolijk with 17 per cent of the fl eet. The three top designers of 1979 could only offer one boat between them Bruce Farr with six designs, was the yacht Poli ce Car and this year he had in this year's C up line-up. next highes t represented des igner in this Swan Premium I, the Australian team N ew talent and new ideas are an year's Admiral's C up while Frenchman yacht, and two Irish tea m boats, J ameso n essiential to any design experi ence and Philippe Briand had four and Ed Dubois Whiskey and Irish Independence Full while no longer dee ply involved in IOR three. Interes tingly, Dubois is the only Pelt, the top Sardinia C up yacht of 1986. boats, the original triumvirate of 1979 designer who has been consistently rep­ Overall individual placings and points are still highly successful designers, both resented in the past five AC series . He for the top 10 yachts in the 1987 in and out of the IOR rule. German burst into prominence in 1979 with the Champag ne Mumm Admiral's C up Frers, in particular, has dominated the design of the Australian tea m winning were: maxi around-the-buoys fle et since 1979 and his lates t Kialoa V for Jim Kilroy Yacht Team Skipper Designer Rat. R1 R2 R3 R4 RS Pts won the Newport M axi Series. Propaganda NZ B. Wooley Farr 30.59 19 1 1 6 4 527 Frers has also des igned the new maxi Ja marella UK R. Pattisson Farr 30.54 14 2 4 24 3 497 Original Beckmann DEN P. Jes persen Jeppesen 34.51 1 12 14 9 12 457 for Australian Rod Muir being built by Plerjjerner McConag hy Boats in Sydney. This Sidew inder USA J. Bertrand Reichel/Pugh 34.99 3 20 5 2 14 452 yacht will not only have a fractional rig Irish Full Pelt IR E T. Power Dubois 30.49 13 15 18 21 9 427 but also a radical 12-metre style deck Goldcorp NZ R. Dodson Davidson 30.58 34 6 10 8 11 425 layout where 12 crew can be put on the Kiwi NZ P. Walker Farr 34.47 8 19 3 5 20 413 grinders , and a hull construction which Indulgence UK H . C udmore Andrieu 34.52 16 8 7 7 25 393 will produce a hull weight less than half Juno UK A. Hurst Humphreys 30.50 31 7 16 43 2 391 Fa rr 8 19 16 391 of the Kialoa 86. Swan Premium II AUSTG Appleby 30.55 25 9

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