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NorTel Sydney ♦ Offshore Hobart Race The Magazine of STILL THE GREATEST The Cruising Yacht Despite the economic recession, the 46th running of the Club of Australia world's greatest _ocean race has attracted 120 entries from all States, N ew Zealand, Hong Kong, Great Britain, with crews also trom Singapore, France and the UK ...... 8 FROM THE COMMODORES Les McClean (CYCA) and Picton Hay (RYCT) wish the sailors another great race to Constitution Dock...... 13 THE SPONSORS - NORTEL In their second year of sponsorship, NorTel makes a big impact on promoting the Sydney Hobart race and the new Asia Pacific Ocean Racing Championships ...... 15

Flag Officers and Directors NORTEL ASIA PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS Commodore: Les McClean Innovative new four-race series, with IOR and IMS divisions, Vice Commodore: Leigh Minehan level rating for One Tonners and Three-quarter Tonners, gets Rear Commodores: David Fuller strong support ...... 17 Maurice Cameron Treasurer: Colin Bloomfield BARFLIES' GUIDE TO THE RACING RULES Directon: Alan Brown, David Dunn, Donald Graham, Ross Marr, Gordon Marshall, Richard Robinson Tongue-in-cheek guide to the International Yacht Racing Secretary Manager: Peter Macmorran Rules as they apply to the Sydney Hobart ...... 20 Sailing Secretary: Bob Brenac Chairmen, Club Committees DOWN THE RHUMBLINE Management & Finance: Commodore Les McClean Editor Peter Campbell looks at the Sydney Hobart a decade House: Rear Commodore David Fuller ago ...... Yard & Marina: Director Maurice Cameron 22 Development: Rear Commodore David Fuller Membenhip: Director Donald Graham Protocol & Statutory Affairs: Director Donald Graham Publications: Director David Dunn Sailing: Vice Commodore Leigh Minehan Cruising Division: Director Richard Robinson Senior Safety Inspector: Director Ross Marr Ocean Youth Training: Rear Commodore Maurice Cameron Cruising Yacht Club of Australia New Beach Road, Darling Point, NSW 2077 Telephone: (02) 32 9731 . 0 (2.45 SPIRIT OF AUSTRALIA FOR SAN DIEGO Kay Cottee announces name oflain Murray's America's Cup challenger for San Diego - and helps raise funds ...... 53 BATON PASSING BOATS Range Rover Regatta to Middle Harbour team ...... 63 BOC CHALLENGE GUIDE Kanga Birtles becomes reluctant Aussie hero of first leg of BOC Challenge solo race around the world - plus complete SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS guide to the fl eet now heading for Sydney ...... 56 Thanks to all who make the NorTel Sydney Hobart The Great Race ...... 24 IMS-A YEAR ON Measurer Gordon Marshall reviews the progress of the IMS RETURN OF MIA MIA category in Australia ...... •""?. Famous old ketch returns as Radio Relay Vessel for 1991 and Digital tunes-up the computers for race communications . . 26 INTERNATIONAL OFFSHORE Reports on Sardinia Cup, International SO-Foot Regatta, US HIGH TECHNOLOGY ABOARD ROTHMANS America's Cup moves and plans for next Whitbread Race 112 Whitbread round-the-world maxi yacht Rothmans, from England, introduces new technology to ocean racing ...... 32 NEWS FROM ALL PORTS South Australians' bid for Nortel Sydney Hobart and other WHO'S HEADING FOR HOBART news ...... 125

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CONOMIC recession or not, the E NorTel Sydney Hobart is still THE RACE, the bluewater classic that each year brings yachtsmen and women from every corner of Australia and from many overseas countries to Sydney in late December. Despite gloomy fore­ casts, the Great Race has again attracted a superb fleet of ocean racing yachts, certainly one of the best international line-ups ever in a non-Southern Cross Cup year. The fleet includes many yachts which have represented Australia in interna­ tional competition, four past overall winners of the ocean classic and two past line honours winners. When entries closed on October 31 the fleet had reached exactly 100 T by the time late entries had been received by November 15 they had risen to 120. In the last non-Southern Cross Cup year, 1988, there were 119 starters with virtually no international entries. The Premier of New South Wales, Nick Greiner, will officially start the 1990 NorTel 46th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race at 1pm on Boxing Day, December 26. For the first time ever, the start will

EARLY morning sun rays spread over the deck as an ocean racer heads sou th , bringing promise ofgood winds in the dash to Hobart . This year's Nor Tel fleet of 119 entries has already produced keen competitici'n in pre-Hobart races as crews prepare themselves and their yachts for the hard race. · David Clare pictured these boats racing off Sydney, right,John Bleakley 's Matangi;far right, Colin Wilson's Never a Dull Moment; and top right, Bob Lawler's Firetel. be from onshore - the Premier will fire up-harbour with the front line between In addition to Young Endeavour, the a replica of an 18th cannon on Shark the north-west tip of Shark Island and Royal Australian Navy's patrol vessel, Island where sponsors NorTel will be Bradley's Head. The second line will be HMAS Fremantle, will lead the fleet entertaining some 500 guests in a carni­ laid 400m behind, with the Sail Training down harbour after the starting gun. val atmosphere. Ship, Young Endeavour, as the Official Every Australian State and Territory The starting line has also been moved Commi-ttee Boat. 1s represented in this year's fleet with

BELOW: The 1990 NorTel Sydney Hobart race is expected to see a repeat of last year's remarkable duel between the One Tonners Ultimate Challenge (Lou Abrahams, KA Sm 2)from Melbourne and Sagacious V (Gary Appleby, KA 4000) from Sydney . Ultimate Challenge narrowly won last year's race from Sagacious V. RIGHT: Hobart's Constitution Dock will again be haven for yachts at the end of the hard race from Sydney. (Pies - David Clare, Carlo Borlenghi).

international yachts or crews from Bri­ tain, Hong Kong, France, Singapore, the Soviet Union and, significantly, several from yachts from New Zealand, reviving transTasman competition. An incentive to international competi­ tion this year has come with the Cruis­ ing Yacht Club of Australia's innovative decision to introduce the NorTel Asia Pacific ocean racing championships for IOR and IMS rated yachts. In addition, Australian level rating championships have been revived for One Tonners and Three-quarter Tonners as part of this four-race regatta starting December 14 and including the NorTel Sydney­ Hobart. More than half the fleet has entered for the series, including all the international entries. This year, the fleet will be divided into three Classes for handicapping pur­ poses, with all yachts able to enter either IOR or IMS or both handicapping categories. The three handicap categor­ ies are: r .hc:c: ,. "r:r'lnrl Pr1v" r'ltPrTAru - tn be raced under IOR MkIIIA TCFs as launching in December 1989 has taken previously: line honours in the Pittwater-Coffs Har­ Class II: "Cruiser/Racer category - bour, Australian Airlines Brisbane­ for yachts which comply fully with the Gladstone and Jupiters Sydney-Gold "spirit and intent" of IMS, and using Coast races. IMS handicapping. dor had gear problems to finish fifth in Given hard northerly winds, Bobsled Class III : The "Racer/Cruiser" or the fleet. Drumbeat has been sold by Alan could outpace the maxis heading south "Minimal Accommodation Require­ Bond to a member of the New York under spinnaker. Her race skipper will ment" (MAR) category, for yachts Yacht Club following her success in be Andrew Short and the yacht has been which do not fully comply with the Hawaii. specially measured for the IMS handi­ "cruiser/racer" description, but whose All three maxis will be racing in the capping category. owners wish to race under IMS hand­ Asia Pacific Championships as a work­ Past IOR overall winners lining up icapping. up for the duel to Hobart - a big-boat again are Lou Abrahams' Dubois/Jutson One Tonner Ultimate Challenge (1989), Heading the 1990 NorTel Sydney­ spectacle to the lead-up racing. There is, as usual, a strong line-up of Gino and Nick Knezic's Davidsion 34 Hobart fleet is the British maxi yacht Illusion (1987), Tony Dunn's Ex-Tension Rothmans, which competed in the 1989- the 60-foot "maxi chasers", including (1986), Indian Paci.fie (1984) now owned 90 Whitbread Round-the-World race, Arthur Bloore's Hammer of Queensland by Victorian Stuart McDonald, and Jim finishing fourth overall and second from Brisbane (again with a French crew from Paris), Damien Parkes' Dunston's Currawong 30, Zeus II, placed sloop in the gruelling circum­ which won back in 1981. Apart •from navigation. She will be skippered by her Freight Train, which has had wins this these owners, other winning owner/ Whitbread captain, former America's year in the Caltex · Sydney-Mooloolaba skippers sailing again this year in their Cup helmsman Lawrie Smith, with (IOR), East-West Sydney-Whitsunday (line) and Chickadee Gosford-Lord latest boats include Peter Kurts (Made­ most of the same crew aboard, including line's Daughter), Gary Appleby (Saga­ several expat Australians now based in Howe Island (line) ocean races, and the famous Helsa/ II, now owned in Ade­ cious V) and John Eyles (Fujitsu Dealers) . the UK. laide by Keith Flint and line honours A repeat of last year's racelong duel The other two maxi yachts in the fleet winner of last year's Melbourne-Hobart between Ultimate Challenge and Saga­ are the veteran, former line honours race. cious, which saw them finish only winners, Condor, owned by grazier Also in with a new mast, is the fast minutes apart after 630 nautical miles, is Tony Paola and skippered by David Farr 65, Brindabella, owned by George certain to again be a highlight of the Kellett, and Ragamuffin, owned and Snow of Canberra. However, 'the most IOR division racing. So, too, will be the skippered by America's Cup challenger interesting of the "maxi chasers" is the close competition between the strong Syd Fischer. 66-footer Bobsled, Geoff Bush and Nick line-up of Davidson 36s, such as Fujitsu Condor, then owned by Bob Bell, Feros' ultra-light displacement boat or Dealers, Singapore Girl and Kings Cross, took line honours in 1986, while Fischer "sled". Designed by Kell Steinman of and the Davidson 34s, Chutzpah, Illu­ sailed Ragamuffin to victory in the 1988 Melbourne, Bobsled . has achieved re­ sion, Harbinger and the Steinman­ race. Last year Ragamuffin finished markably sustained planing speeds off designed 34-footer, Larrikin. second to the new Drumbeat while Con- the wind in fresh breezes and since her Singapore Girl is being sponsored by

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Tasmania in _Janu~ry . is the• . Rest· in secluded, bays, ~elax a.nd ' ' , mecca of Australian YacJlting. enjoy the natural beauty and ' ' Com~etitors in the three gr~at unspoiit lifestyle of ~his, 'tlie . . .. . I,• I ' ' • ocean _races gather with those mbst hospitable of hide-a.ways:·

0 who have just come .~o be ,part Whether you· cros~ the line fir~t . ,• '. . ,,.. ~ ' ... " of this mighty Tasmanian cir just cruise down for a relaxing maritime meeting. '?'reak, you'll be· the winner. ,, ·. When the celebration's· over For further information contact there's s0 much more to see and your Tra~el Agent or nearest do. Cruise the ~raggy:rnast line. Tasmanian Travel Centre now. Singapore Airlines and owner Peter Steigrad will have in his crew four of Singapore's top dinghy and keelboat sailors selected by the Singapore Yach­ ting Association. Apart from Rothmans, .l::lritain will be represented by the Spangle Luscious Syndicate headed by Peter Wheeler which has chartered Warren John Johns' Davidson One Tonner, Beyond Thunder­ dom e, which last year was a member of the winning British team in the South­ ern Cross C up, sailing as Canon Express. Sailing as helmsman under the British fl ag for the second time will be Beyond Thunderdome's regular steerer, Jamie Wilmot. Jamie stee red Heaven Ca n Wait which was also a member of the UK team last year. Expat Australian Stephen Ellis has shipped the former Australian yacht Sweet Caroline back to Australia for the Hobart after commissioning an exten­ sive optimising programme for the Dubois 44, a sistership to the topscoring British yacht of the 1973 Admiral's Cup. BACK again for the 1990 NorTel Sydn ey Hobart Ya cht Ra ce is the little Victorian sloop Sweet Caroline has a new Proctor fo ur­ Illusion, winn er of th e race in 1988 and an IOR division winn er again last year. Hobart spreader rig and a new elliptical keel photographer Richard Benn ett took this great picture of Illusion sa iling past Cape Raou l in Storm with a big bulb. All the internal hyd­ Bay , Tasmania . raulics were removed, the number of winches reduced from 12 to six with the three, the ACT two and the Northern Mirrabooka. John has sailed in 29 Syd­ use of jammers. "We saved 200016 in Territory one entry. , ney-Hobarts, the first back in 1947 weight," said Ellis. The Victorians will be looking for aboard the Hobart cutter Kintail. Sweet Caro line will compete in the their third successive !OR victory in the A much younger Tasmanian, Craig IMS division and will certainly be one of Hobart, with the two past winners Escott, is back again with the S&S 34, the favourites for the Class Ill IMS Ultimate Challenge (1989) and Illusion Solandra, which he owns in partnership category. (1988) joined by a strong line-up, in­ with his fa ther. Solandra, won its divi­ The Soviets are back again for the cluding Peter Grant's Westem Port Ven­ sions under the IMS ca tegory and the third year running, this time with the ture, skippered by international sailor Illingworth category handicaps and ear­ Leningrad-based Ariel which will be Ross Lloyd, and the other Davidson 34s, lier this year won both the !OR and IMS skippered in the Asia Pacific series and Chutzpah (B ru ce Taylor) and Harbinger divisions of the inaugural 960-nautical­ the Sydney-Hobart by Anatolij Komo­ (Barry Dean) and the recently launched mile East West Airlines Sydney­ valov. T he Peterson-designed 43-footer fas t lightweight Steinman 34, Larrikin Whitsundays Race. has won all USSR offshore cham­ (Bob Story). Back again also from Hobart is the pionships since its launching in 1982. top-performing !OR yacht last year, Ian Two-times HQbart race winner Lou New Zealand is back into the Sydney­ Smith's Farr 40, Sheraton Hobart which Abrahams, incidentall y, will be notch­ finished 15th overall and seventh in the Hobart in strength with four entries - ing up his 28 th race, 25 of those races Hijacker (Ray and Janice Lodge), La highl y competitive Division B. being as skipper of his own yacht. Moniqu e (Barry Brooks), Vendetta Veteran Adelaide yachtsman Josko Another veteran sailing again this year (Charles Reid) and Woo lly Jumper Grubic has again entered his 84-foot will be Tasmanian John Bennette in (Graeme Wood). ketch Anaconda II, with seven entries Vendetta, a Laurant Giles-designed 44- from South Australia - the strongest NEW South Wa les Premier N ick Grein er w/10 footer is a fast cruiser/racer which has fo r some years. Keith Flint elected to sail will start th e NorTel Sydn ey Hobart Yacht raced and cruised extensively from N ew Race, firing a cannon on Shark Island. in the West Coaster last year with H elsa / Zealand to the South-West Pacific. La II and took line honours from Mel­ Monique, a Holland-designed 12.Sm bourne to Hobart, but this year is sloop, was designed and built for the bringing the well performed 66-footer 1981 Admiral's Cup team trials in New back to Sydney, with Fred N eill as Zealand but was badly damaged in the sailing master. first ocean race when it hit a rock north In fac t, the race between the " maxi of Auckland. Since then La Mo niqu e has chasers" could be one of the highlights been used mostly for cruising. of the dash southwards, with Helsa / II, Hijacker is one of the excellent fast lining up against Arthur Bloore's Ham ­ cruiser/racers designed by John Lidgard mer of Queensland, the downwind flyer and should do well in the IMS division. Bobsled (Geoff Bush) from Sydney, Aus­ She won the 1988 TransT as man Cup tralian Maid Qon Wardill) from Darwin, race from Auckland to Mooloolaba. Damien Parkes' Freight Train from Syd­ Woo lly Jumper, another Kiwi entry in ney and George Snow's Brindabella, the IMS ca tegory, is a brand new racing for the ACT, with that fa mous custom-designed Holland 48 w hose sailor Graeme ("Frizzle") Freeman back owner Jim Wood has had extensive from Italy and aboard especially for the international experience, including con­ H obart race. testing the Hawaiian series. The NSW TAB will be running a N ew South Wales has the biggest Trifecta on line honours in the N orTel entry with 55 yachts, Victoria has 22, Sydney Hobart this year - so here are Tasmania 17, South Australia seven, my selections: Queensland four, Western Australia Rothmans - Condor - Bobsled. BRADLEY'S HEAD

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Cannon Start From Shark Island

HE Premier of NSW, N ick Grein­ atmosphere on · Shark Island and watch miles to seaward. T er, will start the 1990 N orTel Syd­ the Premier fi re the gun to send the fl ee t Spectator craft will be abl e to pass ney-Hobart Race by firing a replica of an on its way to Hobart. between the res tricted areas and Point 18th century cannon on Shark Island. T his will be the first time in its Piper and Bradley's Head to move down The two-line starting area will thus 46-year history that the ocean classic has harbour but will be contained behind move up Sydney Harbour to between been started from the land rather than a clearly des ignated lines . Shark Island and Bradley's Head fro m boat, with the Royal Australi an Navy From their starting lines, the yachts the Steel Point to Taylors Bay area used tra ditionall yproviding a vessel as the will race down harbour to round two for many years. The two lines will be offi cial starter's boat. separate marks laid to the north of South 400m apart, with ample manoeuvring While not firing the start gun, the Head. The frontline yachts will sa il room behind the lines towards Point Navy will continue its role, with the Sail around the northernmost mark to enable Piper and Clark Island. Training Ship, Young En deavo ur, on the backline yachts to make up fo r the More than 500 invited gues ts of the stati on as the second-line mark vessel , 400m difference between the fr ont and sponsors, NorTel, along with NorTel while HMAS Fremantle will lie ahead of backline yachts. After turning these clients and staff, will enj oy a ca rnival the lines and lead the fl eet down harbour marks, the entire fl eet will turn east to to the Heads once the sta rt gun is fired. round a seamark two miles off the Frema ntle will also be in a position to fir e Heads before turning south towards the recall gun if necessary. T as mania. Nortel Sydney Hobart Once again the Water Police and Once again, the C YC A will make Race 'lnforrnation Maritime Services Board, with assist­ only individual recall s, with normal fl ag ance fr om the Australian volunteer and sound signals. However, the recal­ HE phone numbers for public in­ Coas t Guard, will strictl y enfo rce spec­ led yachts will not be announced by T formation on the 1990 NorTel Syd­ tator control, with a restricted area for radio until 30 minutes after their start. ney Hobart Yacht Race are: racing yachts onl y extending fr om an As in recent years, yachts which are SYDNEY - Cruising Yacht Club of area between Shark Island, Point Piper involved in minor infringements of the Australia: (02) 362 3280. to the south, Shark Island in the Wes t racing rules will be able to exonerate HOBART - Royal Yacht Club of and Bradley's Head in the wqt right themselves by making 720 degree penal­ Tasmania: (002) 245 583. down the harbour and for two nauticaf ty turns once they clea red the mark. ~oRT~< ••u... ..,_., '':'"~~T__ ._ ' .[; l,J• U ~ ~ ------,

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Commodore: Les M cClea n HIS year marks the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's 46th annual Sydney-Hobart and our second year of association with race Vice Commodore: T Leigh Minehan sponsor NorTel Australia Pty Limited. This December also sees the Rear Commodores: start of the NorTel Asia Pacific Championships (to include the National Dav id Fuller Level Rating Championships) which we expect will become a major Maurice Cameron international regatta. Treasurer: The advent of!MS handicapping has provided more opportunities Colin Bloomfield for yachts to compete and encouraged the CYCA to start this biennial Directors: Alan Brown, David D unn, regatta for both !OR and IMS yachts. The fourth and final race of the Donald Graham, Ross Marr, NorTel Asia Pacific Championships will be the NorTel classic, so yachts racing to Hobart can Gordon M arshall , Richard ♦ Robinson. enjoy a challenging series leading up to Boxing Day. The NorTe l Sydney-Hobart is recognised as one of the world's great racing classics, but an Secretary Manager: Peter Macmorran event of such magnitude would not be possible without sponsorship and assistance from a Sailing Secretary: great number of people. The CYCA is indebted to Nor Tel for their sponsorship and the Bob Brenac personal support of the NorTel directors and staff as well as the encouragement we receive NorTel Sydney Hobart Yacht from Northern Telecom executives who travel to Australia to enjoy race festivities . Race Event Management This year Geoff Hammond is returning to the fleet with his 75 ' ketch Mia Mia which will be Committee: D avid Kell ett (C hairman), Leigh the radio relay vessel for the seventh time. Fuel is again being provided by Caltex Oil Minehan, David Fuller, Bob (Australia) Pty Ltd. Brenac, T ony Dowlin g, Greg Halls, Kendi Kell ett, Peter The club is also grateful to Digital Equipment Corporation for providing computer M acmorran, Phil Thompson, hardware and backup support for calculation of race reports and results and Australian H elen T ribe. Airlines for their support as official carrier. Race Committee: To the Royal Yacht Club ofTasmani~ and Commodore Picton Hay, thank you for your Greg H alls (Chairman), Leigh Minehan, Mike Fletcher, Rowan most enthusiastic assistance and we look forward to your fantastic welcome in Hobart. Johnston, Bill Cooper, Bob We are very grateful to our race starter this year, the Hon Nick Greiner MP, Premier of Brenac (Secretary) . NSW, who will fire the cannon from Shark Island. Jury: Sydney: N eville Whitty May I also thank all sailing committees, staff and volunteers for the tireless effort they have (Chairman), Lee Killingworth, made to make this ocean race the success it is and to all participating owners, skippers and John Ki rkjian . crew , for the dedication and skills they have devoted to the NorTel Sydney-Hobart. Hobart: Nevill e Whitty (C hairman), David Burton, Ray Les McClean, Batt. Commodore

The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania

Commodore-In-Chief: HE 1990 NorTel Sydney to Hobart Race will be a race to His Excellency The Governor, remember, not only for those competing in this blue water classic General Sir Phillip Bennett, T AC, KBE, DSO . but for their legion of supporters as well. In addition to the great work of Commodore Les McClean and Race Commodore: Picton Hay Committee Chairman David Kellett in Sydney, Race Director Rowan Johnston and his team have pulled out all stops to ensure the "Hobart Vice Commodore: Don Calvert End" more than compensates for the many disappointments caused by the pilots' dispute last year. Rear Commodore: Robert Badena ch The Marine Board of Hobart is constructing special walkways to give easier and safer access to the yachts. Hobart City Council has made available offices Race Director: Rohan Johnston overlooking Constitution Dock for our Sponsors, NorTel, and the Media Centre. Officer-Of-The-Day: NorTel has generously arranged additional space at Wrest Point Casino which will Brian Donald son accommodate all who wish to view Prize Night, and a wide range of public and private and Press Centre: entertainment and activities are planned. John Honeysett Members of The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania of course extend their usual warm Information Liaison Centre welcome and will provide that army of volunteers who contribute so much to this great -Dockside: Bob Laing event. Special recognition is given to them and also their hardworking counterparts at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Patrol Launch Officer: Michael Hocking To the owners and crews who are participating in this, the world's greatest and most Secretary/Manager: testing yacht race, I wish good luck and fair winds. John Gard Picton K. Hay, Commodore The Australian performance team ... II Moro DI Venezia, one of IMI Barlent the first 5 America's Cup oats that are all using Barlent winch systems. Also Stein/ager International Marine Industries (IMI), 2 (winner of Whitbread Around the World Race) used Barient a leading US manufacturer and distributor winches exclusively. of marine products throughout the world has purchased the winch business of Barlow Marine. The new company, IMI Barient Australia will provide a platform for the introduction of the world's most renowned marine products in deck hardware, gallery products and electronics along with a substantial commitment to the Australian marine manufacturing industry. -

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By Peter Campbell

Commodore Les McClean of the Crnising Ya cht Cl11b of Australia, right, and john T11cker, Director, Public Relations, NorTel A1.1stralia Pr y Ltd, hoist the NorTel Sydney H obart official race flag at th e CYCA in Sydney. (Pie - Peter Ca111pbell ).

' 'How much do you yachties get status of "The Hobart" as the most updated navigation equipment, the best for winning the Sydney­ professionall y organised, bes t promoted of safety gear, then a refurbishing of the Hobart Race?" is a ques tion often raised and most efficientl y and sa fe ly con­ boat, not to mention the cost of fl ying by the general public and uninformed ducted long ocean ya cht ra ce in the the fami ly or friends to Hobart for the media as their interes t in the Great world . apre-race fun . Ocean Race and its traditional Boxing The NorTel Sydney-Hobart is an So what do you get if you win line Day start from Sydney increases each event that has been organised and run honours, or first place overall under one December. successfully by a yacht club for yachts­ of the handicapping ca tegories , the In newspapers, magazines, on radio men for the past 45 years. That is the grand prix !OR or the new IMS ? The and television they learn of the race key facwr - the co mpetitors come first owner/skipper's name and that of his sponsorship and promotion, of the big in every decision. yacht engraved on a fine sil ver trophy - fleet, the maxi yachts entered, the over­ Of course, every owner competing in and he ca n't even take it home! seas crews fl ying in from Britain, Amer­ this year's NorTel Sydney-Hobart ra ce Unlike the M elbourne Cup, the major ica and Japan just to CQmpete in Austra­ w ill be out-of-pocket to the tune of trophies for the NorTel Sydney-Hobart lia's ocean class ic. thousa nds of doll ars by the time he are perpetual trophies (magnificent ones T here is no prize money for the Nor­ reaches Tasmania, and that is without at that) and the bes t the winning owners Tel Sydney-Hobart Yac ht Race - every the initial cost of the yacht. get to take home is a replica to place in doll ar received in sponsorship and in You budget fo r that w hen you enter their trophy ca binet. There is no f'ntrif'~ s:t o f'~ h ark into m ai ntai nin s:t the vour vacht for the Hobart - new sa il s. prize monev for winnine: the Svdnev- Hobart, nor for any of the traditional tradition and performance. It is an asso­ ocean races of the world, the Bermuda ciation that will help lift NorTel to its Race in the United States, the Fastnet in rightful place as a major supplier to the England. Australian market," Mr Baynes added. In these days of highly professional NorTel gets maxi mum advantage sports and sports promotion, with big­ received unprecedented overseas prom­ from its sponsorship. Not only does the money prizes and huge appearance otion, creating interes t throughout the company set up and man the NorTel money lures for the stars, the sport of world in the race. media centres in both Sydney and ocean yacht racing remains still truly Of particular significance this year has Hobart to supply race information to amateur for the yacht owner. A handful been the international promotion of the local and international media, it also of yachts may race this year under inaugural NorTel Asia Pacific Offshore takes the opportunity to involve its sponsored names, but with the excep­ Championships which, despite trying customers in the NorTel Sydney­ tion of the British-owned Rothmans, the economic times, have attracted boats Hobart activities. money they might get is negligible and and crews from Singapore, Hong Kong, The major client activity planned it all goes back into the boat, into new Japan, the Soviet Union, Great Britain around this year's race is a gala picnic sails, deck gear and so. and New Zealand, as well as all Austra­ day on Shark Island, at the southern end Yet sponsorship is vital to the Cruis­ lian States and Territories. of the start line. ing Yacht Club of Australia to maintain The NorTel Sydney-Hobart Race is More than 500 in vitation-only g,ues ts, the professional organisation, promo­ the major sponsorship undertaken out­ clients and staff will take advantage of tion and safe conduct of one of the side North America by the world com­ Shark Island's carnival atmosphere to world's greatest ocean races. Over the munications giant, Northern Telecom. watch the Premier of NSW, the Hon years since T AA (now Australian Air­ Going into its second race, NorTel, Nick Greiner, fire the start gun and send lines) became the first "name" sponsor the wholly owned subsidiary of the the NorTel fleet on its way to Hobart. of ocean yacht racing in Australia (and US$6.1 billion corporation Northern "The NorTel Sydney-Hobart is cer­ still is) the CYCA has been fortunate to Telecom, says the sponsorship is already tainly a tradition in Australia and the fact have excellent ongoing sponsors of the reaping the benefits expected when the that more than 300,000 spectators turn Sydney-Hobart. company announced the fo ur-year out on the harbour fores hores and many NorTel this year is in its second year sponsorship deal in July 1989. hundreds of thousands of others watch it of being the major sponsor of T he Great "We are more than happy with the live on television ranks it among the Ocean Race, a link with bluewater name recognition that thetNorTel Syd­ premier sporting events in this country. yachting that has been of great benefit ney Hobart has given the company here "NorTel is proud to be the sponsor of not only to the CYCA and yachtsmen and internationally," Group Vice Presi­ such a prestigious event, and I look who sail to Hobart, but certainly to dent of NorTel Pacific, Brian Baynes forward to continuing what has proved NorTel. said. to be a truly beneficial relationship with Through the company's global net­ " It has given the company an identity the Cruising Yacht Club," Mr Baynes work, the NorTel Sydney-Hobart has in this country associated with prestige, said.

Northern Telecom manufactures a Profile ofNorTel wide range of telecommunications equipment for telephone companies, Australia Pty Ltd private corporations, educational in­ stitutions, government agencies, hospit­ als, offices, and residences. Its products ORTHERN Telecom, the parent include telecommunications switching N company of NorTel Australia Pty and transmission systems, data com­ Limited, is the leading global supplier of munications networks, fibre optic cable fully digital telecommunications switch­ and equipment, wire and cable, tele­ ing systems, with more than 50 million phones, outside plant hardware, and lines of its Meridian business communi­ other equipmen t for public and private catins systems and DMS switching sys­ communications networks. tems in service in more than 80 coun­ To maintain its competitive advan­ tries. tage as a leader in the development and NorTel Australia Pty Limited, the application of digital and optoelectronic sponsor of the Sydney Hobart yacht technologies, Northern Telecom in­ race, is headquartered in Lane Cove in vested USS730 million, or 12 per cent of Sydney. It is the corporation's subsidi­ revenues, in research and development ary responsible for product develop­ in 1989. ment, marn.ifacturing, marketing, sales, Northern Telecom Limited is 53 per­ and service in Australia and New Zea­ tent owned by BCE In c., a management land. The company market~ the Meri­ holding corporation whose subsidiaries dian 1 business communications system, and associated companies include Bell data packet switching equipment, inter­ Canada, TransCanada Pipelines, Encor national gateway and other exchanges, Inc., BCE Mobile Communications, telephones and other Northern Telecom Brian Baynes , Group Vice-President of Nor­ Montreal Trustee, and Bell Canada products. Tel Pacific . International. The corporation employs more than Northern Telecom common shares 48 ,000 people throughout the world. It are listed on the Montreal, New York, operates 40 manufacturing plants in Bell-Northern Research Ltd, a subsidi­ Toronto, Vancouver, London and Canada, the United States, Malaysia, ary which operates R&D facilities in six Tokyo stock exchanges. Consolidated the Republic of Ireland, France, the locations: two in Canada, three in the 1989 revenues were US$6.1 billion. People's Republic of China, and Austra­ United States, one in the United King­ Over two-thirds of Northern Telecom's lia. Research ar;d_ deve~op_m_ent is con- dom, and one in Australia on Wollon- 1989 consolidated revenues were earned , T : ______: .. __ r ... NorTel Asia Pacific Championship

Innovative Regatta Attracts Big Fleet

SINGAPORE GIRL, th e we /1 -pe,fo rm ed Three-quarter Tonner which will be sailed by a joint Singaporean and Australian crew in th e inaugural N or Tel A sia Pacific offshore championship and in th e No rTel Sydn ey Hobart ocea n race . Th e yacht and th efo ur Singaporean s are being sponsored by Singapore Airlines. This picture by Richard Benn ett was taken during an earlier Sydn ey Hobart ra ce as th e Davidson 34 dash ed down th e East Coast of Tasmania .

H E C ruising Y acht C lub of representing Great Britain, Singapore, N orTel Southern Cross C up. She has T Australia's innovative move to H ong Kong, Japan, the Soviet Union again been chartered by a British team , introduce the NorT el Asia Pacifi c ocean and Japan as well as all Australian States. headed by Peter Wheeler. racing championship as part of the T h e original con cept h as been Also entered is Gary A ppleby's Sydney-Hobart build- up in the years extended to also include a revival of Admiral's C up yacht, Sagacious, w hich between the Southern Cross C up has level rating championships for One was a close runner-up to Ultimate proved an outstanding success event Tone and T hree-quarter Ton rated Challenge in last year's H obart race after before the first of the fo ur-race regatta. yachts. Overall the Asia Pacific series a remarkable downwind duel along the Of the 107 yachts entered fo r the has both !OR and IM S ca tegories . east coast of Tasmania. Venture 1 has NorTel Sydney-Hobart by the offi cial For example, in the One Ton C up been entered by M ax Ryan, who close of entries on O ctober 31 (late class entries include last year's NorTel campaiged his SO-fo oter C yclone so well entries were being accepted until Sydney-Hobart winner, Lo u Abrahams' in this year's Kenwood C up in Haw aii. November 15) , more than 50 were also Ultimate Challenge from Melbourne's O ther O ne T on C up championship entered in the N orTel Asia Pacific Sandringham Yacht C lub and Beyond entries are Bob Brady's well- perfo rmed championsh\ps. T hu nderdome which was a member of Farr 40, Prim e Factor from Sy,d_net;, ? ~ce Team), Chutzpah (B ruce Taylor, Vic), Illusion (Gino and Nick Knezic, Vic), Harbinger (Barry Dean, Vic) Relentless Oohn O'Brien, NSW) a nd the Steinmann-designed Larrikin/ Bob Storey, Vic) . The three maxis , Rothmans from Britain and the two Sydney SO-footers Condor and Ragamuffin, have also entered the NorTel Asia Pacific championships, to provide a spectacular round-the-cans preview of their three-way duel for line honours in the race to Hobart. So have several of the " pocket maxis" or maxi chasers, including George Snow's Brindabella , sailing for the ACT, and Geoffrey Bush's Bob s l e d , ♦ line honours winner of the last Jupiters Gold Coast race . One of the strong contenders for overall !OR honours in the Asia Pacific champion will be Peter Kurts' Farr 43 , Madeline 's Daug hter , with Kurts preparing for yet another strong bid to FOUR Singapo rians will sail aboard Singapore Girl in the NorTel A sia Pacific champ ionship win his third Hobart classic . and Sydney Hobart races . Pictured here with Singapore Ya chting A ssociation's S.H. Tan are, left Racing for the NorTel Asia Pacific to right, Siew Shaw Her (skipper), Ivan Tan and David Lee. Absent is Lincoln Ch ee. Their trip championship will start with a 75 to Australia an d Singapore Girl 's entry is being sponsored by Singapore Aidines . nautical-mile offshore race on Friday, Alan Breirty, and Western Port Venture, Tasmania will be repres'ented in the December 14, followed by two offshore owned by Peter Grant and skippered by One Ton C up championship by trianges over 25 nautical miles on Ross Lloyd. Lloyd, one of Victoria's S herato n Hobart, skippered by Ian Smith. December 16 and 22 . Final event of the most talented sailors, was aboard Illusion However , th e mo s t intense championship w ill be the NorTel when she won the 1988 Hobart and competition is ex pect ed in the Sydney-Hobart starting on December recently skippered the Japanese One Three-quarter Ton C up group, which 26. In the first three races, the level Tonner Blue N ote to victory in the includes the Davidson 34 sisterships, rating yachts will start five minutes Japan. S ingapo re G irl (Peter Steigrad/Singapore before two other !OR and IMS entries .

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I "' l I l " ,. ' I I I I I I / / / ·~ .. / - 2/ ' - --- if. ~· the competitors. For example, in a brisk each start mark w ith a number of bread. Or lodge a protest. Some can't be nor'easter will they be aware that rule 42 observers a.II of whom are in radio bothered and Leo's the result. Penalised; now allows the leeward boat to claim contact there is li ttle chance of escaping. not the dicky knee. room to pass the leeward start-line It is easy to misjudge in the melee of the Some lodge bodgie protests, but this mark. T he mouse in my head drew a start as a competitor. is not a protection as the jury can use the diagram . But here is the rub; the Committee facts as self incrimination and still penal­ T his was particularly interesting as if won't identify the premature starters ise. So the moral is no matter how slight the boats had not reached a position two until 20 minutes after the start. Which the contact and no matter whether the boat lengths from the mark then it was brings us back to Leo's comment. hull, sails , equipment or in Leo's case, not rule 42 but rather 40 which deter­ T he yacht broke the start but only by the crew, and any of the other bits mined how the leeward boat can luff a little. N evertheless she infringed. 20 connect the boat must exonerate or Even under this rule there are two minutes later her nam e was announced lodge a protest and face the jury. distinct steps in usin g the tactic it per­ over the radio. By this time she was Another feature of the race, for that mits. Yet all of this is to be carried out through the Heads. She turned back. As matter any sailing race at night, is that with fifty or more boats all manouevr­ she approached the line another boat the right to defend is not able to be used ing to start and "play" tactics them- was re-rounding as in the diagram . between sunset and sunrise. This arises because the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea apply to - the racing yachts. During day ljght -- --- hours a yacht may luff, that is alter its -- course toward the wind, as she pleases. Suddenly and without warning. It is a formidable tactic. I But at night, this is not the case. \ \ Often on the first night at sea the yachts are still in close contact. The Col regs, as I c.v. they are called, require a yacht which is being overtaken to hold its course. The I I overtaking yacht must keep clear. These little night rules can be the cause of .a I rude awakening for some. I Just then T'alls walked in. "G'day T 'ails," " 'lo Leo". \ "Long Tack hi there, I do declare you ...... / look the worse for wear. " ~ T'alls tended to talk like that. The sight of T'alls reminded me of another -- unique feature of the sailing documents as they apply to this race. Leo, who had P.M.S. suffered at the hands of T'alls many times, said "Jeez, you're tough on your percentage penalties" . " Ah, Leo don't be bum, tougher than others, better than some." He was right. selves. T he little mouse kept drawing. But what was .right? So she rounded In the Sydri.ey-Hobart race the Declara­ In 1, L can't luff any higher than her and restarted around the same track but tion Form has a special advantage for proper course at that time because W's thought better of it and made another those competitors that have an aversion helmsman is ahead of L's mast. But in 2, start with an englobo turn around the to jury service. The sailing kind, not the ·L can luff because the helmsman ofW is mark boat and the mark. By this time Sheriff kind. now behind that line. W must respond there were onl y the officials watching. A competitor may state on the Dec­ even if that would cause her to break the T here is still a lot of fun and action laration any breach of the rules. Under start line. After all, that's part of the behind the fl eet. Pity of it was that she the special regulations that apply to the reason to use that tactic. T he manoeuvre was correct in her first re-round. race such a breach so disclosed can be is further complicated if, as there always Leo's dicky knee reminded me of dealt with by the race committee and is, boats to weather of the boat that is another incident that hi ghlights what are not the jury. This Leo did not know in being luffe d. T hat's part of the aggres­ collisions? Yes, it reall y did happen that his celebrated case. The race committee sive fun of the Sydney Hobart start. Leo, in the anxiety of a Hobart start will invariably impose a percentage You see, if you ca n fo rce the other actually stuck out his leg and made penalty instead of disqualification. After boat over the line just before the start contact witli a boat to windward at the all, the competitors come a long way to gun the breaking boat is not permitted start in Sydney. compete. A DSQ can ruin an entire to dip back over the start line. Instead It's a long story, actually 600 miles Q LD. Yet this little rule is not under­ she must sail to either end of the start long, for though Leo's boat would have stood by most competitors as self pro­ line and sail around the end mark. won the race that little knee j erk was a tection. And this all is dealt with with­ Who ca res, you may think, but the collision within th e rules . T he boat was out a hearing. race has been won and lost aft er 600 penalised and lost the pres ti ge of claim­ I listened to my mates talk about the miles of sailing by mere minutes. Every ing first place. In fa ct, second was first, race. The aggressive competitiveness second in ocean racing is important as who was on first and what was on where a mate gives no quarter whether the boats time is multiplied by its second. friend or foe. There are rarely foes in handicap . In the hurly burly of the start there are sailing. Th1;: adversity of wave, wind Leo said, " I rem ember a race where rules to protect and penalise. Leo forgot and weather. Being wet. Being cold. one boat started three times," Long to use rule 68. 9 and ask the jury to Winning. Losing. Will the rules give Tack looked dubious. But Leo, as ever, dismiss the protes t. Leo did confide in them the prize or take it away. Perceiv­ was ri ght. It happened in 1989. It me some time later that he didn't know ing that special bond that only a race showed the importance of reading the the rule was there as it was the first year such as this builds in those who have unique features of the instructions of the it was in the book. No matter how competed. Whether friend or foe . ra ce. Any boat that breaks the line slight the contact a yacht must retire. Yet, if you asked any of them what before the start must go around the end T ~i s the,: rarely ~? ~s they d <:> 1;- 't know_ they thought of the race they would 1" 1 T'lTT' 1 1 1 Tassie Night Cocktails YDNEY skippers, and a few of us Snautical scribes, got a pre-taste of the good fare that Hobart will be offer­ ing the yachties when they reach Con­ stitution Dock and the waterfront pubs of Hobart, when Tourism Tasmania hosted a Tassie Night Cocktail Party at the CYCA. We enj oyed excellent Tasmanian wines from Heemskerk and Moorilla Estates as well as the yachties' favourite beer - Cascade. And as a special treat National Pies man and Hobart yachts­ man David Gough sent up some of his famous scallop pies for the night. At the end of the rhumbline it's a tradition to feast on N ational Pies at HE NorTel 46th annual Sydney to the converted 12-metre, Gretel, in her Constitution Dock, washing them T Hobart ocean race represents remarkable second place overall in 1980. down with some fine Cascade. But's another major sea-mil estone in the his­ With him again, aboard Condor in this well worth trying some of the fine tory of the Cruising Yacht Club of year's race, are Gretel crewmates Tony Tassie wines, not to mention the mag­ Australia in Sydney and the Royal Yacht Cable and Bruce Gould. nificent cheeses and smoked trout and Club of Tasmania in Hobart. Without Syd Fischer had a 10th that year with a salmon. Great noch! ques tion, the bluewater classic ranks as former and small er Ragarmiffir1, Peter Incidently, Tourism Tasmania has one of the great sporting fixtures on the Rysdyk is back with yet another boat donated a prize to a crew member Australian calendar, an event that cap­ ca ll ed Onya , and Peter Kurts is looking competing in this year's NorTel Sydney tures the attention of the nation as some for that elusive third overall win, again Hobart - a holiday for two back in 1200 yachtsmen, and a growing number skippering Made lin e's Da11ghter. Tassie, flying Australia Airlines and of yachtswomen, compete against each Tasmanian John Benne{to had one of staying at Village Resorts Northside other and the ever-changing Tasman Sea his few retirements in 1980; this year he Manor. The ca tch is that to be eligible to win that dash down the rhumbline. will be 30th race - his first was back in for the prize drew, your yacht's entry As that doyen of ocean racing Syd 1947 with Kintail. Also on the list again form and preliminary crew list had to be Fischer once remarked, "What else as skipper is Jim Dunstan with his little in the CYCA sailing office by October would you do on Boxing Day. " And Currawong 30, Ze11s II, which was 31. Syd is back with the fl eet once again, overall winner in 1981. That colourful notching up his 22nd Hobart, at the ocean racing skipper from Adelaide, Sailing Norseman helm of his veteran maxi, Ragamuffin. Josko Grubic, is back with his maxi Northwards As we sail into the 1990s, I've esti­ ketch Anaconda II for his 20th race. mated that some 25 ,000 men and Other crew fr om the race of 1980 ORMER Queensland yachtsman women have "Done a Hobart" as they sailing south again include Richard F Peter Howes dropped into my office say around the yacht clubs. Most have Hammond (Condor), Alby Mitchell (Oz recently carrying under his arm a fine been adults, but there have been crew as Ffre), Bernie Case (11/ 11sion) , Bill Ratclif­ painting he had done of a yacht called young as 14 sailing with . their fathers fe (Mercedes I V), Don Lang (Mark Norseman . Our man in Brisbane, Ian aboard family yachts. Over the 45 years Twain) and Col Betts (Condor) and no Grant, wrote of Norse ma n in since nine yachts se t sail fr om Sydney to doubt there are many more who will be OFFSHORE's April/M ay issue, which Hobart in 1945, some 2,600 yachts have heading for Hobart again on Boxing day attracted Peter's interest, as he sailed taken part, ranging in size from tiny 1990. aboard the 39-footer for eight years. 9.0-metre sloops such as Ze11s II with a Norseman was designed by Alex Wil­ crew of five to the massive maxis like son after his return from fl ying in World Dr11mb eat which last year had 26 aboard. 2 and built for him, not his brother Looking back a decade, to the 1980 Alan, who later built a similar yacht, race, one finds that the winner was a Viking. Norseman was designed by half­ young New Zealander named Peter model, and was the first yacht built in Blake, sailing the first of his maxis in Brisbane aft er the war. preparation for the Whitbread Race. "Norseman was not only an outstand­ Blake took out the double of line and ing ocean racer, but the topscorer with handicap honours but didn't win the the QCYC and RQYS around the Whitbread . Since then, Blake has won buoys," Peter recall ed as I admired his the Bicentennial race around Australia in painting. His rea l admiration, however, a trimaran named Stein /ager and the was for Alex Wilson. "He was a true 1989-90 Whitbread with the maxi ketch seaman, who sail ed with quiet profes­ also named Stein/ager. sionalist, inspiring confidence and de­ While many of 103-boat fleet of 1980 dication in his then young crew," said have gone to calmer seas, there are still a Peter. few of veterans line up again this year - "Although he would have had just Challenge II, Helsa / II, A 11 aconda II, Big cause many times during years of close Schott, •·Mercedes · I V and Mercedes V, racing, he never once raised his voice. Ze11s II, Bacardi, and Evely11 (now A11- Instead, he would give fatherly advice stra lian Maid). But many of the well and always with a smil e." known yachties of th e 1980s are still No rseman, as shown in our reproduc­ sailin ,~ in to the 1990s. tion of Peter Howes' painting, was 39 Lou Abrahams, who placed third feet in LOA, had a bea m of 12 feet, a overall that year and has since won two draft of 4 feet but 8 feet with the Hobarts with Challenge II and Ultimate centreboard down, was gaff rigged with rh11llPnnP i< h ark- oo-ain a< i< David a bowsprit of9 feet long. She carried sail The travel sickness treatment used by NASA astronauts in training and America's Cup sailors in action. There can be no tougher test for a travel effects, such as a dry mouth or drowsiness. sickness preve·ntative than sailing in an America's SCOP should not be used by expectant or Cup yacht race. nursing mothers, by children under 10 or by Just one SCOP adhesive patch applied people over 65. 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HE planning, organisation, con­ T ducting and promotion of interna­ tional events such as the NorTel Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and the new NorTel Asia Pacific Championships are expen­ sive undertakings for a club of amateur sportsmen and women w ho sail for the l9ve of the sport. Such a major event would not be possible without the efforts and excellence of the competitors and the many club members w ho give their time to make the race such a success . Nor would the race be possible in its current fo rm without race sponsor Nor­ Tel. NorTel Australia Pty Limited was sponsor for the first time las t yea r and brought great enthusiasm and energy to thei r vital role. The race also attracts support from other major co mpanies and this year Digital Equipment Corporati on (spon­ sor of the CYCA's winter racing) will supply all the computer hardware for processing race position reports and res ults. Australian Airlines co ntinues to sup­ port the club and the l'il.orTel Sydney Hobart by assisting wit!'l air fares fo r race personnel, fl yin g trophies from Sydney to Hobart and moving a moun­ tain of crew baggage to Hobart. Caltex w ill once again supply the fu el for the radio relay vessel and committee vessels for the NorTel Asia Pacific Championships and Geoff Hammond will supply this boat Mia Mia to act as Tiu fleet heads f or Hob art ... th e now prov en two- lin e starting lin e redu ces co nges ri on ra cking the Hobart fleet 's radio relay vessel. down Sydn ey Harb o11r, gives th e smaller boa ts clea rer wind. Boxing Day, 1990, will see th e sran The CYCA would also like to thank: line moved 11p-harbo111' to berwee, 1 Shark Island (rop left ha11d corn er of pie) a11d Bra dl ey's Head T he Hon Nick Greiner MP, Premier (n earest headland across th e harb our). ofNSW for attending on Boxing Day to ra ce by heli copter to produce ni ghtl y Marin e Laboratories provides ass istance fire the starting cannon. news bulletins. with C urrent C harts. T he Commmodore, members and MSB for assistance with the va ri ous The N orTel Media T eam of Helen staff of the Royal Yacht C lub of Tas­ necessary approvals and control of the Tribe, Cate Anderson, Sue Blood and mama. Port of Sydney. Jim Gale ensures the race ga in s maxi­ Codan, the supplier of radios for the For control of pectators at th e ra ce mum media exposure. Race Centre and the radio relay vessel. start, we thank the Australian Voluntee r Wooll ahra Municipal Council opens Nashua fo r supplying fax machines Coast Guard and the Roya l Volunteer Rushcutter Bay Park for cars. for the Race Centre and Media Centre Coastal Patrol and the NSW Water The C orpo ration of the City of and Rank Xerox for supplying two Poli ce w hile the Tasmanian Water Hobart will host a Lord Mayor's rece p­ photocopiers for the Media Centre. Police assist with spec tator control in ti on. The Marine Boa rd of Hobart gives OTC, the supplier of Yacht Corns Hobart. ass istance with docks and this year the phone line for the Race Centre. T he State Transit Authority resche­ Master Warden will host a reception. Hugh Burns w ho spends many long dules ferries to work around the race The C YC A receives invaluable assist­ hours working on the computer prog­ start. ance fro m the Governments of NSW ram and who also operates the computer The Royal Australian N avy makes the and T as mania and T ourism Tas mani a, during racing. Fremantle and You11g E11deavo 11 r available w hich hosted a Tass ie Night Cocktail Penta Comstat for assistance with the for the start. Party in O ctober fo r race co mpetitors. radio skeds and monitoring movements T he Sydney Maritime Museum pro­ Peter Campbell , Offshore editor, puts of the yachts on pre and post race vides the Boomera11g for the start lin e and in a grea t effort to produce this special delivery. John David provides his yacht Fo 11r race program iss ue of Offshore. ABC Television which will broadcast Seasons for the South H ead mark . There are hundreds of voluntee rs the start of the race and fo ll ow the entire Dr George C re swell of the CSIRO from the CYC A and the RY CT who M ade Holiday. Australian staff will only be happy to ass ist you at our temporary office. T he Airlines will also provide an baggage coll ection service to transport gear to the Royal Yacht Club of Tas­ mania where it will be available for collection. Australian Airlines is proud of its association with the NorTel Sydney­ H obart Yacht Race 1990 and looks forward to maintaining its high stan­ dards of service to all race participants in this true-blue ocean classic. As Official Carrier Australian Airlines wishes all entrants smooth sailing. Prize for First to Heads ART of the excitement of the Bo - P ing Day start of the Sydney Hobart is the dash-down the spectator-lined harbour and the wait to see which is the first boat to clear the Heads. First to the Heads is not a prize ca tegory, but has always been an unoffi­ cial race within the race, so to acknow­ ledge the tactical excellence of the first yacht to the heads, race sponsor NorTel will present a special prize - a case of French Champagne. Brian Baynes, M anaging Director and Group Vice President of N orTel Pacific Pry Ltd, will present the winning skip­ per and crew with the prize once the yacht ties up at Constitution Dock. TAB Betting On Sydney-Hobart HE winner of the grea t Sydney T H obart Yacht Race has always been a matter for great speculation between competitors and race followers and, for the first time, the public will be able to legall y bet on this year's NorTel Sy dney Hobart. The N SW Minister for Sport, Recrea­ tion and Racing, Mr Bob Rowland Smith, has approved the TAB extending its coverage to include this year's great ocean classic. work tirelessly supporting the NorTel Australian Airlines A full TAB betting service will be Sydney Hobart. These include the Race avail able at the Cruising Yacht Club on Management Committee, Rowan John­ USTRALIAN Airlines, as the offi­ Monday December 24 and Wednesday ston in Hobart, the starting, finishing A cial carrier for the NorTel Sydney­ December 26 so competitors, members and race officials, the plotting tea m led Hobart Yacht Race, is no stranger to the and guests can have a nautical " flutter". by Don Walker-Smith and Hamish world of yachting. As T AA, Australian T he TAB will conduct a trifecta pool, Greive in Sydney and John Honeysett in Airlines was the first commercial spon­ known as "SportsT AB", on the race for Hobart. sor of the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race Line Honours. To be successful, it will and has since had a long and close be necessary to select the first three In Sydney Jenny May organises a association with T he Cruising Yacht yachts across the line in correct finishing team to handle the thousands of phone Club of Australi a and its various Yach­ order. Cost of a wager will be $1.00 (o r enquiries and Kendi Kellett has a highly ting Events. efficient clothing sales team selling race more of course) and it is likely a good Prior to and on race day, crew, divident will be paid. souvenir clothes. back-up teams, famil y, fri ends and sup­ Announcing the TAB's involvement Safety Inspectors inspect the yachts porters will be able to arrange transport with race, the Minister said, "This move prior to the event and many CYCA down to Hobart through our temporary to allow betting on the N orTel Sydney members kindly move their boats from office which will be erected at the Hobart falls into line with betting which the marina to accommodate visiting ra ce Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. already takes place on other major sport­ yachts. T he Liaison Officers assist with Australian can provide you with bag­ ing events. attending the Information Centre and in gage and equipment transport, not to "We anticipate total wagers of about Hobart Bob Laing runs the Liaison mention our instant confirmation of $100,000 on the race. " Centre at Constitution Dock. bookings through our computer linked T he 1990 NorTel Sydney Hobart is And finally , the CYCA and office and reservations systems. You may wish to the first occasion the TAB has operated yard staff work tirelessly to promote the make alterations to your booking, on a yachting event and it has done so smooth running of the NorTel Sydney purchase or alter a ticket or perhaps you because of the huge public interest in the Hobart. may wish to book a post-race Australian bluewater classic. THESTART -LIVE ACROSS AUSTRALIA

BC television will cover the start of A the 1990 NorTel Sydney-Hobart Mia Mia Race live across Australia as part of an ongoing coverage of the ocean classic. The telecast times on Boxing D ay, December 26, will be: Capital cities - 12.30-1.45pm. Returns as Country areas - 12.55-1.40pm (dur­ ing cricket lunch break). Throughout the race there will be nightly news reports on ABC TV news with race updates around 9.30pm on December 26, 27, 28 and 29, with a Radio Relay Ship coverage fr om H obart of the finish. Gordon Bray, who sailed to Hobart several times aboard the Sydney-Hobart radio relay vessel, will host the coverage MONG the many and rather of the start along with Glenn Bourke, A varied craft that have accompanied the three-time world Laser champion, the Sydney-H obart fl eet on their 630 and helmsman las t year of Madelaine's nautical miles as Radio Relay Ship, one Daughter in the NorTel Southern Cross of the more fa mous has been the auxili­ regatta. ary steel ketch Mia M ia, owned and Steve Rolilliard will present the race skippered by veteran cruising yachts­ updates each evening. man Geoff Hammond. \ The ABC has es tablished a tradition of having a camera on a competing yacht and this year Willie Brewer sets By Peter Campbell sail on his seventh ra ce for ABC Sport, and his second aboard the maxi yacht, Condor of Curabubula. T he shots from Mia M ia, which firs t did duty as RRS Condor and from the ABC helicopter in 1965, is back again this year as the will feature in the start coverage as well Caltex Radio Relay Ship fo r the N orTel as the N ews reports and Race Updates Sydney H obart. In all , Geoff has skip­ as the yachts head towards Hobart. pered the yacht six times as RRS - For a comprehensive coverage of the 1965, 1966, 1973, 1976 and 1977 and has start the ABC will use 10 ca meras, once again made the 75-footer available placed on Shark Island, ,around South to the C ruising Yacht Club of Austra li a. Head and on the water. In her time as RRS, and during her The ABC ca mera tea m will also be extensive cruises, M ia M ia and Geoff GEOFF Hammond, ownedskipper of the out on the water during the lead-up Hammond have fi gured in a number of Radio Relay Vesse l, Mia Mia, retu rns to a role races to shoot profiles of yachts, skip­ dramas at sea, including the rescue of a which he last f ulfilled in 1977. (Pie - Peter pers and crews competing in the NorTel group of marooned sea men from a coral Campbell ). Sydney-H obart. island. Mickl eborough in his Tasmanian sloop In between and since then, M ia M ia Southerl y, who happened to pull into has logged well over 200,000 sea miles, Eden, where Geoff had been fi shing. taking her to almost every part of the " O ver a few rums in So utherly's saloon, Western Pacific, across the Indian Ocean he convinced me the new boat had to ABC Radio to the Wes t Coast of Africa, to South have sails - so M ia M ia became an Asia and Japan. She has even actually auxiliary ketch," Hammond recalled re­ Race Coverage started (albeit slowly) as a co mpetitor in cently at the C YCA. O X ING Day Breakfas t program: a yacht race - this year's inaugura l East T he result was the launching in 1965 B The ABC is considering repeating Wes t Airlines race from Sydney to the of the Steel Auxiliary Ketch M ia M ia , the highly successful breakfast program Whitsundays . Unfortunately, sail dam­ 75 ft in LOA, a bea m of 18ft , drawing broadcast live fr om the C YC A. age forced Hammond to retire from that 7. 5ft with a displacement of about 80 The start: the lead up to and start of ra ce, but she motored northwards to tonnes. Her power was, and still is, a the N orTel Sydney Hobart will be complete the course. single L3B 6-cylinder Gardner Diesel covered by a four-man on-air tea m of Mia Mia (Aboriginal for dwelling) which has since then logged 16, 000 Peter Longman, Peter. Wilkins, Jim was built in Melbourne fo r long-range hours. Maxwell and Steve Adams. cruising under sail and motor by Ham­ M ia Mia is comfortably set up with an Steve Adams will cover the race from mond to pursue his interes t in marine enclosed wheelhouse, with navigation Sydney then from Hobart with regul ar biology. Her designer was Ted Slater, and radi o equipment, and a semi­ news updates, sport reports and race who had been a leading yachtsman in enclosed second wheelhouse, with a stories throughout general program­ Victoria fo r many yea rs and had de­ helmsman's hatch opening above the ming. signed a number 9f marine research wheel. For'ard of the main wheelhouse On the Grandstand sports program vessels for the CSIR O. is the main saloon and ga ll ey, with fi ve on Sunday December 30, two ABC Originall y, Hammond had planned a sleeping ca bins fo re and aft below. radio reporters will fil e fro m Constitu­ motor vessel fo r his long-range cruising, She is completely set-up with the tion Dock with stories and interviews marine biology and game fi shing plans. latest sa tellite navigation, incl uding a and news of end of race celebrations. That is, until he met yachts man Don GPS system, and with ra dio. For the Sydney Hobart, the CYCA will add a put the body ashore and later continued powerful back-up Codan. in the race - the last event of the In a fresh breeze on beam reach, Mia Southern Cross Cup that year." Mia can really tramp along - on one voyage back from Middleton Reef to Newcastle she logged an average 10 knots - an average 240 miles a day - under full sail. Cruising speed under power is 8 knots. "Under full sails - they were cut by Keith Brown - she carries genoa, staysail, mainsail and miz­ zen," said Hammond. For the NorTel Sydney Hobart race, Mia Mia will have a crew of six plus four CYCA representatives, including the CYCA chief radio operator Lew Carter. After last year's race, Carter received the inaugural TWT Thompson Memorial A ward for Seamanship for his search and rescue co-ordinating role in the Flying Colours dismasting incident and the death of crewman Peter Taylor. At the CYCA, preparing for the 1990 Sydney Hobart, Hammond recalled the enjoyment and excitement he has had out of owning and sailing Mia Mia over a quarter of a century. Apart from being skipper and a skil­ full navigator, he has cooked every meal co-ordinated the search when a crew The Auxiliary Steel Ketch Mia Mia, owned aboard Mia Mia since it was launched - member of the Italian Navy yacht Cor­ by Geoff Hammond from Bermagui on the "That's why they call me Captain sarp was flicked overboard jl\St after the NSW South Coast, which returns this year as Cook," he quipped. "No-one has com­ morning sked," he recalled. "We had Radio Relay Ship for the NorTel Sydney plained - or been game to!" just plotted the positions of the fleet and Hobart Race. (Pie - Peter Campbell). Game fishing has always been one of were able to immediately order the Geoff's great pastimes. Under Game nearest yachts into a search pattern. He Fishing Association of Australia rules he was found and picked up after an hour in Once again Mia Mia, as Radio Relay has landed a 1200 pounds shark, in the the water and finished the race on Ship, is being fuelled with diesel by Bay of Pines in New Caledonia, and an another yacht." Caltex, continuing a long tradition of 800 pounds marlin off Cairns. " I've In another race, Hammond made a support by Caltex for the Sydney­ fished all through the Pacific and the hazardous midnight transfer in rough Hobart. Indian Ocean and in Australian coastal seas of a doctor from Mia Mia to the Which prompted Geoff Hammond to waters, but now I catch only enough to New Zealand yacht, Inca, to treat a recall that when he launched Mia Mia he eat that day," he stressed. young crew member who had collapsed could buy diesel fuel for the equivalent Mia Mia and Geoff Hammond have with a suspected heart attack. "The of 4.5 cents a litre and later, after figured in a number of sea dramas, doctor called us back within 15 minutes cruising to Singapore, bought it for 2.5c including several incidents when the b_ig to say the man was dead and we later a litre. The current price is around 80c a ketch was RRS for the Hobart race. "We escorted Inca into .Jervis Bay where they litre.

ter usmg the latest RISC technology (Reduced Instruction Set Computing). Digital N etvvork For Dedicated telephone lines go from the Centre to the CYCA and RYCT, with a local telephone link between the RYCT Race Cotntnunications and Consitution Dock. This allows in­ formation to flow via the computer to NGOING race results for the 1990 and lmked to the Royal Yacht Club of all sites. O NorTel Sydney-Hobart Race will Tasmania (RYCT) by dedicated tele­ At each of the three locations, a be calculated this year with technology phone lines. number of computer terminals and prin­ that is at least twice as fast as any system During negotiations, Digital prop­ ters are placed for a variety of functions previously used by the race organisers. osed that a powerful computer be cen­ - to provide race results (which can Digital Equipment Corporation has trally located at its Computer Manage­ also be printed out), for the media to extended its involvement in the ment Centre at Chatswood (NSW) since make their own enquiries, and to access CYCA's Winter Series by providing a the Centre's 24-hour seven days a week software for support. completely new computer hardware support would ensure race organiser At the CYCA, three terminals are also platform and communications network continual access to information. In the dedicated to operators answering tele­ for the NorTel Sydney-Hobart Race and event of any computer hardware prob­ phone enquiries from the public regard­ Asia Pacific Championships. lems, the Centre can switch operation of ing yachts' positions in the NorTel The new system offers faster response the race software on to another compu­ Sydney-Hobart. times to enquiries, a 24-hour, seven days ter and do it with continued access to The new communications system will a week support program, as well as an race information. be available for the NorTel Asia Pacific ability to switch to a range of support The CYCA, RYCT, and NorTel Ocean Racing Championships held on computers if necessary. Media Centre at Constitution Dock in December 14, 16, 22, and culminating in The System Hobart will all be linked into the com­ one of the great international contests Previously, race organisers had a munications network being run by a for ocean racers, the NorTel Sydney­ small computer located at the CYCA Digital System 5400 Supermini compu- Hobart Race on December 26. 442Master

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By Peter Campbell

HREE maxi yachts have entered for line honours, representing the latest T for the 1990 NorTel Sydney­ state-of-the-art in maxi yacht design and Hobart ,Race - Sydney-based past line · construction. honours winners Condor and Ragamuffin While the rugged 630 nautical miles of and the British entry Rothmans - but the Sydney-Hobart· have certainly interest will certainly centre this year on proved a match for past high-tech maxi Rothmans. entrants, Condor in 1984 and Windward The 1989-90 Whitbread round-the­ Passage II in 1988, Rothmans came world race competitor is a firm favourite through 33,000 nautical miles of boat

MAXI yacht Rothmans sails through specta­ tor fleet at start of one of the Whitbread round the world legs and, above, a more relaxed moment at the helm far from the maddening crowds. Below, cutaway shows deck layout and accommodation below of Rothmans, built spe­ cially for the Whitbread round-the-world race, in which she finished fourth. (Pies - Roth­ mans Yachting). THE CAMPERDOWN CELLARS-YALUMBA SYDNEY TO HOBART CELEBRATORY DOZEN As supporters of David Adams ' BOC Round the World Challenge, 1987 Heggies Cabernet Sauvlgnon Yalumba have a keen interest in the yachting world. To celebrate the This is a medium to full bodied cabernet for early drinking. Bags of ripe fruit Sydney to Hobart Race, Camperdown Cellars has chosen a special with a silky smooth finish. selection from their excellent portfolio. A toast to summer and the open Yalum~a 10 Year Old Tawny Port seas. For $150 you can have this carefully chosen dozen delivered This is a real Tawny Port in the traditional sense. Great balance of spirit and anywhere in Australia (even a boat mooring) fruit without the cloying sweetness of many so called Tawny Ports . The wines we have selected cover a wide range of varieties, including the fantastic Yalumba D Champagne. r--iaui~uPi,iiowitii-uii~--, PO Box 125 Camperclown NSW 2050 The dozen consists of one each of the following: 1989 Heggies Rhine RJesllng Telephone (02)5 I 6 4466 or Fax (02) 5 I 7 2238 The older classic styleriesling. Intense floral aroma with limey citrus flavours. Good potential to age. Please send me ...... dozen of the Sydney Hobart dozen at $150 1988 Heggtes Botrytls RJesllng 375ml each (including freight) Total amount of order$ ...... Rich medium weight sticky with apricot and almond flavours. 1987 Pewsey Vale Cabernet Sauvlgnon Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms ...... A light aromatic cabernet sauvignon with leafy mint overtones. Address ...... 1988 Yalumba Galway Hermitage Soft medium bodied shiraz with fine tannin. A great wine for drinking ...... P/c ...... with red meats. Yalumba Brut Champagne Telephone ...... Fax ...... A special bottling for Camperdown Cellars, this sparkling wine received Delivery instructions ...... 17/20 in the Sydney Morning Herald's own-brand champagne comparison. 1989 RJddoch Fume Blanc A clean, crisp Coonawarra fume blanc, without being over-wooded. The oak gives it a smokey aromatic flavour. I enclose my cheque/money order made payable to Camperdown 1987 RJddoch Cabernet Shiraz This is a wonderful, fresh medium-bodied red with an intense aroma Cellars OR please debit my O Bankcard O Mastercard O Visa redolent of violets and fresh coffee.The wine shows good berry flavours. 1989 Katnook Sauvlgnon Blanc 0 Amex O Diners . Expiry date ...... /...... /...... This is probably the most famous of the Katnook range. Spicy gooseberry flavours without the harsh acid of many sauvignon blancs. ~~ □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ 1989 Yalumba D Champagne This is Yalumba 's premium champagne. Yalumba D has that full toasty Card holder's name ...... flavour of a top quality champagne. 1988 Hanging Rock Wood Matured Semlllon Signature ...... - ...... In a short space of time John Ellis from Hanging Rock has gained the Offer closes 31 December 1990 or while stocks last respect of the wine drinking world. The wood aged semillon is an outstanding wine. Full bodied white with a honey spice finish. Delivery within 21 days. and body-breaking weather in the Whit­ With the two New Zealand ketches, bread with relatively little damage. Stein/ager II and Fisher and Paykel, domi­ She finished fourth overall and second nating the Whitbread Race from the sloop in the fl eet and since then has start at Southampton on September 2, notched a record-breaking line and IOR 1989, Rothmans battled for nine months win in the Round Ireland Race fo ll owed with her closest rival, the Swiss sloop by wins in maxi yacht regattas in the Merit, fo r third place. M editerranean. On the first leg to Punta de! Es te, Rothmans will be skippered by her Uruguay, Rothmans lost a day to Merit Whitbread Race captain, former Amer­ due to a tacti cal error. T he British crew ica's Cup helmsman, Olympian and was determined to regain the lead fro m World champion Lawrie smith. Most of Swiss skipper Pierre Fehlmann and had the members of the racing crew will be their chance at the end of the second leg. those who sailed with him in the Whit­ Arriving off Fremantle, Rothmans and bread. M erit were neck and neck in a match­ In addition to contes ting the 630- racing duel to the finish, with Rothmans nautical-mile Sydney-hobart classic, crossing seconds ahead and treating ea r­ Rothmans will race in the lead-up inau­ ly morning spectators to a demonstra­ gural Asia Pacific offshore cham­ tion of Lawrie Smith's Ameri ca's Cµ p pionship in Sydney in D ecember. racing skills. With Alan Bond's Drumbea t, line hon­ At the end of the third leg, Rothm ans ours winner last year, sold to an Amer­ BRITISH yachtsma n Lawrie Smith who 1.11 ill and Merit were once again match-racing ican owner, Rothmans' only rivals for the skipper Rothmans in th e No rTe l Sydney to the finish when a sudden squall gun will be the veteran Australian­ Hoba rt. Sm ith is a former world champion, damaged Rothmans headboard ca r and owned maxis, Tony Paola's Condor and Olympic sailor and America 's Cup helmsman , and skippered th e max i in the Whitbread the crew were fo rced to drop the main­ Syd . Fischer's Ragam uffin. rou nd-the-wo rld ra ce. sail, giving Merit the advantage across The last time a British-registered the line. yacht took line honours in the Sydney­ wea ther the very worst in the Whit­ Returning to Punta de! Este on the Hobart was in 1969 when Max Aitken's bread. fourth leg, Rothmans proved her super­ 62-footer C rusade led the 75-boat fl eet to M onocoque construction incorpo­ iority in Southern O cean conditions, Hobart. That was a vintage year fo r the rates the stiffening matrix V( ithin the keeping up with the ketches and ahead British -Ted Heath won the race on hull laminate rather than incorporating of Merit . It was only on the approach to corrected time with his S&S 34, Mo rn ing large numbers of bulky ring fr ames and Fort Lauderdale that the ketches re­ Cloud, and the British team won the structural bulkheads which more con­ gained the lead. Southern Cross Cup. ventional designs employ. Rothmans developed rig problems on While Rothmans will be sailed by a To achieve the designed strength, the second day out on the sixth and final largel y British crew, several key roles Rothmans hull laminate fea tures a leg back to Southampton. After going aboard will be fill ed by expatriate Aus­ 50mm thick foa m core which is covered into South Caroline for repairs, Roth­ tralians living in the UK, including inside and out with exotic high-tech mans set sail in pursuit of the fl eet, former Adelaide yachtsm an Kym laminates , a mixture of ca rbon fibre and climbing back to fo urth place at the (" Shag") Morton, David Po w ys, Kevlar, as well as conventional glass fini sh of the great ra ce around the formerly from Lake M acquarie and N eil fib re. world. Graham from Sydney. T he deck is a Nomex laminate. T he Rothmans' programme in Australia is All three were members oLthe Whit­ unidirectional loadings that are infli cted to race in the N orTel Asia Pacifi c bread crew and for the Australian ca m­ on the deck structure, together with the championships, the N orTel Sydney­ paign Morton . will skipper the yacht in lack of fl exural and impact loadings, Hobart and the King of the Derwent non-racing events and be first m ate in made this light material particularly before returning to Sydney for prom­ the ra cing. Morton is one of the great viable for the design conce pt of Roth ­ otional sailing. She will then go to Hong " characters" of yachting but apart from mans. Kong to compete in a seri es there before his international sailing he has hitch­ T he builders were Paragon Compo­ returning to England with the crew hiked around Africa, lived in a tree sites of Totnes, England and Rothmans using her as a promoti onal and training house in Mombasa and has been in­ has a Sparcraft mas t and boom, with yacht until the new Rothmans II fo r the volved in a proj ect in the Antarctic. sails by N orth sails UK. 1994-95 Whitbread Race is launched. For Powys the race represents his second chance to be on a Hobart winner - he was aboard the N ewcastl e One Tonner Pi cco lo when it took IO R hand­ icap honours in 1976. Graham was part ROTHMANS of the design tea m of Rothmans as well SPECIFICATIONS as a key member of the Whitbread crew. He has also competed in four Admiral's Designer: Robert Humphreys Yacht Sails: Mainsail 2, 000 sq.ft. , Genoa 1,800 Cups. Design Ltd., Lymington, England. sq.ft ., Spinnaker 4,000 sq.ft . Sail ward­ Designed by English naval architect robe of approximately 20 sails fo r each Rob Humphreys in conjunction with SP Builder: Paragon Composites Ltd, leg. Systems, Rothmans' hull/deck structure Totnes, England. Sailmaker: North Sails UK Ltd Fare­ of monocoque construction was de­ ham, England. Dimensions: Length 80', Width/ bea m veloped specificall y to withstand the Rig: Aluminium mast and boom by 19', Draft 13', M as t Height 110'. gruelling Whitbread Race. Sparcraft (Europe) Ltd, Lymington, IOR Rating: 70ft. SP Systems' chief structural enginee r, England, Cobalt rigging by Riggarna Giovanni Belgrano, was res ponsible fo r Hull: Composite sa ndwich comprised Rigging Ltd Lymington, England. calculating the complex loadings ex­ mainly of ca rbon fi bre Kevlar epoxy Electronics: Communica tions equip­ pected in such a demanding race, includ­ resin, N omex and Divinycel foa m. ment, SSB radio and portable back up ing laminate design and general structu­ Keel: Lead keel m ade by Irons VHF radio, Emergency receiver, ral integrity. Brothers, Wadebridge, England. N avigation, Radar, W eather Fa x, The result was a hull of minimum Engine: Perkins 135hp. Brookes & Gatehouse H ercules Instru­ weight, immensel y stiff, and with a Generator: Yanmar 2GM20 FW gener­ ment system GPS, transit, Loran, Decca sufficientlv lare: e safetv mare:in to ator. navigation systems. 1990 NORTEL SYDNEY- Fleet Sail

Sall No Yacht Name State/ LOA Launch Owner Designer Country Metres Date KAC1 BRINDABELLA ACT 19.6 1990 G. SNOW FARR SM2 ULTIMATE CHALLENGE VIC 12.2 1987 L.ABRAHAMS DUBOIS B2 ZUMDISH VIC 9.02 1990 H. HERTZBERG HICK R2 EINSTEIN VIC 9.08 1990 S. & C. PURTELL ANDRIEU OYC6 SIR THOMAS SOPWITH NSW 22.0 1974 OCEAN YOUTH CLUB CLARK C7 BYZANCE NSW 12.2 1971 D. SAUNDERS S&S 7 HAMMER OF QUEENSLAND OLD 20.4 1987 A. BLOORE STEINMAN AS MIRRABOOKA TAS 14.3 1987 J. & P. BENNETTO FRERS MH9 FUJITSU DEALERS NSW 10.9 1986 J. EYLES DAVIDSON B10 ARIANE VIC 13.1 1986 G. GJERGJA COLE WP10 WESTERN PORT VENTURE VIC 12.1 1987 P. GRANT DUBOIS RQ12 LIGHTWAVE OLD 11 .9 1990 B. ASHENDEN SCHAUMACHER M16 OZ FIRE NSW 13.7 1990 D.COULTER MUMMERY B23 KINGURRA VIC 13.1 1972 P. JOUBERT JOUBERT S29 SUREFOOT VIC 11.6 1981 D. MILLIKAN NORLIN B32 HARBINGER VIC 10.2 1988 B. DEAN DAVI DSON R33 CHUTZPAH VIC 10.2 1988 B. TAYLOR DAVIDSON L41 SUELAN SA 12.3 1985 J. BUCKLAND LEXCEN KA48 ANACONDA II SA 25.0 1975 J. GRUBIC BUCHANAN A50 FIRETEL NSW 9.9 1982 R. LAWLER CARTER A55 SOLANDRA TAS 10.1 1984 R. & C. ESCOTT S&S 63 ONYA NSW 12.2 1986 P. RYSDYK FRERS MH68 STAR FERRY NSW 11 .3 1980 J. CONROY DAVIDSON KA70 RAGAMUFFIN NSW 24.1 1969 S. FISCHER FRERS S75 ARIADNE II TAS 12.0 1974 R. MICHELL RICHARDS PR77 TURKEY CONNECTION WA 11 .9 1986 D. FROST S&S B78 LARRIKIN VIC 10.3 1989 A. STORY STEINMAN S79 INSATIABLE VIC 12.1 1985 G. & J. WILSON VAN DE STADT KB80 CONDOR NSW 24.5 1981 A. PAOLA HOLLAND SM80 ILLUSION VIC 10.2 1988 G. KNEZIC DAVIDSON MH80 RUFF N TUMBLE NSW 13.2 1982 L. ROSE COLE SA93 HELSALII SA 20.0 1979 K. FLINT ADAMS A94 MORNING TIDE NSW 10.0 1975 J. LAWLER S&S SA98 RENEGADE SA 12.2 1981 R. FRANCIS HOLLAND K100 ROTHMANS UK 24.3 1989 L. SMITH HUMPHREYS 101 OVERDRAFT OLD 12.4 1984 D. SMITH GREEN MH106 IMPECCABLE NSW 10.2 1980 J. WALKER PETERSON R106 NORTHERN SECURITIES TAS 10.1 1982 A. LATHAM VAN DE STADT A113 MARK TWAIN NSW 11 .8 1971 V. O'NEILL S&S B126 NUZULU NSW 9.6 1985 E. PSALTIS STEINMAN 169 YARRINDI Il l TAS 10.0 1983 F. BINNS ADAMS A194 EMMA NSW 11 .2 1977 M. DEBURCA DUNCANSON SA221 GAMBOL SA 12.2 1984 W. GRYST DUNCANSON B233 GUM BLOSSOM VIC 9.23 1971 T. GUNNERSEN JOUBERT M236 NEW HORIZONS NSW 11 .2 1985 M. KELAHER DAVIDSON 262 HELSAL Ill TAS 20.1 1984 J. WETHEIMER ADAMS MH267 GROUP THERAPY NSW 14.5 1980 A. CHALK HOLLAND 272 TERENCEJ TAS 13.8 1983 K. RATCLIFFE RATCLIFFE G300 NIMROD II VIC 11.6 1979 I.WATSON FARR S321 AGGRO VIC 12.0 1984 S. COLLIS ADAMS 327 ZEUS II NSW 9.2 1979 J. DUNSTAN JOUBERT SM377 BACARDI VIC 13.4 1979 G. AINLEY & J. WILLIAMS PETERSON 393 INCH BY WINCH NSW 13.4 1980 J. GODDARD PETERSON 481 WILD HONEY OLD 12.1 1989 I. GRIFFITHS SAYER SA500 THUNDER SA 14.3 1987 B. STEVENS STEVENS 550 DRY WHITE TAS 12.2 1984 D. LEITCH VAN DER STADT R551 CASHFLOW VIC 10.9 1987 G. ROWLAND WHITING F611 ONCE A JOLLY SWAGMAN WA 12.1 1987 A. BRIERTY DAVIDSON 621 KINGS CROSS SYDNEY NSW 10.9 1985 A. STONE DAVIDSON

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Sall No YachtNama State/ LOA Launch Owner Designer Country Metres Date 630 SOUTHERN VENTURE TAS 9.9 1981 A. GRICE KAUFMAN 777 TRADITION TAS 12.1 1984 D.GOUGH CREESE 933 LEROY BROWN NSW 10.2 1985 W. WIECKMANN DAVIDSON KA950 VENTURE ONE NSW 11 .9 1985 M. RYAN FREAS 1030 TREVASSA NSW 14.6 1971 F. DUFFIELD MUIR TYC1147 TURKEY SHOOT TAS 12.2 1982 A. HUTTON HOLLAND KH1180 SWEET CAROLINE HK 13.3 1982 R. ELLIS DUBOIS 1224 MERCEDES IV NSW 12.7 1974 P. STRONACH KAUFMAN 1317 MARARA NSW 10.3 1972 A. RATCLIFF S&S 1957 ARIEL USSR 13.1 1981 SERGES GANICHEV PETERSON 1979 VENDETTA NZ 13.4 1976 C. REID LAURENT GILES 2111 BIG SCHOTT NSW 12.4 1976 P. BUSH PETERSON 2140 MERCEDESV NSW 12.6 1977 G. BARKER KAUFMAN 2354 VENINDE Ill NSW 10.2 1982 F. WALKER DUBOIS SM2418 SCORPIO II VIC 10.4 1976 M. HALLER BLACKBURN 2557 WITCHDOCTOR NSW 12.8 1979 THE RUM CONSORTIUM DAVI DSON KA3000 MADELINE'S DAUGHTER NSW 13.2 1986 P. KURTS FARR 3060 THIRLMERE NSW 11 .2 1978 S.GREEN PETERSON 3075 WESTERLY TAS 10.0 1980 W. MILLS COMPASS 3105 DOCTOR WHO TAS 15.2 1983 A.JACKMAN DAVI DSON 3325 LA MONIQUE NZ 12.8 1980 B.BROOKS HOLLAND 3663 TOO IMPETUOUS NSW 12.8 1983 R. STEEL HOLLAND BKA3695 INOIAN PACIFIC VIC 12.2 1983 S. McDONALD FARR 3807 ALEXANDER OF CRESWELL NSW 10.9 1984 DEPT OF DEFENCE SWARBRICK 3809 LADY PENRHYN OF NIRIMBA NSW 10.9 1984 DEPT OF DEFENCE (NAVY) SWARBR ICK 3838 JACK GUY NSW 11 .6 1984 G. KETELBEY KAUFFMAN YC3880 MORE IMAGINATION SA 9.4 1982 T. NICHOLAS FARR KA4000 SAGACIOUS NSW 12.0 1987 G.APPLEBY FARR SM4000 SAGACIOUS II VIC 13.0 1981 P. JACKA COLE 4040 NADIA IV ACT 12.1 1983 T. DALTON FARR 4048 SINGAPORE GIRL S'PORE 10.2 1985 P. STEIGRAD DAVIDSON 4100 AUSTRALIAN MAID NT 16.7 1980 J. WAROILL CASSIDY 4117 SHERATON HOBART TAS 12.2 1985 I.SMITH FARR 4168 ANDURIL NSW 11.1 1981 D.KENNEDY DUBOIS 4182 UPTOWN GIRL NSW 12.5 1977 R. WINTON PETERSON 4208 DOW AIR NSW 11.4 1988 FARR LAP SYNDICATE FARR 4214 EXTENSION NSW 10.9 1986 T. DUNN DAVIDSON 84233 COTTON BLOSSOM II VIC 16.7 1980 E. BARRON FARR 4490 HYPERDRIVE NSW 13.4 1986 J. CLARK ADAMS 4499 THE ROPERUNNER TAS 12.1 1979 M.WARD FARR 4525 CONTINENTAL NSW 12.8 1988 M.CHAMPION JARKAN 4682 EMERALD CITY NSW 14.0 1989 R. BREADMAN KAUFFMAN 4715 NEVER A DULL MOMENT NSW 12.5 1989 C. WILSON JARKAN 4727 EAGLE NSW 13.8 1981 J. BOYS COLE 4782 RELENTLESS NSW 10.1 1989 J. O'BRIEN DAVIDSON 4803 ITS A HIT NSW 9.4 1982 J. MESSENGER DUBOIS 4860 FIRST LIGHT NSW 11.8 1985 B. MOUNTFORD NELSON MAREK 4882 STAND ASIDE NSW 12.2 1990 B. CONROY YOUNG 4988 PRIME FACTOR NSW 12.2 1987 R. BRADY FARR 5222 FREIGHT TRAIN NSW 18.8 1983 O.PARKES FREAS 5339 CHALLENGE 11 NSW 13.9 1979 J. DALEY S&S 5350 MATANGI NSW 11 .5 1989 J. BLEAKLEY FREAS 5444 BOBSLED NSW 20.2 1990 G. BUSH/N. FEROS STEINMAN KA5500 BEYOND THUNDEROOME UK 12.2 1987 P. WHEELER & I. HORNSBY DAVIDSON 5508 HIJACKER NZ 13.5 1984 J. LODGE LIDGARD 5850 HAUPIA NSW 10.6 1983 T. JOHNSTON JOHNSTONE 6383 WOOLY JUMPTER NZ 13.5 1988 G. WOOD HOLLAND 6705 RATTLE ANO HUM JAPAN 12.0 1989 N. KISH IMOTO MUIR KZ6717 FUTURE SHOCK NZ 17.0 1988 I. MARGAN ELLIOTT 8888 AMAZON NSW 20.7 1990 P. WALKER STEINMAN

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AGGRO (0) - S 321 LOA 12.0m; IMSRATING Designer:Joe Adams (Aust) ARIADNE II (1)- S 75 Type: Adams 12. Year Built: 1984 LOA 11.96m; IMS RATING Owner/Skipper: Stephen Collis Designer: Ray Richards (US) C lub: Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, Vic. Type: Offshore 39. Year Built: 1974 After competing in fo ur Melbourne tO Ho bart West Owner/Skipper: Robin Michell Coaster races, Stephen Collis is bringin g Aggro around the Club: Royal Yacht C lub of Tasmania, Tas. coast fo r the NorTel Sydney Hobart. She won the 1988 This cruiser/ race r sailed in a Sydney Hobart race as an Melbourne-Ho bart race under Pe rfo rmance handicaps but Army entry in 1982 and the 39-footer's onl y other major for the Sydney H obart this year has been measured fo r an long ocean race was the Melbourne-Hobart in 1976. Her IMS handicap. Her perfor mance could influence the present owner has used this Hong Kong-built yacht fo r development of IMS in Victoria. w hich has been the extensive local racing and cruising out of Hobart. slowest State to measure its yachts ro this handicap Crew: R. Mi chell (S kippe r), G. Turner (Nav igator), R. system. Michell , G. Turner, B. Cooley, P. Hulme (2), P. Read CREW: S. Collis (Skipper), Holroyd, J. (Navigator) (2), (Sailing Master), (3), J. Savage, I. Stewart, L. Watts. S. Collis, J. Holroyd (2), D. Biers, C. Clapp, J. Donati (2), D. Rizzo li , J. Schiavro, M . Thompson, M . Wol­ fenden.

ARIANE (0) - B 10 ALEXANDER OF CRESWELL (5) -3807 LOA 13 .25m; IMS RATING LOA 11.lm; IORRATING Designer: Peter Cole (Aust) Designer: Kim Swarbrick (Aust) Type: Cole 43. Year Built: 1986 Type: S 111 . Year Built: 1984 Owner/Skipper: Giorgio Gjergja Owner/Skipper: Royal Austulian Navy Club: Royal Brighton Yacht C lub, Vic. Club: Royal AustraJian Navy Sailing Association, NSW. First Sydney Hobart fo r this little- raced Cole 43 from Mel bourne. Des igned t 7 years ago. this fa st cruise r/ ra cer One of five St 11 sloops used by the N avy to train j unior design continues to do well , with yachts like Fo1vl Pla y personnel in basic sailing and sea awa reness skills, from Cosford being placed under !O R in the recent race to Alexander is named after one of the First Fleet ships used to Lord Howe Island. transport convicts to Austraia. She retired from las t yea r's Crew: G. Gjergj a (Skipper), A. Pult on (Navigator) (3), Sydney Hobart. A. Cornice. P. Dakcs hott (4), B. Faggctter, E. Gj ergja, K. Crew: R. Shcl vcrton, C. Shute, J. Wheeler. Halstead (7) (Co-ski pper), R. Kenery.

ARIEL (0) - SR 1957 LOA 13.25m; !OR RATING AMAZON (0) - 8888 Designer: Doug Peterson (USA) LOA 20. 7m; IMS RA TING Type: Two Tonner. Year Built: 1981 D esigner: Kell Steinman (Aust) Owner/Skipper: Oleg Kiaer and Serges Ganichev. Type: Pocket maxi. Year Built: 1990 C lub: Kirovskii Zavod, Leningrad, USSR. Owner/Skipper: Peter Walker For the third year, the Sydney Hobart ha s attracted an Club: Cruising Yacht Club of AustraJia, NSW. entry from the U SS R, the previous yachts coming from Owner Peter Walker is confident that Amazon w ill be Vladivostok. This is the first entry fro m Leningrad an d is launchd in mid-December in time for a late preparation fo r well-perfo rmed Peterson designed sloop which ha s won the NorTcl Sydney Hobart. Amazo11 is ;i, ULDB si milar to all offshore races in the USSR cham pionships since bein g the proven fl yer, Bobsled, buc sli ghtly bigger, he;i.v iker and lau nched in 1982. Her crew arc well experienced in cnrying more sail area. She has J WhJles par mast, Hood offshore racing and the entry marks the USSR's expand­ sail s and is being completed by to p boatbuilder John ing interest in yachting outside of the O lympic classes. McConag hy at Mon;i, Vale, NSW. Crew: S. Canichev (S kippe r), A. Konovalov (S kipper), V. Boev. S. Ceraski n. M. ludin . N. Kargopolov. 0 . Kiaer, G. Scepanov, A. Tarenenlo, S. Volgin, V. Zajcev.

AUSTRALIAN MAID (6)- 4100 ANACONDA II (13)- KA 48 LOA 16.79m; IMS/IOR RATING LOA 25.4m; IOR RATING Designer:Jack Cassidy (Aust) Designer: A lan Buchanan (UK) Type: Pocket maxi. Year Built: 1980 Type: Maxi kitch. Year Built: 1975 Owner/Skipper:John Wardill Owner/Skipper:Josko Grubic C lub: Darwin Sailing Club, NT. C lub: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Contesting her 7th Sydney Hobart, Australian Maid The largest yacht in the 0ee t, buc ce rtainl y not the fastest, (formerl y Evel yn), achi eved her best res uh with a fo urth At1aco11da 11 has been sa iled owner Grubic in long ocean under !O R in her inaugural race back in 1980. Last year races from Sydney to Dover (UK). Pl ymouth (UK) to owner John Wardill sa iled her into 15th pl ace and since Perth in the Parmclia Ra ce, Sydney to Ri o, Sydney-Fiji, then has continued his extensive ca mpaigning in bluewater Sydney-N oumea and in 13 Sydney-Ho bart s while the events around th coast of Australi an . into the Pa cifi c and in 65-yea r-old Crubic has sailed in 23 1-l obarts. Although races co In donesia. In all , 25,000 nautica l miles ha ve passed SA-based, Anaconda II is racing under the burgee of the under her keel in 18 months, at the sa me time teac h some CYCA this year.Crew: J . Grubic (Skipper). C. C'Annc, 70 crew t0 sail ;i, pocket ma xi. 0 . Hase n. Crew: J. Wardill (Skipper), W. C luff. M. Rijkuris.

BACARDI (9) - Sm 377 ANDURIL (2)- 4186 LOA 13.39m; !OR RA TING LOA 11.27m; !OR RA TING Designer: Doug Peterson (USA) Designer: Ed Dubois (UK) Type: Peterson 44. Year Built: 1979 Type: Older one tonner. Year Built: 1981 Owner/ Skipper: Graeme Ainley/J ohn Williams Owner/Skipper: David Kennedy Club: Sandringham Yacht Club, Vic. Club: Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, NSW. Ba ca rdi has contes ted nine Sydney Hobart races sin ce 1980, Designed to the previous O ne T on rule and originall y also win nin g a Melbourne-Hobart and continues to w in named Bim blegumbie, A11d11 ril has been extensively mod­ races. So far in 1990 she has won the C hannel di vision of ifi ed over the winter of 1990, with ScottJurson designing a the O RCV w inter series and the Sandringham Yacht new keel , rudder, ri g an d deck layout in associati on with C lub's winter pursui t se ries. In the 1990 Petersvill e saili ng master Ron Jacobs. Her perfor mances so fa r thi s Regatta, the veteran sloop won race fi ve and placed 3rd_ in season have encouraged owner/skipper David Kennedy to the series on Channel handicaps. Barn rdi also placed third head south on lioxing Day. division of 1989 Brisbane-Gladstone race. Crew: D. Kenn edy (Skipper), P. Ga le (4), M.Green (10), Crew: G. Ainley (Skipper/ Navigator) (9). J. Wi ll iams (9), R.Jacobs (8), S. Kennedy, 13 . Smit h (I), J. Sta rl ing. A. Barker. S. Charles. I. Court (8). T. Cris pen (5). C. Disney. D. Guinan (4). J. Sa mmon. D. Schmidt. A. Tinda ll (8). T HE F L E ET F O R HOBART 1 9 9 0

CASH FLOW (0) - R 551 BEYOND THUNDERDOME(l)- KA 5500 LOA 10.97m ; IMSRATING LOA 12.2m; !OR RA TING Designer: Paul Whiting (NZ) Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: Whiting 36. Year Built: 1987 Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1987 Owner/Skipper: Greg Rowland Owner/Skipper: Peter Wheeler/Ian Hornsby Club: Royal Yacht C lub of Victoria, Vic. Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Owned by a syndicate, Cashj101v was designed by the la te This well-perfo rmed yacht has been chartered by the Paul Whiting who was lost in a return voyage to New Spangle Luscious Syndicate, o rganised in the U K by Mar_k Zealand after a Sydney-Hobart, but his boats li ve on. Beeson, w ho is bringing the bulk of the crew to Austr~ha Caslifloiv will be saili ng its fi rst Hobart ra ce with an for a months preparation and tO contest_ the Australi an experienced crew headed by Greg Rowland, Andrew One Ton series. As Ca11011 Express, this y:1cht was a member of the w in ning U K tea m in last yea r's NorTcl Sharp and Alan Latta, all ve terans of many long ocean races. Southern Cross Cup, fi ni shi ng fo urth in _t he Sydncy­ Crew: G. Rowland (S kipper). A. Sharp (Na vigator), R. Hoban . Helmsman Jamie Wil mer stays wuh the boat, Adai r, A. Eagle, A. La tta, M. Peters, J. Staples. w hich was also a member of the winning 1988 Kenwood Cup tea m .

BIG SCHOTT (8)-2111 CHALLENGE ll (5) - 5339 LOA 12.53m; !OR/IMS RATING LOA: 14.02m) Class: IMS Designer: Doug Peterson (USA} Designer: Sparkman & Stephens (USA) Type: Older Two Tonner. Year Built: 1976 Type: S&S 46. Year built: 1979 Owner/ Skipper: Peter Bush Owner/Skipper: Jim Daley C lub: Cruising Yacht Club of A ustralia. NSW. Club: Cruising Yacht Club of A ustralia, NSW. Built in the US 14 years ago, Big Schott raced in tl~e Winner of the 1983 Sydney Hobart un der IO R ratings, C lipper Cup in Hawa ii and is still a strong contender 111 Challenge I I last yea r made a grea t comeba ck to win the any race - pa rtic ul arly in fresh co nditions. Best recent inaugural race using the new IMS handicapping category. perfo rmance was winning the lllingworth Division B of IM S ha s been introduced by the C YC A to encourage older the 1989 Sydney to Mooloolaba race. Now also rated and out-designed IOR boats such as Challenge II and under IM S. purpose-bu il t cruise rs/ race rs back into offshore racing. In Crew: P. Bush (S kipper) (9), P. Hopwood (Navigator) Sydney alone the 100th ocea n race r will be measured by (10), M . Eaton (2). P. Grain ger (5), A. La ng (3), N. C hristmas. Challenge II ha s not raced sin ce las t summer. Robcrcs (1). P. T ay lor (5), J. Wardell (5), P. Wi lli ams (1).

BOBSLED (0) - 5444 CHUTZPAH (2) - R33 LOA 20.12m; IMS RA TING LOA 10.2m; IORRATING Designer: Kell Steinman (Aust) D esigner : Laurie Davidson (NZ ) .., Type: ULDB "Sled". Year Built: 1989 Type: Davidson 34. Year Built: 1988 Owner/ Skipper: Geoffrey Bush & Nick Feros Owner/Skipper: Bruce Taylor Club: Cruising Yacht C lub of A ustralia, NSW. C lub: Royal Yacht C lub of Victoria, Victoria. First Sydney-Hobart race fo r this spectacul arl y fast down­ This is the second Davidson 34 owned by Bruce Tay lor­ win d Oyer whic h in just one yea r of racing has tak en li ne he won hi s division in 1987 with the previous Clwt zpah, honours in the Sydney-Gold Coast, Brisbane-G ladstone now racing as Leroy Broum. The new Clrnt zpah is a and Pittwater to CofTs Harbour races. This will be the first sistcrship to lf/usion, wi nner of the 1988 Sydncy-Hoba rt ­ race southward for Bobsled, with the owners having the Chutz pal, had tO retire that yea r withrigging problems. boar speciall y measu red to compete under the IM S Illu sion and Chutzpah continue to race closel y toge ther. hand1 capping category. Her chance could come in a hard las t yea r finishing fi rst fi rst and second in their divisions. downwin d race when she should surf her way to Hob:\rt. Also co ntestin g Australian Threequarcer Ton cha m­ Crew: A. Short (S kip per) (4), G. Bus h (Naviga tor) (1). P. pionship. Barber. P. Doncllcy (6). M. Fcl bcrg (1), N . Fcros, G. Crew: B. Taylor (S kipper) (10). C. Eva ns (Navigator), S. Johnston (5), P. Lawson (3), S. Mason, P. Mo ll er (2), I. _ C larke (2). G. Gourlay (4), J. Pcrmczcl (1). K. Pi cssc (5). Short (5). M. Short (4). G. Vaughan (2), B. Wadic (3), J. • D. Recs (3). D. Taylor (4). Woodhouse (3).

BRINDABELLA (0) - KA C 1 CONDOR (4)- KB 80 LOA 19.61m; !OR/ IMS RA TING LOA 24.5m; IOR RA TING Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Designer: Ron Holland (Ireland) Type: Pocket m axi. Year Built: 1989 Type: Maxi sloop. Year Built: 1982 Owner/Skipper : George Snow Owner/Skipper: Tony Paola C lub: Canberra Ocean Racing Club, ACT. C lub: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. NSW. While thi s is the first Hobart fo r Brindabella, thi s custom Condor rook line honours in the I 986 Sydney-Hobart fo r designed Far r 62 has represented Australia in the China Sea her previous owner, making a comeback last yea r Se ri es in Hong and sa il ed in the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii, whichsaw her 5th across the lin e after sail problems. Since un fo rtunately losing her mast in the third race. Al though then, sa il ing mas ter Dav id Kell ett has sailed her to line Brindabe f/ a is still vri tuall y untried, she ha s shown good honours in the 1990 Sydney-Mooloolaba ra ce. turns of speed and will be one of the fro nt-runners to Crew: T . Paola (S kipper) (1), R. Hammond (N avigator) Hobart. Owner George Snow previously raced Doctor (3 1). J. Ak acich (1), C. Betts (28). T . Cable (25), B. WJ,o with success. C aroll. L. Davidson (10). D. Ellis (10), J. Gibson. B. Crew: G. Snow (S ki pper) (7), I. Potter Navigator (12), S. Goul d (2 5). D. Johnson (14), D. Kel lett (sailing master) Byron (1), R. Dalgleish (6), R. Denning, S. Fli tcroft (7). (17), J. Mag ui re (10). T. Paola. S. Runow (4), M. G. F,cc man (15), J. Gillott (I). T . Hca rdcr (11) , J. Shi lli ngton (I). G. Simmer (5), P. Smi th, C. St,auss (15) . Henderson (1). N . Kearney (1), A. Parks (4), G. Rogers C. Tipncy (10). N . Vi da l (7). C. Wi ldman (23). T. (5), H. Van Krctschmar (8). Wi ldman. J. Woodford (12).

CONTINENTAL (I) - 4525 LOA 12.73m ; IMS RATING BYZANCE (0)- C 7 Designer:John King (Aust) LOA 12.20m ; IMS RATING Type:Jarkan 12.25. Year Built: 1988 Designer: Sparkman & Stephens (USA) Owner/Skipper: Mike Champion Type: Swan 40. Year Built: 1971 C lub: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. NSW. Owner/Skipper: David Saunders C lub: Royal Sydney Yacth Squadron, NSW. Cominental was designed as a fast cruise r/racer by Au stra­ lian j ohn King an d bui lt by Kan ga 13 irclcs who is currentl y The Swan cruise r/racers built in Finland by Nautor arc saili ng King-designed 60-footcr in the BOC C hallenge recogni sed as among the worl d's finest production fast solo around the worl d race. He skippered this yacht. as cruisi ng yac hts and Byzmue is no exception although she is A pple Endeavour, in the 1988 Bicenten nial Aroun d Au stra­ now 19 years old. li a Ra ce , placin g second in the fu ll y crewed division. Since Crew: D. Saunders (S ki pper). J. Wa lt on (Navigaror), J. being raced by Mike Champion, Co 11 tinental ha s achi eved Walton, R. Hill , J. Lowenstein, C. Matthews. ]. Recd, W. excell ent res ults under IMS handicaps and was second in Simmonds. G. Willi ams. IMS Division 1 of last year's Sydney Hobart. Crew: M. C hampion (S kipper) (3), G. Boxall. R. Burns ( 11 \ I n .. ,.., 1-, n i:-11 ;,.., H ,.,, r '""'" .. t\ A .. h ,. .... h ,. .. -4 11\ R TH E F L E ET F O R HOBART 1 9 9 0

COITOM BLOSSOM (0) - B 4233 LOA 16.71m; IMS RATING EMERALD CITY (0) - 4682 Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) LOA 14.02m; IMS RATING Type: Farr 55. Year Built : 1980 Designer: Hank Kauffman (Aust) Owner/Skipper: Eddie Barron Type: Northsore 46. Year Built: 1989 Club: Royal Brighton Yacht Club, Vic. .. -z.....-l Owner/Skipper: Ross Breadman Fast former New Zealand one-off ocean racer designed by ~ C lub: Royal Prince Alfred Yach t Club, NSW. Bruce Farr, Cotton Blossom sailed in two Hamilton Island t~ \H~'"¾~4t,. . f .~ Owner Breadman has done extensive cruising and also Race Weeks before being bought by Victorian yachtsman =.,., -~ ·...... l I f¼ ~~,w sailed in the 1988 Sydney Hobart race, but at this stage has Eddie Barron. She has performed consistently in Viccorian _... ~ -:"" 4 done only limited raci ng with this 46-footer, the largest waters, including taking line honours and first on C HS ~ ~.,...:;. ..;.,~ -- ~ "-.::...... , production yacht built in Australia. handicaps in this yea r's Melboume-Pordand race. A good ~ .. Crew: R. Brea dman (Skipper) (1), G. Thornton (Naviga­ prospect under IMS handicaps in what will be the first tor) (3), P. Heinonen, K. Hofman (2), M. Kapon (2) , L Hobart race for the Cotton Blossom II. Mason, A. Nooran (5), N. Osborne (1), S. Relford (2), P. Crew: E. Barron (Skipper) (3), C.Macsorly (Navigator) Thornton. (9), B. Barron (! ), M . Blare(! ), P. Cocks (2), D. C urrie (6), B. Duiring (2), T Grogan (2), A. Harriott, T. Harriott (!), J McQuet (! ), J. Moonee (19), J. Rose (10), P. Walsh (6) .

DOCTOR WHO (2)-3105 LOA 15. 79m; !OR/IMS RA TING EINSTEIN (10 - R 2 Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: Davidson 51. Year Built: 1983 LOA 9.08m; !OR RATING Owner/Skipper: Roger Jackman. Designer: Daniel Andreieu (France). Club: Royal Yacht Club ofTasmania, Tas. Type: Half Tonner. Year Built: 1990 Owner/Skipper: Stephen and Clive Purtell Originally named Doctor Darr and raced by Rod Muir and Club: Royal Yacht C lub of Victoria, Vic. then by Canberra yachtsman George Snow, this fast cruiser/racer has taken line honours in races from Brisbane Newly launched Half Tonner whose French designer has to Noumea, Brisbane to Cairns, Gosford to Lord Howe finished no worse than second in the world Half Ton Cup Island (race record) and Adelai de to Port Lincoln , as well over the past 10 yea rs , winning fou r of the last fi ve events. as winning several races under IOR. Tasmanian yachts­ Will be sailed by an experienced crew with Cli ve Purtell man Roger Jackman sailed her to sixth over the line and ha vin g sail ed in the Admiral's Cup, 10 Sydney-Hobarts first in the Illingworth Maxi division of last yea r's Sydney and two Mclbourne-Hobarts, his brother Stephen in the Hobart race. C lipper Cup, six Sydney-Hobarts while a third brother, Crew: R. Jackman (Skipper) (13), A. Masters (Naviga tor) Michael, has sailed in two Sydney-Hobarts. (12), 2 TBA, C. Batchelor (10), R. Coombe (6), L. Cox Crew: C. Purtell (Co-skipper)(! ), S. Purtell (Co-skipper) (9), B. Evans (2) , RJ Jackman (14), J McG uaig (3). S. (6), M.Purtell (2). Muir (7) , J. Solomon (19).

DOW AIR (0) - 4208 LOA 11 . ◄ tm ; IMS EMMA (1) -A 194 Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Type: Farr 37. Year Built: 1988 LOA 11.27m; IMS RATING Owner/Skipper: Farr Lapp Syndicate Designer:John Duncanson (Aust) Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Type: Duncanson 37. Year Built: 1977 Owner/Skipper: Mike de Burca Previously named Farr Lap , this 37-footer now sails under Club: Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. the sponsorship name of D01u Air- and obviously enj oys a race with plentry of wind. She had to pull out of the last Over the past three seasons, Emma has been sailed in a Sydney-Hobart with steering problems but showed her number of long ocean races off the NSW coast, including class earlier this yea r by fini shed second in IMS Division 2 the I 989 Sydney-Gold Coast race and the 1989 Sydney­ · of the Sydncy-Mooloolaba race. Recently optimised by Hobart in which she fini shed 47th in the IMS category. Sco(t Jutson with extensive modifica ti ons to keel, new Crew: De Bruca (Skipper) (! ), P. Coughlan (Navigator), rudder and rig. • L Breitner (1), P. Coughlan, L Breitner (! ), J. Coleman, Crew: B. Foye (Skipper, D. Pomfret (Navigator) (8), F. G. Fox (1), D. Larter, W. Reed (1). Amber (6), L Campbell (1), G. Carpenter, J Carpenter .,.;....______.._ _ _. (3), J Eckford (6), L. Peckman. 1

EX-TENSION(!)- 4214 DRY WHITE (4) - 550 LOA 10.39m; !OR RATING LOA: 12.26m C lass: !OR IMS Rating Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Designer: Van de Stadt (Holland) Type: Davidson 36. Year Built: 1986 Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1984 Owner/Skipper: Tony Dunn. Owner/Skipper: Dennis Leitch Club: Royal Prince Alfred Yahct Club, NSW. Club: Derwent Sailing Squadron, Tas. This Laurie Davidson-designed 36-footer was bunched Built in Victoria as an Admiral's C up contender, Dry just before the I 986 Sydney-Hobart, a race which she Mitt ha s been raced with consistency in offshore ra ces out went on to win in fin e style. Since then, owner Tony ofHobart by Dennis Lei tch, a veteran of eight Sydney Dunn has campaigned her in northern ra ces, but following Hobarts. Placed 40th overall and 9th in division in 1988 optimising by Scott J utson, he has decided to en ter the race to Hobart. Sydney Hobart once aga in. Could be a strong chance on IOR.

EAGLE (2)- 4727 FIRETEL (6) - A SO LOA 13.89m; IMS RATING LOA 9.98m; !OR/IMS Rating Designer: Peter Cole (Aust) Designer: Dick Carter (US) Type: Fleetwood 46. Year Built: 1981 Type: Carter 33. Year Built: 1982 Owner/ Skipper:John Boys Owner/Skipper: Bob Lawler C lub: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. C lub: Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. Eagle is an attractive-looking. Huon pine-built 46-footer Extensively raced Carter 33. Firetell has co mpeted in six from the drawing board of Peter Cole and built in Sydney-Hobart, three Sydney-Mooloolaba and the last Tasmania. Owner John Boys bught the yacht thi s yea r and four Sydney-Gold Coast races. Ha d an excellent season knows little of her previous ra cin g hi story, other than she with the CYCA last summer, fini shing 2nd in the Blue sailed in two Hobarts back in 198 1 and 1982. Boys' first Wa ter Pointscore , Division 3 and 2nd in the IM S Short long race with Eagle was in this yea r's Jupiters Gold Coast Ocean pointscorc. race. Crew: R Lawler (Skipper) (10), K. Radford (Navigator) Crew: J. Boys (Skipper), C. Alleck (1), C. Bracken (1), (5), M. Tomaszweski (7), R. Hugal (4), W. Furness, P. K . Goudge (3), M. Green (4), P. Griebel (I). Pangas (1), D. Janso n. T H E F L E E T F O R

FIRST LIGHT - 4860 GROUP THERAPY (2)- MH 267 LOA: 12.03m Class: !OR Rating Designer: Nelson/Marek (USA) LOA 14.52m; IMS RATING Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1985 Designer: Ron Holland (Ire) Owner/Skipper: Bill Mountford Type: Holland 48. Year Built: 1980 Club: Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. Owner/Skipper: Syndicate/ Allan Chalk Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Former Melbourne yacht which raced in the Melboume­ Devonport and other Victorian offshore events with This large and comfortable cruiser/racer has sailed many moderate success. Brought to Sydney earlier this year and sea miles without any major success, other than a second will be used by owner Mountford for his first Sydney on Arbitrary handicaps in a Sydney-Gold Coast and a Hobart race. His other races have been to the Gold Coast Gosford to Lord Howe Isl and race. Still owned by a and Coffs Harbour. syndicate of Middle Harbour yachtsmen, Group Therapy's Crew: B. Mountford (Skipper), S. Taylor (Navigator) nominated skipper this year is Allan C halk. (5), L. Brown (3), G. Cockburn (4), M. De Casembroo1, C. Hoskinson, D. Lang (8), H. Mountford, P. Sainsbury (5), L. Withoridge.

FREIGHT TRAIN (5) - 5222 GUMBLOSSOM - B 233 LOA 18.82m; !OR RATING LOA 9.23m; IMS RATING Designer: German Frers (Argen) Designer: Peter Joubert (Aust) Type: Pocket maxi. Year Built: 1983 Type: Currawong 30. Year Built: 1973 Owner/Skipper: Damien Parkes Owner/Skipper: Thorry Gunnersen Club: Cruising Yacht Club ofAustralia, NSW. Club: Royal Brighton Yacht Club, Vic. Damien Parkes is enjoying a great year. finishing second For a yacht of her age, Gumblossom did well in la st year's in IOR Division A of the la st NorTel Sydney-Hobart race, Hoban, placing 45th overall and ninth in her division winning the lOR overall in the Calcex Sydney­ while in the IMS division she placed 24th overall and thi rd Mooloolaba race, taking line honours in the East-West in her division. Since then Gumblossom has been cruised to Airlines Sydney-Whitsundays race and more recently, line New Zealand and back to Brisbane. Skipper Gunnersen honours in the Gosford-Lord Howe race. Skipper Damien will compete in the St Helena Cup on Moreton Bay before Parkes has an impressive record, including 12 Sydney­ heading south to Sydney for the race to Hobart. Hobarts, six Sydney-Gold Coast and eight Lord Howe Island races.

FUJITSU DEALERS (2)- MH 9 HAMMER OF QUEENSLAND - 7 LOA 10.93m; !OR RATING LOA: 20.51m Cla11: !OR/IMS RATING Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Designer: Kell Steinman (Aust) Type: Davidson 36. Year Built: 1986 Type: Pocket maxi. Year Built: 1987 Owner/Skipper:John Eyles Owner/Skipper: Arthur Bloore Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Club: Royal Queensland Yacht Squadton, Qld. Formerly raced as Indian Pacific, this fractional rig sloop Record brea king line honours winner of the 1988 Sydney­ has had considerable success, including winning the Gold Coast race, Hamm er of Quetnsland has also taken line Jupiters Gold Coast Race and Hamilton Island Race Weck honours in the Brisbane-Gladstone race, last year finishing and finishing a close second in the 1989 Gosford-Lord fourth across the line in the Sydney-Hobart. She has Howe Island race. Recently sailed for Australian team in recently been fitted with a new keel and rudder and the China Sea Series from Hong Kong to Manilla after a 16th interior fitted out for IMS racing and cruising. Half the overall in the last Hobart race. • crew this year will again come from France.

FUTURE SHOCK (0)- KZ 6717 LOA 17.0m; IMS RATING Designer: Greg Elliott (NZ) HARBINGER (2)- B 32 Type: Elliott 17. Year Built: 1989 Owner/Skipper: Ian Margan LOA 10.17m; !OR RATING Club: Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, NZ. Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: Davidson 34. Year Built: 1988 A late entry, Future Shock is set for another match-race to Owner/Skipper: Barry Dean Hobart with the Sydney ultra-light displacement boat Club: Royal Brighton Yacht Club, Vic. Bobsled. The two li ghtweights duelled all the way from Sydney to the Gold Coast in the 1990 Jupiter, Race, One of several Davidson 34s, built in Melbourne by Ken finishing less than two minutes part with Bobsled catching Jago, which wiU contest the Australian Three-quarter Ton Future Shock right on the line. Fu ture Shock holds race level rating championship as a lead-up to the Nor-Tel records for races from Auckland to Suva, Auckland to Sydney Hobart race. Dismasted in last year's race, Harbinger won the 1988 ORCV winter series on Port Noumea, Noumea to Southport and Guam to Fukuoka, Japan. Phillip and placed second in IOR Division Din the 1988 Sydney Hobart. Crew: I. Margan (Skipper), G. Cooke, J. McVeagh, J. Bethell and others to be named.

HAUPIA (1)- 5850 LOA 10.66m; IMS RATING Designer: R.Johnston (USA) GAMBOL (0) - SA 221 Type:J-35. Year Built: 1987 LOA 12.2m; IMS RA TING Owner/Skipper: TomJohnston Designer:John Duncanson (Aust) Club: Cruising Yahct Club of Australia, NSW. Type: Duncanson 40. Year Built: 1984 Haupia , an American designed and builtj-35, is one of the Owner/ Skipper: William Gryst/Harry Davis most successful yachts racing in Australia under IMS Club: Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron, SA. hanclicaps, since getting a new Scottjutson-designed keel. Gambol is the offshore training yacht used by Sail-Tech, ln the 1989 Sydney-Hobart she finished third overall and South Australia's premier, AYF-accrcdited sailing school second in her division of the IMS category and in April with William Gryst and Harry Davis the two partners in this year won the IMS division of the Sydney-Mooloolaba the Sail-Tech. The crew will be advanced students from race, fo llowin g this with a 2nd in the Sydney-Gold Coast the sailing school, with experienced leaders including Race. Skipper Tom Johnston's crew includes his two Harry Davis as skipper/navigator, and yacht designer daughters. Allen Black bu me in the crew. Crew: R. Hickman (Skipper), J. Ca nfield (Navigator) (2), B. Chesterman (6), K. Hansford (2) , D. Johnston (1). H. Johnston, R. Sangster (1) . G. West. TH E F L EE T F O R HOBART 1 9 9 0

IMPECCABLE (8)- MH 106 HELSAL 11 (8) - SA 93 LOA 10 .22m; IOR RA TING LOA 20.03m; IOR RATING Designer: Doug Peterson (USA) Designer:Joe Adams (Aust) Type: Three-quarter tanner. Year B uilt: 1980 Type: "Mini" maxi Year Built: 1979 Owner/Skipper:John Walker Owner/Skipper: Keith Flint Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Club: Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron, SA. M iddle Harbour's John Walker is a most abl e and Helsa/ II has never finis hed lower than sixth in a Sydney competitive ocean racing yachtsman w ho has com peted Hobart fleet since 1879 and her present owner/skipper and with success in most of Austral ia 's major long races. With his crew hope to maintain this record. Since being based in the little Impeccable he finis hed second overall and first in Adelaide, Helsa/ 11 has taken line honours in the 1989 West Division D of the 1986 Sydney-Ho bart, in 1987 was 3rd Coaster race from Melbourne to Hobart as well as in most overall in the Mooloolaba race, placing third in division in major offsho re races in SA waters. Sailing master will be 1989 and second in division this year. T his year Impeaable one of SA 's best known ocean racing yachtsmen, Fred has also won the prestige Janzoon T rophy. Neill , who will be sharing the helm with Charles Crew: J. Wa lker (Skipper) (8), J. Wa lk er (Navigator) (8), Wall-Smith and Ian Flint. R. Anderson (2) . T. Bright, R. Moore (3), M. Richte r, A. Tarplee (3). D. Thomas (2).

HELSAL Ill (3) - 262 LOA 20.00m; !OR/IMS RA TING INCH BY WINCH (8)- 393 Designer:Joe Adams (Aust) LOA 13.41m; IMS RATING Type: Pocket maxi. Year Built: 1984 Designer: Doug Peterson (USA) Owner/ Skipper: John Wertheimer Type: Peterson 44. Year Built: 1981 Club: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. Owner/Skipper : J oc Goddard Originally named Tlie Office, chis fast 66-footcr was ,., Club: Cruising Yacht C lub of Australia, NSW. bought by Dr Tony Fisher after the boat was damaged by Built as an Admiral's Cup team contender that didn't fire at her marina in Queensland. Refitted and named make it. this stoutly-built 44-footer has contested almost Htlsall III, he raced her to Hobart in 1987. finishing well every nee along the Australian East Coast as well as races back in the fleet. Among her earlier successes as The Office into the Tasman, including several Lo rd H owe Island was taking line honours in a Pittwatcr-CofTs Harbour race races. One of the older !OR designs recently measured to and a Lord Howe Island race. Now owned by Hobart IMS. Finished 36th under IOR last year but 10th under yachtsman John Wertheimer. IMS handicapping. Crew: J. Wertheimer (Skipper) (3). R. Bearman (Naviga­ Crew: J. Goddard (Skipper) (14), P. Goddard (9). M. tor) (18). D. Bailey (1), R. Chandler (1). J. Clougher (4), J. Damro (3). R. Noldart (2). Ford, J. Free man (5), S. Graves (9), J. Hall (6). R. Horne (9), A. Johnston. C . Amprill (6). D.Morris (I). D. Robertson (2). C . Well s (2). M. Wcrcheimer (1).

HIJACKER 0-5508 INDIAN PACIFIC (5)-B 3695 LOA 13.Sm; IMS RATING I Designer:John Lidgard (NZ) LOA 12.2m; !OR/IMS RA TING Type: Lindgard 48. Year Built: 1984 Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Owner/Skipper: Ray and J anice Lodge Type: Farr 40. Year Built: 1983 Club: Kerikeri Cruising Club, New Zealand. Owner/Skipper: Stuard McDonald Club: Royal Brighton Yacht Club, Vic. This fast cruiser/racer designed by John Lidgard competed in and won the Trans Tasman Cup in the 1988 Auckland to Winner of this race in the galeswept year of 1984 in w hich Mooloolaba race and has competed extensively in New only 46 yachts out of 179 starters completed the course. Zealand coastal races built by its owner. Hijacker's crew Victori an yachtsman Stuart McDonald bought In dian includes fam il y members. Pacific last year and in his first Sydney Hobart with the R, Lodge (Skipper), B. Morris (Navigator), F. boat. finished a creditable 23rd overall in the 129 boat Ashby, R. Hindle, A . Lodge, ] . Lodge, M . Lodge, T . fl eet. Sailing master fo r the race is Brett Bowdens in SA Rae. waters.

IT'S A HIT (2) - 4803 HYPERDRIVE 2 - 4490 LOA 9.4m; IOR RA TING LOA: 13 .48m IMS RATING Designer: Ed Dubois (US) Designer: Adam s/R adford (Aust) Type: HalfTonner. Year Built: 1982 Type: Adams 44. Y car Built: 1987 Owner/Skipper:John Messenger Owner/Skipper: John Clark Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Club: Royal Prince Alfred Yahct Club, NSW. One of the re markably successful Dubois Half Tonners This boat is one of the fast cruiser/ racers built by Paul which have done so well in races north from Sydney, II 's Kell y as Carina 44s and used by John Clark for long ocean A H ;, finished third in the 1988 CYCA Blue Water racing, including short-handed events. Won the Arbitrary pointscorc and fourth in the 1989 series. In the 1988 division of the 1989 Jupiters Gold Coast race and placed Hobart she finished fourth in Div D and 18th overall. This 3rd in Arbitrary division of 1989 Gosford-Lord Howe year her wins include the Halvorsen Trophy. T his will be Isl an d race, in last yea r's Hobart race. H yperdrive placed the fourth Sydney Hobart for skipper Messenger on a Half 17th overall under IMS handicapping. T o nner. Crew: J. Messenger (Skipper (3). J. Poe (Navigator) (2). G. Cramp (3). P. Evans. S. Hodgson )2). R. Ovesen.

JACKGUY (0)- 3838 ILLUSION (2)- Sm 80 LOA 11.6m; IMS RATING LOA 10.21m; IOR RATING Designer: Hank Kauffman (Aust) Designer : Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: Northshore 38. Year Built: 1984 T ype: Davidson 34. Year Built: 1988 Owner/ Skipper: Gordon Ketelbey Owner/Skipper: Gino & Nick Knezic Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Club: Sandringham Yacht Club, Vic. First Sydney Hobart for this Nonhshorc 38 which has The most successful of several Davidson 34s in the fl eet. sailed in five races to CofTs Harbour and one to Lord Ill us ion won the 1988 Sydney Hobarl and last year again sailed Howe Is land. Jack Guy has won the last two Northshore exceptionally well to wi,i Divisio 11 D a11d place 6th overall. In 38 se ri es at M HYC and RPA YC and fin is hed second in the her home warers, Illusion has won the I 989 Petersville M H YC w inter poinrscore. Entry underl ines the status of Regatta, the 1989 O RCV Winter Se ri es. whil e this year the NorTcl Sydney Hobart as the penulti mate ocean race she has placed second overall in both the Petersvill e and in Australia. the O RCV Western Port Cup. Crew includes fat her and Crew: G. Kctclbey (S kip per) (I). J. Boles, A. Cross. I. son Gino and N ick Knezic, Bernie Case andNocl Gil kes (I). N. Holman, J. Hoyle. W. Lorenz (3). T . Drennan. Stephens (I). T H E F L E ET F O R

LEROY BROWN (1) - 933 KINGS CROSS, SYDNEY (2) - 621 LOA 10.22m; IOR RATlNG LOA: 10.97m IOR RATING Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Designer: Laurie D a vidson (NZ) Type: Davidson 34. Year Built: 1985 Type: D avidson 36. Year Built: 1985 Owner /Skipper: Warren Wieckmann Owner/Skipper : Ray Stone Club: Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, NSW. Club: Middle Harbo ur Yacht Club, N SW. O ne of the Ken Jago-built Davidson 34s, this boat Originally built fo r Pirtwacer yachtsman Jim King, this originall y raced as Clwtzpali and w ill be up against the fa st 36-footcr was sold co Victoria in 1988 but ha s returned new Clwtzpali fro m Melbourne in the T hree-quarter Ton co Sydney owner the ownership of Ray Srone, who level rating series which is part of the Nor Tel A_s ia Pac!fic previously raced Middle Harbour Express with outstanding championships leading up to the Hobart race. Smee bemg success. Kings Cross has undergone modifi ca tions to her owned by Wieckman, Leroy Bro1vt1 has won the 1988 keel , skeg and rudder under the direction of Scott Jutson Pittwater-Coffs Harbour race, 1988 Gladstoe-Hamilton and will be one of the strong contenders fo r !OR handica p Island ra ce, and the t 989 Brisbane to Gladstone C lassic. honours. She alre;i;dy has two !OR wins back in Sydney, Retired fro m last year's Hobart race. also being in winning Range Rover Cup tea m. Crew: W. Wicc kmann (S kipper) (I), G.Jones (Navigator) Crew: R. Stone (Skipper) (5), G. Stone (Navigator) (6), (17), A. Gordon (2), G. Gudmanson (1), T . Jarmann (2), J. A. Duthie (I), D. Grice (3), B. Hai r (2), N. Tavcncr (4), Rowed (I), D. Turtin, W. Wardle (5). R. Van Eadom (3). S. Walker (3).

KINGURRA (5) - B 23 LOA 13.llm; IOR RATING LIGHTWA VE (0) - RQ 12 D esigner: Peter Joubert (Aust) LOA 12.04m; IMS RATING T ype: Cruiser/racer. Year Built: 1972 Designer: Carl Schumacher (UK) Owner/ Skipper: P eter J oubert Type: Oyster Lightwave. Year Built: 1990 C lub: Royal Brighton Yacht CLub, Vic. Owner/Skipper: R on La vett Owner/skipper Peter Jo ubert designed this heavy dis­ Club: Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Qld. placement cruiser/ racer back in the ea rly 70's and bought T he only Oyster Lightwave class sloop in Australia, the yacht for his ownboat several years ago. King11rra's best Ligl1twa11 e was imported especiall y ro compete under l~ S results in the Hobart have been an 19th in 1972 and a 20th category handicapping. Ugl1twa11e had its' first race m in 1988 bur as her designer says, she needs a long beat to Australia in this year's J upiters Sydney-Gold Coast race, w indward in fres h cond itions to show up on the prize list. w ith a mediocre result, but fi nished second under IMS in T his year, in cidentall y will be part- time yacht designer the Southport Yacht C lub's XXXX Series and in the Jo ubert's 19th Sydney- Hobart. SCOR Se ries at Mooloolaba. After the Sydney-Hobart, Crew: !'.Joubert (Skipper) (18), K. Flockhart (Navigator) Brian Ashenden and Ro n Lavett w ill sail Ligl11wa ve in the (15), B. Hawken, A.Knox, P. Meikle, J. Napier (4), Melbourne-Osaka two-handed race in March. D. Rout (3). N. Sharp (14), J. Snyder, T. Vautin (13).

LA MON IQUE (0) - 3325 MADELINE'S DAUGHTER (4) - KA 3000 LOA 12.Sm; IOR RATING LOA: 13 .16m IOR RATING D esigner: R on Holland (Ire) Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ ) T yp e: One T onner. Year Built: 1980 T ype: Admiral's C upper . Year Built: 1987 Owner/Skipper : Barry Brooks Owner/Skipper: Peter Kurts Club: Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron , New Club: Cruising Yacht Club o f Australia, N SW. Zealand. Owned and skippered by the doyen of Australian interna­ Ireland-based Kiwi Ron Holland designed this yacht as a tional ocean raci ng yac htsmen, Peter Kurts, Madeline's NZ Admiral's Cup team contender in 1981 but she was Da11gliter has twice represented Australia in the Admiral's badly holed d uring the lo ng ocean race of the trials afte r Cup and was a member of the w inning Australian team in hitting a rock nonh of Auckland . Sin ce then the fir st the 1987 Southern C ross Cup. Last year was ropscoring owner used the boar mostly for cruising. In the past 12 boat in the second-placed NSW team in the Southern mo nth,s, the current owner has been refitting La 1\110,iique Cross Cup, placing 5th overall and w in ning D ivision A of for racing and cruising. Owner Barry Brooks sailc.. d the NorTcl Sydney Hobart. Peter Kurts has sa iled in 25 aboard the Young 88, Firsr Eleven, in the 1988 Pi ttwater­ races to Hobart. Coffs Harbour race. Crew: P. Kurts (SKipper) (25), L. May (Navigator) (17), Crew : B. Brooks (Skipper), R. Moore (Navigator), C. J- Fa lconer, M. Coxon (4), M. Fla coner (3). D. Hodgson Bird, B. Elliott, J. Jarquhar, S. H yde. (9). R. Johnson (5), R. Macalister (10), A. Pratt (3), P. Shipway (19), W. Sy kes (10).

LADY PENRHYN OF N IRIMBA (4) - 3809 MARARA (5)- 1317 LOA 11.10m; IOR RATING LOA 10.36m; IMS RA TING D esigner-: Kim Swarbrick (Aust) Designer: Sparkman & Stephens (USA) Typ e: Swarbrick S111. Year Built: 1984 Type: S&S 34 . Year Built: 1972 Owner-/Skipper: Lt Richar-d Catt Ran. Owner/Skipper : Bill Ratcliff Club: R oyal Australian Navy Sailing Ass ociation , C lub: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW N SW. Yet another of the remarkable S&S 34s which continue to Lady Penrliyn is one of fi ve Roya l Australi an Navy training do well in long ocean racil'i.g , Marara has raced five times yachts - sai led by apprentices and staff of I-I MAS to Hoban and three times won divisio n trophies. She was Nirimba at Quakers H ill , NSW. The yacht is continuall y among the few fi nishers in the 1984 race. Marara con tinues engaged in sail tra ining for these N :t vy trainees and takes to win races, this year taking o ut the J anzoon Trophy. For part in many local and offshore yacht ra ces and events. owner skipper Bill Ratcliff, this will be his 26th Hobart Lady Pcnrhyn was fi rst in the Defence Forces division of w hile watch ca ptain Barry Simpson from H obart will be the 1990 Three Peaks Ya cht Race in T as m ania and won the sa iling his 19th. O gden C up in the 1988 Hobart race. Crew: B. Ratcliff (Sk ipper) (26), ll. Simpson (18), P. Ratcl iff (5), L. Ratcl iff (2). K. Ratcl iff (2).

LARRIKIN (0) - B 78 LOA 10.3m ; IOR RATING MARK TWAIN (0) - A 113 D esign er: Kell Steinman (A ust) LOA 11. 77m; IMS RA TING T yp e: Three-quarter tonner. Year Built: 1989 D esi gner: Sparkman & Stephens (USA) O wner/S kipper : Robert Story Type: S&S 39. Y ear Built: 1971 C lub: Royal Brighton Yahct C lub, Vic. Owner/Skipper: Hugh O 'Neill N ew boat from Ke ll Steinman, whose designs in this race Club: Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. include pocket maxis Bobsled, Amazon and Hammer of Built to the o ld O ne Ton rule 19 years ago, this Q11eensla11d. This boar is a light d isplacement T h ree­ tim ber-hulled sloop is still most com petitive in long ocean quarter To nner with a big sa il area ro obta in optimum races, finis hing second in Illingworth DivisionC of the performance in li ght weather offsho re. Impressed in recent 1986 and 1988 Hobart races. She also fi nished second in Bass Strait T ria nglc and will be sailed by a most young the 1987 H obart-Fremantle race and second in the 1987 and enthusias ti c crew under skipper Bob Story and sail ing Lord Howe Island race. Owner/skipper H ugh O 'Neill has master John Kari ck. sail ed in nine H obarrs and eight Lord Howe Island races. Crew: ll. St0ry (Ski pper), J. Karick (Navigat0r), P. Doriea n, S. Floyd, N. Moloney, T . O lding, D. Owen, D. Woodruff. T HE F L E ET F O R HOBART 1 9 9 0

MORNING TIDE (5) - A 94 MATANGI (0) - 5350 LOA: 10.33m IMS RATING LOA 11 .7m; IMS RATING Designer: Sparkman & Stepehns (USA) Designer: German Frers (Argen) Type: S&S 34. Year Built: 1974 Type: Frers 38. Year Built: 1989 Owner/Skipper: Jim Lawler Owner/Skipper: John Bleakley. Club: Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Skipper Jim Lawler has logged many miles with Moming CYCA past commodore John Blea kley has a beautiful­ Tidt, one of those remarkable S&S 34 made famous by looking and fast cruiser/ra cer in Matangi which was built BritishPM Ted Heath and later by round-the-world solo in the United States, at Newport Rhode Island, only last sailor Jan Sanders. Moming Tide has competed in the three year. Matangi finished third in IMS Division 1 of the previous Gold Coast ra ces, finishing 12th in the IMS CYCA's SOPS las t season, also competing in the 1989 division las t year. Morning Tide won IMS division 3 of the Sydney-Coffs Harbour ra ce. Owner/skipper Bleakley has CYCA short ocean pointscore last summer. sailed in most long ocean races off the Australi an East Crew: J. Lawler (Skipper) (7), P. Robinson (Navigator) Coast, plus races to Vanuatu and Noumea. (9). T. Cosh (3), M . Groscops (4). J. La wler (10), B. Loudon (3), I. McIntos h (2).

MERCEDES I V(ll) - 1224 NADIA IV (5) - 4040 LOA 12.80m; IMS RATING LOA 12.2m; !OR/IMS RA TING Designer: Ted Kaufman (Aust) Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) l??4 ' Type: Two Tonner. Year Built: 1974 Type: Farr 40. Year Built: 1984 •s,/ Owner/Skipper: Peter Stronach Owner/Skipper: Teki Dalton .s-·i- Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Club: Crui,ing Yacht Club of Australia, NSW This will be the 12th Sydney-Hobart race for this Canberra-based yachtsman Teki Dalton will be sailing his powerful 42-footer designed and skippered by Ted Kauf­ 10th Sydney Hobart thi s year, hi s sixth with Nadia JV, man in the 1975 Admiral's C up in England. Mercedes JV is whichlast yea r finished 14th overall, an excellent effort in a now enjoyin g a new lease of life under IMS handicapping, Southern Cross C up year. Nadia JV has not raced much placing 4th in !OR in Division A of the 1989 Sydney this season with most of her regular crew overseas. Hobart and 9th overall under IMS handicaps. She also However, the majority will be back for the Hoban and the won Division A of the 1989 Sydney to Mooloolaba race. 1988-89 CYCA Blue Water champion should again be Crew: P. Stronach (S kipper) (3). D . Aubrey (Navigator) close to the money. (6) . T. Allison (3) , A. Heenan (8), W. Pcrriman (1), P. Crew: T. Dalton (Skipper) (9), D . Doyle (Navigator) (7), Simpson, R. Hislop (I), I. Adamson. 3 TBA, T . Dodds (5), G. Holt (5). D. McLean (5), J. Smith (5).

NEVER A DULL MOMENT (1) -4715 MERCEDES V (7)- 2140 LOA 12.5m; IMS RA TING LOA 12.60m; IMS RATING Designer:John King Designer: Scott Kaufman (Aust) Type:Jarkan 12.5. Year Built: 1989 Type: Old rule two tonner. Year Built: 1977 Owner/Skipper: Colin Wilson Owner/Skipper: Geoffrey Barker C lub: Kiama Cruising Yacht Club, NSW C lub: Tanilba Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. Built by BOC C hallenge sailor Kanga Birtles, this John Originally designed for Ted Kaufman by hi s son, Scott, King 40-footer was designed for IMS ra cin g and is a she wa an unsuccessfu l triallist fo r the 1977 Admiral's Cup development of Apple Endeavou r, which Dirties ra ced in team. Since then, Mercedes V has had a number of owners the Bicentennial Around Australia Race. Ne ver a Dull but has done onl y limited ocean racing in recent yea rs. Moment had its first Hobart last yea r, finishing 33rd overall While she never made the Admiral's C up, Mercedes V did and fourth in her IMS division, and since then has sailed sa il for NSW and later Papua New Guinea in a Southern consistently well under the IMS handicap category. Cross Cup series. Crew: C. Wilson (Skipper) (2).

MIRRABOOKA (3) -A 8 NEW HORIZONS (0) - M 236 LOA 14.27m; IMS RA TING LOA 11 .24m; IMS RATING Designer: German Frers (Arg) Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: Cruiser/racer. Year Built: 1987 Type: Cavalier 37. Year Built: 1985 Owner/Skipper:John &: Peter Bennetto Owner/Skipper: Mike Kelaher Club: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. Club: Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, NSW. Modification of a Swan 46, Mirrabooka will be sailing in Lake Macquarie yachtsman M ik e Kclaher has had the her fourth Sydney Hobart for veteran Tasmani;m yachts­ sa me crew for five years and after fou r Sydney-Gold Coast man John Bennette and hi s son, Peter. John Bennetto will and three Lord Howe Island races he ha s decided to contes t be sai ling in his 30th Sydney Hobart - the first was back hi s first Sydney Hobart with his Cavalier 37, an excellent in 1947. Navigator Simon Firth wi ll be notching up hi s ocean-going cruise r racer, and an enthusiast ic cre w. 18th race, helmsman Les ter Nibbs his 20th " Hobart". Crew: M. Kelaher (Skipper), C. Morris (Navigator) (2), Mirrab ooka placed 5th overall .3rd in Division I of new W. Anstiss, J. Blac kett, C. Brunt, C. Hall (1), D. Hi lls (2), IMS category last yea r. J. Payne, C. Piggott.

MORE IMAGINATION (0)- YC 3880 LOA 9.4m; IMS RATING NIMROD II (3)- G 300 Designer: Bruce Farr Type: Noelex 30. Year Built: 1982 LOA 11.6m; IMS RATING Owner/Skipper: Terry Nicholas Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Club: Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia, SA. Type: Farr 11 .6. Year Built: 1979 Owner/Skipper: Ian Watson. One of the smaller yachts in the fl eet, More Jm agi flation Club: Royal Geelong Yacht Club, Vic. competed last year, albeit well back in the fl eet, but without damage. In the past offshore season in South Winner of the 1980 Melbourne to Hobart West Coaster, Australian waters she has won the Kinnaird Offshore Cup this 11 year old Farr 11 .6 was poorly handisca pped under and pla ced 1st in J OG and 2nd in Division 2 of the IOR and her crew from Geelong hope she will do better Adelaide to Port Lincoln race. under the IMS handicapping category. Owner Ian Watson Crew: T . Nicholas (Skipper) (1). G. Nicholas (Navigaror) has put together a most experienced crew for the 1990 race. (2). R. Beath (1), I. Doyle. T H E F L E E T F O R

LEROY BROWN (1) - 933 KINGS CROSS, SYDNEY (2) -621 LOA 10.22m; !OR RA TING LOA: to. 97m !OR RA TING Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: Davidson 34. Year B uilt: 1985 Type: Davidson 36. Year Built: 1985 Owner/Skipper: Warren Wieckmann Owner/Skipper: Ray Stone C lub: Royal Prince A lfred Yacht Club, NSW. Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. O ne of the Ken Jago-built Davidson 34s, this boat Originally built fo r Pittwater yachtsman Jim King, this originall y raced as CJwtzpah and will be up against the fast 36-foorer was sold to Victo ria in 1988 but has returned new Chutzpah from Melbourne in the Three-quarter T on to Sydney owner the ownership of Ray Stone, who level raring series which is part of rhe NorT el Asia Pacific previously raced Middle Harbo11r Express with outstanding championships leading up to the Hobart race. Since being success. Kings Cross has undergone modifications co her owned by Wieckman, Leroy Bro um has won the 1988 keel, skeg and rudder under the di rection of Scott Jutson Pittwater-Coffs Harbour race, 1988 Gladstoe-Hamilton and will be o ne of the strong contenders for IO R handicap Island race, and the 1989 B ri sbane to Gladstone Classic. honours. She al ready has two IO R wins back in Sydney, Retired from last year's Hobart race. also being in winning Range Rover Cup team. Crew: W. Wieekmann (Sk ipper) (I), G. Jones (Navigator) Crew: R. Stone (Skipper) (5), G. Stone (Navigator) (6), (17), A. Gordon (2), G. Gudmanson (I), T .Jarmann (2),J. A. Duthie (I), D. Grice (3). B. Hair (2), N. Tavener (4), Rowed (! ), D. Turtin, W. Wardle (5). R. Van Eadom (3) , S. Walker (3).

KINGURRA (5) - B 23 LOA 13.ttm; !OR RATING LIGHTWAVE (0) - RQ 12 Designer: Peter Joubert (Aust) LOA 12.04m; IMS RA TING Type: Cruiser/racer. Year Built: 1972 Designer: Carl Schumacher (UK) Owner/Skipper: Peter Joubert Type: Oyster Lightwave. Year Built: 1990 Club: Royal Brigh ton Yacht CLub, Vic. Owner/Skipper: Ron Lavett C lub: Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Qld. Owner/skipper Peter Joubert designed this heavy dis­ placement cruiser/ racer back in the ea rl y 70's and bought The only Oyster Li ghtwave class sloop in Australia, the yacht for hi s ownboat several years ago. Kingurm 's best Ligh twa11 e was imported especially co compete under IMS results in the Hobart have been an 19th in 1972 and a 20th category handica pping. LigJ1t1va11e had its' first race in in 1988 but as her designer says, she needs a long beat to Australi a in this year's Jupiters Sydney-Gold Coast race, windward in fresh conditions to show up on the prize list. with a mediocre result, but fi nished second under IMS in This year, incidentall y will be part-time yacht designer the Southport Yacht Club's XXXX Series and in the Joubert's 19th Sydney-Hobart. SCOR Se ries at Mooloolaba. After the Sydney-Hobart, Crew: P.Joubert (Skipper) (18). K. Flockhart (Navigator) Brian Ashenden and Ron Lavett will sa il Ligh1 wa11e in the (15). B. Hawken, A.Knox, P. Meik le, J. Napier (4), Melbourne-Osaka two-handed race in March. D.Rout (3), N. Sharp (14), J. Snyder, T. Vautin (13).

LA MONIQUE (0) - 3325 MADELINE'S DAUGHTER (4) - KA 3000 LOA 12.8m; !OR RA TING LOA: 13.16m !OR RATING Designer: Ron Holland (Ire) Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1980 Type: Admiral's Cupper. Year Built : 1987 Owner/Skipper: Barry Brooks Owner/ Skipper: Peter Kurts Club: Royal N ew Zealand Yacht Squadron, New C lub: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Zealand. Owned and skippered by the doyen of Australian interna­ Ireland-based Kiwi Ron Holland designed thi s yacht as a tional ocean racing yachtsmen, Peter Kurts, Madeline 's NZ Admiral's Cup team contender in 1981 but she was Da11ghter has twice represented Australia in the. Admiral's badly holed during the long ocean race of the tri als after Cup and was a member of the w inning Australi an tea m in hitting a rock north of Auckland. Since then the first the 1987 Southern Cross Cup. Last year was topscoring owner used the boat mostly for cruising. In the past 12 boat in the second-placed NSW team in the Southern months .. ,the current owner has been refitting La Mo11iq11e C ross C up, placing Sch overall and winning Division A of for racing and cruising. Owner Barry Brooks sailed. the NorTel Sydney Hobart. Peter Kuns has sa il ed in 25 aboard the Young 88, First Ele11e11, in the 1988 Pittwater­ races to Ho bart. Coffs Harbour race. Crew: P. Kurts (SKip pc r) (25), L. May (Navigator) (17), Crew: B. Brooks (Sk ipper), R. Moore (Navigator), C. J. Falconer, M. Coxon (4), M. Flaconer (3). D. Hodgson Bird, B. Elli ott, J. Jarquhar , S. Hyde. (9). R. Johnson (5), R. Maca li sccr (10), A. Pratt (3), P. Shipway (19), W. Sykes (10).

LADY PENRHYN OF NIRlMBA (4) - 3809 MARARA (5) - 1317 LOA 11.t0m; !OR RATING LOA 10.36m; IMS RA TING Designer: Kim Swarbrick (Aust) Designer: Sparkman & Stephens (USA) Type: Swarbrick Slit. Year Built: 1984 Type: S&S 34. Year Built: 1972 Owner/Skipper: Lt Richard Catt Ran. Owner/Skipper: Bill Ratcliff Club: Royal Australian Navy Sailing Association, Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW NSW. Yet another of the remarkable S&S 34s which continue to Lady Penrliy11 is one of five Royal Australian Navy training do well in long ocean racitig, Marara has raced five times yachts - sa iled by apprentices and staff of HMAS to Hobart and three times won divisio n trophies. She was Nirimba at Quakers Hill. NSW. The yacht is continually amo ng the few finis hers in the 1984 race. Marara contin ues engaged in sai l trai ni ng fo r these N :wy trainees and takes to win races, th is year taking out the J anzoon Trophy. For part in many local and offshore ya cht ra ces and events. owner skipper Bill Ratcliff, thi s will be his 26th Hoban Lady Penrhyn was first in the Defence Forces d ivision of while watch captain Barry Simpson fro m Hobart w ill be the 1990 Three Pea ks Yacht Ra ce in Tasmania and won the sa iling his 19th. Ogden Cup in the 1988 Hobart race. Crew: B. Ratcliff (Ski pper) (26), B. Si mpso n (18). P. Ratcliff (5). L. Ratcliff (2), K. Ratcliff (2).

LARRIKIN (0) - B 78 LOA 10.3m;IORRATING MARK TWAIN (0)- A 113 Designer: Kell Steinman (Aust) LOA 11.77m; IMS RATING Type: Three-quarter tonner . Year Built: 1989 Designer: Sparkman & Stephens (USA) Owner/Skipper: Robert Story Type: S&S 39. Year B uilt: 1971 C lub: Royal Brighton Yahct Club, Vic. Owner/Skipper: Hugh O'Neill New boat from Kell Steinman, w hose designs in th is ra ce Club: Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. include pocket maxis Bobsled , Amaz o11 and Hammer of Built tO the old One Ton rule 19 years ago, this Queemla11d . This boat is a light displacement Three­ timber-hulled sloop is still most competitive in long ocean quarter Tonner with a big sa il area to obtain optimum races, finishing second in Illingworth DivisionC of the .,.., performance in light weather offshore. Impressed in rece nt 1986 and 1988 Ho bart races. She also fi nished second in -~t-·· Bass Strait Triangle and will be sailed by a most young the 1987 Ho ban-Frcmantle ra ce and second in the 1987 • _'l'_.. f,-&! and enthusiastic cre"v under skipper Bo b Story and sai ling Lo rd Howe Isla nd race. Owner/skipper Hugh O'Neill has '1k; ,_-,., m aster John Karick. sailed in nine Hobarrs and eight Lo rd Howe Island races. Crew: B. Story (Skipper), J. Karick (Navigator), I'. Doriean. S. Flo yd, N. Moloney, T. Olding, D . Owen, D. Woodruff. T H E F L E ET F O R HOBART 1 9 9 0

MORNING TIDE (5) - A 94 MAT ANG! (0) - 5350 LOA: 10.33m IMS RATING LOA 11 .7m; IMS RATING Designer: Sparkman lie Stepehns (USA) Designer: German Frers (Argen) Type: S&S 34. Year Built: 1974 Type: Frers 38. Year Built: 1989 Owner/Skipper: Jim Lawler Owner/Skipper:John Bleakley. Club: Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Skipper Jim Lawler has logged many miles with Morning CYCA past commodore John Bleakley has a beautiful­ Tide , one of those remarkable S&S 34 made famous by looking and fast cruiser/ra cer in Matangi which was built BritishPM Ted Heath and later by round-the-world solo in the United States, at Newport Rhode Island, only last sa ilor Jan Sanders. Morning Tide has competed in the three year. Matangi finished third in IMS Division l of the previous Gold Coast races, finishing 12th in the lMS CYCA's SOPS last season, also competing in the 1989 division last year. Morning Tide won IMS division 3 of the Sydney-CofTs Harbour race. Owner/skipper Bleakley ha s C YCA short ocean pointscore la st summer. sailed in most long ocean races off the Australian East Crew: J. Lawler (Skipper) (7), P. Robinson (Navigator) Coast, plus races to Vanuatu and Noumea. (9), T. Cosh (3) , M. Groscops (4) , J. Lawler (10), B. Loudon (3) . I. McIntosh (2).

MERCEDES IV(ll)-1224 NADIAIV (5)- 4040 LOA 12 .80m; IMS RATING LOA 12.2m; !OR/IMS RATING Designer: Ted Kaufman (Aust) Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Type: Two Tonner. Year Built: 1974 Type: Farr 40. Year Built: 1984 Owner/Skipper: Peter Stronach Owner/Skipper: Teki Dalton Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW This will be the 12th Sydney-Hobart race for this Canberra-based yachtsman Teki Dalton will be sailing hi s powerful 42-footer designed and skippered by Ted Kauf­ 10th Sydney Hobart this yea r, his sixth with Nadia JV, man in the 1975 Admiral's Cup in England. Mercedes / Vis whichlast year finished 14th overall, an excellent effort in a now enjoying a new lease of life under IMS handicapping, Southern Cross Cup year. Nad ia IV has not ra ced much placing 4th in IOR in Division A of the 1989 Sydney chis season with most of her regular crew overseas. Hobart and 9th overall under IMS handicaps. She also However, the majority will be back for the Hobart and the won Division A of the 1989 Sydney to Mooloolaba race. 1988-89 CYCA Blue Water champion should again be Crew: P. Stronach (Skipper) (3) , D. Aubrey (Navigator) close to the money. (6), T. Allison (3), A. Heenan (8) , W. Perriman (1), P. Crew: T. Dalton (S kipper) (9) , D. Doyle (Navigator) (7) , Simpson, R. Hislop (1), 1. Adamson. 3 TBA, T. Dodds (5) , G. Holt (5), D. McLean (5), J. Smith (5).

NEVER A DULL MOMENT (1)- 4715 MERCEDES V (7)- 2140 LOA 12.5m; IMS RATING LOA 12.60m; IMS RA TING Designer:John King Designer: Scott Kaufman (Aust) Type:Jarkan 12.5. Year Built: 1989 Type: Old rule two tonner. Year Built: 1977 Owner/Skipper: Colin Wilson Owner/Skipper: Geoffrey Barker Club: Kiama Cruising Yacht Club, NSW Club: Tanilba Amateur Sailing Club, NSW. Built by BOC C hallenge sai lor Kanga Binlcs, this John Originally designed for Ted Kaufman by hi s son, Scott, King 40-footcr was designed for IMS racing and is a she wa an unsuccessful triallist for the 1977 Admiral's Cup development of Apple Endeavour, which Birtlcs raced in team. Since then, Mercedes V has had a number of owners the Bicentennial Around Australia Race. Never a Dull but has done only limited ocean racing in recent years. Moment had its first Hobart las t year, finishing 33rd overall Wh'tle she never made the Admiral's C up, Mercedes V did and fourth in her IMS division, and since then has sailed sail for NSW and later Papua New Guinea in a Southern consistently well under the IMS handicap category. Cross Cup se ries. Crew: C. Wilson (S kipper) (2).

MIRRABOOKA (3)-A 8 NEW HORIZONS (0) - M 236 '"< LOA 14.27m; IMS RATING LOA 11.24m; IMS RATING Designer: German Frers (Arg) Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: Cruiser/racer. Year Built: 1987 Type: Cavalier 37. Year Built: 1985 Owner/Skipper: john & Peter Bennetto Owner/Skipper: Mike Kelaher Club: Royal Yacht C lub of Tasmania, Tas. Club: Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, NSW. Modification of a Swan 46, Mi"abooka will be sa iling in Lake Macquarie yachtsman Mike Kclaher has had che her fourth Sydney Hobart for veteran Tasmanian yachts­ sa me crew for fi ve years and after four Sydney-Gold Coast man John Bennetto and his son, Peter. John Bennetto will and three Lord Howe Island races he ha s decided to contest be sailing in hi s 30th Sydney Hobart - the first was back his first Sydney Hobart with hi s Cavalier 37, an excellent in 1947. Navigator Simon Firth will be notching up his ocean-going cruiser racer, and an enthusiastic crew. 18th race, helmsman Lester Nibbs his 20th " Hobart". Crew: M. Kelaher (Skipper). C. Morris (Navigator) (2), Mi"abooka placed 5th overall. 3rd in Division 1 of new W. Ansriss. J. Blackett. C. Brunt, C. Hall (1). 0. Hills (2), IMS ca tegory las t year. J. Pa yne, C. Piggott.

MORE IMAGINATION (0)- YC 3880 LOA 9.4m; IMS RATING NIMROD II (3)- G 300 Designer: Bruce Farr Type: Noelex 30. Year Built: 1982 LOA 11.6m; IMS RATING Owner/Skipper: Terry Nicholas Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Club: Cruising Yacht Club of South A ustralia, SA. Type: Farr 11 .6. Year Built: 1979 Owner/Skipper: Ian Watson. One of the smaller yachts in the fl eet, More Jm agir1ario11 Club: Royal Geelong Yacht Club, Vic. competed last year, albeit well back in the fl eet, but without da mage. In the past offshore season in South Winner of the 1980 Melbourne to Hobart West Coaster, Australian waters she has won the Kinnaird Offshore C up this 11 yea r old Farr 11. 6 was poorly handisca pped under and placed 1st in JOG and 2nd in Division 2 of the IOR and her crew from Geelong hope she will do better under the IMS handicapping category. Owner Ian Watson Adelaide to Port Lin coln ra ce. Crew: T. Nicholas (Skipper) (1 ). G. Nicholas (Navigator) has put together a most experienced crew for the 1990 race. (2). R. Boath (1). 1. Doyle. T HE F L E ET F O R HOBART 1 9 9 0

OZ FIRE (0) - M 16 LOA: 13.79m !OR/IMS RATING NORTHERN SECURITIES (6) - R 106 Designer: Alan Mummery (NZ) LOA 10.0lm; !OR/IMS RATING Type: Mummery 45. Year Built: 1990 Designer: Van de Stadt (Holland) Owner/Skipper: Doug Coulter Type: Three-quarter Tonner. Year Built: 1982 Club: Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, NSW. Owner/Skipper: Richard Latham Newly launched 45-footer which is a sistership to cra ck Club: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. Kiwi ocean racer let Firt, but with a li ft keel and new Previously raced as A udacit y, this Van de Stadt DB2 carbon fibre deck. Skipper Doug Coulter will be sailing finished second in the 1982 Sydney Hobart. She sailed her his sevench race to Hobart but fo r Albert Mitchell it will first Ho bart fo r Richard Latham last year, pl acing 13th in be his 29th race - including twi ce on overall winners her IO R division and fi fth in her IMS division. This boat Rival and Pi ccolo . In fac t, the crew has between them some goes well in either very li ght or very heavy conditions. 120 Hobarts. Oz Firt should be a prominent co mpetitor in Crew: R. Latham (S kipper) (5) , R. Moores (N avigator) this year's Hobart. (8), K. Cumin (! ), P. Fl etcher (3). B. Mcindoe (2), C. Crew: J. Lawler (Skipper) (7). P. Robinson (Navigator) N aylor (I), R. Sa lter. (9), T . Cosh (3), M . Groscops (4), J. Lawler (10), B. Loudon (3), 1. McI ntosh (2).

NUZULU (1) - B 126 PRIME FACTOR (5) - 4988 LOA 9.66m; !OR RATING LOA 12.14m; !OR RA TING Designer: Kell Steinman (Aust) Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Type: HalfTonner. Year Built: 1984 Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1987 Owner/Skipper: Ed Psaltis Owner/Skipper: Bob Brady Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW Winner of the 1985 Sydncy-Mooloolaba race, N uz:uJi4 has Makine a welcome return to offshore racing, Prim t Fa ctory done most of its racing in Victorian waters with consider­ won the CYCA's 1989~90 Blue Water poincscore, placin g able success. Has recently raced as Dafra Sunscreens 11th overall and 6th in IOR Division B of the la st Sydney including last yea rs Sydney-Hobart, in whi ch hi s fa st Half Hobart. Ea rlier she finished 2nd in Southern Cross Cup Tonner placed 31st overall and fou rth in its IO R division. selection tri als and sail ed in third•pla ced Australian Crew: Ed Psaltis (S kipper) (8), Stuard Duff (I), Peter N ational tea m. In 1989 she placed 2nd overall in Sydney• Gold Coast race. Ward (1)......

RAGAMUFFIN (4) -KA 70 LOA 24. !Jm; IOR RA TING Designer: German Frers (Arg) ONCE AJOLL Y SWAGMAN (3) - F611 Type: Maxi. Year Built: 1974 Owner/Skipper: Syd Fischer LOA 12.12m; !OR RA TING Club: Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, NSW. Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1987 As Bumbltbtt 4, this powerful maxi yacht took line Owner/Skipper: Alan Brierty honours in the 1979 Sydney Hoba rt, repeatin g that victory Club: Fremantle Sailing Club, WA. as Ragamuffi rt in 1988 - givin g veteran yac htsman Syd Fischer hi s first major trophy in the ocean classic. Fischer. Placed 18th in las t yea r's Hobart and sin ce sold by who has sailed in 21 Hobarts, plus ca ptaining Australi an Victorian Chas Jacobsen to Perth yachts man Alan Brie rty teams in the Ad miral's Cup, has taken time off fro m his who ha s had considerable success chis yea r, winning the 1992 America 's C up C hallenge to aga in skipper Ragam uf­ IOR divisions of the Fremantle-Albany ocea n; the Indian fin to Hobart. O cean race , the Hall s Head race and the Grand Prix !OR Crew: S. Fischer (Skip pe r) (21 ), T . Eadie (Navigator) series offFremantle. Also entered fo r O ne Ton le vel rat ing (14), A. Ellis (23), M . Summerton (19), J. Noakes (18), R. championship as part of the Asia Pa cific ocean raci ng Gumley (12), C. Dalr ymple-Hay (6), A. Buckland (3), D. championships. Giles (4), I. Hobbs (5), J. Hall am (I), N . Jones (11 ), D. C rai g (5), G. French (10), J. Munsen (12), C. Fischer (1), P. McCallum, R. Adams, D. Denh olm. H. Johnson, A. Macl aren. D. D er.

RATTLE AND HUM (0) - 6705 ONYA (0)- GJ LOA 12.0m; IMS RATING LOA 12.91m; IMS RATING Designer: Mike Muir (NZ) Designer: German Frers (Arg) Type: Muir 40. Year Built: 1989 Type: Ferrs 40. Year Built: 1986 Owner/Skipper: Kaoru Ogimi/Nobuhiro Kishimoto Owner/Skipper: Peter Rysdyk Club: Nippon Ocean Racing Club,Japan. Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. This interesting 49-footer, owned by fi ve Japanese yachts­ Veteran yachtsman Peter Rysd yk recently bough t this men, has completed a fu ll and successful season in Frers 40 with plans fo r competing in long races and Pac ifi c Welli ngton, NZ . After the Sydney Hobart she will be cruising in comfo rt . Rysdyk has competed in 13 Hobarts, delivered to Melbourne to contes t the 1991 Yamaha C upb seven ra ces to Mooloolaba, six to Gladstone and many Melbourne-Osaka two•handcd race, her crew being races to Lord Howe Island. Rysdyk is well known for his N obuhiro Kishimoto and N ew Zealander Michael roles in orga ni sing and promoting the Lord Howe Island, Hughes. Head of the owners' syndicate is Kaoru Ogimi, Gold Coast and Noumea ocean races fo r his clubs, the winner of the 1987 Melbourne-Osaka race. Gosford Sa iling Club and the C YCA. Crew: N . Kishimoto (Skipper), M . Muir (3), T . Duffy, Crew: P. Rysdyk (Skipper) (13), G. lleulke, G. Fletcher, M . Fujimoto, G. Goddard (2). R. Herbison(2), J. Mines . T . Hagon. P. Kn ights. D . O 'Connor (20), J. Whurer. K. Ogimi (I), ll. Tel fo rd, M. Utada, G. Wagstaff.

OVERDRAFT (3) - 101 LOA 12.4m; IMS RA TING Designer:John Green (Aust) RELENTLESS (0) -4782 Type: Racer/cruiser. Year Built: 1984 LOA 10.8m; IOR RA TING Owner/Skipper: Dayle Smith Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Club: Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Qld. Type: Davidson 34. Year Built: 1989 Owner Dayle Smith, a prominent Brisbane ba rrister and Owner/Skipper: John O'Brien yachtsman has sai led many miles sin ce la unching Ovt rdraft Club: Botany Bay Yacht Club, NSW. in 1988, including two Brisbane-Noumea races, three to First Hobart race fo r Refemfess , which comes from th e Hobart and seven fro m Brisbane to Gladstone. In the 1987 same Davidson 34 mould of Melbourne builder Ken Jago race to Noumea she placed second on !O R and in 1989 which produced the 1988 Sydney Hobart winner /111,siori. took line honours and fir st on handica p. His crew includes Will be one of a fl eet within a fl eet of these Three-quarter his son Kerryn. T onners contesting the 1990 Sydney Hobart. Crew: D. Smith (Skipper) (7) , R. T renkemp, K. Adam (3), C. Johnson. R. Lister, S. Markwell (2). S. Donaghue, D. Smith (3), K.Smith (2), K. Willis (I). T H E F L EE T FO R HOBART 1 9 9 0

RENEGADE (1) - SA 98 SCORPIO (2) - Sm 2418 LOA 12 .25m; IMS R A TING LOA 10.44m; IM S RATING Designer: Ron Holland (Ire) Designer: Allan Blackburn (Aust) Type: Holland 40. Year Built: 1985 Type: Duncanson 34. Year Built: 1976 Owner/Skipper: Bob Francis Owner/Skipper: Michael H aller Club: Royal South Australian Yacht Squadro n, SA. Club: Sandringham Yacht Club, Vic. Owner Bob Francis is one of South Australia's most 1 This stoutl y-built Duncanson 34 has not raced to Hobart ex peri enced offshore racing ski ppers, with a ca reer cover­ sin ce 1982 when she finished 46th fo r her then Tasmanian ing 24 years, including seven Sydney Hobart races and one owner. More recently, however, she ha s competed in the Melbourne to Hobart. Re11egade's wins in the past few 1989 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour race. seasons have included IO R State C ham pionship of SA, Crew: M . Hall er (Ski pper), G. Stevens (Navigator), L Neptune Island Race. Port Lin coln Ra ce and Port Lincoln Higgin, C. Higgins , K. Shi mmin (6), R. Warren (6) , R. Weck Regatta. Watkins (6). Crew: R. Francis (S kipper) (8), S. Cowell (Nav igator) (4), D. H urford (2) . G. Lay, W. Hartley (2). M. Hall , P. Henshall , G. Davis. P. Van-Vugt.

ROTHMANS (0)- K 100 SHERATON HOBART (4) - 411 7 LOA 24.39m; !OR RATING LOA 12.22m; IOR RATING Designer: Robert Humphreys (UK) Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Type: Maxi. Year Built: 1989 Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1984 Owner/ Skipper : Lawrie Smith Owner/Skipper: Ian Smith C lub: Isis Corinthian Yacht C lub, UK. Club: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. Line honours favourite, Roth ma11s thi s year completed rhc Top placed T as manian yacht in last NorTel Sydney gruelling Whitbread round-the-world ra ce, fi ni shing Hobart, thi s well-sailed Fa rr 40 is sponsored by the fo urth overall and second sloop. Since then, the 80-foorer Sheraton Hobart hotel. Her record incl udes thi rd in 1988 ha s won ln record time the Round Island Race, also taking Sydney-Gold Coast race, 6th overall in t 988 Sydney first place on IOR. Her crew will include nine of the 16 Hobart and 15th in la st year's race, with 7th in IOR Whitbread crew headed by sk ipper Lawrie Smith, a Division 8 . She also won Illingw0rth Division 8, based fo rmer O lympian, America's Cup helmsman and worl d on Australian TCFs, which includes an age allowance. champion sa ilor. Several cxpat Aussies aboard in clude Experienced crew includes orchardist Ian Smith (10 "Shag" Morton and David Powys. Sydney-Hobarts) and Tourism Tas mania promotions man Crew: L. Smith (S kipper) (2), V. Geake (Navigator). M. Kim Newstead (8). Bastenie, S. Clarke, B. Fi sher. A. Halsey, B. Heffernan, Crew: I. Smith (Skipper) (15), S. Geeves (Navigator) (4), M. Hutc hinson, G. Magui re, C. Moody, K. Morton, R. K . Newstead (5), P. Hopkins (8), R. Cohen (4), N. T all Pi ck thall, D. Powys (3). S. Standbridge, G. Stanle y, E. (9). W. Batt (3), R. Howlett (15), R. As hlin (10) , A. Sutherl and, R. Tomolinson, T. Warren, P. Woodbridge. Edwa rds (2).

SINGAPORE GIRL (5) - 4048 RUFF 'N TUMBLE (2) - MH 80 LOA 10.2m; !OR RA TING Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) LOA 13.0m; IMS RA TING Type: Three~quarter Tonner. Year Built: 1985 Designer: Peter Cole (Australia) Owner/Skipper: Peter Steigrad /Siew Shaw Her Type: Cole 43. Year Built: 1982 Club: Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, NSW. Owner/Skipper: Lindsay Rose Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Sponsored by Singapore Airl ines. the yac ht will represent Singapore in the NorTel Asia Pacific offshore cham­ Ruff '11 Tumble is one of the cla ss ic 43-foote rs designed by pionships w hich in clude the Sydney Hobart. The crew Peter Cole. fast an d attractive looking yachts which, while includes several Si ngaporeans with Singapore's most out-designed under IOR still race competi tively under successful din ghy helmsman. Siew Sha w Her. as rhe ~M S. Raif[ ' ti Tumble has competed in most major races nominated skipper. owner Peter Steigrad as navigator and along the East Coast of Australia and also to Lord Howe Tony Poole as sai ling master. Singapore Girl's racing Island. Her crew thi s year includes the owner's 1'6-year­ successes incl ude races to the Gold Coast, Mooloolaba and old son Ashley and more veteran sa ilors Terr y Pike, Keith C YCA Blue Water championship. Va n Munster. Duncan Dyer and Roge r Walton from Crew: S. Her (Skipper). P. Stcigrad (Navigator (5), P. Gosford Sail ing Club. Bremner (8), L. Chee, D. Lee, J. Oliver (2) , T. Poole (sailing master), I. Tan, L. Ward (2).

SAGACIOUS (0)-KA 4000 LOA 12.0Sm; IOR RA TING Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) SIR THOMAS SOPWITH (2) - OYC 6 Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1987 Owner/Skipper : Gar y Appleb y LOA 21.94m; IOR RATING Club: Cruising Yacht Club of A ustralia, NSW. Design er : A. Buchanan (UK) Type: Training Ketch. Year Built: One of the best Fa rr O ne Ta nners bu ilt in recent yea rs, Owner/Skipper: Ocean Youth Club of Australia Sagacious has represented Australia in the 1987 Southern C lub: Ocean Yo uth Club of Australia, NSW. Cross Cup. 1988 Kenwood Cup. 1987 and 1989 Admiral 's C up, as well as competing in the 1988 One Ton Cup and This fi ne old British ketch has been made available over an three Sydney Hobarts. Her Hobart records include: 1987 extended pe ri od by Diskborough as the sail training vessel - 8th overall, 2nd in division; 1989 - 2nd overall. 2nd in fo r the Ocean Youth Club of Australi a. She retired from division. Also entered for Australi an One Ton level rating t lat yea r's ra ce but the club again hopes to provide an championshi p, with sights on beating Ultimme Challenge adventure voyage to and from hobarr for 16 youngsters in the Hobart classic. under the gui da nce of experienced yachtsmen and women. Crew: G. Appleby (Skipper) (7). P. Morgan (Navigator) (7), K. Batton. (1). M. Coots (7) . F. Johnson (2 1), C. Jones (7). S. K ulmar (9), P. Messenger (6). L. Minehan (8) . J. Sc holten (7) . 8. Stevens (8).

SAGACIOUS II (2) - Sm 4000 SOLAND RA (4) - A 55 LOA 13 .08m; !OR/IM S RATING LOA 10.14m; !OR/IMS RATING Designer: Peter Cole (A ustralia) Designer: Sparkman & Stephens (USA) Type: Nantucket 43. Year Built: 1981 Type: S&S 34. Year Built: 1984 Owner/Skipper : Pauljacka Owner/Skipper: Craig Escott Club: Sandringham Yach t C lub, Vic. C lub: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. Owner Paul Jacka, the present Commodore of Sandrin g­ Yet another of those rema rk able S&S 34s designed 20 ham Ya cht C lu b. has sailed in three previous Hobarrs. but years ago yet still winning ocean races. Sola ndra is owned this will be his first with Sagacio 11 s fl, although he brought by C raig Escott and hi s fat her and si nce her launching in the yac ht north to co ntes t the 1989 Pinwater to Coffs 1984 has gained 1st place IO R in the Melbourne-Hobart. Harbour race. Sagacious II is a cruiser/racer and Jacka twice winning Illingworth Division D of the Sydney hopes to enter the IMS category as well as IO R. Hobart as well as wi nning IMS Division C last yea r. This Crew: P. Jacka (Skipper) (3). C. Costcnoble (Navigator) yea r Solandra rook 1st place overall under IMS and PHS (2). J. Fl etcher (11 ). G. Henderson (3). I. Holding, R. handicaps in the inaugural Sydney to Whitsun days race. Kenn y. G. McColl Jones (1). A. Monahan, R. Ware. M. Crew: C. Escott (Ski pper) (9), M. Aspina ll (3). R. Welsh. Drummond. T. Jones (2), M. McAllister (2). J. Riordan _ ••• rln-r I ...... lh------~ T H E F L E ET F O R 7 9 g () HOBART 1 9 9 0

SWEET CAROLINE (1)- KH 1180 LOA 13.37m; IMS RATING SOUTHERN VENTURE (1)- 630 Designer: Ed Dubois (UK) LOA 9.98m; IMS RATING Type: R acer/cruiser . Year Built: 1982 Designer: Hank Kauffman (Aust) Owner/Skipper: Stephen Ellis Type: Northshore 33. Year Built: 1981 C lub: Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Hong Kong. Owner/Skipper: Alan Grice Originally owned in Australia, S1veet Caro/i,ie was skip­ C lub: Royal Yacht C lub of Tasmania, Tas. pered by Marshall Phillips in che 1982 C li pper Cup in Hobart gynaecologist D r Alan Gri ce is sa iling his second Hawaii and in the 1981 Sydney Hobart. For the past three Sydney Hobart race in Sou th en, Venture w hich he skip­ years expat Australi an Stephen Ellis ha s sailed her regular­ pered in the 1988 Tall Ships race from Hoban to Sydney ly and competitively in Hong Kong, winning the overall and the 1989 Sydney Hobart. T he yacht's best result has Olympic course and offshore championships each yea r. been third in the 1988 Commonweahh Bank Regarta, but Recently upgraded w ith new mast and other eq uipment, among Dr Grace's sailing achi evements has been a she ha s a new lease oflifc and should be a strong contender sin glehanded circumnavigation of Tasmania 's hi storic in the IMS handicap category. Bruny Island. Crew: S. Ell is (Skipper) (3), G. Pryor (Navigator), J. Brinkers (2). B. Clark (3), S. Pickering (2), N . Brooke, Dr T. Trod, C. West, C. Long. T. Lamour (1).

TERENCE ] (1)- 272 ST AND ASIDE (0) - 4882 LOA 13.8m; IMS RATING LOA 12.28m; IMS RA TING Designer: Keith Ra tcliffe (Aust) Dcsigncr:Jim Young (NZ) Type: Ketch. Y car Built: 1983 Type: Young 12. Year Built: 1990 Owner/ Skipper: Keith R atcliffe Owner/Skipper: Brian Conroy/Ian Lewis C lub: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. C lub: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. This comfortable cruising ketch was designed and built by One of the relatively new boats in the fl eer, this Young 12 her owner, veteran Hobart yachts man Keith Ratcliffe, was due tO be launched in New Zealand in la te November. w ho ha s been racing and cruising Out of Hobart fo r the Ian Lewis, who w ill be the skipper to Hobart, has sail ed in past 43 years. Keith won the Arbitrary Division of the 11 Sydney Hobart races as well as most other major races inaugural Sydney-Vanuatu race with Tere,, ce J but last off the Australian Eas t Coas. This boat, built of high-tech year was hi s fi rst Sydney-Hobart with the ketch. com posite mmateria ls will be 3 strong contender fo r IMS Crew: K. Ratcliffe (S kipper) (10), J. Foalc (Navigator) (2), honours. P. Aird. W. Aird (3). L. Cadzow (1). G. Foalc (2). W. Gregori (1). S. lbbocc.

THE ROPERUNNER (8)- 4499 STAR FERRY (4) - MH 68 LOA 12.2m; IOR RA TING LOA 11 .29m; IOR RA TING D esigner : Bruce Farr (NZ) Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1979 Type: Davidson 37. Year Built: 1980 Owner/Skipper : Michael Ward Owner/Skipper:John Conroy C lub: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. C lub: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Now based in Hobart, Roperwmer o ri ginally represented Remarkable boat, built ori ginall y as Gold Coast Express she New Zealand in the 198 1 Southern C ross Cup. While won every ra ce of her cla ss at Clipper Cup in Hawaii. owned in Melbourne. she notched up many successes, M ore recently raced as Middle Harbour Express, never including winning the Melbourne-Portl and race and the fa iling ro gain a division place in Sydney Ho bart races. la st Si r T homas Lipton Cup, but was not raced from 1988 year placing 13th overall , 2nd in IOR Division C, 1st in until M .1y this year when Tasmani an Michael Ward Illingworth Division C, fo llowing alterations to keel and bought her. Her skipper for the Sydney Hobart will be the rudder by Scott Jutson. Now sailing into her second experienced Da vid Norman w ho has contested eight decade with new owner John Conroy and keen new crew. Sydney Hobart races and 15 M aria Island races. Crew: J. Conroy (Skipper) (5), M. Fletcher, M. Hender­ Crew: D. Norman (S kipper) (8), P. Bras in gron (Naviga­ son (7), P. Kennedy (2), T. Levett. K. Maloney, I. Pa gett, tor) (6). M. Ball (3). R. Bolt (6), T. Eldershaw, R. Lewis W. Sanfit, D. Swales. (5). R. Mat hews (6), M. Ward, S. Wil son (4).

SUELAN (0) - L 41 INSATIABLE (3) - S79 LOA 12.33m; IMS RATING Designer: Ben Lexcen (Aust) LOA 12. 14m; !OR/IMS RA TING Type: Yachting World 40. Year B uilt: 1985 D esigner: Van De Stadt Owner/Skipper:J o hn Buckland Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1985 Club: Port Lincoln Yach t Club, SA. Owner/Skipper: George Wilson C lub: Royal Melbo urne Yacht Squadron, Vic. One of the somewhat rare entries from Port Lincoln. Sue/an has been owned for just on a year by John Bac k ra cing again in her fourth Sydney Hobart, Insatiable Buckland. But in that time the Lexcen-designcd 40-footer was forced to retire from the 1988 race and had a fairly has notched up a second in the IM S division of the 150 slow finish last year. Wilson and his crew arc experi enced nautical mile Adelaide-Port Lincoln race and second ocean racers and arc keen to finish the race in better spirits overall in Division I of the Pon Lin coln local racing fleet (a nd time) this year. for the 1989-90 season. Crew: G. Wi lson (S kipper) (4). C. Nonhirop (Navigator) Crew: J. Buckland (Skipper) (2). G. Bascombe. L. (2), D. GueSI (3). N. Henderson (2). G. H yde (1). L. Place. "" Burgess. G. J ames (1), K. Nisbett, B. Roach (1). S. G. Robercs ( !), I. Sheekey. Seeman (1). S. Sibich, W. Smith.

SUREFOOT (2) - S29 \fl"' LOA 11.65m; IMS RATING THUNDER (0) - SA 500 D esigner: Peter Norlin (Swed) · LOA 14.33m; IOR/ IMS RATING Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1981 D esigner: Bob Stevens Owner/Skipper: Dennis M illikan T ype: Cruiser/ racer . Year Built: 1987 Club: Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, Vic. Owner/Skipper: Bob Stevens Much travell ed 39-foorcr w hich sai led fo r Sweden in the C lub: Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron, SA. 1982 Sardinia cup and bter for Papua New Guinea in the 1983 Admiral's C up and Southern Cross Cup. Since being Bob Stevens, designer. builder. owner and skipper of owned by Melbourne yachtsman Dennis Millikan, S 11re­ Thunder has been a member of the Royal South Australian Joo t has finished 2nd in the C HS division of the 1989 Yacht Squadron for more than 40 ye.1rs and ha s cruisd and Melbourne-Hobart , first in the CH S divi sion of the raced extensivel y in South Australi an waters between M elbourne-Portland and 2nd in the C H S di vision of the Adelaide, Kangaroo Island and Port Lin coln since 1950. 1990 Melbourne-G ra ssy (Ki ng Island) race. Crew: R. P. Stevens (Skipper/ N av igator), P. Stevens (2), Crew: D. Millikan (Skipper) (9). A. McKenzie (Naviga­ C . Lauthicr (2), R. Scott, A. De-Bruin, P. Howden, V. tor) (6). R. Hiam (6). P. lnchbold (6). R. Pl cydell (4). I. Veale, T . Spence r. D. De-Bruin, D. Burns. Prideaux. D. Srcvens (2). A. Weber (3). T H E F L E ET F O R HOBART 1 9 9 0

ULTIMATE CHALLENGE (2)- KA Sm2 TOO IMPETUOUS (6) -3663 LOA 12.17m; !OR RATING LOA 12.8m; IMS RATING Designer: Ed Dubois (UK) Designer: Ron Holland (Ireland) Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1987 Type: !OR Two Tonner. Year Built: 1983 Owner/Skipper: Lou Abrahams Owner/Skipper: Robert Steel Club: Sandringham Yacht Club, Vic. Club: Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, NSW. Member of Australia's Admiral's Cup tea m in 1987, This old-rating IOR Two Tonner has a new owner who is Ultimate Cl,olfe,ige won this race overall last year after taking her to Hobart for the first time. Sailing under IMS being fitted with a new keel and rudder designed by IOR fo r the first time in this yea r's Jupiter's Sydney-Gold Coast optimiser Scott Jutson. Since her brilliant NorTel Sydney ra ce, Too Im petuous won Class Ill (IMS) and shoul d again Hoban race win, Ultima te Clio llenge has competed in the be a strong contender in C lass Ill of the Sydney Hobart. Kenwood C up in Hawaii , wi nnin g the long race of the Class III is a cl ass mainly for older IOR yac hts whi ch do se ries, the 350nm Kaula Cup Race. This will be the 28th not quite meet the complete requirements of IMS as far as Hobart fo r owner/skipper Lou Abrahams, the only accommodati on goes. Vi ctorian to have won the bluewatcr classic twice. Crew: L. Abrahams (Skipper/Navigator) (27), G. Sheard Crew: B. Steele (Skipper) (8), P. Glynn (7) , R. Daley (6)1 P. Weiley (3), R. Wei ley, N. Newton (3). (3), C. Anderson (11 ). G. Schipper (8), G. Simmons (10). G. Ferguson (8), R. Simpson (9). J. Gash (1), G. Jamieso n (2), B. Case (2) .

TRADITION (2) - 777 LOA 12.19m; IMS RATING UPTOWN GIRL (14)-4182 Designer: Max Creese (Aust) Type: Cruiser/racer. Year Built: 1984 LOA 12.5m; IMS RA TING Owner/Skipper: David Gould Designer: Doug Peterson (US) Club: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. Type: Masthead Sloop. Year Built: 1977 Owner/Skipper: Rod Winton David Gough is regular visito r to the wa rmer northern Club: Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, NSW. waters ofNSW and Queensland, hav ing competed in four Sydney-Gold Coast ra ces in this T as manian-des igned and Veteran IOR racing yacht still sa iling with success under built comfortable cruising 40-footer. this year taking 2nd IMS. Up town G irl made history in the last place in PHS Division B. David is famous among Sydney Sydney-Hobart, sailing as a member of the Soviet team in Hobart yachties as the maker of sca llop pies, sold around the Southern Cross Cup, winning Illingworth Division A the Hobart waterfront. After the 1990 Sydney Tradition and pla cin g second in IMS Division B. Al ways sailed well will have completed 18 Bass Strait crossings since 1986. by owner Rod Winton who has skippered her in seven of Crew: D. Gough (Skipper) (2). G. Forward (1). C. her 14 Hobarts. · Francis, L. Gabriel, M. Hunt, R. Loney, C. Mirroson, P. Stubs (I ).

TREV ASSA (4)- 1030 LOA 14.7m; IMS RATING Designer: E.J . Muir (Aust) VENDETTA (0) - 1979 Type: Cruiser/racer. Year Built: 1971 LOA 13.41m; !OR RATING Owner/Skipper: Russell Duffield Designer: J. Laurent Giles (UK) Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW Type: Moody 44. Year Built: 1976 A veteran yacht and its even more veteran skipper making Owner/Skipper: Charles Reid a comeback to the Sydney Hobart with this cruiser/racer Club: Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, NZ. designed and built in Tasmania 19 years ago. Russell This comfortable cruiser/ racer has competed in two races Duffield first sa iled to Hobart aboard the schooner .Mistral from Tauranga (NZ) to Port Vila. The owner's fou r sons, /Jin 1946 and has been sailing Trtvassa in many long ocean C harles, Andrew. Thomas and Richard will be crewing in races since 1972 includin g the 1988 T all Ships Race. the Hobart race, the eldest having races before and all four Another ve teran in the crew is 70-year-old William ha ving sailed on the return voyages from the islands, plus Huxley. cruises to Noumea and the Loyalty Islands. Crew: F. Duffield (Skipper), F. Buckley (Navigator), M. Cummins, T. Delange, W. Huxley, A. Millar, W. Rixon, H, Wardrop.

TURKEY CONNECTION (0) - PR 77 VENINDE Ill (I) - 2354 LOA 11. 9m; IMS RA TING LOA 10.26m; !OR/ IMS RATING Designer: Sparkman & Stephen, (USA) Designer: Ed Dubois (UK) Type: S&S 39. Year Built: 1986 Type: Dubois 34. Year Built: 1982 Owner/Skipper: David Frost Owner/Skipper: Frank Walker Club: Princess Royal Sailing Club, WA. Club: Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, NSW. One of the rare entries to come fr om Albany. WA, this Although des igned in the early 1980s. the Dubois 34 is sti ll well fo und sloop has been raced regularly by its crew since a well-performed boat and in a downhill Hobart this boat 1986, including a Freman tle-Bali race. three Fremantl e to could do well in the IMS category. Veniride Ill fini shed Albany races and three Albany to Esperance events. The third in the RPAYC's long offshore IOR pointscore last best result has been 2nd in IMS Division l in thi s yea rs season and was third in the Short-Handed Sailing Associa­ race from Fremantlc to Albany. tion's winter series this year. Crew: D. frost (Skipper), A. Davies (Navigator). M. Crew: F. Walk er (Skipper) (3). ll. Neil (Navigator) (3), Giuntoli , R. Harrison, R. Hawkins (1), G. Moun sey, P. R. Palmer, M. Stott (1). P. Stott. R. Sutton. T. Sutton (I). O'Dea. R. Sca nl on.

VENTURE 1 (3) - KA 950 TURKEY SHOOT (7)- TYC 1147 LOA 12.20m; !OR RA TING LOA 12.22m; !OR/IMS RA TING Designer: German Frers (Argen) Designer: Ron Holland (Ire) Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1985 Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1982 Owner/Skipper: Max Ryan Owner/ Skipper: Alfred Hutton Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Club: Tamar Yacht Club, Tas. With hi s Kenwood Cup SO-footer Cyclone now in Japan, Turkey Sli oot has sa iled in a major ocean race every yea r Max Ryan has decided to ca mpaign Ven turt 1 for the sin ce she was lau nched, sa iling under va rious owners. Her Australian One Ton level ratin g championshi p which new owner has sa iled in a number of Bass Strait races and includes the Sydney-Hobart. Originall y the first j oint four Sydney Harbour events and has put together a strong Venture fr om Melbourne. the yacht wa s a member of the crew this yea r with 52 previous Hobar t races between winning Australian team in the 1988 Kenwood Cup in them. Turkey Slroot la st yea r fini shed 16th under the IM S Hawa ii . Raced under charter to Hobart last year, pl acing handicapping category. 8th overall and 5th in division. Crew: A. Hutton (Skipper) (4). K . Jaggar (Navigator) Crew: M. Ryan (Skipper) (5), G. Bergman (9). D. (13), J. Hutton (4) , G. Alway (5). L. Fau lkner (2), M. Blanchfield (5). S. Green (5). L. Jamison. J. Morgan. A. Bla xell (6). I. Lo rigan (4), P. Turner (5). I. Ross (6). Periera. T H E F L E ET F O R HOBART 1 9 9 0

SWEET CAROLINE (1)- KH 1180 LOA 13 .37m; IMS RA TING SOUTHERN VENTURE (1) -630 Designer: Ed Dubois (UK) LOA 9.98m; IMS RATING Type: Racer/cruiser. Year Built: 1982 Designer: Hank Kauffman (Aust) Owner/Skipper: Stephen Ellis Type: Northshore 33. Year Built: 1981 C lub: Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Hong Kong. Owner/ Skipper: Alan Grice O riginall y owned in Australi a, Sweet Caroline was skip­ Club: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. pered by Marshall Phillips in the 1982 Clipper Cup in Hobart gynaecologist Dr Alan Grice is sa iling his second Hawaii and in the 198 1 Sydney Hobart. For the past three Sydney Hobart race in Southern Vemure which he skip­ yea rs ex pat Australian Stephen Elli s has sailed her regular­ pered in the 1988 T all Ships race from Hobart to Sydney ly and competitivel y in Hong Kong, winnin g the overall and the 1989 Sydney Hobart. The yacht's best result has O lym pi c course and offshore championships each yea r. been third in the 1988 Commonwealth Bank Regatta, but Recently upgraded with new mast and other eq uipment, among Dr Grace's sailing achievements has been a she has a new lease of li fe and should be a strong contender singlehanded circumnavigation of Tasmania's histori c in the IMS handicap category. Bruny Island. Crew: S. Ellis (Sk ipper) (3). G. Pryor (Navigator), J. Brinker, (2), B. Clark (3), S. Pi ckering (2), N . Brooke, Dr T. T rod, C. West, C. Long, T . Lamour (!).

TERENCE} (1)- 272 STAND ASIDE (0)- 4882 LOA 13.8m; IMS RA TING LOA 12.28m; IMS RA TING Designer: Keith Ratcliffe (Aust) Designer:Jim Young (NZ) Type: Ketch. Year Built: 1983 Type: Young 12. Year Built: 1990 Owner/ Skipper: Keith Ratcliffe Owner/Skipper: Brian Conroy/Ian Lewis C lub: Royal Yacht C lub of Tasmania, Tas. Club: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. This comfortable cruising ketch was designed and built by One of the rel ati vely new boats in the fleet , thi s Young 12 her owner, veteran Hobart yachmnan Keith Ratcliffe, was due to be launched in New Zealand in late November. w ho has been racing and cruisin g out of Hobart for the Ian Lewis, who will be the skipper to Hobart, has sailed in pa st 43 years. Keith won the Arbitrary Oivisio11 of the 11 Sydney Hobart races as well as most other major ra ces in augu ral Sydney-Vanuatu race with Teren

THE ROPERUNNER (8)- 4499 STAR FERRY (4)- MH 68 LOA 12.2m; !OR RATING LOA 11.29m; !OR RATING Designer: Bruce Farr (NZ) Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1979 Type: Davidson 37. Year Built: 1980 Owner/ Skipper: Michael Ward Owner/ Skippcr:John Conroy Club: Royal Yacht C lub of Tasmania, Tas. C lub: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, NSW. Now based in Hobart, Roperwmer originally represented Remarkable boat, built originall y as Gold Coast Express she New Zea land in the 1981 Southern Cross Cup. Wh ile won every race of her cl ass at Cli pper Cup in Hawaii. owned in Melbourne, she notched up many successes, More recentl y raced as Middle Harbour Express, never including winning the Melbourne-Portland race and the fa ili ng to gain a division place in Sydney Hobart races, last Si r Thomas Lipton Cup, but was not raced from I 988 year placin g 13th overall , 2nd in IOR Division C, 1st in until May thi s year when Tasman ian Michael Ward Ill ingworth Division C, following alterations to keel and bought her. Her skipper fo r the Sydney Hobart will be the ru dder by"·Scott Jutson. Now sa iling into her second experienced David Norman who has contested eight decade with new owner j ohn Conroy and keen new crew. Sydney Hobart races and 15 Maria Island races. Crew: J. Conroy (S kipper) (5), M. Fletcher, M . Hender­ Crew: D. Norman (Sk ipper) (8), P. Bras ington (Naviga­ son (7) . P. Kennedy (2), T. Levett, K. Maloney, I. Pagett. tor) (6), M. Ba ll (3). R. Bolr (6), T . Eldcrshaw, R. Lewis W. Sa nfit, D. Swales. (5), R. Mathews (6). M. Ward. S. Wilson (4).

SUELAN (0) - L 41 INSATIABLE (3) - S79 LOA 12.33m; IMS RA TING Designer: Ben Lexcen (Aust) LOA 12.14m; !OR/IMS RA TING Type: Yachting World 40. Year Built: 1985 Designer: Van De Stadt Owner/Skipper:John Buckland Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1985 Club: Port Lincoln Yacht Club, SA. Owner/ Skipper: George Wilson Club: Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, Vic. O ne of the somewhat rare entries from Port Lin coln, Sue/an has been owned fo r j ust on a year by John Back racing again in her fourth Sydney Hobart, lll satiablr Buckland. But in tha t time the Lexccn-designed 40-footcr was fo rced to retire from the 1988 race and ha d a fa irly has notched up a second in the IM S division of the 150 slow fi ni sh last yea r. Wilson and his crew arc experienced nautica l mile Adelaide-Port Lincoln race and second ocean ra ce rs and arc keen co fin ish the race in better spirits overall in Div ision l of the Port Lin coln local racin g fleet (a nd ti me) this yea r. for the 1989-90 season. Crew: G. Wil son (Skipper) (4). C. Northtrop (Navigator) Crew: J. Buckland (S kipper) (2), G. Bascombe, L. (2), D. Guest (3). N. Henderson (2). G. Hyde(!), L. Plate. Burgess. G. J ames (1). K. Nisbett. B. Roach (!). S. G. Roberts (1), I. Shee key. Seeman (!). S. Sibich, W. Smith.

SUREFOOT (2) - S29 LOA 11.65m; IMS RA TING THUNDER (0)- SA 500 Designer: Peter Norlin (Swed) LOA 14.33m; !OR/ IMS RATING Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1981 Designer: Bob Stevens Owner/Skipper: Dennis Millikan Type: Cruiser/racer. Year Built: 1987 Club: Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, Vic. Owner/Skipper: Bob Stevens Much travelled 39-footer w hi ch sai led fo r Sweden in the C lub: Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron, SA. 1982 Sardinia cup and later fo r Papua New Guinea in the 1983 Admira l's C up and So uthern Cross Cup. Since being Bob Stevens. designer, builder, owner and ski pper of owned by Melbourne yachtsman Dennis Millikan. S 11re­ Thu,,der has been a member of the Ro ya l South Austra lian foo r has finished 2nd in the CHS division of the 1989 Yac ht Squadron for more than 40 years and has cru isd and Melbourn e-Hobart, first in the C HS division of the raced extensivel y in South Australian waters between Melbourne-Portland and 2nd in the C HS division of the Adelaide, Kan garoo Island and Port Lin coln sin ce 1950. 1990 Melbourne-Grassy (King Island) race. Crew: R. P. Stevens (S kippcr/ Navigaror), P. Stevens (2), Crew: D. Mi ll ikan (Skipper) (9), A. McKenzie (Naviga­ C. Lauthi er (2), R. Scott, A. De-Bruin, P. Howden. V. tor) (6), R. Hiam (6), P. ln chbold (6) . R. Plcydell (4). I. Vea le, T. Spencer, D. De-Bruin, D. Burns. Pridea ux, D. Srevens (2), A. Weber (3). T H E F L E ET F O R

WESTERLY (I) - 307S Y ARRINDI Ill (0) - 169 LOA 10.0m; IMS RA TING LOA 10.0Sm; IMS RA TING Designer: Compass Yachts (Aust) Designer:Joe Adams (Aust) Type: Mottle 33. Year Built: 1982 Type: Compass 33. Year Built: 1980 Owner/Skipper: Frederick Binns Owner/Skipper: William Mills Club: Bellerive Yacht Club, Tas. Club: Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Tas. Broke her mast off Tasman Island in 1988 Sydney Hobart Th.is boat is built for comfort and seaworthiness, rather than speed and has been ra ced mostl y in harbour racing, - almost within sight of her home port and the finish . 1 Wtsttrly has mostly been used for cruising, bur has had but this year has competed in Tasmania's ocean classic, the extra gear fitted and is better tuned for this year's race. Maria Island race. Crew: F. Binns (Skipper), F. Binns, D. Binns, A, Navigator is Dr Joe Cannon. Hudson, M. Koppleman, P. Sayers, J. Wearne. Crew: W. Mills (Skipper) (3), J. Cannon (Navigator) (8), G. Burleigh (3), D . Calbourn ( 11 ), J. Hall, R. McReadie, C. Mills.

WESTERN PORT VENTURE (I ) - WP 10 ZEUS II (4)- 327 LOA 12. tJm; !OR RA TING Designer: Ed Dubois LOA 9.2m; !OR/IMS RATING Type: One Tonner. Year Built: 1987 Designer: Peter Joubert (Aust) Owner/Skipper: Peter Grant Type: Currawong 30. Year Built: 1979 Club: Western Port Marina Yacht Squadron, Vic. Owner/Skipper: Jim Dunstan Club: Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, NSW. Former Joint Vtnture, this One Tonner was member of winning Australian team in 1987 Southern Cross Cup and Winner of the 1981 Sydney-Hobart (onl y the second Half was brought out of mothballs when purchased this year by Tonner co take first place on corrected time) Zeus II made Peter Grant, Les Martyn and Gary Charman, shareholders a return to the bluewater classic last yea r, placing 46th of the Western Port Marina in Victoria, With Ross Lloyd overall under IOR but 30th under IMS and took third (sailing master of Illu sion in 1988 Sydney Hobart win) as place in Illingworth Division D. Owner/skipper Dunstan sailing master, Western Port Ve,iturt will be a strong has sa iled in 12 Hobarts. He is Rear Commodore of the contender for Australian One Ton championship and Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. , Sydney Hobart classic. Crew: J. Dunstan (Skipper} (12), C. Irwin (Navigator) Crew: P. Grant (S kipper) (1). T . Delaney (!), P. (!), P. Colvin (!), R. McConnell (4), J. Murray, C. Dowdney (4), P. Elliott (3), S. Holding (3) , R. Llo yd (5). Thornton. P. Ralph , S. Snodgrass (5) , I. Walkerk (3).

ZUMDISH (0) - B 2 WILD HONEY (0) - 481 LOA 9.02m; !OR RATING LOA 12.15m; IMS RATING Designer: Robert Hick (Aust) Designer:John Sayer (Aust) Type: HalfTonner. Year Built: 1990 Type: Sayer 12.2. Year Built: 1989 Owner/Skipper: Harry Hertzberg Owner/Skipper: Ian Griffiths Club: Royal Brighton Yacht Club, Vic. Club: Mooloolaba Yacht Club, Qld. Brand new Half Tonner designed by young Melbourne Light displacement 40-footer designed and built by naval architect Robert Hick as a larger version of his most innovative Queenslander John Sa yer, Wild Honey finished successful Quarter Tonner Dry Rea ch. Dry Reach this yea r second in this year's Transficld TransTasman two-handed has won the Petersville Regatta, the Western Port Marina race. She was only three hours astern of BOC 60-footer Classic and NEC winter series on Melbourne's Port ftrnk eeptr and 35 minutes in ront of another BOC racer. Phillip. Owner Harry Hertzberg previously raced the Half Inttrox Crusader. She won the TransTasman on handicap Tonner Nuzulu. Hick has also built the boat. is making the and toOk out her division. Ian Griffiths then sailed her sails - he is Melbourne manager for Fraser Sails - and back to Australia in the solo TransTasman, finished will steer the boat. second to the SO-footer Alstar. Crew: H. Hertzberg (Skipper} (!), C. Bousfield (3). P. Crew: I. Griffiths (Skipper) , P. Willey (Navigator)(!). B. Hartless (2). R. Hick (3), C. Mackie (4), D. Miles (2). W. Davey (!), K. Foran, L. Goulter, T. McDona gh. Taylor-Jones (!).

WITCHDOCTOR (6) - 25S7 Great Expectations LOA 12.0m; !OR/IMS RATING Designer: Laurie Davidson (NZ) He is tense like strings Type: Davidson 40. Year Built: 1979 Owner/Skipper: The Rum Consortium A violin in readiness. Club: Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, NSW. Gear loaded on 'Seaspray ' Originally named Sweet Caroline , this powerful sloop Not forgetting tinnies champagne. sailed for Australian in the Clipper Cup in Hawaii and in Australia ha s won many major offshore races over more Farewells . than a decade. She is now owned and raced by a consortium of well-known ocean racing yac htsmen, Wind, waves in percussion including CYCA director Maurie Cameron who has sailed 15 times to Hobart, as ha s cre w member Geoff Barter. He is at the wheel tasting salt Crew: M. Cameron (Skipper) (15), A. Cameron (5), T. Eyes stinging, water trickling down his neck. Craven (6), P. francis, D. Heap (2), I. Manley (5), J. Marshall, R. Morgan (3), C. Troup (10). Yacht pounds plunging onward six crew on deck Navigator takes.fix ongabo light. The three below are sound asleep ... Early morning Hobart late December Sad sky almost weeping coldness WOOLLY JUMPER (0) - 6383 LOA 13 .Sm; IMS RA TING Shivering my eyes strain searching Designer: Ron Holland (Ire) For his curly head. Hooter blasts tympani Type: Holland 48 . Year Built: 1988 Owner/Skipper: Graeme Wood Another yacht home. Twenty are in. Club: Port Nicholson Yacht Club, NZ. 'Have you seen 'Seaspray'?' Interesting New Zealand entry, this purpose-built Hol­ 'Yes in the Derwent . No wind.' land 48 could be a strong contender in the IMS division and its' performance could set the pattern for a welcome I wait . .. and wait . .. and wait. renewal of TransTasman yachting competition. Skipper Jim Wood is an experienced ocean racing yachtsman, with Horns blow whistles scream treble notes international competition including the Clipper Cup series in Hawaii. Audience cheers. I sp y him Standing on the bow. Ruth Forster 1991 ANZ 12-Metre Challenge America's Cup Skippers To Race on Sydney Harbour

HRIS Dickson, Rod Davis, Paul C Cayard, John Bertrand (the Amer­ ican) and Peter Gilmour - that's the line-up of1992 America's C up challenge and defence skippers who will be sailing on Sydney Harbour in late January in the ANZ 12-Metre Challenge. PETER Gilmour, Now a traditional part of the huge pictured at the helm of on-the-water celebrations of Austra1ia Kookaburra II in th e Day on the harbour, the spectacular la st A N Z 12-Metre match-racing event this year has been Challenge, will fac e the expanded to make it the biggest event of win ner of an its kind outside the recent world match­ intern ational knock-out racing championships in N ew Zealand. inj anu ary. BELOW, coursefo r a south- easterly In fac t, as fa r as the America's Cup sea breeze on Sydney goes, it has far grea ter significa nce as Harbour. each of the five skippers sailing here will skipper an America's C up challenger or defender at San Diego in 1992. Dickson T his yea r's event has a totall y new The sail-off between the challengers is sailing for Japan's Nippon syndica te, format. Instead of just one' chall enger to starts M onday, January 21, with Japan Rod Davis is with the New Zealanders, the Australians' Sydney H arbour sup­ (Dickson) against U SA (Bertrand) and Paul Cayard is to skipper the Italian remacy - it was Dennis Conner in N ew Zealand (Davis) against Italy challenger and Peter Gilmour will skip­ 1989 , Rod Davis this yea r - the event (Cayard), each pair sailing a bes t of three per lain Murray's challenger through the has been expanded with invitations to race match in the 12-metres. Darling Harbour Yacht Club. Califo r­ the fo ur America 's Cup helmsmen and On T uesday, Jan uary 22, Japan will nian John Bertrand has been nominated their crews. meet Italy, N ew Zealand will sail the to skipper the Beach Boys defender Again using the identical International U SA, and on Wednesday, January 23, syndica te at San Diego. 12-metres, Kookaburra II and Kookaburra the final round-robin of matches will see Expatriate American, Rod Davis, III, the fo ur chall engers will contest a U SA versus Italy, Japan versus New now a resident Kiwi, will be returning sail-off for the ri ght to meet Gilmour, Zealand. to Sydney H arbour where he outsail ed with the final bes t-of-seven race M atch T he two top-placed nations will race a Australia's Peter Gilmour/Iain Murray starting on Australia Day, Saturday, best-of-three final match on Wednes­ combinati on to win the ANZ Challenge January 26, and continuing on the Sun­ day, January 24, to decide the challenger on Australia Day 1990. day and Monday of the long weekend. to meet Australia in the bes t-of-seven final. Scoring fo r the final series will be 10 points for a win in races one and two; WATSONS 15 points for races three, four and fi ve; and 20 points for the final two races . BAY Prizemoney fo r the 1991 ANZ Chal­ lenge totals $105,000 with $10,000 for the winner of each of the first two ra ces, $15, 000 fo r the winner of races three, fo ur and fi ve, and $20,000 for the yacht winning each of the fin al two races. All the racing will be within the confines of Sydney Harbour and will be of between six and eight nautical miles, a duration of between 40 and 60 min­ utes. All races will be windward-return except for the first race on Australia D ay. To allow fo r the completion of the Australia Day regatta fo r other yachts ) and dinghy classes, this race will start from Middle Harbour, taking the 12- metres around a mark between the Heads before the tra ditional up-harbour duel to the fini sh off in Farm Cove off the O pera House. T his year the ANZ 12-Metre chal­ lenge is being conducted by the Darling Harbour Yacht Club, because, as the challenger fo r the Ameri ca's C up, it must stage an annual regatta "on the sea, or on an arm of the sea" according to the n .,..,. ~ r,.( r:;rt' r,( t-h P r ,,n ANZ 12 Metre Challenge . on Sydney Harbour. .

AUSTRALIA Murray Tank Testing At Maritime College

HEN yacht designer Andy Dovel! by a crew of 16, compared with 11 on the wing-keel of A ustralia II, but the W catches a plane from Sydney to board the old twelves. skills of sailing around the new course Launceston this month he could be Spirit of A ustra lia will be skippered by with its downwind S-leg, which will carrying the winner of the 1992 Amer­ world-ranked match-racing h elmsman involve eight mark roundings and many ica's Cup under his arm. Dovel! will be Peter Gilmour, with Murray this time gybes and sail changes. heading for the Australian Maritime taking on the demanding role of.project T hat is were Murray is confident that College's model ship basin in the La un­ director. T hat includes on-going design skipper Peter Gilmour and his crew will ceston riverside suburb of Newnham work with Andy Dovel! , boat-building have the edge over the Japanese, the with seven foam-and-fibreglass tank tes t planning with John M cConaghy - and Italians and other big money spend_ers - models of Spirit of A ustra lia. with Kay Cottee on the vital task of and in the end, the Americans. "There Spirit of A ustra lia is the name of raising $10 million to successfully cam­ will be no bolter this time - the crew Darling H arbour Yacht Club's challen­ paign against challengers from nine will be the key to winning," Murray ger fo r the 1992 America's C up in San other nations and three U S defender said. Diego, headed by former Kookaburra III syncjjcates. skipper Iain M urray, who, with Aus­ Murray is confi dent his one-boat, Tank-Testing tralia's most famous woman sail or, Kay low-budget challenge - a fi fth of what While the computer is the real tool of Cottee, announced the name of the new the Italian, Japanese and American modern America's Cup designers, tank­ yacht in early November. syndicates plan to spend - will bring testing is still a vital part of pre-building T he tank test models ar 2.5m long, back the America's C up to Australia . work. "We will be continuing our one-eighth the size of the new Interna­ But the key to success this time will computer design work and tank testing tional America's C up Class (IACC) not be a breakthrough in design, such as right up until the time that John M cCo­ yachts which at San Diego will replace naghy starts building in M arch next year the old 12-metre class yachts used in all By Peter C amp bell - and, in fac t, the work wiJI still be postwar Cup matches until Fremantle in ongoing," Murray said. 1987. Designer Dovel! said that the Iain DJll'..l;. "They are made of foa m shea thed in AMERlCA'S CUP Murray earlier Ameri ca's C up Chal­ CHAi i ENGE fibreglass so it's just like taking half-a­ 6-eO•OeM.....,. lenge association with Alan Bond, the dozen lightweight surboards as extra ~ jj~ desigrtgroup had tes ted 10 models at the baggage on the fli ght as their keels are Australiap Maritime College shipmodel detachable," designer Dovel! said. basin ov~ the pas t two years. T he fullsize new International Amer­ " I'll b back there with seven now ica's C up Class yachts are light displace­ models la er this month to tes t primarily ment 75-footers carrying immense sails for wave making drag, both upwind and, sailing over the most difficult and downwind," Dovel! explained. courses ever devised, will add a spec­ "The less wave created by a hull, the less tacul ar new dimension to the America's resistance and the faster the boat should Cup. go. Built of exoti c co mposite materials, "That will be a vital fac tor in the Iain Murray's Spirit of Australia will be performance of these new light displace­ 22.84m in overall length, with a water­ ment boats in the waters of San Diego. line length of 18.73m , a draft of 4.0m "The fac ilities at the M aritime Col­ and a displacement of 17. 90 tonnes - lege are mostl y used fo r fi shing vessel only two-thirds that of the old 12- hulls, but they are excellent for this metre. work. It will be 25 per cent fas ter, with a "We will be tank-testing our final towering mas t ca rrying 7,500 sq feet concept there before building starts - (300 sqm) of sail compared with 4,500 and we are confident it will be the boat sq ft (1 75 sq m) carried by the 12-metres that wins the America's C up in 1992," such as Kooka burra III and will be sa iled designer Dovel! added. Range Rover Regatta Baton-­ Passing Boats

OFFSHORE racing yachts took to Sydn ey Ha rbour fo r th e popular Range Rover Rega tta, among th em being N or Tel Sydney Hobart race entra nt Fujitsu Dealers, skippered by Joh n Eyles (abo ve). T he team ra cing produ ced. close competition, in particula r this du el (right) between Blue Max II John King and Frank Williams) and Ra y Ston e's recently optimised Kin gs Cross, Sydney, an.other Hobart race en tfa nt. (Pi es - Peter Campbell ). ·

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Qohn Parker) and Beach Inspector (David ~VnNS:V In?\ ani:; nAnn I Alli: uarn11aa111: /nAOI c:;n AAOt; UCI DnllDI.IC• IMI CAC l:'l"7'l BOC CHALLENGE - LEG ONE Kanga Birtles Reluctant Hero

KANGA BIRTLES, first Australian to fin­ ANGA Birtles, a quietly spoken, ish leg one of the BOC Cha llenge - LEFT: K bushy-bearded boat-builder from Before th e start f rom Newpo rt Rhode Island the South Coast of NSW, became the and, ABO VE: Heading to sea in Jarkan. (Pies surprise and rductant hero of the first - J ohn Robeson) leg of the BOC C hallenge solo around­ the-world race. Birtles, 47, sailed his 60-footer, Jar­ kan, into a close sixth place in the first 6,800 nautical mile leg, from Newport, Yachts and look after their two young Rhode Island, to Cape Town, in the solo daughters, Kiri (7) and Felicity (4) at round-the-world ocean yacht race. He their South Coast home. also broke the · record for the first leg. " It's a long time at sea but it was a T he least publicised of the four Aus­ really exciting race. To be so close with tralians who set out in the 26-boat fleet six other boats for that long is great," fi ve weeks previously and the least Birtles said after reaching Cape Town. experienced irt singlehanded racing, Bir­ " I should have tried harder and in ties led a brilliant race. hindsight I did make some mistakes like Sailing the conventional John King­ cutting the corner on the South Atlantic designed sloop he built at his boat­ High which left me without wind fo r a building fac tory near Nowra, Birtles couple of days." was bea ten only by heavily sponsored, Birtles said the major disadvantage to purpose-built, lig ht displacement himself and the other two remaining French, South African and American Australians in the race was the lack of yachts. weather information available to them. His entire effort has been self-funded, Most of the French, American and leaving his wife Beth to run Jarkan South African entrants had shore-side by Peter Campbell

AUSTRALIAN Don McIntyre works aboard Sponsor Wanted as it sails through an Atlantic swell on first leg ofBOC Challenge . (Pie-John Roberson).

weather routing assistance. wrong one," he added. second leg from Cape Town to Sydney. "I didn't have any up-to-date in­ Birtles said he hoped to arrange a joint "We would need an Aussie code that formation after crossing the Equator so I weather information service for himself the French couldn't understand ·- like had to rely on reading the Argos (satel­ and the other Australians, David Adams 'big blow a galah' to mean a depression lite) positions, " he said. "I picked a boat sailing Innkeeper and Don McIntyre in is moving south in the Indian Ocean and to follow and it looks like I picked the Sponsor Wanted before the start of the so on," he suggested.

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Avallable At:- Sydney: Perri Jewellers & Duty Free, Michal at David Jones, Lambert Jewellers, Angus & Coote - Centrepoint. Chatswood: Robert Musson Jewellers. Double Bay: Hardy Brothers, Michal. Brisbane: Wallace Bishop - All Stores, Hardy Brothers, Xennox, McKinney's. Gold Coast: Optima, Wallace Bishop- Pacific Fair & Southport, Marina Mirage - Hardy Brothers, The Watch Gallery. Sunshine Coast: Wallace Bishop - Maroochydore & Kawana. Cairns: Crofton Clauson. Port Douglas: Hardy Brothers - Sheraton Mirage. Toowoomba: Wallace Bishop - Heritage Centre, McKinney's. Townsvllle: Loloma. Melbourne: Hardy Brothers, Gallery Sterling, Dunklings The Jewellers, International Watches, Simpson's. South 'Mrra: Panache-Jam Factory. Frankston: Hoskings. Mt. Ellza: Hoskings. Rowvllle: Stern's- Stud Park Shopping Centre. Adelalde: Conadon's Time Centre. Michal At David Jones. Perth: Rosendorff's Gateway Duty Free. Broome: Broome Pearls. Adams' Bad Luck After being virtually becalmed in the Atlantic off South Africa for two days, Australian David Adams became the second Australian to complete the first leg of the BOC Challenge solo around the world race. Adams, sailing his 60-footer Innkeep­ er, was beaten into eighth place by just one hour by South African Bertie Reed, sailing Grinaker. " I enjoyed the race immensely up until a week ago when the gooseneck fitting on the mast broke and then it became a lot harder," Adams said in Cape Town. "But I'm pretty happy with the overall performance of the boat and I'm going out to win each of the next three legs," a tired but determined Adams added. He admitted, however, that drifting through the doldrums was rather de­ pressing. "For 48 hours I was handsteer­ David Adams at the helm of the Queensland owned 60-footer, Innkeeper, at the start of the BOC ing and at one stage the boat actually got Challenge from Newport Rhode Island. Adams had some problems on the first leg but is corifident up to speeds of one knot," he added. of an improved result in th e 7000 nautical mile second leg from Cape Town to Sydney. (Pie - Billy Black). McIntyre's Third would be - and more," said McIntyre, the whole campaign on one of reliabil­ Dony McIntyre sailed into Cape Town whose ambition it has been to race ity, " said McIntyre, adding: "We'll be on October 31 to take third place in around the world since he began sailing there at the end of the day." Class II for SO-footers. Sailing his in Adelaide. "The competitors were McIntyre recalled that while sailing at Queensland-built SO-footer, still named such good fun - they added a whole only two knots through the Doldrums Sponsor Wanted, McIntyre covered the new dimension to the race . . . I'm near the Equator a crystal ball floated 6,800 nautical miles from N ewport, really looking forward to the next two past the boat. So he turned his yacht Rhode Island, in 46 days 1 hour 20 legs." about and sailed after the ball, getting as minutes 47 seconds. Although he now lives in Sydney, close as possible before tying a line He was just 11 hours astern of Amer­ McIntyre built his yacht at Tin Can Bay around his waist and diving into the ican Jack Boy sailing Project City Kids - in Queensland and is sailing under the Atantic to recover the crysal ball. the class winning French yacht Servant burgee of the Royal South Australian " It's now my crystal ball - it will be IV finished two days ahead. Yacht Squadron in Adelaide. "The boat used to help beat the French," the "The race is everything I expected it has performed really well ... we based bearded Aussie added.

The BOC Challenge Fleet - Sydney Bound

HE 1990 BOC C hallenge fleet, Class I Finot. and built by Mark Pinta of La Rochelle. This is a state of the art BOC racer, and is o ne of the beamiest boau in the T now reduced from 26 to 21 yachts, INNKEEPER No. 462 - David Adams: Australia. fleet. and sports a ca rbon fibre mast. sailed from Cape Bay on Sunday, LOA 18.Jm (60'); Beam 4.S m (14'7"); Disp. 11,000kg (24,2501b) ECUREUIL-POITOU-CHARENTE No. 34-lsabelle November 24, on the second leg to Sponsors: Yalumba Angas Brut; MMI; Country Road. Autissier: France. Sydney. Among the retirements from O ne of the four Aussie entries, lack of a majo r sponsor LOA 18.Jm (60'); Beam 3.4m (9'8"); Disp. 9,300kg fo rced the curtailment of plans to build a boat speciall y for (20,SOOlb) the first leg from N ewport, Rhode the race. He has ve ry generously been Jene Jm1keeper by her Sponsors: Ecureuil-Poitou-Charente. Island, was Australian John Biddle­ Queensland owners Leigh and Ronnie Outtrim. Isabelle Autissier is the only woman in Division I of the race. combe, sailing Interox Crusader, who Before the start he commented, " I have the best Australian and she is sailing the onl y ketch-rigged boat, the former 3615 wine maker and the best Australian insurance company as MET, that finished third in last year's Globe Challenge, the pulled out because of ongoing steering sponsors, so I should be happy and safe, bur- my boat was si ngle-handed, non-stop around the world race. problems. built ,t,o be sa il ed by 18 blokes so I could be a bit busy o n the The 34-year-old Frenchwoman is the head of adult way training at the Maritime and Aquactilture school in La David has a good record in short-handed sailing, having Rochelle. She is also a vastly experienced single-handed The leading yachts are expected to won Division B of the Melbourne-Osab race in 1987, and sailor with successes in such races as the Mini Transat, the arrive in Sydney at the end of the earlier thi s year the Transfield T rans-Tasman ra ce. Single and Double-Handed Transats, and the Firago race. The boat was designed by Philippe H arle. 7000-nautical-mile second leg by De­ GROUPE SCETA No. 50- Christophe Auguin: cember 20, with the rest of the fleet France. INTEROX CRUSADER No. 12-John Biddlecombe: LOA 18 .Jm (60'); Beam 5.8m (19'); Disp. 11 ,340kg Australia. spread out over two to three weeks. (25,000lb) LOA 18.Jm (60'); Beam 4.Jm (14'3"); Di1p. 11,794kg In Sydney, the yachts will be berthed Sponsors: Groupe Sceta. (26,000lb) at Darling Harbour, until the start of the T hirty-year-old C hristophe Auguin is one of the risin g sta rs Sponsors: lnterox Chemicals of France's already star-studded short-handed sa iling scene. This is John Biddlecombe's second attempt at the BOC third leg around Cape Horn to Punta de! He has moved from standard IOR racing and Formula 40 Challenge, riggin g problems on the first leg forced him to Este in Uraguay. multi-hull s co single-handing in recent yea rs. and started o n pull o ut of the race in Cape Town last time. Unfortunately the road to fame by w inning the 1986 Firago race. rudder problems saw him retire once again, this time Au,min's hoac is a soecial for the race. designed bv Groupe re.:achine onlv Rrnil. JARKANYACHTBUILDERS No.184-Kanga SMIRNOFF KILCULLEN No. 6- Enda O'Coineen: Dirties: Australia. Ireland LOA 18.3m (60' ); Beam 4.7m (15 '6" ); Disp. 11 ,685kg LOA 18.3m (60 ' ); Beam 4.Sm (14'7"); D isp. 8,400kg (25,7601b) (8,5001b) Sponsors:Jarkan Yachtbuilders Sponsors: Smirnoff Kanga Birtles is one of Australia's most experienced long This very Iri sh Irishman did not have the most impressive distance offshore yachtsmen, as well as having one of the few start co the BOC Chall enge. He incurred a 308-hour penalty yacht building busi nesses in Australia th.it is still solvent. He This man's record stands up fo r itself, he has won both the for late arriva l in Newport, then having started three days is 47 years old and started sailing in dinghies as a boy on previous DOC Challenges. He was unheard of when he after the rest of the fleet was dismasted, and had to be towed Sydney Harbour. appared on the starting lin e of the first BOC race in 1982. back to port. Sin ce then he has logged up some 100.000 nautical miles to with a radical water-ball as ted boat, but by the time he He st ill hopes to rej oin the race in Cape Town. and the his credit, includin g nine Sydney-Hobarts. He also sailed in fini shed he was a legend, not onl y in France, but in ra ce committee have confirmed that he may do this, even the fu ll y crewed division of the Bi-Centennial Around single-handed ci rcles. though he was disqualified from the first leg. O'Coineen is a Australia Race, and is heavily involved with a number of T he Marc Lombard-designed boat he is sailing in this race 33-year-old journalist and entrepreneur from Dun Laoghai re seamanship and youth sailing organisadons. is the sa me one in whi ch he contested last year's Glode who. amongst his other claims to fa me. has crossed the His boat was designed by John King, and built by his own C hall enge. For the 38-ycar-old Jeantot this race will be his Atlantic alone in a 16-foot inflatable dinghy. company Jarkan Yachtbuilders speciall y for the race. He fou rth ci rcumnavigation in eight years. rationalised his entry in the race saying, " if we have a full BBV EXPO 90 No. 92-Jose Ugarte: Spain ALLIED BANK No. 7 - John Martin: South Africa. LOA 18.3m (60'); Beam 4. 7m (15 ' 4"); Disp. 12,000kg order book I shall be able to afford to go, and if we have no LOA 18.3m (60'); Beam 6.0m (17 '7"); Disp. 10,672kg (26,4551b) orders I shall have time to go''. Reckoned by many to be the (23,5291b) Sponsors: Banco Bilbau Vizcaya " dark horse" of the race. Sponsors: Allied Bank The oldest skipper in Division I. Jose Ugarte is 62, but is sti ll This is John Martin's second BOC Challenge, and having Spain's best kn own and most successful sin gle-hander. He ALBA REGIA No. TT -Nandor Fa: Hungary. shown flashes of brilliance in the 1986/7 race he is back again ha s an enviable record in such fa mous races and the OST AR, LOA 18.3m (60'); Beam 4.9m (16'); Disp. 9,500kg as one of the favourites this time. 35-yea r-old Martin won and this Master Mariner has no plans to retire. (20,9431b) the first and last legs of the previous race. but gear fa ilures in His boat is the Bouvet/Petit designed fo rmer Lada Poch the other cwo legs blew his chances of an overall win. ll/, wh ich finished second in both the 1986 BOC l!:h, ll cnge Sponsors: Alba Regia; Kofem 1 Malev; Trading and Credit Bank of Hungary This time he is back with a big sponsorship package, a and the recent Globe C hall enge. new hi gh-tech yacht and a will to win. Allitd Bank, like her The 37-year-old N:mdor Fa took up sa iling ten yea rs ago, predecessor, is an Angel o Lavranos des ign which sports a and within three yea rs became the Hungari an Finn dinghy carbon fibre rig and a low-drag dagger keel designed by the champion. However. the Russian boycott of the 1984 Aco mi c Energy Commission. O lympic Games prevented him ac hieving his goal. so he and Class II a friend built a steel boat and set off around the world. DURACEL No. 5- Mike Plant: USA. PROGECT CITY KIDS No. 173-Jack Boye: USA While in Sydney on this ci rcumnavigation he studied LOA 18.3m (60' ); Beam 4.6m (15'0"); Disp. 12,474kg LOA 15 .2m (49'11 '); Beam 3.Sm (11 '4"); Disp. 8,392kg yacht design under Den Lexcen. When he completed the trip (27,SOOlb) (18,SOOlb) he set about designing and building the boat he is sailing in Sponsors: Duracell Sponsors: Project City Kids this ra ce. The boat is built of fibreglass on an Airex-core. and in common with the Australian competitors he is on a Mike Plant, 39, is another second ti me BOC C hall enge Retired New York stockbro ker, Jack Boye is 46 years old. shoe-string budget. competitor, having won Di vision II in the last race sai ling and has ta ken on the sponsorship of the Project City Kids co Airco Distribu tor. He has gone back to the sa me designer, help publicise the cause, whi ch seeks to teach under­ Rodger Martin. for hi s Div ision I entry this ti me. and being pri vil eged New York kids to sa il. He has owned the boat, a boat builder from Newport. R.I. he has built it himself. formerl y Wa rren Luhrs' Tuesda y's C hild, for eight yea rs, and GENERALI CONCORDE No. 101- Alain Gautier: He also did last year's Globe Challenge in this boat. but done a lot of single-handing in that time. France. was forced into Campbell is land. SOU(h of New Zealand, I-l aving spent 20· years on Wall Street he has sold his LOA 18.3m (60'); Beam 5.8m (19'); Disp. 11,793kg with ri gging problems. Although this put him out of the investment company so that he can devote his time to such (26,000lb) race he finished the course in 134 days, a new American projects as the BOC Challenge. Sponsors: Generali Concorde record. This young Frenchman is one of th e new breed of SERVANT IV No. t - Yves Dupasquier: France LOA 15 .2m (SO'); Beam 4.0m (13'1"); Disp. 5,500kg single-handers from the country that has provided so ma ny GRIN AKER No. 100- Bertie Reed: South Africa greats in the past 25 yea rs. At 28 yea rs old he is ready to push LOA 18.3m (60'); Beam 4.6m (IS'); Disp. 12,247kg (12,1251b) the lik es of Philippe Jea nrot, 10 yea rs his senior, off hi s (27,000lb) Sponsors: Servant pedestal. Sponsors: Grinaker Yves Dupasquier is another of the up-and-coming young Gautier first showed hi s ability on the sin gle-handed scene Bertie Reed. 45 , shares with Philippe Jeantot the distinction French single-handers. but unlike most of them he has not when he won the 1989 Firago race. and as a result of that he of lining up fo r the third time at Newport fo r a BOC been a sa ilor all hi s li fe. He is 29 years old now, and had picked up a ve ry lucrative sponsorshi p package from C hall enge start. There is hardly a si ngle or short-handed race never set foo t in a boat until 1980 w hen he talk ed hi s way Generali Concorde. in the worl d that Bertie ha sn't done. two BOCs, the into joining a delivery crew taking a yacht from Morocco to OSTAR, Round Britain. and Cape Town to Ri o, to name the West Indies. but a few. Since then, he has never looked back. he is now a boat CREDIT ACRICOLE IV No. 85-PhilippeJeantot: In the fi rst BOC he dragged the ancient Voortrckker builder by trade, and ha s crossed the Atlanti c more times France. around the worl d to cl ai m second place, last c.ime it was in a than he ca n remember. freq uently single-handed. His boat is LOA 18.3m (60'); Beam 5.6m (18'3"); Disp. 11 ,500kg modified IOR racer. This time he has picked up a big a Jean Beret design, and an ultra-lightweight built with the (25 ,3531b) sponsorship deal and commissioned a Rodger Marcin des ign. help of some fri ends. It s interior is probably the most spartan Sponsors: Credit Agricole ,,.. At 45 yea rs old he ha s a vast depth of experience. in the fl eet.

ALLIED BANK, sa iled by South African John Martin, is one ofth e innovati ve high-tech 60jooters racing in the · BOC Challenge. Yacht has carbon:fibre rig , low-drag dagg er keel and twin rudders . Allied Bank was second to finish the.first leg of the ra ce, from Newport to Cape Town. (Pie - John Roberson). ONLY ketch-rigged yacht in BOC fleet is Ecureuil-Poitou­ Charentre, skippered by, th e only woman in Divi­ sion 1, Frenchwoman Isabelle Autissier who is head of adu lt training at th e Maritime and Aquaculture Schoo l in La Rochell e. (Pic­ John Rob erson )

NEW SPIRIT OF IPSWICH No. 55-Josh Hall: TILLEY ENDURABLE No. 42-Jane Weber: Canada department of a French Hank. However. his other interests England LOA 12.8m (42'0"); Beam 4.0m (13 ' 2" ); Disp. 9,980kg besides single-handed sailing include bronze sculpting an d LOA 15.2m (50' ); Beam 4.2m (13'9"); Disp. 10,886kg (22,000lb) alpine skiing, and he owns an art gall ery. (24,000lb) Sponsors: Tilley Endura bles His boat for the race is a Ron Holl and-designed Feeling Sponsors: 30 companies Jane Weber is one of two women contesting t~e race, and at 13.5, w hich has been speciall y customised for the ra ce. The youngest competitor in the race, 28-year-old Josh Hall 45 years o ld is a grandmother of three. She took up sailing in has fitted a lot of sa ili ng into those years. He served what ca n 1982. after the break-up of her marriage, joining a series of SHUTEN-DOHJI II No. 71-Minoru Saito:Japan o nl y be described as a unique apprenticeship sailing fo r three cruising boats to work her way from her home in Toronto to LOA 15.2m (50'0"); Beam 3.7m (12'0"); Disp. 8,618kg years with Ro bin Knox-Johnst0n. having helped to bu il d his Florida, the Caribbean and then across the Pacific. (19,000lb) 18.3 metre catam aran British Airways. Her boat for this race is a Frers-designed lkneteau 42. This 56-year-old from T o kyo j ust keeps coming bac k fo r Hall 's boat fo r this race also has a good record. it is the modified for the harsh demands this voyage w ill make on the more, despite the warnings that nature and his body seem to Rodger M artin designed fo rmer Airco Dis1rib1uor in w hich yacht: give hi m. A keen skier he was o nce buried in an ava;anche, Mike Plant won Division II of the last race. but still skis, and during the Round Australian double­ handed race, he suffered a heart attack, but that wouldn't stop him entering the HOC Chall enge. CORINTHIAN CLASS He commiss ioned D on McIntyre to build him a boat SPONSOR WANTED No. 10-Don McInt yre: similar to his own Adams/ Radford design, and has turned Australia GLOBAL EXPOSURE No. 2000 - Robin Davie: down offers of sponsorship from various Japanese com­ LOA 15.2m (49' 11 " ); Beam 3.7m (12'0"); Disp. 7,938kg Britain panies having fi nanced his yacht out of the proceeds of the (17,5001b) LOA 12.2m (40'0); Beam 3.6m (11 '8"); Disp. 8,130kg sale of his company. Sponsors: Ansett, Canterbury, Budget Lease (17,9201b) Management and more While other skippers were knocking on the doors of VOLCANO No. 00 - Paul Thackaberry: USA LOA 15.2m (49 ' 11 "); Beam 3.5m (11 '6"); Disp, 7,258kg Don M cintyre, 35.' is the only Australian in Division II , and potential sponsors looking for money, 38-year-old Robin is in the unfo rtunate position of having raised enough minor Davie was risking his life to make money to finance his (16,000lb) spo nsors to prevent him sa ili ng in the Corinthian division, entry. A merchant seaman, he got a job cowing burning oil T his tool and die m aker from· Michigan had a less than but noc enough fo r a fu ll on Division II campaign. T he na me tankers away from the dockside during the Iran- Iraq war. g lorio us start to his sailing career, " I bought m y fi rst boat for o f his boat says it all. 1-lis boat, a Bergstrom/ Ridder design 1s 17 yea rs o ld. and $3,000 and immediatel y sa nk her." After that he got a library McI ntyre's boat is a Joe Adams/G raham Radford design the small est in the fleet. book and taught himself to sai l. That was in 1973. that was buil t speciall y fo r the race, Don is a yacht chand ler His entry in thi s HOC C hallenge in a boat he has designed in Sydney. and was the fou nder of the Short-handed Saili ng NIIHAU IV No. 4 - Robert Hooke: USA and built himself is evidence that he has progressed Association of Australi a. He was also the creator and race LOA 13 .5m (44 '3"); Beam Om (14'1"); Disp. 9,072kg considerabl y since those early days. H is is one of the most direccor of the Bi-Centennial Around Australia Race in 1988. (20,000lb) radical designs in the fleet, featuring a dinghy-li ke fl at O riginall y from Adelaide he has many thousands of sea Although an American national. 48-year-old Robert Hooke bottomed hull. and a tandem keel suppo rting a torpedo-like miles to his credit. I-le built not only his own boat for this is a resident in London where he is the manager of the equity bulb at the bottom . race, but also the boat sailed by Minoru Saico of Japan. M cIntyre w ill be a strong contender in Division II.

SEBAGO No. 727 - Hal Roth: USA LOA 15 .2m (49'9" ); Beam 3.7m (12 ' 0" ); Disp. 8,618kg (19,000lb) Sponsors: Sebago Another second time 8 OC C hall enge competitor, 63-year­ o ld H al Roth is sa iling the sa me boat he used to contest the 1986/7 BOC race. Sin ce then, w hen he finished fou rth in Di vision II taking 17 1 days. he has lightened the Bill Lee design, added water ball ast tanks and improved the rig. He chro nicled the previous race in his book "Chasing the Long Rai nbow", the seventh book he has w ritten. Before being caught in the aura of the l3 OC Roth cruised extensively with his wife Margaret. clocking up some 150.000 nautical miles.

KODEN VIII No. 8 - Yukoh Tada: Japan LOA 15 .2m (50'0"); Beam 4. lm (13'7"); Disp. 5,000kg (11,0231b) Sponsors: Koden Electronics Also a second ti me BOC com petitor. Tada san 1s aged 60, and took up sa iling 25 yea rs ago. When he won Division II of the first BOC race in '81/ 2, this delightful man put his ma rk o n the ra ce in mo re ways than o ne. He has designed his own boat this time. and the Cutter ri gged SO-footer is the lightest boat in the fl eet. When he is not being a lo ne yachts man he is a Tokyo taxi d ri ver. abstract artist. and jazz m usician. His impromptu saxophone recitals during stopovers were of fe;nu re of the The BOC Challenge 1990-91 first race, and those \\1 ho know him ho pe there will be some rrnr:ar nrrfnrm:ancrc.. Route Map Freshwater is a necessity. Whether it's in an emergency situation or keeping your fresh water tanks filled, Sur­ vivor Watermakers are the sensible solution. An inno­ vative design which combines reverse osmosis technbl­ ogy with energy recovery makes it all possible. PowerSurvivor· THE ONLY 12-VOLT WATEIIMAKEll

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ERE are some of the sailors who H will be heading for Hobart again this year, several notching up 25 and more races to Tasmania, others relative newcomers to what we all believe is the HEROES world's greatest ocean race. 0 F 1 9 9 0

DAVID KELLETT Campaigning Vengeance for owner Bernard Lewis, David notched up his Yacht: Condor first line honours in the 1981 Sydney Position aboard: Sailing master Hobart, but his big victory came with Sovereign in 1987 when he sailed her to How many Hobarts: 17 victory on line and corrected time, the first Australian yacht to take the rare David Kellett is a big man physically double. and sails on big boats, mostly maxis, David's contribution to ocean yacht with considerable success over the past racing has not just been as a competitor two decades. His involvement with big - he has recently completed a three year boats goes back to the 12-metres in the term as Commodore of the CYCA, is 1970 America's Cup, but he is best currently chairman of the NorTel Syd­ known for his role as helmsman and ney Hobart Event Management Com­ sailing master of Australian maxis such mittee, and is chairman of the Australian as the converted 12-metre, Gretel, fol­ Yachting Federatin's Offshore Commit­ lowed by Ve11geance, Sovereign and now tee and delegate to the Ocean Racing Condor. Council in London.

TONY CABLE overseas in an Admiral's Cup year for international ocean racing experience. Yacht: Condor One of them was Chris Harmsen, now an international yachtsman in his own Position aboard: Sail trimmer right. Apart from his ability as an organiser How many Hobarts: 25 of the QLD, Tony Cable is an outstand­ ing yachtsman and, in past years, a If you · have ever been to the famous contributor of colourful prose to QLD (Quiet Little Drink) in Hobart OFFSHORE. In last year's race he then you must know Tony Cable. He notched up his 25th race to join the was one of the original organisers of the Honor Roll at the CYCA and is heading QLD 21 years ago and Tony is still the south again with Dave Kellett aboard life of the party as yachties from around Condor. Most of his recent races have the world gather for the great postrace been in big boats, sailing aboard two party in a Hobart pub. But the QLD winners - Vengea11ce (line honours also raises money each year for a scho­ 1981) and Sovereign (line and handicap larship to send young Tasmanian sailors honours, 1987).

PETER SHIPW A Y With his long association with Peter Kurts, "Shippy" has sailed in many Yacht: Madeline's Dauj/hter Admiral's Cup aboard such boats as Position aboard: Crew boss Peter Kurts' Love & War, Dear Friends, Drake's Pray er and Madeline's Daughter How many Hobarts: 19 and was aboard Love & War in her two Sydney Hobart victories. He also sailed Few yachtsmen have been involved in so with Jim Hardy aboard Runaway at the many facets of the sport than Peter AC. Peter also has a member of the crew Shipway who has had a close association of Australia in the 1980 challenge for the with the CYCA since he left 12-foot America's Cup. skiffs as a teenager to crew for Peter "Shippy" is also well known as a Kurts. Peter is a former general manager television and radio commentator for of the Club who is a marketing execu­ the ABC on yachting and - his other tive with Barient Winches. He is a sporting love - rugby union football. long-standing member of the CYCA Just ask him how Eastern Suburbs fared Sailing Committee. last winter! MARTY RIJKURIS Over the years, Marty has been closely involved in the organisation of races from Darwin to Indonesia, including Bali and Ambon, and in training many newcomers to offshore sailing. Yacht: Australian Maid For the past two years he has been skippering Australian Maid for owner Position aboard: Sailing master Jon Wardill in races and cruises around Australia and to many ports, including Hobart, Mooloolaba, Hamilton Island How many Hobarts: 3 and the Indonesian ports of Aambon and Bitung. In that time, Marty has trained some 70 people in the skiJls of ocean racing and cruising. After sailing Australian Maid from Darwin to Sydney for the NorTel Race, Few yachties in this race have notched with calls as Gove, Cairns, Townsville, up as many sea miles over the past Hamilton Island and Mooloolaba, Mar­ couple of years as Captain Marty Ri­ ty will skipper the boat in the NorTel jkuris, sailing master of the now Dar­ Sydney-Hobart before cruising back to win-based 55-footer, Australian Maid. Sydney.

ROSS LLOYD a world Quarter Ton C up in Europe before joining Ron Elliott in his cam­ paigns with his various One Tonners named Joi11t Venture, including the 1989 Admiral's Cup. But one of his outstand­ ing achievements was to steer Gino Yacht: Western Port Venture Knezic's little three-quarter tonner, Illu­ sion, to victory in the 1988 Sydney Position aboard: Sailing master Hobart race, again doing well last year with a sixth overall and a first in division. How many Hobarts: 8 More recently, Ross has skippered the new Japanese owned One Tonner, Blue Note, to victory in the Japan Cup regatta after also sailing the same boat, until it broke its mast, in the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii. For this year's NorTel Sydney The Melbourne-based manager of Hobart, Ross is skippering the former North Sails, Ross has emerged in recent Joint Venture, now called Western Port years as one of Australia's most capable Venture, which he has already sailed sailing masters and helmsmen, winning with success in her home waters.

KYM (SHAG) MORTON Shag was aboard Rothmans for the 1989-90 Whitbread round the world race, and has been running the yacht since the finish in May this year. At 43, Shag has had more than 20 years of Yacht: Rothmans sailing experience and is a veteran of two Whitbreads, aboard Rothmans and in 1985-86 aboard Atlantic Privateer. Position aboard: Mate With his bohemian looks and lifstyle, How many Hobarts: Shag is one yachting's bestknown "characters". Leaving Australia at 21 as a qualified printer, he had a photo­ graphic business in London before set­ ting off to hitchhike around Africa. In a life packed with adventure, Shag has Adelaide yachtsman Kym (Shag) Mor­ lived in a treehouse in the Mombassa, ton is returning home to Australia to been involved in a project in the Antarc­ compete in the NorTel 1990 Asia Pacific tic, run a charter yacht business as well series aboard the maxi yacht Rothmans, becoming one of the world's top deliv­ short-priced favourite for line honours ery skippers and an internationally rec­ favourite for the Sydney Hobart. ognised racing yachtsman. LEW CARTER and the tragic death of crew member Peter Taylor. Lew played a vital part in co­ ordinating the search and rescue opera­ tion in wild seas in Bass Strait, involving Yacht: Mia Mia other yachts and A chilles II, and a Victorian helicopter which dropped a Position aboard: CYCA radio operator paramedic aboard the stricken yacht. The CYCA recognised Lew's role by How many Hobarts: awarding him the inaugural TWT (Bill) Thompson Memorial Award for Sea­ manship, an appropriate award in mem­ ory of the late "Tweetie" Thompson who had been CYCA radio operator in Lew Carter, after sailing in many ocean many Sydny Hobart races until his death races in Australia and overseas, last year last year. accepted the demanding role of radio operator aboard the Radio Relay Vessel, This year Lew Carter is again CYCA• Achilles II. It proved to be even more radio operator, this time aboard Geoff demanding than usual with the dismast­ Hammond's 75-footer steel auxiliary ing of the Victorian yacht Flying Colours ketch, Mia Mia.

PHIL THOMPSON CYCA's marina manager, who was back on the job at Rushcutters Bay only weeks after the operation. The courageous 36-year-old plays a vital role with so many visiting yachts at Yacht: Freight Train the club marinas in the lead-up to the NorTel Sydney Hobart race and in his Position aboard: Deck boss time-off goes racing aboard Freight Train. How many Hobarts: 10 Phil has been aboard line honours winner Vengeance and Sovereign when she took out the double. Last year played a key role in setting up Challenge II which went onto win the inaugural Only two months after having his left IMS handicap division of the Hobart arm amputated at the shoulder because race. He also worked closely with of cancer, Phil Thompson is again sail­ measurer Gordon Marshall in designing ing to Hobart as deck boss aboard the and building the special IMS measuring 66-footer Freight Train. "I've done 10 crade at the CYCA, with the 100th boat with two, now it's one with one," was )lu,tr lia being measured for IMS before the dry comment from Phil, the Christmas.

GRAEME ("FRIZZLE") folks back down in Hobart than sail in FREEMAN another Sydney Hobart. "Frizzle" has sailed in 17 Hobarts and been involved with some of Australia's more famous ocean racing yachts.

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ITH another 12 months behind us W we can survey the scene to ascer­ tain the growth in our IMS fle ets . On October 24, the A YF issued a national list of certification which shows the individual State's numbers as: NSW 134, T AS 48, WA 42, SA 30, VIC 27, QLD 16. This gives an overall total of 297 yachts in Australia w ith IMS certificates. A close examination of NSW's total discloses that of their 134 yachts, 37 were the result of"standard" hulls. That is, yachts which did not require hull measurement (by machine), but took the lines of their identically moulded sister ships. This amounts to slightly more than one quarter of the total. It is anticipated that as time goes on, the proportion of yachts actually being mea­ sured will drop, but that of "standard" hulls will increase. In the USA, "stan­ dard" hulls are the predominant propor­ tion of their fleet growth. Looking at these State totals, NSW has by far the highest figure, and 92 of the 97 actuall y measured were done on the CYCA installation. For those who are not familiar with GORDON Marshall, the chief IMS measurer for Australia , in action at the CYCA in Sydney, above left, checking alignment of a boat to be measured, and above nght, on the specially built the process, it would be well to explain platform . (Pie - Peter Campbell ) that the measuring system normally provides for the work to be done by moving a tripod down each side of the was immediately seen to be impossible success, with a large gain in productivity yacht's hull over a string li,ne, much as a to m easure in this fas hion, and rather and an engineered accuracy and con­ surveyor would operate, and the special than direct our members to take their venience of measurement otherwise un­ IMS instrument records the hull lines in yachts elsewhere for measurement, we obtainable. its computer at the various stations decided to "engineer" another method, I have (a t the time of this w riting) along the yacht's length (15 to 20 sta­ notwithstanding an es timated cost near measured 92 yachts on this installation, tions on each side) . Because of the close $20,000. whilst I've done another 5 elsewhere, arrangement of CYCA's slipways, it The result has been an outstanding because of their large size. (The CYCA RUTHLESS on th e specially built IMS meam ring slip way at th e CYCA where Marshall will length limitation is 50' LOA. ) have by Christmas measured 100 yachts for IMS certificates. Total IMS rated boats in Australia Nowhere else in the world has any now exceeds 300 offshore racing yachts. (Pie - Peter Campbell) Club shouldered the design challenge and the capital cost of such an installa­ I tion and insofar as Australia is con­ cerned, the CYCA is probably the only ( C lub which could justify it. ,. Looking at the other States, Tasmania has taken IMS to its heart with a total of 48 certificates, and Western Australia is not far behind with 42. Victoria is the disappointment with only 27 yachts certificated, and Queens­ land's paltry 16 confirms thei r preoc­ cupation with Channel Handica p. Having been so closely involved in the conversion process from !OR to IMS via my meas uring activity with such a large number of yachts, (the whole of the NSW fl eet) it is inevitable that I have developed some "gut" fee l­ ings and perceived a few of the problems that threaten the system. The first is a simple one, and that is that IMS is not a magic system which will change a poor yachstman into a winner. The Velocity Prediction Prog- HAUPIA, Tomjohnston's ]35, modified by Scott jutson , which has been one ofth e outstanding yachts under IMS category racing in Australia. The fam ily-raced sloop is one of the favourites to take top IMS honours again in th e NorTel Sydney Hobart Ra ce. (Pic­ Da vid Clare).

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I am sure that the present Velocity by more accurately measuring the speed Prediction Program does not accurately potential of the yacht's hull. Apart fro m evaluate keel ca mbers, and distinguish calculating fl ow characteristics, it accur­ between good and bad des ign in this ately meas ures wetted surface and dis­ area . Some good work is being done by placement, two of the fu ndamentals not local designers (and no doubt, overseas) achieved by !O R measurement. in ca mber shape, and a direc ti ve to It does not evaluate the effect of well measurers to use more measurement cut and properly trimmed sails, good stations along the keel so that the VPP crewmanship and sm art helmsmen. can,accurately assess its speed effi ecency, Since in every race there will be a last would not surprise me and would not be placegetter as well as a winner, a de­ difficult to do. fi ciency in any of these areas will rele­ T he ultimate tes t of the system is gate the culprit down the results list. what happens out on the course, and T he next problem is at present more a two recent results from the C YCA Club potential one than real, and that is Racing Program ca ught my attention. "lightendedness" . T his is so mething T he firs t was Zeus II winning the IMS which has seriously affli cted the !O R di vision of the 180-mile Cabbage T ree fl eets, worldwide, and is eas il y recognis­ Island Race . With the demise of the able. In the case of IMS, the rule makers Montagu Island Race, this is now the have effectively banned its applica tion to longest ocean race, with the exception of MARINE ENGINES bows and sterns by the non-exoti cs rule, the Sydney-Hobart, within the Club's but this will not stop its spread into ri gs seasonal pointscore. and keels (these are "ends" of the yacht " Zeus II is a 20-year-old Joubert just as sterns and bows are). designed C urrawong Class w hi ch was I sometimes compare the problem to very competitive back in the late '70s . that of AIDS and health: much as the Her previous glory was winning the authorities are concerned that the disease 1981 Sydney-Hobart Race . In this lates t will spread into the heterosexual com­ success I ca n hea r the cynics saying " but munity so we should worry that "light­ it was a li ttle boat race, favouring the endedness" transfers fr om the IO R to tailenders". M y response \VO uld be that IMS. the IMS system has brought Zeuss II T he symptom s are obvious. T he back into our racing fl eet and provided yachts develop spindly rigs, eratz keels, an opportunity fo r her to win again wide bea ms, and suffe r a huge growth when the right opportunities presented of inside ballas t. themselves. Congratulati ons to her T here is one obvious cure, but with owner/skipper, Jim Dunstan, a Flag the comparison continuing, it is being O ffi ce r of the Royal Sydney Yacht researched in the laboratories. Fortu­ Squadron. nately, in the · case of yachts, the T he other notable result was the measurement of " pitching moment" is Jupiters Sydney-Southport, bac k in Au­ seen to be the answer, and the word is gust with Morn ing T ide filling first place BUKH IS SAFETY out that the Massachussetts Institute of and Haupia coming second. When you choose Bukh Diesel Technology has made veat progress. This was a seemingly unlikely pair. We may see the result of their efforts in Haup ia is a recently designed J35 Class (a you have protected yourself as the coming year. I must stress that the sistership was the IMS winner at the well as you possibly can . finding of a solution to this problem is Kenwood C up) and has been optimised Bukh has been approved by URGEN TLY required fo r all ocean by Scott Jutson since her import to national authorities the world over racing, both IMS and !O R. Austra li a. She could be typifie d as a Space considerati ons prevent my con­ current type-fo rmer oftop IMS designs. for use in lifeboats and life tinuing this theme (the Editor said " 1000 Morning Tide is an "S&S" design, a sister capsules. This is the best words", and I'm pas t that already) but I of Mo rning Cloud whi ch won the_ 1969 recommendation you can get. should make one more comment. Sydney-Hobart Race with British PM Bukh Diesel has exclusive 2 years The IMS is a handica p rule as distinct Ted Heath as owner-skipper. (Ted fa iled warranty. fro m the IO R which is a development to quali fy fo r the British Southern Cross rule. This means that as better ways of Team of three fo r that year, but stormed Bukh engines are born and bred quantifying the- speed potential of a home to bea t the offi cial tea m yachts.) as marine diesels. They are not yacht's hull are fo und, they should be When two yachts of such widely converted tractor or industrial applied. In the introduction to the rule, differing design conce pt and age ca n fill engines. They are built for a tough they quote obj ecti ves, some of whic h adj acent top placings, then it seems that life in the salt water environment. are below. this handica pping system is fi lling the " Reduce obsolescence caused by de- requirements of Club Yacht Racing. Choose between the traditional signs . . whi ch render older yachts T he other aspects of this res ult which stern tube installation or Bukh's uncompetitive." may have escaped the Club racing safe "Saildrive". " Devise a system w hi ch is designer fraternity's attention were that both proof . . . by correction if necessary". yachts were mast headers with whole­ Horsepower range " Provide fair time all owance for some rigs, and neither of them ca rried yachts of the dual purpose type (for "Gorillas", " Heavies" or "Technocrats" 10, 18, 24, 36 and 48. cruising and racing) ." to achieve their placin gs. 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T is a measure of the high regard held in the Champagne Mumm World Cup boat, particularly to the keel/rudder Iamong ocean racing yachtsman for after two series, the Southern Cross Cup configuration. Intensive training by the the winning performance of RFD Ulti­ and the Kenwood C up. crew and taming of the revamped boat mate Challenge in the 1989 NorTel Syd­ When RFD Ultimate Challenge won in the months before the Hobart race ney-Hobart Race that three of the crew the 1989 NorTel Sydney-Hobart after a brought Ultimate Challenge to the peak have been nominated for the Ocean dramatic duel with rival One Tonner, of her racing career. Racer of the Year Awards. Owner/ Sagacious, Abrahams became the first However, the plan for change began skipper/navigator Lou Abrahams has Victorian yachtsman to win two races after the boat's poor performance in the been nominated for the Ocean Racer of and, along with Sydney yachtsman Pe­ 1988 Kenwood Cup in Hawaii and in the Year, bowman Glenn Ferguson for ter Kurts, the only owners to win the the subsequent One Ton Cup in San Crewman of the Year and mainsail Hobart twice in the past 24 years. Francisco. "We realised we had a major trimmer John Gash for Rookie of the He is back again this year, aiming for speed problem with the boat," recalled Year. his third Hobart win, something only Col Anderson, the longtime sailmaker That same crew sailed the One Ton­ achieved by the Halvorsen brothers who and sail trimmer for Lou's yachts, in­ ner to victory in the Kaula Race, the won three successive races with Freya in cluding the two Hobart winners. "But long race of this year's Kenwood Cup in the early 1960s, plus two earlier races. more of concern was the fact that the Hawaii, again outsailing a crack interna­ Before he sets sail for Hobart on Boxing boat did a frightening nose-dive in the tional fleet of One Tonners, SO-footers Day, Lou should also know whether he San Francisco series and again in the and maxi yachts when it came to tough, rough weather Portsea to Western Port long ocean racing. By Peter Campbell race back in Australia, " added Ander­ Both successes had special significance son, manager of Hood Sails in Mel­ for the veteran Abrahams, a member bourne. and former Commodore of Mel­ has won that most prestigious honour of "It was clear that there was something bourne's Sandringham Yacht Club Ocean Racer of the Year - it will be wrong with the new keel designed by where most of his crew are also mem­ announced at a luncheon at the Cruising Dubois and fitted out before Hawaiian bers. It was Lou's 27th Sydney-Hobart Yacht Club of Australia on Friday, and USA campaigns." - no yachtsman has skippered his own December 21 . To correct the problem, Lou commis­ yacht in more Hobarts - and his second Lou has raced a variety of yachts in sioned the Sydney-based naval architect win on overall corrected time. the Hobart race with Ultimate Cha llenge and !OR optimiser Scott Jutson to de­ Giving him added pleasure was to see being the smallest, a 12.2m LOA One sign a more efficient keel and rudder that the yacht he sailed to victory in 1983, his Tonner designed by Ed Dubois as a correct the nose-diving and improve S&S 46, Challenge II, win the inaugural candidate (and subsequent member) of Ultim ate Challenge's boatspeed. Mel­ IMS division of the 1989 Sydney­ the Australian Admiral's Cup team in bourne boat-builder Ken Jago built the Hobart. 1987. But in many ways the Dubois new appendages and they were fitted to His comment back in Waikiki after design was a disappointment, although Ultimate Challenge in the September of winning the gruelling Kaula Rook race it was the top-performing Australian 1989, giving the crew about three at the Kenwood Cup underlined his boat in the Fastnet Race that year - months tuning before the NorTel disappointment at not seeing Ultimate again showing the long race skills of Lou Southern Cross Cup and Sydney­ Challenge included in the official Austra­ and his crew. Hobart. lian Kenwood C up team despite its Ultimate Cha llenge's victory in the The new keel was sli ghtly smaller Sydney-Hobart win. " I just wanted to 1989 NorTel Sydney-Hobart was a bril­ than the previous Dubois keel, with a beat the bastards in one race." In fact, liant combination of those never-give­ new cross section shape to improve lift Ultimate Challenge's win helped keep up ocean racing skill s of Lou and his and the centre of gravity also further aft. Australia at the ton of the ooints ladder loyal team and significant changes to the Earlv sailing trials indicated a much tides and currents w hich the crew con­ fi r m ed w it h wa te r tempera tures throughout the race. improved boat downwind, combined T he 1989 NorTel Sydney-Hobart was with slightly better upwind speed and, very straight fo rward, recalled Ander­ more importantly, no nose-diving ten­ son, with lots of hard two-sailing run­ dencies. ning in uncomfo rtable seas. In Bass Strait Ultimate Chall enge handled the " The new keel and rudder was one conditions well with one reef in the major factor in our preparation fo r the main and a N o 4 heads ail. Rival Saga­ Sydney-Hobart," recalled Anderson in cious was down to two reefs and a storm an interview with OFFSHORE. "The jib, but both yachts were going the sa me other was crew preparation, an essential speed across " The Paddock", never part of any ocean racing campaign if you more than a mile apart. "They were want to have a chance of success. In fa ct, smarter, because they were more com­ it is surprising how little time is spent by fortable under that rig," Anderson com­ many owners and skippers with thei r mented. crew before a big race, on the water and ashore - and this quickl y becomes " The hi ghlight was our duttl with apparent in a long race like the Sydney­ Sagacious down the Tasmanian East Hobart." Coas t before that strong nor'wester," Anderson said, describing the race to the The crew of Ultimate Cha llenge began finish. "The sailing angle was ideal , their preparation for the Southern C ross with three-quarter pole giving both and Sydney-Hobart even before the boat yachts a co mfo rtable sail without ri sk of was back in the water after the keel and a round-up. rudder changes . Rohan T hompson took on the time-consuming role of crew "We sailed boat-for-boat, both of organiser and proved a grea t driving surfi ng down the waves at up to 14 force behind the scenes, organising knots. T he boat-for-boat duel continued Winner of last year's NorTel Sydney- meetings at Lou's Brighton home and ri ght up the river and although they bea t sending out regular newsletters covering Hobart, Lou Abrahams. ' us across the line we had that edge on the program of training and boat prepa­ corrected time with our lower rating. T here is no doubt that the co mpetition ration. and helming); Rohan T hompson (head­ provided by Sagacious pushed us to the sail trim, overall trim); Ian (Ox) Davis Training consisted of racing on Satur­ limit and on to victory." days on Port Phillip with the Melbourne (headsail t rim); Gordon (H aggis) IOR fl eet, with boat-handling and crew Jamies on (halyards, mas t); Gary Schip­ Before the victory was confirmed, system being tested and analysed on per (halyards, mast); John Gash (main­ because of outstanding protes ts and Sunday morni11gs. " T ea m-work on sail trim). cl aims for redress involving other such manoeuvres as gybing shy-to-shy, " For las t year's race we decided that yachts, owner/skipper/ navigator Lou peeling and gybe hoists is vital on any proper rest fo r the crew was impor­ Abrahams described the race as the bes t yacht, and practice makes perfect," is tant," explained Anderson. " In previous he had ever sail ed in 26 races down the Anderson's advice. years we have had all the crew on deck N SW South Coast, across Bass Strait virtually throughout the three days at and down the East Coast of Tasmania. Sail evaluation is always a vital part of sea. Lou and I decided that this year " Irres pecti ve of whether we win or lose preparing .a yacht for any maj or regatta there should be a proper ' watch below'. first place, it's been the grea tes t Sydney­ or race that is certain to include a variety Those members who were off watch Hobart I've ever sailed in. It was the of wind and sea conditions. RFD Ulti­ should go below and rest. toughes t but also the most exciting - mate Challenge already had an extensive we were sailing boat-for-boat all the wardrobe of excellent sailing fr om the " The logic of this was that the advan­ way from Sydney, never out of sight, Hood M elbourne loft, several quite tage of having a fres h crew outweighed never more than half a mile or a mile new. " What we did m ake was a dee p the value of stacking the weather rail. In apart, sometimes no more than a cricket and powerful No 1 for ocean racing and fac t, the only time all the crew were on pitch apart," Abrahams added. a new Spectra No 3," Anderson said. the rail was at the start and coming " These were the only new sails we made around Tasman Island for that fin al bea t For the record, RFD Ultimate Chal­ for the H obart ra ce and they were to to the fin ish in the Derwent. lenge took 3 days 21 hours 7 minutes 24 prove invaluable in las t year's race seconds to reach H obart, bea ten across which comprised 80% two-sail reaching " It paid off, Gary Shea rd and Barney the line by Sagacious by 3 minutes 4 or spinnaker running over the 630 Walker were exhausted after their day of seconds, but winning on corrected time nautical miles." that hard downwind duel with Sagac io us by 5 minutes 55 seconds. Apart from before the 30 knot nor-wester off the winning the Sydney-Hobart, Ultim ate Abrahams has always paid particular Tasmanian East Coast but I was fres h Challenge sailed consistently well for the attention to a good system of watch­ from being off watch and was able to do Victorian tea m in the lead-up races of most of the steering fro m Tasman Island kee ping for long races, designed to the NorTel Southern C ross C up, to the Iron Pot. " achieve maximum effi ciency for every finis hing the six race regatta as third top individual yacht. Her series placings of hour of the rac1: and to prevent fa ti gue. Two other innovations contributed to 6-8-7-12-6-1 saw her bea ten onl y by the For the 1989 Sydney-H obart, Ultimate RFD Ultimate Chal/enge 's victory, Abra­ two 1989 vintage SO-footers Heaven Ca n Challenge's crew match combinations hams bought a weather package fr om Wai t (sailing for Britain) and Foo2 (sail­ comprised of four pairs, working fou r Roger Badham and also fitted a new ing fo r Hong Kong). As Jamarella , Foo2 hours on, four hours off, with Lou GPS navigation system. T he weather had been topscoring individual (navigating and helm) and Glenn Fergu­ packed proved quite useful but was not son (bow) flo ating. so vital as the 1989 race was on a course The other crew members of RFD virtually stra ight down the rhumbline. • Lou A brahams and Ultimate Chall enge Ultimate Challenge in the Sydney-Hobart is back again in this year's NorTel Sydney­ w ere: Gary Sheard (helm); Ian (Barney) T he GPS system proved a superb Hobart race - with a go od chance ofpi cking Walker (tactics and helming); C ol addition to the yacht's equipment, pro­ up a special trophy before the ra ce even AnrlPr c.-n n lhP'l rl c'l ;l t- r;.,., f"\'7Pr'l ll tr;m v i'1in o sio nifi r~ nt inform ~tion aho ut r:t11 rt i: GALLERY OF WINNERS

1977 - Kialoa 1980 - New Zealand

1981 - Zeus II 1982 - Scallywag

1984 - Indian Pacific 1985 - Sagacious STATIST I CS

. 7732 3-22-51-21 18 WESTERN MORNING .7774 3-22-55-28 O.W. Blainey & P.R. Stoc:kfeld 5-14-56-00 .7163 4-00·39·09 3-23-22-00 19 THUNDERBOLT ...... L.P. Harding 5-15-04·00 .7167 4-00-48-08 3-23-34-27 20 BAER FOX ...... A.W. Jackman 5-06-38-00 .7649 4-00-51-42 3-23-44-23 2 1 WHITE POINTER K.R. Le Compte 5-05-09·00 .7795 4·01 -33-15 22 PILGRIM ...... J .H. Rattan 5-09-18-00 .7556 4-01 -41-56 23 SWEET CAROLINE 1976 M .W .O. Phillips 4-22-55-54 .8218 4-01 ·44· 16 Pl Yacht Elapsed TCF Corrected 24 PRYORITY ...... D.J. Pryor 5-05-44-00 .7795 4-02-00-32 Time Time 25 RAMPAGE ...... E.N. Fuller 5·05·44-00 .7638 4-02-32-59 1 PICCOLO... .. J. Pickles 4-05·30· 15 .7857 3-07-45-07 18 AQUILA ..... B. Edmunds&: 26 RELENTLESS ...... P. Hankin 5-05-26-00 .7687 4-02-55-45 2 ROCKIE ...... P. & R. Kingston 4-07·30· 12 .7774 3-08-27-49 19 SWEENEY TODO ..... o.w. Blaine 27 ZI LVERGEEST Ill ...... A.J . Murray 5- 18- 14-00 .7163 4·03·00·59 3 RAGAMUFFIN ...... S. Fischer 3·21-49-58 .8638 3-09-03·10 20 NYAMBA ...... J.G. Hardy 4- 28 CHAOS ...... R.T. Spence 5·06·07-00 .7863 4-03-09-55 4 LOVE AND WAR ...... P. Kurts 3-23 -54-39 .8469 3-09-13·37 21 NITRO ...... G. & A. Edgerton 4-21· 29 ROGUE ...... R.M . White 5-10-34-00 .7649 4·03-52-13 5 BACARDI R. Gould & W . Rocklitte 4·06-10-44 .7966 3-09-23·45 22 LOVE AND WAR ...... P. Kurts 4-20-02· 30 ROCKIE ...... P.S. Kingston 5-07-24-00 .7853 4·04-02·49 6 NATELLE TWO ...... N .S. Girdis 4-03·28·25 .8190 3-09-28·08 23 VITTORIA ...... L.J. Abrahams 5-02-22-23 31 BANG BANG ...... D.W. Baxter 5-06-37-00 .7902 4·04·03-08 7 PATRICE Ill ...... R.J. Kirby 3-23-45·16 .8537 3-09-44-44 24 HUMDINGER ...... W.B. Northam 5-20-06-31 32 HERCULES J.H. , C.M. & S.P. Will 6·00-43·07 .6931 4-04-18-16 8 DYNAMITE ...... P. Smith 4-05·18·03 .8114 3- 10-11-44 25 BARNACLE BILL.. .. J. & 0 . Dirksen 5-01 -05-52 33 LOTS WIFE ...... RS. Montgomery 6-01-34-48 .6905 4-04-3 1-22 9 APOLLO II ...... A.I. Thurston 4-01 -15-25 .8468 3-10-21-26 26 APOLLO II ...... A. & I. Thurston 4-20-29-29 34 ONYA OF GOSFORD ... P. Aysdyk 5-05-59·00 .8000 4-07-47-11 10 RUFFIAN ...... J. Kinsella 4-07-06·32 .8021 3-10-42-13 27 DYNAMITE ...... RE. Walters 5-00-29-16 35 NATELLE 11 ...... A.G . Lee 5-04-41-00 .8092 4.04.53.37 11 CHAUVINIST...... J. Wareham 4-23-12-07 .6975 3-11·08-36 28 PERIE BANOU ..... J. & C. Sanders 5- 14-43-33 38 MARY BL.AIR ...... G.A. Blok 5-06-51·00 .7964 4-05-01-24 12 QUEEOUEG ...... P. Beildeding 4-03-31 -31 .8401 3·11·36-40 29 WH ISPERS OF WELLINGTON 37 CANON ...... J. Harry 6-01-47-45 .6931 4-05-03-03 13 GHOST ...... K. & R . Barry-Cotter 4·16-35-40 .7442 3-11-47-34 G.R. Stagg 50-02-13-19 OLANDRA ...... A.W. Escott 6·01 -44-19 .6939 4·05-04-40 14 MULLOKA ...... C .J. Wilkinson 4-20-40-39 .7223 3-12-16-34 30 DANCING MOUSE ..... C. McGarry 5-13-19-37 A ...... A.G . Taylor 6-01-37-18 .6946 4·05·08-55 15 APOLLO ...... W. Aooklyn 3-17-16-40 .9468 3·12-31-42 31 BACARDI ...... J. Gould 5·03·55·21 ...... B.C . Psattis 5-05-01·00 .8121 4-05-31 -33 16 BALLYHOO ...... J. Rooklyn 3-07-59-26 1.0573 3-12-34-26 32 GOLDEN EAGLE .... J.W. Granger 5-06-28-35 ...... J. Bennetto 5-04-47-00 .8145 4-05-38-09 17 DIAMOND CUTTER ... A. Sweeney 4·13-42-48 .7710 3-12-35-20 33 KESTREL ...... R.H . Fidock 5-07-03-27 ...... T. Goto 5-06-00-00 .8070 4·05-40-55 18 HOT PROSPECT II Heuchmer 34 CONCUBINE ...... J. Mc. Taylor 5-12-31-30 .7442 Everitt Moran & Partners 4-13-0 1-20 .7763 3·12-38-02 35 MEAINDA ...... A.G. Taylor 5-21 -47-23 .6962 .8057 1-06-15-24 19 LOTS WIFE ...... R. Montgomery 5-01-57-47 .6962 3-12-54-38 36 MERCEDES Ill ...... A.T. Clutton 5-07-57-27 .7730 . Braham 5-04-45-00 .8238 4-06-46-08 20 TAURUS ...... A.M . Kelso 4-10-48-57 .7966 3-13-05-22 37 MARTINE ...... P.K. Gourlay 5·23-49-55 .6877 . Janes 5-05-47-00 .8181 4-06-54- 12 21 RAMPAGE ...... E.N. Fuller 4-11-30-14 .7924 3-13-11-10 38FARR OUT ...... E. Vidor5-07-30·51 .7763 4-02-59-21 46 MA . Barry 5-1 5-28·00 .7597 4-06-54-50 22 ANTAGONIST ...... A.G. Hickman 4- 14-38-30 .7701 3-13-12-19 39 KNOCKOUT ...... Sir Max Aitken 5·01·19·04 .8181 4-03-15-00 47 SATIN chan 5--04-47·00 .8255 4-07-00-31 23 MATIKA Il l ...... A. Pearson 4·13-40-03 .7774 3-13-15·20 40 BRUMBY ...... P. & R. Robinson 5·22·48-43 .6990 4-03-49-31 48 AUNAW illin 5-10-28-00 .7905 4-07-08-02 24 GERONIMO ...... A.G. Lee 4-03·58·40 .8529 3-13-16-16 41 PANDORA It ...... M.W .O. Phillips 5-02-19-01 .8179 4-04-02-35 49 AICOCHE lay 6-00-47-42 .7141 4-07·23·53 25 WAINUNU IV ...... R A Lee 4-09-44-10 .8074 3-13-22-17 42 VARIAG ...... M . Herion 5-16-24-18 .7380 4--04-40-01 50 HELSAL ... er 4-03-02-09 1.0468 4-07-40-43 26 INVINC IBLE ...... R.H. Cawse 4-13-51-49 .7774 3-13-24-29 43 BILLABONG ...... P.N. Joubert 5-14-55 21 .7465 4-04-43-10 51 ANACONDA ·c 4-05-01-21 1.0315 4-08-12 -1 6 27 MERCEDES Ill ...... A.T. Glutton 4-14·02·25 .7763 3-13-25-27 44 BLUE MOON ...... W . Anderson 5-12-32-47 .7628 4-05-06-23 52 DYNAMITE .. 5·05·39·00 .8310 4-08-24-54 28 KESTREL ...... R.H. Fidock 4-14-12-40 .7752 3·13-26-08 45 BRAVURA ...... !. Loube 4-19-20-03 .8768 4-05·07·30 53 PERIE BANO 29 FARR OUT ...... P.H . Winktess 4-14-05-01 .7774 3-1 3-34-44 46 PA TR ICE Ill ...... R.J. Kirby 4-16-22-29 .8554 4-00-07-31 J.W 30 HUON CHIEF ...... H.O. Calvert 4-14-40-20 . 7752 3-13-47-35 47 MULBERRY ...... M . Lovett 6-04-53-02 .6987 4-05·40·22 54 FUZZV DUCK ... 31 BREA FOX ...... R.W. Jackman 4-14- 14· 18 .7795 3-13-55-51 48 STREAKER ...... R.H. Cawse 5-12-23-45 .7681 4-05-41-36 55 HI -JACQUE .. 32 RICOCHET II ...... G.L Finlay 5.00-12-47 .7199 3-1 4-32·29 49 WAINUNU IV 56BAAVURA .. 33 ZILVERGEEST Ill ...... A.J. Murray 5-00-21-38 .7234 3-15-04-08 J. Garner & D. Strong 5-07-00-13 .8041 4-06-07-25 57 CHANCE ... 34 MATIKA II ...... Roxburgh Partners 4-20-59-54 .7442 3-15-04-13 50 POLARIS ...... L. H. Savage 5-06-27-55 .8086 4-06-15.35 58 VANESSA 35 BRUMBY ...... R. & R. Robinson 5-02-58-52 .7088 3·15-10-08 51 MIKO...... D. Burfitt 6·03-14·59 .6959 4-06-28-16 59 BREADFRUIT .. 36 VITTORIA ...... L.J . Abrahams 4-12-32-57 .8064 3-15-32-03 52.THUNDERCLOUD 60 SCORPION ...... R.W. Clemens 37 SARACEN II ...... J. H. Jamison 5-04·39·25 .7036 3-15-42-31 D. Hogg & A. S1ewart 5·13·10·:J? .7731 4-06-57-29 61 HORNET 0 . Flecker & A Hurburgh 6-01· 38 DANCING MOUSE ..... G. McG arry 4-22-32-34 .7442 3- 16-13-10 53 CHAOS ...... R. T. Spence 5-12-27-55 .7774 4·06-58-43 62 SURAYA ...... K. Spencer 6-01-36-2 39 LEDA ...... N.E. Gosson 3-23-40-29 .9232 3·16-19-37 54 SHENANDOAH ...... J.R. Charody 6-05-10-30 .6959 4-07·48·39 63 ARETHUSA ...... G. Knightly 5-04-47-00 40 RUTHLESS ...... P. Hill 4-17-29·03 .7764 3-16-20· 10 55 BANG BANG ...... O.W . Baxter 5-13-09-51 .7815 4-08-04-04 64 QUADRILLE ...... Army Sailing Club 6-02-15-04 41 CHAOS ...... R.T. Spence 4-17-41 -02 .7774 3-16-22-40 56 APOLLO Il l ...... A. Bond 4-20-26-58 .8965 4-08·23·49 65 JISUMA ...... w. Aockliffe 6-01-27-51 42 BALANORA ...... W.R. Carpenter 4-13-45-50 .8079 3·16-40-42 57 LOTS WIFE ...... R.S. Montgomery 6-08-45-15 .6933 4-09-54·16 66 SECOND LADY ..... G . Scherwinski 6-01-51-25 43 THUNDERBOLT ...... L. P. Harding 5-04-27-58 .7152 3-17-01-05 58 LEDA ...... N. Gosson 4-20-59-00 .9121 4-10·42·02 67 JOKER ...... W.P. Webb 6- 13-34-07 44 PINTADO...... E. Wilson 5-04-36-27 .7154 3-17-08-39 59 MANU KAI ...... J.W.B. Barry 5·20·08·32 .7628 4-10-54-02 68 SPIRIT ...... P.O. Rundle 5-05·04·00 45 VANESSA ...... B.K. Jagger 5-08- 18-42 .6962 3-17-19-50 60 ROGUE ...... V. D'Emilio 5·20·24-15 .7681 4-11-50-40 69 SILVER CLOUD ...... A.G. McComb 6·01·31·55 46 MERCEDES IV ...... M.E. Braham 4- 13-33-57 .8236 3-18-14-18 61 ANNA ORIE ...... H.J. Kropp 5-15-37-01 .8031 4-12-54-50 70 CALLALA ...... A.J . & R.K. Birtles 5·22-35-07 47 SUNDANCE ...... 0 . Smith 5- 10-57-29 .6987 3-19-30-01 62 ANACONDA II 71 MYSTIC SEVEN ...... N.G. Chidgey 6-01-37-18 48 BANJO PATERSON ...... J. Jarret 4-05-42-25 .9064 3-20-11 -1 4 Aust. Army Sailing Assn . 4-10-03-27 1.0291 4·13·08-38 72 COBWEB ...... W.M. Griffiths 6-02-02-52 .7515 49 BINOA ...... 1.0 . Ritchie 5-03-09·21 .7494 3-20-17-36 63 MELTEMI...... B.C . Psallis 5·17-46·55 .8154 4-16-20-51 73 LOWANA 11...... 0 . Millikan 6-01-32-36 .7546 50 SARNIA ...... P. Rae 5-08·16·51 .7240 3-20-52·31 64 THYL.ACINE ...... J.W. Burton 6·08·36·00 .7364 4-16-22-29 74 BLUE MOON ...... W. Anderson 6·00·58-30 .7576 51 ARTEMIS ...... O.J. Millikan 5- 12-23-15 .7075 3-21-39-51 65 SECOND LADY ..... G. Scherwinski 6-08-44-25 .7477 4- 18-12-14 75 UTlEKAH lV ...... G . Hennicke 5·22-42- 18 .7730 52 LANDFALL ...... K. Elliott 5-02·44·50 .7699 3-22-30·11 66 FIREBALL ll ...... M. Bayliss 5-17-43-35 .8537 4-21-34-37 76 MORNING MATILDA 53 HI-J ACQUE ...... J. Violet 5-02-11-22 .7752 3-22-43·17 67 FREANOA ...... J.A. Carr 5-15-13-57 .9051 5-02-23-56 RP. McIntyre 6-09-11-24 .7208 54 ICTHUS ...... RP. Delbridge 5- 10-27-49 .7290 3·23-06-29 66 BREADFRUIT ...... A. Sill 5· 14-42-38 .7442 5·04·15·06 77 HUMBUG ...... A.L. Bugg 6· 12·30-34 .70 75 4-14-43-49 55 ANITRA MAY ...... R. Walters 4-23-54-25 .7955 3-23-23-10 69 NIRIMBA ..... Royal Australian Navy 7-23-05-09 .7186 5·17·18-51 78 TOL TEN ...... D.A. Job 6·01-33-22 .7619 4·14·53·57 56 WILD GOOSE ...... I.D. Russel 5-06-21-30 .7576 3-23-43-45 70 QUEEQUEG ...... G.R. Young 5-01 -19-04 .8375 4-05·27·51 79 GENGHIS KHAN ...... A. Huntley 5-07-20-00 .8711 4· 14·55-12 57 FREEDOM ...... C.T. Martin 5·08·21 ·21 .7461 3-23-45-59 80 FAEANDA ...... J.A. Carr 5-06-46-00 .8834 4-15-59-08 58 QUASAR ...... B.J. Sutherland 4-13·38·5'4 .8908 4-01-40-29 DISQUALIFIED : CORDON BLEU, VANESSA 81 WILLI WILLI ...... J. Goddard 5-05-58-00 .8914 4-16·17•12 59 ANACONDA II ...... J. Grubic 3-22-29-37 1.0421 4-02-28-18 82 ODIN ...... W.L. Gilbert 6-01·44·9 .7728 4-16-37-28 FASTEST TIME: KIALOA 3·10-14-09 60 OBSESSION ...... 8 . Tardrew 4-21 -09-33 .8477 4-03-18-57 B3 SUNDANCE ...... P.W. Daniel 6-22-35-04 .6956 4-19-52-34 61 N1R IMBA ..... Aoyal Australian Navy 5-18-45-03 .7176 4-03-34-03 DIVISION A: KIALOA 84 GRt:TEL ...... B. Lewis 5-04-45-00 .9395 4-21 -12-09 62 CAR MEN ...... K. Bourke 6·00-26-00 .6920 4·03·56-52 DIVISION B: BAER FOX 85 TOUCHWOOD 63 NANO 11...... A.O. Chapman 5-13-55-53 .751 4 4-04-38-10 D.P. & V.A. Brooker 6-00-29-34 .8171 4-22-03-54 DIVISION C: ZILVERGEEST Ill 64 WILLI WILLI ...... J. Goddard 5-03-41-35 .8290 4-06-32-30 86 KLINGER ...... T.N. Cassidy 8-04·48·42 .72 11 5-21-55-15 65 SCARLET ...... L.J . Job 5·21 ·51-49 .7236 4-06-39·09 DIVISION D: LOLLIPOP 87 RIMFIRE ...... E.W. Wall-Smith 5-07-56-00 .B372 4-11-06-20 66 ANNA ORIE ...... J. Krop 5-06-24·40 .8162 4-07-10-36 RETIRED: APALIE, APHRODITE, ARIES, ASSEGAAI, AVALON, 67 QUEST ...... R. C ru ikshank 5-07-02-17 .8152 4-07-33-41 AZTEC, B-ONE-NINE-FIVE, BELLMAN, BETUL.A, BINDA, CASAB· FASTEST TIME: APOLLO 4·02-23-24 68 ADRIA AUSTRALIS ...... A. Harry 5-04-05-18 .8375 4·07-55-26 L.ANCA, CHAUVINIST, DORADOR, FA IR DUNKUM, FARR FETCH· DIVI SION A: LOVE AND WAR 69 JINDIVtK ...... H. Bohill 6-00-25-26 .7308 4-09-32-42 ED, GERONIMO, GIDGEE, GUMBLOSSOM, HECATE, HELSAL, DIVISION B: DECEPTION 70 NIJUMI ...... A.B. Grenda 5-09·25·49 .7171 3-20-48-52 HERCULES, HI-JACQUE, IMOG ENE, JISUMA, LOWANA II , MAR· GARET RINTOUL II , MATIKA II, MEKIM SAVE, MERCEDES V, DIVISION C: STREAKER TWO TON DIVISION : NATELLE TWO MERIKI, MOONBIRD, MULLOKA, MYSTIC SEVEN, NDUMSKY, NIAE DIVISION D: PEACOCK LOWA, PANDORA TWO, PENANDO, PHANTOM , QUEST, RHYTHM, ONE TON DIVISION: ROCKIE RETIRED : ACRUX, APOLLO II, APOLLO IV, CLICQUOT, FARR OUT, RUM RUNNER, RUTHLESS, SILVER SHAMROCK Ill, SMIA·NOFF· THREE QUARTER TON DIVISION: GHOST MOONSHADOW, NIMMITABEL, NIRIMBA, PICCOLO, SUPERSTAR. AGEN, SOUTHERN COMFORT II , SPANKER, SUNBURST, SU PER· HALF TON DIVISION : CHAUVINIST STAR, SWUZZLEBUBBLE, TAURUS, TH E HUM, THE STING , THUN· 1978 WEATHER: The race started in 12-15 knots NE with rain. The DI VISION A: RAGAMUFFIN DERBOLT, WAINUNU V, WHITE POINTER, WILLI WILLI , WIMAWAY, wind gradually fre shened the first atternoon to 30 knots to give the WINSTON CHURCHILL, XAVIERA. yachts a fast passage past Jervis Bay. The hard running conditions DI VI SION B: PICCOLO were taking toll ol spinnakers and gear and two boats broke booms and 19n WEATHER : The race start ed in light Eat 5 knots turning later to DIVISION C: GHOST retired. A light sou-westerly change passed over the fleet at 2400hrs NE 10 knots fading to a very light SSE overnight. On the second and turned SE 10· 15 knots later in the day leaving the yachts close DI VI SION D: CHAUVINIST morning the fleet had W 20 knots with yachts experiencing NE. It turned hauled towards Gabo Island. Overnight the seven put more than 80 in the afternoon to SE 30-40 knots gusting with a short high cross sea. FASTEST TIME : BALLYHOO 3-07-59·26 miles on the rest of the fleet. The light westerl ~• (5- 10 knots) then took Some yachts experienced winds of up to 50 knots tor varying periods. RETIRED : AZTEC, BETUL.A , CORDON BLEU, KINT AMA , LOLLIPOP, the bulk of the fleet across Bass Strait with many calm patches. The By the ever.ing 18 boats had retired. By early on 28th a further 15 were YNDAL, ME L TEMI, POLARIS , PROVIDENCE, ROGUE, SHENAN­ leaders continued to extend their lead. A southerly change passed out. The wind was SE 20 knots later going back to 30-40 knots seas AH , SMILIE, STORM BAY, TREVASSA, WOFTAM IV. through on the third night lasting only six hours. A freshening nor-easter rough. A\ night ii swung to SW 25-35 knots. On the 29th the wind eased of 15 knots took the yachts down the Tasmanian coast. It died during 6 W EATHER: The start was in light NE winds of about 8 knots to S 12 knots SE turning to a light NE. Calm-to-light conditions plagued th e night. In Storm Bay most yachts found tight and variable conditios h freshened in the atternoon. By early evening it had turned to a 25 the tail-enders although some struck a short 85 knot squall on Jan. 1. southerly which reached 40 knots during the night. On the 27th it with the river producing fitful breezes. Once the leaders finished the again with 5· 1O knots most ol the day turning to SW 5-1 0 knots 1978 remainder experi enced frustrating calms down the Tasmanian coast and in SIorm Bay. night. By the next morning ii was blowing 35 knots and later Pl Yacht Elapsed TCF Corrected 40 knots. By morning ol the 29th 8 boats had retired and Time Time at 30 knots. Later in the day some boat finished while 1 LOVE AND WAR ...... P. Kurts 4-04-45-43 .8356 3-12·13·00 1979 25 knots. Early on the 30th the breeze 2 MARGARETAINTOUL II Pl Yacht Elapsed TCF Corrected hile in the atternoon it moved to the SE S.R. Edwards 4-03-34-39 .8499 3-12-37-51 Time Time 31st there were 37 yachts in with the 3 CONSTELLATION .... J.W. Garner 4-04-08-15 .8613 3-14-14-54 1 SCREW LOOSE .... R.J. Cumming 4- 12-54-38 .6934 3·03·31-06 winds . In all a record 15 boats 4 STREAKER ...... 8 .C . Ryan 4-22-42-34 .7660 3-18-55-53 2 WHEEL BARROW t.C . Tringham 4-12·59·13 .6934 3-03-34-17 0. 5MATIKAII ...... A. Pearson 5-06-32-00 .7335 3-20-48-43 3 APALIE ...... Apalie Syndicate 4-13-05-51 .6931 3·03-36·55 6 APOLLO ...... J. Aooklyn 4-02-23-24 .9458 3-21-03-26 4 SHENANDOAH ...... J.R. Charody 4-13·33·32 .6902 3·03-37-03 7 PEACOCK K.W. & R.M.H. Adams 5·10·52·00 .7127 3-21-16-07 5 QUINTAL ...... H .C . Knoop 4-13-19·50 .6962 3-04-06-57 3-21-28-04 Pl Yacht Corrected 8 DECEPTION ...... 0 . Hankin 4-22-39-34 .7877 6 NIRE LOWA ...... A.T. Floyd 4-14-45-23 .6902 3-04-26-38 Time 9SINNERMAN ...... G.D. Finchett 5.10-33-00 .7 174 3-21-39-23 7 MERlNDA ...... A.G . Taylor 4-15-13-02 .6918 3-04-56-24 3·13-58-10 10 BILL.ABONG ...... P.N. Joubert 5-07-49-00 .7454 3-23-15-42 8 C HAUVINIST ...... P. Winkler 4-15-47-39 .6902 3-05-09-37 3-16-09-1 7 11 CASABLANCA ...... K. Page 4-04-26-52 .9503 3-23-27-19 9 ZILVERGEEST 11 1...... A.J . Murray 4 12- 17-34 .7133 3-05-14-42 12 HUON CHIEF .. ... H.O. Calvert 5-05-26-00 .7628 3-23-40-49 10 MOANING HUSTLEAJ.H. Cowell 4-12-51-00 .7 133 3·05-38·33 13 DIAMOND CUTTER ... A. Sweeney 5-06-04-00 .7597 3-23-46-22 11 THUNDERBOLT ..... L.P. Harding 4-13-06- 18 .7137 3-05-52-05 4 LOLLIPOP .. 14 VITTORIA ...... L. J. Abrahams 5-01-23-13 .7910 4-00-01-01 12 QUETZAL ...... P. North 4-13-05-51 ,7139 3-05-53-04 5 NA TELLE II .. 15 ANTAGO N IST ...... R.F. Hickman 5-05-45-00 .7638 4-00-02-52 13 CHERRY CH EER ...... P. Attrill 4•17·37·38 .6863 3·05-58-56 &:: AA~A ~("''I'!( ..22-31-31 16 CORDON BLEU ...... K. Dorrell 5-09·15·00 .7449 4-00-16-41 14 LOLLIPOP ...... I. T . Miltar 4· 17·31·56 .6874 3-06-02-31 RACE STATISTICS

16GHOSTTOO 127 ROGIS TOO ...... R.J . Brown 4-22-1 5-09 .7588 3-17-42-22 68M 3-13-19-42 K. Roxburgh, C. Graham & W. Hoare 4-11 ·40-13 .7293 3-06-31 -26 128ALIBABA ...... J. & T. Michilis 4-10-11 -23 .8520 3·18-28-25 69QUO 3-13-28-50 17 PIMPEANEL...... J. H. Holland 4•14-06-47 .7145 3-06-40-32 129 SORCERY ...... J. D. Wood 3-22-02-34 .9629 3-18-33-13 70GIANT 18 PUSS 'N BOOTS ...... H. Boot 4-12-55-59 .7234 3-06-48-07 130 DESTINY ...... T.A. Taylor 4-13-00-10 .8333 3-18-49-55 71 PIPE DREA 19 RELENTLESS ...... P. Hankin 4-05-16-58 .7784 3-06-50-18 131 FIONA J. Sturrock & E. Lawrence 4-13-01-54 .8346 3- 18-59-52 72AMON-RE ... 20 CHANCE ...... W. & J. Rice 4-12-14- 17 .7293 3-06-58- 16 132 MARY MUFFIN ...... G.A. Blok 4-1 0-12-49 .8613 3· 19·28-54 73WAGGERSII 21 ZEUS II ...... J.A. 0unslan 4-1 8-32-09 .6699 3-07-01-05 133 BANJO PATERSON .. ...J . Jarrett 4-06-51 -15 .8952 3-20-05-07 74 RAGER I 22 BLUE MOVES ...... B.A. Moore 4- 12-20-59 .7316 3-07-16-07 134 SAVANT ...... K.L. Cox 4-1 3-13-54 .8437 3-20-09-31 75 PLABA IV 23 TINA TWO ...... K.V. Dyer 4-18-56-12 .6902 3-07-19-45 135 SHEAAWATER 76 PAWPAW 24 AUAIGA ...... M.P. Stubbing 4-14-07-36 .7238 3-07-42-34 J.M. & A.A. Cooper 4-21-00-75 .7910 3-20-33-10 77 SECOND LADY 25 BELITA IV ...... D.R. Anderson 4-1 3-30-09 .7288 3-07-48-19 136 GAULOIS 3 ...... P. Facque 4-00-48-52 .9594 3·20-53-01 78 WILLIWILLI 26 SGIAN DUSH ...... A.W. Lean 4-15-09-15 .7186 3-07-52-31 137 GRETEL ...... B. Lewis 4-03-01-45 .9395 3-21-02-1 6 79 MARIA VAN DIEMEN 27 VANGUARD ...... A.H. Cawse 4·04·56-43 .7918 3-07-55-42 138CONGERE ...... B.D. Koeppel 4·11-27-34 .8870 3-23-18·59 D.S. Bowman 5·03 28 BRUMBY ...... P. & A. Robinson 4-19-20-36 .6934 3-07-58-44 139 ANACONDA II ...... J. Grubic 3-21-55-23 1.0496 4-02-34-53 80 GAMBIT ...... R.W. Corban 4-1 9-33 29 BILLABONG ...... P.N. Joubert 4-12·38·41 .7364 3-08-00-21 140 CASABLANCA ...... J. Goddard 4-10-11-21 .9503 4-04-54-41 81 GENGHIS KHAN ...... A. Huntley 4.04.34. 30 AMON-AE ...... D. Smith 4-12-48-27 .7357 3-08-02-58 141 SELTAUSTENDEAVOUA 82 MINAM I ...... 1. Helton 4-23-31 -1 31 HECATE ...... W.J. Tedmanson 4-14-09-51 .7271 3-08-06-01 J.P. Callow & M.J. Dunham 4-12-46-04 .9707 4-09-34-51 83 ANACONDA ...... C.F. Thompson 4-08-36-48 32 REVENGE ...... P.H.I. Green 4-13-20· 10 .7327 3-08-06-38 142 IMOGENE ...... LL. & 0 .1. Haskett 4-1 2- 11-17 .8365 3-18-42-58 84 HUON OU EST ...... H.O. Calvert 4-08-37-13 33 SPIDER ...... 0. Currie 4-12-26-02 .7391 3-08-08-36 85 WOFTAM IV ...... 8. Jamison 4-19-52-59 34 SECOND LADY ... G. Scherwinski 4-12-48-23 .7369 3-08-10-45 FASTEST TIME: BUMBLEBEE 4 3-01-45-52 86 CALL.ALA ...... O. Venvrne 4-23-26-05 35WATHAAAII MAXI DIVISION: BUMBLEBEE 4 87 LONGNOSE ...... P. Stransky 4-03-13-58 E.J.C. & R.E.C. Stopp 4-12-18-12 .7410 3-08-15-09 88 GIOGEE ...... R.T. Forster 4-15-13-55 36 WIMAWAY ...... A. Barry 4-12-55-58 .7375 3-08-20-16 DIVISION A: BIG SCHOTT 89 ANITRA MAY ...... A.E . Walters 4-04·19-32 37 ORANI ...... W.G.P. Read 4-12-14-15 .7433 3-08-27-10 DIVISION B: RELENTLESS 90 QUEST ...... A. Cruickshank 5-02-35-40 38 SMACKWATER JACK P. Whiting 4-06-56-45 .7846 3·08-46-16 DIVISION C: ZILVERGEEST Ill 91 DESTINY ...... T.A. Taylor 4-23-30-24 39 DECEPTION .. .. J.H. Bleakley 4-06-58-12 .7846 3-08-47-24 92 BIG 'A' ...... C.E. Arcus 4·21·16·04 40 BIG SCHOTT ...... A. Pearson 4-0349-47 .8119 3-09-03-06 DIVISION 0: SCREW LOOSE 93 BON TEMPS ...... P. Graves 6·00-29-00 41 HUON CHIEF ...... H.O . Calvert 4-10-49-41 .7597 3-09-09-26 RETIRED: Hl✓ACQUE , MOONSHAOOW, ONYA OF GOSFOAD, 42 MARIA ...... M. Preston & 0 . Kelly 4-1 2-46-24 .7463 3-09-10-39 REGARDLESS, SALAMANDER II. FASTEST TIME: NEW ZEALAND 2-18-45-41 43 HERCULES 1979 WEATHER: First spinnaker start since 1967 to give all yachts a DIVISION A: NEW ZEALAND M.H., C.M. & S.P. Will 4-10-26-15 .7628 3·09-11 -25 fast passage to the Heads before a 12 knot sou'easter. Outside the DIVISION B: POLICE CAR 44 MYSTIC SEVEN ..... N.D. Chidgey 4-12-51 -42 .7462 3-09-13-57 Heads, all yachts were dose hauled and the breeze backed to th e esat 45 VIVACIOUS ...... J.A. Brown 4·22-09-08 .6877 3-09-15-11 for two hours. Late on the first afternoon a tine squall passed over the DIVISION C: MATIKA II 3-09-21-41 46 MIKO ...... 0 . Bur1itt 4-21-39-34 .6915 fteet gusting to 35 kno ts. It eased during the night. After a brief calm DIVISION 0 : WHEELBARROW 47 CAV ...... S. Parnell 4-16-39-19 ,7225 3·09-23-36 patch the breeze lilied in from the nor'east to give a quick skid across RETIRED: GUN, MIAAABOOKA, NOELANI, PUSS 'N BOOTS, AIME· 48 JEDAKA ...... H. Kuhn 4-13-44-42 .7420 3·09-25-50 Bass Strait before a 30 knot breeze . Dawn on the third day saw yachts 49 SHOGUN ...... B. Sutton 4-03-26-25 .8190 3-09-26-29 FIRE, SALAMANDER II , SHENANDOAH, SWEET CAROLINE, light running before a 10 knot nor'wester light breezes and thick log TUCANA. 50 SWEET CAROLINE down the Tasmanian coast prevented the big boats taking top honours , M.W.O. Phillips 4-03-00-29 .8246 3-09-38-31 but a freshening sea breeze brought all the little boats home to 1980 WEATHER : The start was in light easterlies which remained 51 BINOA ...... 1.0 . Ritchie 4-14-12-13 .7410 3.09.39.39 dominate the major placings. throughout the first afternoon. The influence of spectator craft outside 52 SAGITTA ...... B. & W. Helleren 4-17-08-37 .7222 3-09-42-44 Sydney Heads was the worst for years. Easterlies stayed lig ht au the 53 SHENANDOAH ...... A.A. White 4-12-19·20 .7546 3-09-44-23 first night but slowly freshened the second day to 15-18 knots to give a 54 SOLANDRA ...... R.W. Escott 4-22-32 59 .6911 3-09-55-46 1980 last reach down the NSW coast In overcast conditions. The wind slowly 55 THE STING ...... A.M. Rundle 4-10·48-07 .7680 3-10-01-26 Pl Yacht Elapsed TCF Corrected backed to the NE and freshened to 25 knots during the second night to 56 LOWANA 11 ...... 0 . Mill ikan 4-13-00-58 .7525 3-10-02-04 Time Time give a last slide across Bass Strait . Down th e Tasmanian coast on the 57 GARLIC PRAWN 1 NEW ZEALAND third day the wind stayed northeast at 20 knots and a new record P.E. Glynn & R.W. Steel 4-15-37-22 .7353 3-10-04-34 NZ Round the World Committee 2-18-45-41 1.0369 2·21-13-29 appeared imminent for the leaders . The wind (and hopes for~ record ) 58 IMPETUOUS 2 GRETEL ...... 8. Lewis 3-02-03-55 .9380 2-21-28-23 faded on the third night with light and variable winds with heavy rain. On G.R. Lambert & J. Crisp 4-04-34-46 .8171 3-10-11-00 3 CHALLENGE ...... L. Abrahams 3-10-31-21 .8434 2-21-35-58 the morning ol the fourth day the wind slowly freshened from the south 59 CHRISTINA ...... P.W.H. Woodruff 4-12-51-05 .7555 3-10-14-14 4 EVELYN ...... J. Cassidy 3-01-12·00 '.9619 2-22-24-39 to 20-30 knots which pushed the leaders home. The breeze slowly 60 CALL.AL.A ...... •.... R.K. Birtles 4-12-45-38 .7579 3-10-25-46 5 NEFERTITI ...... F.B. Ryan 3·05-09-21 .9294 2-23-42-29 faded and left the smaller boats in light and variable conditions down 61 PRYOAITY ...... J. Pryor 4-10-23-57 .7763 3-10-35-51 6 HELSAL II ...... A. Fisher 2-20-34-32 1.0803 3-00-42-38 the Tasmanian coast and across Storm Bay and in the Derwent. 62 MAAIONETTE ..... C.A.F. Dunning 4-00-32-37 .8580 3-10-50-03 7 MARGARET AINTOUL II 63 WHITE POINTER K. Le Compte 4-10-50-45 .7763 3-10-58-39 S.R. Edwards 3-15-18-46 .8333 3-00-45-27 1981 3-10-59-22 64 MERCEDES 11 1...... A.T. Ctutton 4-12-1 6-15 .7665 8 POLICE CAR ...... J.G. Hardy 3-16-58-47 .8199 3-00-57 -1 6 Pl Yacht Elapaed TCF Corrected 3-11 -00-27 65 MARK TWAIN ...... K. Jones 4-13-00·19 .7615 9 INCH BY WINCH Time Time 3-11 -06-29 66 NEW BEACH ROAD D.C. Booth 4-1 1-32-30 .7728 O.J . O'Neill & Partners 3-15-20-25 .8399 3-01 -21 -25 1 ZEUS 11 ...... J.R. Dunstan 5-13-48-41 .6883 3-19-25-59 67 RAGAMUFFIN ...... S. Fischer 4-0146-12 .8503 3-11-08-01 10 RAGAMUFFIN ...... S. Fischer 3-15-21-03 .8486 3-02-07-33 2 SOL.ANDRA ...... R.W. Escott 5-13-48-46 .6913 3-20-30-17 68 CHAOS ...... 0. Leitch 4-10-26-12 .7831 3-11 -2 1-01 11 APOLLO II ...... A.J. Becher 3-16-36-28 .8401 3-02-26-21 3 SCALLYWAG SS ..... R.J. Winton 5-19-13-53 .6766 3-22-12-14 69 KAIULANI ...... S.C. Lovell 4-18-49-29 .7264 3-11-24-31 12 ANACONDA II ...... J. Grubic 3·00·38-33 1.0290 3-02-44-56 4 MORNING MISS 70 MERCEDES V ...... H. Janes 4-05-57-28 .8181 3-11-24-41 13 PATRICE 111 ...... R.J . Kirby 3-17-38-48 .8350 3-02-51-17 A.G. & C.A. Purcell 5-14-54-38 .7016 3-22-39-1 1 71 QUEST ...... A. Cruickshank 4-13-15-43 .7636 3-11 -25-56 14 PACHA ...... J. de le Vega 3-13-5447 .8733 3-03-01-40 5 BEACH INSPECTOR 72 CHA UT AU QUA ...... A.C. Rowett 4-11-36-01 .7757 3-11-27-95 15 ONCE MORE DEAR FRIENDS G. Jones & R. Hudson5-11-57-48 .7202 3-23-02-23 .7247 3-11-29-32 3-03-18-52 NIRIMBA Royal Australian Navy 4-19-12-35 P.P. Kurts 3-20-55-25 .8105 6 SHENANDOAH ...... J.R. Charody 5-19-06-49 .6833 3-23-03-17 ICCOLO ...... J. Pickles 4-10-13-58 .7867 3-11 -34-22 16 MATIKA 11 ...... L. Green 4-08-14-53 .7254 3·03-37-17 7 HOTSHOT HT ...... G.B. Lambie 4-18-08-30 .7323 3· 11-35-09 17 MARY MUFFIN ...... G.A. Blok 3-17-08-36 .8501 3-03-46-50 L.L., B.A. & G.L. Prescott 5-17·41 -41 .6926 3-23-22-02 BA ...... J.G. Hardy 4-05-44-53 .8218 3-11-36-57 18 ADRENALIN ...... 8.C. Ryan 3-23-34-56 .9827 3-04-43-25 8 SAL TPET A ...... P. Hinton 5-1 8-54-56 .6873 3-23-28-35 ND CUTTER A. Sweeney 4-12-02-02 .7742 3· 11-38-23 19 WHEELBARROW ... I.C. Tringham 4-15-13-36 .6898 3-04-43-26 9 MERINDA ...... A.G. Taylor 5-17-42·48 .6939 3-23-33-33 3-11 -43-21 UT ...... E. Vidor4-10-22-55 .7870 20 BIG SCHOTT ...... A. Pearson 3-23-41-25 .9822 3-04.45.45 10 SCHECHWAN ...... J.S. Whitty 5-00-27-29 .7938 3-23-37·10 IV ...... 6 . Jamison 4-13-19-14 .7659 3-11 -43-43 21 PHOENIX...... E. Vidor 4-03-23-20 .7774 3-05-15-53 11 WHEEL BARROW I.C. Tringham 5- 18-57-31 .6900 3-23-52-53 ...... B.A. Millar4-11·22-17 .7799 3·11-44-20 22 PICCOLO ...... J. Pickles 4-03-09-29 .7793 3-05-16-25 12 AQUILA ...... 8.W. Edmunds 5-13-46-55 .7177 4-00-00-53 3-11-46-02 ...... o. MacWilliam 4-03-49-05 8392 23 SCREW LOOSE ..... R.J . Cumming 4-15-14-43 .6949 3-05-18-15 13 MULLOKA ...... P.J. Jacka 5-14-36-54 .7152 4·00·16·35 ...... A. & I. Thurston 4-03-20-09 .8436 3-11-47-58 24 MERCEDES IV 14 SMUGGLER ...... T. Simpson 5-04-07-58 . 7763 4-00-21 ·51 ...... P.O. Lamont 4-11 -45-34 .7777 3-1 1-48-16 O.L. & M.E. Braham 3-23-42-44 .8086 3-05-23-34 15 CHERRY CHEER ...... P. Attrill 5-19·10·03 .6926 4-00-23-14 ...... W.A. SchiNerti 4-17-37-46 .7380 3-11 -51-30 25 DIAMOND CUTTER A.J . Sweeney 4-03-50-36 .7763 3-05-30-30 16 BILLABONG ...... P.N. Joubert 5-12-19-07 .7295 4-00-31 -35 ...... A.A. Aisher 4-01-46-14 .8580 3-11 -53- 13 26 HERCULES M.H ., C.M. & S.P. Will 4-06-07-34 .7597 3-05-35-06 17 THYLACINE ...... J.W. Burton 5· 13-50-05 .7225 4-00-41 -44 27 PRYOAITY ...... J. Pryor 4-05-50-24 .7659 3-05-59-57 18 CHELINDA ...... J.W. Keown 5-13-31-52 .7280 4-00-56-36 .8291 3-11 -55-14 28 ZEUSS 11 ...... J.R. Dunstan 4-17-17-56 .6888 3-06-01 ·03 19 THUNDERBOLT ..... LP. Harding 5-17-59-13 .7028 4-00-58-38 .8425 3-12-02-25 29 IMPETUOUS J. Lambert & J. Crisp 3.23.35.35 .8162 3-06-01 -22 20QUINTAL...... H.C. Knoop5-19-07·15 .6978 4-01 -04-42 .8246 3-12-11-26 30 KESTREL ...... A.H. Flcock 4-06-31 ·06 .7628 3-06-12-03 21 FLIGHT ...... G.8. Lambie 5-13-41-51 .7272 4-01-13-29 .7844 3-12-13-43 31 SAGACIOUS ...... G.J. Appleby 3·23-43-41 .8181 3-06-18-54 22 ONCE MORE DEAR FRIENDS 32 NATELLE 11 ...... A.G. Lee 4-01 -22-20 .8045 3-06-20-09 P.P. KurtsS-00-41 -46 .8066 4-01·21 ·12 3-12-24-05 33 BILLABONG ...... P.N. Joubert 4•11 -33-47 .7300 3-06-31 -15 23 BIMBLEGUMBIE ...... K. Jacobs 5-04-07-51 .7846 4-01 -23-34 91 FARRA 34 STAAWAADS...... 8. Button 4-05-13-52 .7834 3-07-18·16 24 MAID ROSALINDE ..... J.H. Quinn 5-17-30-36 .7091 4-01 -30-31 92CHICKCHA 35 HOT PROSPECT .... E.O. Grendon 4-06-22-17 .7763 3-07-28-15 25 PILGRIM ...... J.H . Aatten 5-10-55-49 .7455 4-01-36-30 93 SALACIA 11. .. 38GHOSTTOO 26 MORNING HUSTLERJ.H. Cowell 5-17·58·19 .7079 4-01 -40-13 94 CHALLENGE K. Roxburgh, C. Graham & W. Hoare 4-13-46-34 .7277 3-07-53-02 27 BLUE MOVES ...... 8 . Moore 5- 13-42-14 .7307 4-01-41-50 95 INVINCIBLE 37 MERCEDES V ...... 1. Lewis 4-03-20-20 .8073 3-08· 11 ·46 28 REVENGE ...... J. Sproule5-13-56-58 .7295 4-01-42-58 96 DAMEL .. 38 WHITE POINTER ..... K. Le Compte 4-08-48-01 .7659 3-08-15-59 29 BREADFRUIT ...... A.Sill 5•14-10-23 .7284 4-01 -43-53 97 PIAAA ..... 39 BREADFRUIT ...... A. Sill 4-14-45-14 .7284 3-08-40-23 30 HORNET ...... N. Georgeson 5-1 4-47·27 .7260 4-01-51-29 98 BORN FREE J.H. & C.D. Howell 4·1 40 MELTEMI...... J. Bell & 8 .C. Psallis 4-04-48-34 .8010 3-08-44-54 31 HITCHHIKER ...... P. Briggs5-00-00-33 .8162 4-01-57-05 99 SUPERSTAR 41 BACARDI...... J. Gould 3·23-44-04 .8451 3-08-54·22 32 SGIAN DUSH ...... R.W. Lean 5- 19-18·50 .7041 4-02-05-27 100 BLIZZARD 42 LOWANA It ··················· o· Millikan 4-12-40-34 .7462 3-09-05-41 33 VENGEANCE ...... B. Lewis 3-22-30-00 1.0422 4-02-29-16 101 RIVAL .. 43 VIVACIOUS ...... J.A. Brown 4-03-05-20 .8199 3-09-14-34 34 DECEPTION ...... W.K. Norlin 5-07-18·31 .7742 4-02-33-44 102 NEW MORNING ...... T. Hewlson 4-11 · 44 WIMAWAY ...... A. Barry 4-15-13-28 .7331 3-09-32-19 35 IMPETUOUS ...... P. McTavish 5-02-24· 16 .8055 4-02-35-48 103 CONDOR OF BERMUDA A. Bell 3•08-0 45 LOLLIPOP ...... I.T. Millar 4-23-09-39 .6846 3-09-34-39 36 THE LIQUIDATOR 104 SISKA ...... R. Tasker 3-08-56· 46 REVENGE ...... P.H. Green 4-15-40-28 .7312 3-09-39-22 G. Meyer & A.J. MacDonald 5-17-40-30 .7165 4-02-38-38 105 POLARIS ...... L H. Savage 4-11 -23· 47 ONYA OF GOSFORD .. P. Rysdyk 4-07-58-32 .7873 3-09-51-35 37 IMPECCABLE ...... J.O. Wflker 5-12-33-05 .7442 4-02-38-41 106 TARQUIN ...... J.A. Stanford 4-22-44-42 Nlili.i,r, OTSHOT 38 PHOENIX ...... E. Vidor 5-07-06-27 .7763 4-02-40-24 107 GRANNY APPLE LL. B.A. & G.L. Prescott 4-22-23-19 .6924 3-09-58-20 39 KATE KELLY .... O.W. & J. Blainey 5· 12-19-31 .7466 4-02-47·38 Whispers Syndicate 4-11-31-57 TAR ...... H. Janes 4-01-25-07 .8443 3-10-15-01 40 PIMPERNEL 108 GOONOOOLOO ... P. &8. Young 4-18-32-10 ...... P. & A. Robinson 4-23-26-04 .6898 3-10-23-09 H. Holland & 0 . Blumentals 5-17-55-24 .7165 4-0249-19 109 AIMFIAE ...... E.W. Wall-Smith 4-07-09-06 '11 TUCANA ...... LC. Dean 5-20-07-55 .7054 4-02-50-56 110 NATELLE 11 ...... A.G. Lee 4-10-22-06 & A.O. Hurburgh 4-08-48-00 .7931 3-11 -07-00 42 RELENTLESS ...... A.J . Elsworthy 5-07-13·33 .7774 4-02-54-19 111 MELTEMI ing&G. Warner4·1 1-20-37 .7763 3- 11 -19-5 1 43 MORNING TIDE ...... J. Davern 5· 19·00-04 .7116 4-02-54-47 Canberra Yacht Ctub Syndicate 4-11-27-13 .8087 3-14-53-51 ...... P. Hill 4-13-49-42 .7697 3-11-26- 11 44 WEE WI LLIE WI NKIE 112 MANU KAI ...... J.W.8. Barry 4-18·53·08 .7586 3·14-55-20 ...... R.B . Keily 5-01 -32-09 .6873 3-11 -31 -53 S. Gallagher 5-02-47-42 .8507 4-02-56-09 113HELSALII ...... A. Fisher3-09-56·16 1-0643 3-15·12·22 ...... N.J. Guy 5-00-43-55 .6926 3-11 -37-08 45 MAYHEM ...... D.O. May 5-03-04-04 .8507 4-03-09-20 114 UTIEKAH IV ...... G. Hennicke 4-17-20-46 .7698 3-15-15-13 . Chapman 4-01-45-52 .8563 3-11 ·42·56 46 SEAULATEA ...... J. Mel Taylor 5-02-12-54 .8105 4-03-03-18 115 POLICE CAR ...... P.R. Cantwell 4·10-48-07 .8199 3-15-34-00 .P. Harding 4·22-01-16 .7094 3-11 -43-27 47 NIKE ...... J.A. Hun! 5-16-49-18 .7248 4-03-10-06 116 SATIN SHEETS ...... M. O'Leary 4-11-22·43 .8156 3-15·34·40 48SCORPIOII ...... J.T. Fuglsang 5-17-50-36 .7201 4-03-15-40 117 MIRRABOOKA ...... J. Bennetto 4-11 -31-27 .8147 3-15-35-59 .8310 3-11 -42-33 49OAANI ...... W.G.P. Read 5-13-49-32 .7421 4-03-18-43 118 APOLLO ...... W. Rooklyn 3-22-15-03 .9301 3· 15-39-45 .6987 3· 11-58-15 50 BLACK MAGIC ...... A. Layton 5-02-53-39 .8105 4-03-36-20 119 ANTICIPATION .... D. St C. Brown 4-03-38-04 .8804 3-15-43-05 .7111 3-12-13-52 51 INFRA RED ...... P.L. Mander 5-9-43-21 .7691 4-03-46- 10 120 OBSESSION 52 GHOSTTOO ...... J.A. Nanke,vis 5-16·50-08 .5292 4-03-49-17 W.C. R. Bale & K.O. Monro 4-11-24-03 .8209 3·16·09-55 53 THE AOPEAUNNER 121 DYNAMITE .. .. R.E. Walters 4- 10-09-24 .8310 3·16-12-58 L. Green & G. Thorpe 5-04-13-35 .8037 4-03-50-26 122 ADRIA ...... A. Harry 4- 12-23-57 .8144 3-16-16-49 54 MOONLIGHTER ...... K.W. Wood 5-14-03-14 .7454 4-03-55-25 123 BAEAKAWAY ...... K. McDonald 4-11 -41-00 .8218 3-16-29-38 55 APOLLO V ...... A. Bond 5-00-39-26 .8301 4-04-09-27 124 SCORPION ...... R.W. Clemens 4-10-28-23 .8319 3-16-34-29 56 MYSTIC SEVEN ..... N.D. Chidgey 5-14-46.54 .7443 4-04-19-04 125 SEQUOIAH 11 ...... J.M. Clark 4-12-16-33 .8197 3-16-45-13 57 WRINKLES ...... A.C. Parkin 5- 18-07-21 .7272 4-04-26-33 126 JEMIMA ...... K.L. Bell 4-10-14-04 .8434 3-17-35-53 58 YEOMAN XXIII ...... A.A. Aisher 4-23-57-56 .8381 4-04-32-35 R A C E STATISTICS

...... G.M. Hewitt 5-04·13·51 .8101 4-04-38·21 medium raters look all set to clean up the overall results but a 97 PIET HEIN ...... T.M. Gourlay 4-14-25-47 .7128 3·06-42-52 GHEE ...... J. Binles 5-16-10-37 .7398 4-04-44-37 freshening northerly down the east Tasmanian coast and in Storm Bay 98 RAMPANT II RET RINTOUL Ill saw the minimum raters fly home and into the top handicap placings. A. Tucker & 0 . Vanrenen 3-01 -47-24 1. 0686 3-06-51-07 $.A. Edwards4-16·11·44 .8984 4-04-47-47 99 LONGNOSE ...... P. Stransky 3·15-00·39 .9072 3-06-56-10 .... R.C. Genders 5-16-58-05 .7364 4-04-51-47 100 SPANKER ...... 8 . Griffiths 4·09-35-35 .7499 3-07-11-03 ..... , I.D. Ritchie 5-16-46-43 .7376 4-04-53-16 1982 101 AZTEC ...... J. P. Kent 4·02-19-05 .8101 3-07·38·51 102 TEAUMA ...... T.C. Bower 4-08-28·51 .7638 3-07-48-09 ...... K. White 5-09-50-42 .7773 4-04-55-42 Pl Yacht Elapsed TCF Corrected 103 BENANTHRA ...... P. King 4·03-17-14 .8095 3-08·22·23 65 SEQUEL ...... G.S. Coutts 5-17-31-45 .7341 4-04-57-36 Time Ti me 104 F1DELIS ...... P.A. Willlams 3·12·03-05 .9579 3-08-30·46 66 SWEET CAROLINE 1 SCALLYWAG ...... R.E . Johnston 3-13-56-44 .7833 2-19-19·16 105 ADRIA AUSTRALIS ...... Harry 4-07-35-46 .8017 3·11-03-11 M.W.D. Phillips 5·02-59-33 .8209 4·04-57-52 2 AU DACITY ...... N.W. Marr 3-18-13-14 .7465 2-19-20-59 A. 106 DESTINY ...... T.A. Taylor 4-05-08-40 .8289 3-11-50-19 67 APHRODITE ...... G.S. Girdis 5- 13-59-20 .7542 4-05-03-15 3POLICECAR .... SirJamesHardy3-11-14-52 .8147 2-19-49-19 107 SAPPHIRE ...... J. Shipton 5-00-42-03 .7165 3-14-28-56 68 FARR FETCHED ..... D.C. Calvert 5· 10-49-23 .7732 4-05-09-08 4 SZECHWAN ...... J.W. Whitty 3·13·33-31 .7978 2-20-15-31 108 METUNG ...... W.C. Woodward 5-21-03-25 .7742 4-13-12-23 69 VANESSA Ill B.L. & K.A. Jaggar 5- 13·06·07 .7617 4-05-23·01 5 ADAENALIN ...... B.C. Ryan ...... 3-13-44-14 .8018 2-20-44-39 70 SAGACIOUS ...... G.J. Appleby 5-02-27-25 .8282 4-05-25-07 6 THE ROPERUNNEA ..... L. Green 3-13-51 -14 .8027 2-20-54-54 FASTEST TI ME: CONDOR OF BERMUDA 3-00-59-17 71 PICCOLO ...... A. Schroder 5- 10·03·20 .7803 4-05-28-56 7 ONCE MOR E DEAR FRIENDS 72 JOSEPHINE ...... W. Gram 5-17-29-21 . 7398 4-05-42-52 P.P. Kurts 3-13-49-06 .8047 2·21·54-54 DIVISION A: SWEET CAROLINE 73 JISUMA...... W.H. Rockctiffe 5-18-31-40 .7353 4-05-51-34 8BONDITRAM DIVISION B: POLICE CAR 74 CARRY ON ...... C. Brown 5-13-50-15 .7617 4-05-56-38 D.J . O'Neil & Partners 3·12-01·12 .8227 2-21-07-24 75 INVINCIBLE .,...... W. Bienelelt 5-10-59-28 .7783 4-05-57-01 9 BLACK MAGIC ...... A.J. Layton 3-13-29-05 .8095 2-21 -12-00 DIVISION C: SCALLYWAG 76 CHALLENGE ...... L. Abrahams 5-01-21-53 .8408 4-06-02-36 10 SWEET CAROLINE DIVISION D: PIARA 77 RAGAMUFFIN ...... S. Fischer 5-02-57-52 .8310 4-06· 11 ·00 M.W.O. Phillips 3-10-28-39 .8408 2·21·20 -49 CLASSIC DIV ISION: POLARIS 78 TAURUS 11 .. .. A.G. Lee 5-02-15-28 .8372 4-06-21-15 11 CHALLENGE ...... L. Abrahams 3-11-31·40 .8307 2·21·23-11 RETIRED : CH LOE, CONQUISTADOR, DIAMO~D CUTTER. 79 MOANING AFTER ... C. McMillan 5-12-55-08 .7701 4·06-21-39 12 SATIN SHE ETS .... A.A. Strachan 3·13·27·50 .8129 2-21 -28-25 EVELYN, IDLE VICE, INVINCIBLE, SCHEHERAZADE, THIALMERE. 80 DAMEL ...... D.W. Currie 5·11·59-57 .7763 4-06-28-15 13 MARGARET RINTOUL II 81 RENEGADE ...... R.E. Francis 5-06-39-37 .8095 4-06-31-53 S.R. Edwards 3-05-50-23 .8931 2·21-31-07 TUCANA, VICIOUS. 82 MELTEMI ...... CYCOO Syndicate 5-08-53-30 7960 4-06-35-51 14 PICCOLO ...... J. Pickles 3-18-00-46 . 7763 2·21 -52-37 1982 WEATH ER : A light air stat. ENE , which remained throughout the 83 BIG SCHOTT ...... A. Pearson 5-07-43-45 .8036 4·06-38-35 15 MAALOO ...... N.S. Girdis 3-13-30-43 .8163 2-21-58-28 first day and evening. Throughout the second day the breeze backed to 84 GOLDEN PROSPECTS 16 HITCHHIKER ...... P. Briggs 3- 13-45-41 .8171 2-22-04-32 the NE and freshened for a fast and thrilling race down the far NSW J.W. Granger 5-06-45-37 .8105 4-06-44-21 17 SEAQUESTA ...... A.G. Neale 3-13-39-28 .8181 2-22-04-36 coast and into the Strait. The leaders were having an exciting battle for 85 HOT PROSPECT II 18 PIRRA ...... C.P. Robinson 3-23-16-16 .7376 2-22-16-19 line honours and for a while looked like toppling the elapsed time R.J. Robertson 5· 12-52-48 . 7732 4·06-44-34 19 CHAOS ...... s. Lockley 3-19- 10-24 .7711 2-22-18-14 record. The breeze remained into the second night and thfn died and 86 SEAWIND ...... W.J. & B.E. Clay 5-13-58-29 . 7680 4-06-53-33 20 POLARIS ...... L.H. Savage 3-16-55-03 .7921 2-22-25-54 moved into thew before the tight SE change the third day. II was then 87 PATRICE Ill.. . .. A.J . Kirby 5-03-09-49 .8359 4-06-57-08 21 SHEN AN DOAH ..... J.A. Charody 4-06-45·09 .6873 2-22-37-18 slow progress down the Tasmanian east coast, still anyone's race for 88 INCH BY WINCH ...... J. Goddard 5-03-00-31 .8372 4-06-58-58 22 MELTEMI tine and handicap honours. The morning of the fourth day the leaders 89 MARY MUFFIN ...... G.A. Blok 5-01 -47-23 .8485 4-07·20·18 B.C. Psattis & CYCOD Syndicate 3-16-43-56 .7960 2-22-37-51 rounded Tasman Island with a freshening breeze from astern that 90 RAGER I...... M.A. Clements 5-12-59-18 .7773 4-07-22-18 23 FARR OUT ...... C.A. Troup 3-19-19-14 .7752 2-22-47-30 reached 40 knots NE through the afternoon. This brought the rest of the 91 SATIN SHEETS .... AA Strachan 5-07-10-40 .8129 4-07-22-58 24 IMPECCABLE ...... J.O. Walker 3-23-16-33 .7431 2-22-47-58 fleet flying down the Tasmanian coast. The leaders had variable airs 92 MARGARET RINTOUL II 25 AQUILA ...... B.W. Edmunds 4-03-12-45 .7140 2-22-50-16 across Storm Bay and in the River, resulting in the closest-ever line R.W. Jackman 5-04-09-02 .8341 4-07-33-14 26 SAGA ...... A.J. Reid 4-01 -36· 57 .7260 2-22-52-09 honours battle with only seconds separating first and second place. The 93 X-RAGAMUFFIN ...... B. Tardrew 5-02-11-07 .8486 4-07-41-11 27 BILLABONG ...... P.N. Joubert 4-01 -16-56 .7 295 2-22-58-03 bulk of the fleet had light but steady winds to the fi nish . 94 VIVACIOUS ...... J.A. Brown 5-06-41 -24 .8199 4-07-52-23 28 GOLDEN PROSPECTS 95 ADRENALIN ...... B.C. Ryan 5·09-31-33 .8027 4-07-58-13 R.C . Peat 3-15-34-10 .8105 2·22-58-30 96 SEAQUESTA ...... A.G. Neale 5-07-01-22 .8190 4-08-01-53 29 NADIA ...... R.E .J. Clarke 3-21 -12-50 .7617 2-23-00-04 97 SUNBURST...... R.K. Young 5-06-49-03 .8209 4-08-06·16 30 RAGER ...... M.A. Clements 3-19-20-54 .7773 2-23-00-18 1983 98 NATELLE II 31 TASHTEGO ...... C. Franklin 4·05-28-01 .7003 2-23-03-26 Pl Yacht Elapsed TCF Corrected 0 . Leitch & J. Solomon 5-09-39-59 .8036 4-08-11-59 32 NATELLE II Time Time 99 CONDOR OF BERMUDA D. Leitch & J. Solomon 3-16-30-34 .8036 2-23-07-34 1 CHALLENGE ...... L. Abrahams 3-13-37-28 .8307 2-23-07-42 AA Bell 4-02-41-21 1.0563 4-08-14-43 33 SALTPETA ...... P. Hinton 4-08-09·49 .6833 2-23- 10-30 2 ONCE MORE DEAR FR IENDS 100 MINNA ...... H.A. Handley 5-13-50-52 .7793 4-08-18-27 34 JISUMA ...... W.H. Rockliffe 4-01-04-41 .7341 2-23-15-54 P.P. Kurts 3-18-09-20 .8015 3-00-15-35 101 MIAAABOOKA 35 THUNDERBOLT ..... L.P. Harding 4-05·30-55 .7028 2-23-20-42 3SZECHWAN ...... J.S. Whitty3-19-12-18 .7931 3-00-20-05 J. Bennette & J.M. Lucas 5-07-16-1 7 .8201 4-08-22-30 36 TAURUS 11 ...... A.G. Lee 3-13-48-~4 .8319 2-23-23-14 4 PACIFIC SUNDANCE 102 PATROL ...... Australian Army 5·18-49-20 . 7542 4-08-41-58 37 DEMONSTRATOR .... .A.S. Aston 4-01 -05-14 .7353 2-23-23-18 D.G. Hogg & B.C. Morris 3-17-34-21 .8076 3-00-20-20 103 BREAKAWAY ...... K.J. McDonald 5-09-01-55 .8119 4-08-45-39 38 PIPPIN ...... W.E. Sweetapple 4-06-45-05 .6952 2-23-25-58 5 INDIAN PACIFIC ...... J. Eyles 3·18-00-1 6 .8057 3-00-31-00 104 BATTLESTAR ...... W. Steele 5-04·05·15 .8443 4-08-46-01 39 APOLLO II ...... A.J. Becher 3-13-25-29 .8367 2-23-28-30 6 GERONIMO ...... o. Champtaloup 3-18-02-28 .8057 3-00-32-46 105 TAURUS ...... E.P. Taylor 5-13-56-32 .7823 4-08-46-58 40 MARGARET RINTOUL II 7 EXADOR ...... T. & A. McCall 3-18-04-30 .8076 3-00-44-40 106MATIKAHI ...... P.S. Graves5-12·08-13 .7960 4·9·10-51 A.W. Jackman 3-13-49-37 .8341 2-23-35-18 8 DI HARD ...... M. Carter, J. Woodward & 107 SPOTLIGHT ...... M. Page 5-06-32-51 .8324 4-09-20-17 41 MYUNA ...... J.H. Bleakley 3-13-54-07 .8341 2-23-39-03 B . Tardrew 3 - 1 7 -20-32 . 8181 3-01-05-27 108 SUNBIRD V ...... T. Yamasaki 5-00-22-11 .8771 4-09-34·34 42 DANCING LADY ...... M.M. Grigg 3-13-54-28 .8341 2-23-39-20 9 SCALLYWAG II .... R.E . Johnston 3-19-01-19 .8047 3-01-14-43 109 PETROSINA ...... G. Capone 5-13-57-39 .79 18 4-10·04-12 43 FIRETEL .... R. Lawler & K. Taylor 4-01-38· 13 .7341 2·23-40-31 10 SEAQUESTA ...... A.G. Neate 3-18-11 -21 .8134 3-01 -21-36 110 HUMDINGER II ..... W.B. Northam 5-09-46-24 .82 18 4-10-38-51 44 MARY BLAJR ..... G. & S. Strachan 3-19-18·16 .7853 2-23-42-05 11 BLACK MAGIC ...... A. Layton 3-19-27-52 .8024 3·01·23·28 111 ROGIS TOO .. .. R.J. Brown 5-08-51-53 .8289 4-10-48-57 45 WY-AR-G INE IV ...... A.I. Oatley 3-13-32-22 .8384 2-23-42-59 12POLICECAR .... SirJamesHardy3-18-12-34 .8156 3-01-34-29 112 ALLEGRO ...... A. Myler 5-18·32·26 .7722 4-10-58-51 46 SCORP IO II ...... J.T. Fuglsang 4-03-43-49 .7201 2·23-48-57 13 BONDI TRAM 113AZTEC ...... P. Wenham5-12-59-20 .8101 4-11-44-03 47 SUNBURST ...... 8.G. Weston 3 -'1 6-37-02 .8110 2·23-52-07 D.J. O'Neil & Partners3•18·00·10 .8181 3-01 -37-53 114 RED HEARING 11 ..... R.W. Bri dge 5- 10-49-35 .8246 4-11-52-45 48 MARK TWAIN ...... P. Rowsthorn 3-23-01 -51 .7575 2·23-59-09 14 HITCHHIKER ...... P. Briggs 3-18-04-51 .8181 3·01-41-42 115 DAMI-DOO ...... J.E. Low 5-18-02-06 .7833 4-12-07·22 49 MYSTIC SEVEN ..... N.D. Chidgey 4-01- 19-56 .7410 3-00-07-23 15 THE ROPERUNNEA ..... L. Green 3-20-57·02 .7931 3-01-43-09 116 AETOS ...... K.R. Tie rn ey 5-06-43-01 .8546 4-12-17-32 50 SISKA ...... A. Tasker 3-02-28-00 .9689 3-00-09-03 16 INCH BY WINCH ...... J. Goddard 3- 18-08-43 .8192 3-01 -44-16 11 7 CASTILLE ...... G.J. Rodoreda 5-01·12-45 .8962 4-12-37-50 51 PIMPERNEL...... H. Holland 4-04-59-16 .7165 3-00-21 -28 17 SATIN SHEETS .... A.A. Strachan 3-19·20·27 .8073 118 NGARURUB.A. Millar & M.J. Muir 5-08·53·25 .8443 4-12-49-19 52 PACHA ...... J. de le Vega 3-10-26-40 .8779 3-00-22·41 18 MARL':>0 ...... G.S. Girdis 3·1 8·00·13 .8210 119AEBECCA ...... V.H. O'Neill6·01 ·51·53 .7466 4·12-54-09 53 NYNJA GO ...... A.C. Axe 3·20-25-14 .7843 3-00-29·08 19 SEAULATER 120 PACHA ...... J. de le Vega 5-04-11-02 .8779 4-13-01-15 54 MARY MUFFIN ...... 1. Ross ...... 3-13-31-52 .8485 3-00-34-23 P.V. Gourlay & P. Williams 3·19·54·57 121 JACQUI ...... T.N. Melville 5-11-59-45 .8264 4·13-04-52 55 FAIRDINKUM TWO 20 HIGHLAND FLING I. A.$ . Laidlaw 3·19·30-56 122EVELYN ...... J. Cassidy4-17·59-53 .9587 4-13-17-23 S. Collakides & A. Weber 4-03-59- 19 . 7260 3-00-35-30 21 SAGACIOUS II ...... c. Lockley 3-19-33-04 123 BATTLE ...... J.P. Kent 5-13·09·31 .8210 4·13-19-23 56 APHRODITE ...... G.S. Girdis 4-00-22-02 .7542 3·00·40-49 22 INDULGENCE ...... G. Walker 3-17-56-17 124 CATHY LEE ...... N.J. Guy 6- 15-35-15 .6860 4-13-28-37 57 VANESSA Ill B.K. & K.A. Jaggar 3-23-26-40 .7617 3-00-42-00 23 BIG SCHOTT ...... A. Pearson 3-20-55-00 125 ADRIA AUSTRALIS ...... A. Harry 5-17·35·09 .8017 4-14-18-09 58 MATIKA 11I ...... P Graves 3-19-26-26 .7960 3-00-47-12 24 VICIOUS ...... W . Hodder 3-18-00-03 126 BORSALINO 59 SANGAREE ...... R.K. Birtles 3-13-23-43 .8537 3-00-54-07 25 TAU RUS II ...... A.A. Gear 3-18-25-55 O.J. Herlihy & J.H. Hughes 5-12-00·12 .8363 4-14-23-39 60 REVENGE ...... J. Sproule 4·04·01-35 .7295 3-00-58-09 26 SURE FOOT ...... B. Tardrew 3-21-36· 127 NANO 11 1...... R.0 Chapman 5-09-42-20 .8563 4- 15-04-00 61 CHANCE ...... L. o ·connor 4·04-43·29 .7248 3-01-00-19 27 BACARDI ...... J. H. Howell 3-18· 128 WHITE ELEPHANT 62 MUCH ADO ...... J.A. Rickard 3-23- 16-13 .7667 3-01-02-37 28 LOT'S WIFE H.W. & J.M. Elliffe 5-11-50-48 .8425 4·15-04-50 63 INCH BY WINCH ...... J. Goddard 3-15-40-57 .8355 3-01-15-31 29 WY-AA-GINE IV .. 129 DANCI NG LADY ...... M.M. Grigg 5-11 ·52·46 .8443 4-15-20-44 64 MORNING TIDE ...... J. Davern 4-07-00-30 .7 116 3-01-18-03 30 BANDIDOB 130 BANCROFT BAY ...... D.H. Byrne 5-17-38-27 .8119 4-15-45-02 65 Dl HARD ...... 8. Tardrew 3·16-43-23 .8264 3-01-19-15 131 HELSAL II ...... F. Williams 4-08-45-30 1. 0691 4-15-59-49 66 EAGLE ...... A.A. Winspear 3-13-31 -28 .8596 3-01 -31-01 132 EXPECTATION ...... D.M. Renner 5-09-43-33 .8638 4-16·03·25 67 THE STI NG ...... P.H. green 4·00-06-00 .7659 3-01-36-11 133 SANTERVEA ...... T. Veale 5-00-52-27 .9277 4-16-08-05 68 WITCHDOCTOR 3-02-57-06 134 EAGLE ...... R. Winspear 5-11-24-26 .8554 4·16-24-20 P. Woodruff & C. Furnival 3·19-10-31 .8110 3-01-56-35 3-02-58-07 135 IMOGENE 69 SUNSEE KER T. Haskett & J. Edwards 5-12-21-58 .8678 4-18-52-02 P.C. & V.C. Thomas 3-23-35-46 . 7783 3-02-24-09 .8328 3-02-59-02 136 CASABLANCA ...... P. Bush 5-02-57-26 .9350 4-18-57-54 70ENCORE ...... W. &V. Anderson3-19-17-10 .8152 3-02-24-59 . 77 01 3-03-05-42 137 HE LMI...... J.H. Pursi Helmo 5-17·00·05 .8410 4· 19-13-05 71 PARMELIA ...... S.O. Stevenson 3-16-35-45 .8401 138 ENERGY OF RORC ... K.A. Byers 5-12-05-20 .9153 5-00-54-03 72 CENTREFOLD ...... B.C. Folbigg 3-16-28-14 .8427 .8779 3·03-07-46 139 LONGNOSE ...... P. Stransky 5-10-47-53 .9308 5-01 -44-48 73 SALTSHAKER 2 J.B. Levingston 3·16·30-42 140 SCALLYWAG ...... A. E. Johnston 5· 13 -45-14 .9239 5·03-34-30 74 PHYLLISE ...... H.R. Hodgkinson 4-03-01 -27 M.W.D. Phillips 3-18-01-57 .8365 3-03-18-44 141 DESTINY ...... T.A. Taylor 6-06-58-25 .8289 5-05-08-31 75 CENTURION ...... J.O. Walker 4-06-43·02 .7341 3-03-27-17 142 ANACONDA II ...... J. Gru bic 5-07-10-15 1.033 1 5-11-22-48 Centurion Syndicate 4-0 ...... B.C. Ryan 3·23·02-03 .794 1 3·03-28-00 143 PAAMELIA" ...... A.Chandler 5-12-20-19 .8401 4-15-10·39 76 SUN RI SE ...... R.G. Clennett ...... A.A. Green 4-10-32-41 .7098 3-03-37-32 77 MOLL YMOOK MAID ...... A...... J.H. Ratten 4-05-43-52 .7443 3-03-43-06 "PARMELIA 20% Penalty 78 ISLE OF LUING ...... A ...... H.A. Lang 3-18-02-49 .8417 3-03-47-33 79 PATI NE UR ...... A.P. F. DISQUALIFIED: JIMMY BLACKSMITH ...... P. Robinson 4-07· 17· 19 .7353 3-03-56-53 80 RUNAWAY ...... A.E. Ratcliff 4-10-26-32 .7140 3-03·59·59 FA STEST TIME: VENGEANCE 3-22-30-00 81 ROGIS TOO .. . 45 DOUBLE OF NOTHING I. Kenny 3-20-19-12 .8237 3-04-02-38 MAXI DIVISION: VENGEANCE 82 NOELEEN Ill .. . 46 THYLACINE ...... J.W. Burton 4-10-27-35 .7165 3-04-16-42 DIVISION A: APOLLO V 83 THE NEWCAST 47 HOT AUGUST NIGHT .9044 3-04-00-58 R.J. Robertson 4-02-16-44 .7774 3-04-24-07 DIVISION B: SZECHWAN 48 HULLABALOO DIVISION C: SMUGGLER .8162 3-04-06-08 A. Tierney & A.G. Clinton 4-04-29-23 .7603 3-04-24-08 DIVISION D : ZEUS II 49 MUCH ADO ...... J.A. Rickard 4-05-04-27 .7564 3-04-27-09 .8363 3-04-29-29 50 REVELATION ...... 8. Moore 3·23-07- 59 .8037 3-04-27-30 RETIRED: 2001 . APOLLO. APOLLO Ill. FARR OU T, HASTA LE .7628 3-04-35-00 51 MARK TWAIN ...... P. Rowsthorn 4-04-40-22 .7596 3·04-28-16 IDLE VICE, MERCEDES V, ONYA, POLICE CAA, SCRE 52 OUTRAGEOUS ...... L. Scholtes 4-02-03-41 .7805 3-04-32-13 SOUTHERN RAIDER. ULTRAVIOLET, VANGUARD. WY L. Bram 4-01-15-05 .7882 3-04-39-13 53 RENEGADE ...... R.E . Francis 4-00·20· 11 . 7950 3-04-35-15 ZIG ZAG ...... B. Lewis 3-01-16-09 1.0476 3-04-45-24 54 SHENANDOAH ...... J.R. Charody 4-15-30-14 .6873 3-04-38-12 1981 WEATHER: Strong southerly winds at I ...... C. Montgomery 3-23-05-06 .8086 3·04·53-09 55 MAID ROSALINDE ..... J.H. Quinn 4-12-52-55 .7041 3-04-39-50 spectacular and last spinnaker run lo Heads. T C. Ward & V.H. o'Neill 4-07-20-44 .7466 3-05·09·28 56 DERWENT LASS D.H. Colbourn 4-14-19·00 .6952 3-04-41 ·32 on the first nig ht to about 35 knots with a roug 1 S X...... J. Abraham 3-13-45-22 .8999 3-05-10-19 57 FIAETEL majority of the retirements. The breeze mode 92 HELSAL 11 ...... A. Fisher 3·01 -04·08 1. 0563 3-05-10-58 R.H. Lawler & K.A. Taylor 4-09-31 -39 .7272 3-04-44-23 second day and night, still from the south. 93 APOLLO ...... J. Rooklyn 3-00-59-24 t .0628 3-05-34-26 58 FLY BY NIGHT ...... 1. Barron 4-04-58-55 .7601 3-04-45-23 the first of many ca 1m that plagued the 94 CASABLANCA ...... P.H. Bush 3-11-09-48 .9350 3-05-45-28 59 FREIGHT TAAIN ...... R. Williams 3-06-53-27 .9744 3-04-52-16 finish. Most crossed Bass Strait in a 2 95 CONDOR OF BERMUDA 60 ZERO ...... S. Tsumura 3-13-34-45 .8984 3-04-53-04 hours during the night ol the 28th. A.A. Be113·00-59·17 1.0701 3-06-06·16 61 PHOENIX ...... E. Vidor 4-04-18-59 .7670 3-04-56-34 south-easters down the east c 96 MOONAAKEA AGAIN 62 CHINESE FIRE DRILL to the finish. m T.N.K. Welfare 3·23-06-19 .8254 3-06-30-00 D. Herlihy & J. Hughes 4-05-13-56 .7603 3-04-58-01 STATISTICS

63 PRONTO ...... T.8 . Roach 3-21-22·31 .8254 moved SSE but still with uncomfortable seas and winds at 30 knots 64 KNUCKLE DUSTER ...... P. Cush 4-14-42-49 .6965 making life aboard wet and uncomfortable. On the third day the breeze AUDACITY, BILLABONG, CASABLANCA, FANNY 65 NATELLE II moved from SEE to E and after some 50 hours of windward work the , GHOST, JIMMY BLACKSMITH, LADY ANN, MARGARET A.J. Cole-Cook & J. Solomon 3-23-52-11 fleet was able to spring sheets for a hard reach across The Strait, the UL II , MERCEDES IV, PETROSINA II , PUSS 'N BOOTS, 66 STREAKER ...... M. Drent 4·05·2 • breeze moderating to 20-25 knots. As the leaders approached Tasman I . LIEST, TOO IMPETUOUS. 67 SULPHUR ...... A.A. Newnham 4- Island the breeze had freshened from the NE to give the smaller yachts 68 CONOOR ...... A.A. t 983 WEATHER: A moderate easterly provided good close-reaching a hard run down the Tasmanian coast. The first half of the fleet had a 69 GHOSTTOO ...... G.D conditions to the heads and out to the now sea mark. Thereafter the quick trip across Storm Bay, but some of the little boats which appeared 70 KAMEHAMEHA breeze swung to southeast and freshened, reaching 30 knots at times poised to win handicap honours were once again frustrated by the Kamehameha during the first 36 hours taking fts toll in retirements. With moderate calms of StOfm Bay and the Derwent River. 71 VANESSA III B.K. seas the bulk of the fleet enjoyed hard working down to Green Cape. 72 LOCK ON WOOD .. The breeze then freed to give fast reaching conditions across Bass 73 IMPETUOUS .. Strait and becoming northerlyffi provide a last run down the Tasmanian 74 JUST JAMES ...... 8444 3-05-40-14 coast. At Cape Raoul, the wind went light from the south and dropped 1985 right out close inshore, which saw a number of yachts becalmed 75 PREDATOR .. . .7700 3-05-40-25 Pl Yacht Elapaed TCF Corrected between Tasman Island and the Cape. Light conditions prevailed for 76 JISUMA ... .7307 3-05-42-02 Time Time the reach across the Bay and made !or slow and tedious work for most 77 MULULU .. .6044 3-05·46·44 2 SAGACIOUS ...... G. Appleby 4-00- 19-23 .7950 3-04-34-37 yachts down the River to the finish. 78 PARM 3 HUMMINGBIRD ... E. Blackadder 4·02·59·09 .7752 3·04·44·02 .8410 3-05-51-07 4 SILVER MINX ...... G. Player 4-03-59-09 .7723-04-58-20 5 DIAMOND CUTTER A. Sweeney 4·04-30·59 .7659 3·04·59·08 sang 4-05-40-51 .7658 3-05-52-02 1984 6 HULLABALOO ...... K. Tierney 4·06· 18-09 . 7531 3-05·02·38 . Mieli 4-06-06-33 .7 636 3-05-58· 14 7 ONCE MORE DEAR FRIENDS . Norman 5-04-27-20 .77 11 3-06-13-43 Pl Yacht ElopNd TCF Corroctod Tl.,. Ti me W. Currie 4-01-09·43 .7931 3-05-03-~ . & S.A. Finlay 4-07-57-48 .7531 3·06-17-41 8 INDIAN PACIFIC .... J. Eyles 4-01-06-15 .7950 3-05-11-52 ...... K.A.W. King 4-06-07-08 .7670 3-06-19-31 1 INDIAN PACIFIC J. Eyles & G. Heuchmer 4-04-03-49 .7970 3-07-45-03 9 INTRIGUE ...... D. Calvert 4-01-02-10 .7960 3·05-14-27 10 EXAOOA ...... M. Clark 4-01-07-24 .7950 3-05-22·23 R.W. Tresidder & S.A. Williams4-05-36-37 .7711 3-06-21 -06 2 LAWLESS ...... A. Green 4-18-39-38 .7028 3-08-35-00 3 PERIE BANOU ...... J. Sanders 4-19-39-09 .7165 3-10-51 ·54 11 PALADIN . ················· c. Franklin 4-01-07-24 .7970 3-05-24-26 85 MULLOKA ...... P.A. Jacka 4-14-21-13 .7103 3-06-23-03 3-05-30-10 4 PR IME SUSPECT...... J. Milne 4-11·33·31 .7960 3-13-37-00 12 HIGHLAND FLING ...... I. Laidlaw 4-01-08-00 .7979 86 BREADFRUIT ...... A. Sill 4-11-59-51 .7260 3-06-24-22 13 ANOTHER CONCUBINE 5 MIAAABOOKA 87 FIONA ...... D.J. & A.W. Coulter 3-23-20-45 .8228 3-06-27-02 J.L. P.E. Parker 4-01 -25-31 .7960 3-05t.33-02 J. Bennetto & J. Lucas 4·09·10-09 .8192 3•14·09· 16 & 88 NYNJA-GO ...... A.G. Axe 4-04-10-55 .7833 3-06-28-21 14 CIFRALINE 3 ...... C. Griffiths 4-01 -15-50 .7979 3-05-36-25 6 MERCEDES IV ...... Canverra OSC 4· 10-23·34 .8101 3· 14· 11 ·20 89 SISKA ...... A.L. Tasker 3-09-25-45 .9637 3-06-28-24 15 MAD MAX 7 NEWCASTLE FLYER .. .. P. Rundle 4· 11 ·33· 17 .8026 3-14-19-24 90 ULTAAVIOLET...... J.H. Violet 4·03·00-35 .7931 3-06·31 ·29 BecketvCannlng/Dent & McCarthy 4-01 -20-59 .7989 3-05-46-22 91 BLUE MOVES ...... D. Long 4·12-04-35 .7272 3-06-35-35 8 CITY LI MITS ...... H. Knoop 4-19-08-40 .7542 3-14-50-31 16 THE GAMBLEA ...... I. Kenny 4·01·24·26 .7989 3-05-49-07 92 MOANING AFTER .... C. McMillan 4-06-23-29 . 7691 3-06-44-57 9 SHOGUN ...... J. Low 4-11-34-17 .81 10 3-15-14-25 10 AEVELATION ...... 8. Moore 4-13-46-16 .7950 3-15-16-05 17 JOINT VENTUAE ...... A. Elliott 4-01 -19-15 .7998 3/05-50-14 93 MADAME DEFAAGE 18 PRIME TIMES ...... J. Milner 4-01 -19-25 .8008 3-05-56-12 M. Leschkau & T. Stephenson 3-10-39-09 .9529 3-06-45-34 11 NEWZEALAND...... NZIYRT3· 11 ·31 ·21 1.0456 3-15-19-52 12 JISUMA ...... W. Rockliff 5-00-02-24 .7307 3-15-42-48 19 CHRISTA FARA 94 AEVEPIE II ...... G.F. Scott 4-12-18-26 .7272 3-06-45-40 J.D. C.A. Pomfret 4-04-08-09 .7813 3·06·14·10 13 HUON SPIRIT ...... H. Calvert 4· 14·34· 17 .7970 3-16-07-31 & 95 TAURUS ...... E.P. Taylor 4-05-04·28 .7793 3-06-46-02 20 EAST OF LIZARD 14 SCALLYWAG II ...... A. Johnston 4· 15·13·04 .7960 3·16·31·46 96 APOLLO ...... J. Aooklyn 3-01-52-10 1.0667 3-06-47-48 P. Carney/Adsail 4-01 -08-32 .8064 3-06-20-08 97 TIME MACHINE 2 ...... A.D. Elliott 4-04-43-56 .7823 3-06-48-10 15 POLICE CAA ...... M. Purtell 4-13-39-15 .8158 3-17-26-02 16 NATELLE II ...... A. Cole-Cook 4-15-30-08 .6026 3-17-29-30 21 NIKE ...... J. Hunt 4·13-49-42 .7140 3-06-25-03 98 RUFFIAN ...... P.M. Pinder 4-15-51 -40 .7054 3-06-54-25 22 PREDATOR ...... D. Millikan 4-07·23·12 .7607 3·06·38·4 99 RAGER t ••••••••.•••.•• M.A. Clements 4-0S-.38-44 .7736 3-06-54-27 17 PATRICE Ill ...... P. King 4•11 ·29-09 .8341 3•17-39·14 23 NADIA IV 100 MYFAWNY ... P.D. & S.M. Cerutty 4-10-30-27 .7410 3·06·55-19 18 MYUNA ...... J. Bleakley4·14·36·51 .8219 3·18·54·50 19 BILLABONG ...... P. Joubert 5-06-44-26 .7318 3-20-44-55 Canberra Ocean Racing Club4-03·34·19 .7931 3-06-58-14 101 PATRICE Ill ...... P. King 3-22-37-26 .8341 3-06-55-33 20 APOLLO Ill ...... A. Fox 4-09-22-41 .8809 3-20-49-39 25 THUNDERBIRD ..... Sea Cratt Lid 4-00-08-33 .8228 3-07-06·22 102 CHRISTA-FARA 21 BEWINCHED W. Ferris & S. Gazal 4-02-31-36 .9579 3-22-22-43 26 BLACK MAGIC ...... A. Sill 4-03-32-50 .7950 3-07-08·24 J.O. & C.A. Pomfret 4-04-46-17 .7833 3-06-56-03 27 WITCHCRAFT...... Y. Boadin 4-03-22-50 .7970 3-07-12-23 22 PREDATOA ...... D. Millikan 5-04-09-45 . 7638 3·22-S0-07 103 MARIA ...... M. Preston & 0 . Kelty 4-10-24-28 .7432 3-07-04-56 23 MARARA ...... A. Ratcliff 5-12-52-10 .7140 3-22-52-08 28 NEWCASTLE FLYER P. Gough 4-03-34-23 .7960 3-07-15-37 104 JADE ...... L. Wooddell 4-02-12-21 .6057 3-07-07·28 24 SODISAL ...... F. Leonard 5-05·54·37 \. 7892 4·03·22·06 29 TURKEY SHOOT 105 SHANTI ...... A. Conan 4-04-00-51 .7912 3-07-07-52 25 VENGEANCE ...... B. Lewis 3·23·58·58 1.0476 4-04•33-06 S. McDonald/8. Bowden 4-03-40-11 .7960 3-07-20-14 106 HUON CHIEF ...... B. Morton 4-08-11-22 .7607 3-07-15-25 26 ROLLER COASTER .. J. Fuglsang 5- 12-50-53 .7575 4-04-37-57 31 CHALLENGE 111 ...... L. Abrahams 4-01 -02-29 .8219 3-07-45-30 107 HOTSHOT 27 PADAM ...... K. Qulnert 6·02·51 ·22 .7165 4-09-13-21 32 BIMBLEGUMBIE ...... K. Jacobs 4-03-53-51 .7998 3-07-53-53 L.L. , B.A. & G.L. Prescott 4-19-19-49 .6887 3-07-25-41 28 PACHA ...... Capt. P. Ross 5-03-19-13 .8771 4·12-09-51 33 ENCORE 11 ...... W. & V. Anderson 4-03-36-13 .8027 3-07-57-07 108 VANQUISH ...... D.F. Van 4-17-36-04 .7003 3-07-33-17 34 WILD OATS ...... A. Oatley 4-00-58-41 .8254 3-08-02-44 29 PAAMELIA ...... 8 . Woods 5-09-42-19 .8391 4·12·51 ·42 109 CENTURION 30 MYSTIC SEVEN ...... N.D. Chidgey 6-04-13-33 .7376 4·13·19-53 35 TOO IMPETUOUS ...... P. Jolly 4-03-21-05 .8064 3-08-07-01 Centurion Syndicate 4·08-04-17 .7649 3-07-36-15 31 MOONLIGHTER ...... K. Wood 6-06-34-53 .7330 4·14-22-34 36 SWITCHBLADE .... T. & A. McCall 4-01-10·43 .8245 3-08-07-26 110 THE MANLY FEARY 32 JUSTINE II ...... B. van Driel 6-06-01 ·26 .7364 4-14-28-39 37 AUSPICIOUS ...... N. Marr 4-13-07-07 .7364 3-08-21-18 M.C. Blackmore 4-01-59-34 .8129 3-07-39-30 33 ANACONDA II ...... J . Grubic 4-11-27-35 1.0291 4·14·35·12 37 DRAKE'S PRAYER" ...... P. Kurts 3-20-07-24 .8281 3-08-21-18 111 SUNBURST ...... 8 .G. Weston 4·02-23-37 .8101 3-07-42-31 34AFTEA U...... D. Black6· 11·30·55 .7284 4· 17·16-38 38 CAROLINE ...... D. Hales 4·01-07-14 .8281 3-08-25-32 112 ONYA OF GOSFOAD 35 Lars WIFE ...... 1. Smith 7-01-05-15 .6738 4-17-55-52 39 WITCHOOCTOA HMAS Creswell 4-08-42-59 .7628 3-07-52-40 36 CHINESE FIRE DAILL C. Troop & Partners 4-03·38·47 .8073 3-08-26-40 113 HALCYON ...... D. Saul 4•17-32·56 .7041 3-07-56-59 J. Hughes & D. Herlihy 6-14-03-20 .7542 4-23-12-20 40 APOLLO ...... J. Rooklyn 3-04-32-28 1.0520 3-08-31-16 114 SPIDER ...... R.H. Purssell 4· 13-05-56 .7330 3-07-58-10 37 LEVEN ...... 8 . Cunneen 7-02-21 -34 .7140 5-01 -38-12 41 INCA ...... 8 . Ryan 4-00-55-26 .8316 3-08-36-07 115 MOLLYMOOK MAID ...... A. Kelly 4-15-00-59 .7213 3-08·04·34 42 STORMY PETREL .... A. Pearson 4-12-41-32 .7432 3-08-46-48 38 MOANING SWAN ...... 8 . Arthur 7-04·57•15 .7126 5-03-16-54 116 INIQUITY ...... S.G. Morgan 3-20-08-28 .8725 3-08-23-35 39 SCALLYWAG ...... G. Meyer 6-21-51-47 .7833 5-09-55-14 43 IMPETUOUS ...... A. A-rts 4-04-26-04 .6045 3-08-47-58 117 MYSTIC SEVEN ..... N.D. Chidgey 4•12· 58·14 .7387 3-08-29-48 40 HUON CHIEF ...... 8 . Morton 7-04-16-57 .7596 5-10-51-57 44 SOUTHERN CROSS W. Gilbert 4-08-38-12 .7722 3-08-48-02 118 ENIGMA...... H.G. Davis 3-23·46·39 .8435 3-08-47-18 41 TAIAD ...... P. Coombs&J. Vickery6-07-42·33 .8869 5· 14-33-03 45 POLICE CAR ...... M. Purtell 4-03-29-03 .8129 3-08-52-14 119 MANDRAKE ...... P. Smith 3-19-58-51 .8784 3-08-47-45 42 RAMAQUA ...... J. Batten 8-00-43-44 .8017 8-10-30-48 46APOLLOII ..... A.J. Becher4·01·15·55 .8316 3-08-53-09 120 ST JUDE ...... H. House 4-16-14-15 .7201 3-08-49-20 43 THE ROPERUNNEW P. Robinson 6-11-23-30 .7931 5-03-14-28 47 MERCEDES IV ...... A. Clark 4·04-04·53 .8110 3-09·09·58 121 SOUTHERN SPIRIT ... D.J. Smi1h 4-14-03-37 .7353 3-08-55-38 48 KINGS CROSS ... J.B. & J.P. King 4-09-49-24 .7691 3-09-23-19 44 GALAXY Ill" ...... D. Langlord 6-18-38-35 .7607 5-03-43-21 122 VENGEANCE ...... B. Lewis 3-05-22-09 1.0461 3-08-56-09 45 MARGARET AI NTOUL II" 49 NYNJA GO ...... A. Axe 4-08-38-20 .7603 3-09-38-59 123 SHOGUN ...... J.E. Low 4·03·51·19 .8110 3-08-58-78 50 OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND R. Jackman 6· 17·38-30 .8324 5-14-33-03 124 MYUNA ...... J.H. Bleakley 4-02-26-59 .8228 3-09-00-16 M. Epstein/$ . Hicktord/D. Hume 4-09-53-34 .7752 3-10-05-17 46 CHAOS" ...... C. Lockley 6-19-03-05 .7701 5-05-33-57 125 CAPRICE II 51 WATEAFAONTIE A M. Minuzzo 4·07-12-06 .7960 3·10-08-55 J.H.P. Boucaut & J.A. Powell 4-22-00-19 .6887 3-09-16-40 THE AOPEAUNNEA penalised 10% 52 DYNAMITE ...... I. French 4·03·41-48 .8254 3-10·17·23 126 AIMFIAE ...... E.W. Wall-Smith 4-02·13·27 .8298 3·09-30-23 GALAXY 111 penalised 10% 53 IMPATIENCE ...... H. Lang 4·02·35-49 .8359 3-10·25·02 127 PUNCH ...... B. Lewis 4·17-37· 11 .11n 3-09-32-42 MARGARET AINTOUL II penalised 20% 54 CHALLENGE II ...... P. Rowsthorn 4-03-28-44 .8289 3-10-27-29 128 REBECCA II CHAOS penalised 40% 55 OVERDRAFT ...... D. Smith 4-04-41-53 .8201 3-10-34-57 V.H. O'Neill & C. Ward 4-13·46·20 .7432 3-09-34-58 56 BAD HABITS 129 SAL TPETA ...... P. Hinton 4-23-58· 11 .6807 3-09-39-48 FASTEST TIME: NEW ZEALAND 3-11 ·31 ·21 C. Colson/D. Pullman 4-03-05-27 .8350 3-10·44·27 130 CONOUISTAOOA OF ANOIES MAXI DIVISION: NEW ZEALAND 57 CHAOS ...... J. Blackwood 4-11-21-51 .7711 3·10-47-19 O.J. Strange 4-09-10-20 .7793 3.09.57.39 DIVISION A: PATRICE Ill 58 PAAMELIA ...... 8 . Woods 4-03-19·18 .8367 3-11-06-09 131 ENCORE ...... W. & V. Anderson 4-05-43·01 .8073 3-10-06-58 59 THIALMEAE ...... S. Green 4·09·38·23 .7882 3·11 ·15-55 132 THIALMERE ...... S.C.W. Green 4-09·16·50 .7823 3-10-21 -40 DIVISION B: INDIA'I PACIFIC 60MARARA ...... A.E. Ratclifl4·21-01-45 .7116 3-11-16-41 133 JIPCHO ...... C.B. Gow 4·01-40-13 .8443 3-10-27-47 DIVISION C: CITY LIMITS 61 ENIGMA...... H. Davis4•03·35·12 .8384 3-11-29-36 134 WATHAAA II DIVISION D: LAWLESS 62 WINDWARD PASSAGE A. Muir 3-07-32-19 1.0534 3-11-47-10 E.J .C. & A.E.C. Stopp 4·17-02-44 .7307 3-10-36-09 63 RAUCOUS ...... D. Rourke 4· 12·58·42 .7691 3-11 -48-55 135 THUMBS UP (THE FLYER) RETIRED: ADRIA AMAAOO, ANDROMEDA, APAHODITE, APOUO, 64 SWUZZLEBUBBLE ...... I. Gibbs 3-09-18-35 .7960 3-11-49-36 A. Rowland 3-19-32·43 .9037 3-10-43-46 APOLLO II, AQUILA, AUDACITY, CAPRICE OF HUON, CENTRE· 65 BILLABONG ...... P. Joubert 4·19·30·21 .7295 3-12-15-41 136 RUTHLESS ...... 8 .A. Bramwell 4-05-07·25 .8183 3-10-44-58 FOLD, CHALLENGE II , CHALLENGE Ill, CHRISTA-FARA, COBWEB, 66 PIPPIN ...... W. Sweetapple 4-12-58-56 .7732 3-12-15-56 137 CASCADE ...... G.A. Watchorn 3-18-38-28 .9145 3· 10 -53-29 CONDOR, C RUSADER OF BRIGHTON, CYBELE, DANCING 67 DEFIANCE ...... M. Phillips 4-01 ·02·37 .8701 3·12·31 ·30 138 SEQUEL ...... G. & D. Coutts 4·17·47-23 .7307 3-11-08-46 MOUSE, DE RWENT LASS, DESTINY, DI HARD, DIAMOND CUTTER, 68 FREIGHT TAAIN ...... A. Williams 3-16-06-40 .9597 3-12-33-37 139 ODIN ..... I.S. Pullar 4·12·13·07 .7691 3-11-13-51 DA DAN, DRAKE'S PRAYER, DAY WHITE, DYNAMITE, ENCORE, 69 GROUNDSFOA ..... B. & N. Hines 4-13-32-21 .7732 3-12-41 -44 140 CHLOE ...... D. Rourke 5-00-51-47 .6900 3·11·23-44 ENDLESS ADVICE, ENIGMA, EU REKA, EVELYN , FANNY ADAMS, 70 HITCHHIKER ...... P. Briggs 4-09·6·39 .8064 3-12-45-41 141 TANIA ...... R.S. Robinson 4-12-11·27 .7753 3-1 1-52-49 FARA FETCHED, FARR OUT, FI AETEL, FLY BY NIGHT, FR EIGHT 71 THE SYNDICATE 142 GIB AN INCH ...... W.D. Ferris 3-07-38-04 1.0563 3-12-07-04 TRAIN, GAOUNDSFOA, HALCYON, HULLABALOO, IMPATIENCE, Canterbury Syndicate 4•10·05·58 .7998 3-12-51-30 143 SG IAN DUBH ...... A.W. Lean 55-00·51 ·23 .7003 3-12-38-09 IMPECCABLE, INCA, INCH BY WINCH, INTRIGUE, ISLE OF LUING, 73 REVELATION ...... 8 . Moore 4-11 -11 -46 .7941 3-13-07-28 144 ALONA ...... P.J. Allen 4-13-32·58 .7763 3-13·02·36 JOAJA, KIA TEAi, LADY ANN, LADY PENAHYN, LAAAIKIN , MAN­ 75 SAGACIOUS (TAS) P. Newman 4·10-10·15 .8027 3-13-13-24 145 BOOM BOOM ...... J. Watkins 4·05·29·18 .8384 3-13-05-16 DALA, MANOAAKE, MARGARET AINTOUL IV, MAALOO, MARY 76 BACARDI ...... Bacardi Syndicate 4-07-49-07 .8219 3-13-19-43 146 ZIG ZAG ...... P.P. Kelly 4-05-37-45 .8393 3-13-17-50 MUFFIN, MOANING TIDE, MUCH AOO, NADIA, NYNJA-GO, ONCE 77 BARN STOAM ...... J. Hall 4-08-38-12 .8156 3-13-20-30 147 PINTADO ...... 1. Backwell 5-00-58-30 .7054 3-13-20-09 MORE DEAR FRIENDS, OSPREY Ill, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND, 78 APOLLO 111 ..... A. Fox/J. Harrison 4-01 -07-12 .8794 3-13-24-26 148 OBSESSION ..... K.G . Donaldson 4-06-53-16 .8307 3-13-28-08 OUTRAGEOUS, OVERDRAFT, PATROL, PHYLLISE, PICCOLO, 79 MARGARET AINTOUL II 149 ANACONDA PIET HEIN, PIPPIN, PUBLIC NUISANCE, PUNCH, QUETZAL, RAGA· A. Jackman 4-06-57-39 .6307 3-13·31 ·46 G. Friend, A. Smith & M. Bellingham 4-06-04-10 .8376 3-13-29-36 MUFFIN, REBECCA II , RED FACES, ASTLESS IV, RUFF 'N TUMBLE, 80 JACQUI ...... T. Melville 4-11-33-50 .7998 3-14-01-47 150 SAL TSHAKEA 2 J.B. Levingston 4-06-08-39 .8427 3-14-04-37 RUNAWAY, SAGAR RANI, SANGAREE, SEAQUESTA, SHENAN­ 81 BEWINCHED W. Ferris/S. Gazal 3-18-29-09 .9554 3-14-27-01 151 TUCANA ..... L.C. Dean 5.04.55.23 .6939 3-14-41-03 OOAH Ill, SOLANDRA, SOUTHERN CROSS, SPICER, SPIRIT OF 82 LOCK ON WOOD ...... A. Laughlin 5-02-39-25 .7054 3-14-31-20 152 JAGER ...... B.C. Hayden$4-22-01-57 .7353 3· 14-4 7·21 QUEENSLAND, SUNBURST, SUNSEEKEA, THE GAMBLER, THE 83 THE SWAGMAN 153 ANACONDA 11 ...... J. Grubic 3-13-43-35 1.0311 3·16-23·33 OFFICE, THE SWAGMAN, THIALMEAE, TOO FARA OUT, TOO A. Birtles/A. Chalk 4·21 -31-24 .7387 3-14-48-52 154 TASMAN LASS ...... W. H. Ward 5.09.45.37 .6900 3-17-32-05 IMPETUOUS, TOPAZ, TRADITION, UPTOWN GIRL, VANESSA Ill, 84 UPTOWN GIRL ...... A. Winton 4· 11 ·53-07 .8064 3-14-59-55 155 RENEGADE It ...... I.D. Ritchie 4-10-17-17 .8477 3· 18·06-01 WATER FRONTIER, WITCHCRAFT, WITCHOOCTOA, WY-AA-GINE 85 MAALOO ...... G. Girdis 4-10-22-46 .8183 3-15-03·01 156 TEAUMA ...... T.C. & A. Bower 5-00-22-22 .7575 3-19-10-57 IV, YAHOO 11 , ZAP. 86 SIDEWINDER ...... 0 . Rumble 4-03-10-15 .6802 3-15·17·25 157 BUCCANEEA ...... J.H. Mace 3· 19-45-16 1.0306 3-22-33-44 1984 WEATH EA: A low pressure system near Melbourne on Christmas 87 WITCHDOCTOR NZ ...... N. Wills 4-00·53·58 .9037 3·15-34-05 158 DESTINY ...... T.A. Taylor 5·00-49-00 .8263 4-03-49-51 Day brought windy weather to Bass Strait and Tasmania. This system 88 VANESSA 111 ...... 8 . & K. Jaggar 4·19·26·17 .7596 slowed up east of Bass Strait about mid-day on Boxing Day, creating 89 LAWLESS ...... A. Green 5·05-30-35 .7003 DISQUALIFIED: NIRVANA, PANDA two different swell patterns that combined off the NSW coast to make 90 POLARI S ...... L. Savage 4· 16·01-50 .7882 FASTEST TIME: CONDOR 3-00-50-29 very treacherous seas. The Race features a spectacular spinnaker start 91 FIONA ...... D. & A. Coulter 4-11-41-39 .82 19 before a 25 knot southerly that slowly strengthened throughout the first 91 WAR GAMES' ...... D. Urry 4-10-34-45 .7970 MAXI DIVISION: FREIGHT TRAIN afternoon. During the first night the breeze touched 40 knots from the 92 DANCING MOUSE ...... D. Hundt 5-03-36-03 .7177 DIVISION A: CHALLENGE south and retirements came thick and fast. A strong 35 knot southerly 93 PADAM ...... K. Qulnert 5.04.33.57 .7152 DIVISION B: ONCE MORE DEAR FRIENDS remained during the second day with punishing seas and there were 94 IN THE NAVY more retirements. Late on December 27 the leaders were only as far as W. Saunders & Partners 4·18·24-37 DIVISION C: MOONLIGHTER •L - ...... , • • • 0, 0 ... - • •••• 0 STATIST I CS

IORRESULTS ILLINGWORTH RESULTS

LINE DIVISIONS DIVISIONS YACHTNAM PLACE MAB CD ELAP. TIME TCF CORR . TIME TCF. CORR. TIME M A B C D 96 STARLIGHT EXPRESS 1 EX TENSION .. 28 1 3-23-22-00 0.7680 3-01-14•30 C. Reynolds 3-19-20-38 .9777 3-17-18-25 2 IMPECCABLE ... 56 1 4-04-16-30 0.7318 3-01-22-52 0.7227 3-00-28-07 97 ALEXANDER OF CRESWELL 3 SOUTHERN CR 29 3-23-26-07 0.7722 3-01-41-42 Royal Australian Navy4•13·31 -24 .81 74 4-17-31 -28 4 PALADIN ... 3-21-32-36 0.7960 3-02-27•38 0.7900 3-01-53-57 98 SHENANDOAH 111. •.•. .J. Charody 5-04-45-12 .71 77 3-17-32-08 5SZECHWAN .. 3-22-49-20 0.7883 3-02-33-31 0. 7765 3-01-37-48 99 SPIRIT OF QUEENSLAND 6 ANOTHER CONC 3-22-00-28 0.7950 3-02-44-10 0.7890 3-02-10-20 A. Kelso 3-13-26-22 1.0491 3-17-38-04 7 SILVER MINX .. 4-00-57-29 0.7722 3-02-52-16 100 AANGATIRA ...... A. Mercer 4-16-09-23 .7998 3-17-42-10 8 HINDSIGHT II .. 0.6860 3-03-11-48 0.8654 3-00-56-19 101 THYLACINE ...... J. Burton 5-06-04-20 .7140 3-18-00-56 9 INDIAN PACIFIC ... 0.7941 3-03·18·01 0.7881 3-02-41-54 102DERWENTLASS .... D. ColbournS-10-15-47 .6913 3-18-03-03 10 INTRIGUE ... 0.7941 3-03-19-45 103 DI HARD• .. J. Woodward 4-02-48-20 .8055 3-18-09-42 11 INDIAN PACIFIC V ... 0.7659 3-03-27-40 103 FIAETEL ...... A. Lawler/K. Taylor S.04-35-04 .7237 3-18-09-42 12CONDOR .... 1.0573 3-03-32-02 104 AQUILA...... 8 . Edmunds 5-07-11 -58 .7091 3-18-11 -50 13 VANESSA Ill 0.7564 3-03-40-14 0.7337 3-01-23-58 105 PATRICE 111 .••.•.•.•.••••.•.•. P. King 4-12-40-52 .8316 3- 18-22-45 14 SINGAPORE GIRL 0.7353 3-03-49-23 106 RESTLESS IV ...... 0 . Holloway 4-19-24-40 .7863 3-18-44-52 107 YAHOO II ...... J. Elgar 4-14-46-50 .8272 3- 19-38-16 15 WINDWARD PASSAG E ...... W. Mui 1.0583 3-03-50-26 1. 0088 3-00-25-49 1 108 NIGHTAAIDER...... N. Bunting 4-01-02-11 .9498 3-20-08-55 16 NADIA IV ...... Canberra 0 .R.C. 0.7931 3-04-00·46 0.7872 3-03-26-51 109 BREADFRUIT ...... 1. Sloan 5-08-05-47 .7225 3-20-32-59 17 THIRLMERE ...... S. Green 0.7823 3-04-01-25 0.7725 3-03-04-17 110 BLACK SHEEP ..... K. Coppel 4-09-47-24 .8756 3-20-37-47 18 DEMO...... B. Brady 0.77 11 3-04-04-15 111 MYSTIC SEVEN ..... N.D. Chidgey 5-05-57-41 .7364 3-20-45-29 19 TURKEY SHOOT ...... S. McDonald/ 0.7950 3-04-07-04 0.7890 3-03-32-36 111 RAGAMUFFIN ...... $ . Fischer 3-08-39-22 1.0563 3-20-45-29 8 . Bowden 112 INSATIABLE G. Wilson/H. Kuhn 4-19-34-47 .8073 3-21 -18-27 20 THUMBS UP ...... A.Rundle 30 3-04-11-04 113 BAMG BANG 0 . Baxter/I. lemon 4-21-12-18 .8008 3-21-51-28 21 PRIME SUSPECT .. A. Abikhair 34 3-04-17-06 0.7872 3-03-43-03 1 t4 SALPETA ...... P. Hinton 5-19-54-01 .6793 3-23-02-03 22 MORNING TIDE ...... J. Lawler 69 3-04-26-45 0.6843 3-01-00-37 11 5WILLY ...... D. Clark4-18-46-21 .8359 3-23-56-18 23 PADAM ...... K. Quinert 74 3-04-29-38 0.6926 3-02-12-04 116 SAGITTA ...... K. Hughes 5-14-13-37 .7177 4-00-20-05 24 CHALLENGE Ill ...... L. Abrahams 11 3-04-35-21 1 t 7 NEVER SATISFIED N. & B. Holt 5-03-37-53 . 7793 4-00-20-45 25 MIDDLE HARBOUR ...... A.Stone/ 53 3-04-41-18 0.7574 3-03-43-42 1 t8 REVERIE II ...... G. Scott 5-13-30-23 .7248 4-00-45-56 EXPRESS G. Challoner 119 PACIFIC FLYER R.B. Heatherey 4-21-25-27 .8245 4-00-48-58 26 GOOD NEWS ...... J. Calvert-Jones 48 120 QUETZAL...... R. Robson 5-19-58-30 .6926 4-00-56-48 27 UPTOWN GIRL...... A.Winton 27 0.7912 3-03-1 7-18 121 PENDULUM ...... W. Dargan5-18-50-1 4 .6990 4-01-02-50 28 GLUMBLOSSOM (1) ...... J. Gleeson 88 0.6448 3-01-27-38 122 LEVEN ...... B. Cunneen 5-18-02-45 .7054 4-01 -22-39 29 PIPPIN ...... W. Sweetapple 57 123 TURBO ...... L. Clough 4-12-25-29 .8994 4-01 -31 -02 ,,lO KNUCKLEDUSTER (2) ...... P. Cush 81 3-02-42-59 124 MANDALA ...... K. Gtadman 5-14-20-07 .7284 4-01-50-59 31 WILD OATS ...... A. Oatley 15 125 ROLLER COASTER J. Fuglsang 5-11-08-37 .7542 4-02-54-31 32 INCH BY WINCH ...... J. Goddard 24 3-04-51-35 126PUNCH ...... B. &A. Lewis5-18-19-20 .7152 4-02-55-41 33 CHALLENGE 11...... A. Rowsthorn 13 3-04-28-56 127 MARK TWAIN 34 CONTRACTOR ,...... J. Mel. Taylor 9 V. O'Nei11/C. Ward/8. White 5-10-48-31 ,7575 4-03-05-15 35 ROLLER COASTER...... J. Fuglsang 61 10 3-04-58- 12 128 NUZULU ...... w. Dodds 5-21-14-38 .7016 4-03-05-48 36 MARK TWAIN ...... V. O'Neill/ 19 11 3-02-11-02 129 GOLDFINGEA ...... R. Triplow 5-08-14-09 .7833 4-04-26-50 C. Ward/B. White 63 131 TAIAD ...... Coomb sNicery 4-20-33-40 .7833 4-06-19-44 37 SOLANDRA ...... A.W. Escott {9 4-13-06-11 0.7140 3-02-23-51 132 LADY PENAHYN OF NIAIMBA 38 MARGARET AINTOUL II ..... A.Jackman f 8 3-21-58-05 0.8298 3-02-28- 11 Royal Australian Navy 5-05-29-29 .8165 4-06-27-49 39 TOO IMPETUOUS ...... G. Lambert 36 4-00-56-29 0.8064 3-05-35-31 133 ANACONDA ...... J. Grubic 4-03-46-16 1.0291 4-06-40-28 40 LEV!:N ...... B. Cunneen 82 4-14-52-53 0.7054 3 3-02-42-03 134 CRUSADER ...... J. Nadorp 5-05-42-20 .8183 4-06-51-53 41 POLAR BEAR ...... A. Martin 41 11 4-02-10-46 0.7969 3- 3-02-42-52 135 CASABLANCA ...... G. McDonald 4-16-14-48 .9237 4-07-40-56 42 WAR GAMES ...... D. Urry 42 12 4-02-11-44 0.7970 3- 138 MIRRABOOKA .... G. Jensen-Muir 6-10-39-08 .6724 4-07-59-17 43 VANGUARD ...... A. Cawse 16 9 3-21-43-46 0.8359 3- 139NIMRODII ...... I. Watson5-10-15-42 .8237 4-11-17-48 44 POLARIS...... L. Savage 50 13 4-03-29-11 0.7882 3- 140AMAROO111 45 MANLY FEARY ...... M. Blackmere 26 10 3-22-55-16 0.8272 3-06 L. Hamittonll. Noonan 6-00-15-04 .7499 4-12-10-26 46 CHRISTA-FARR ...... J.D. & C.A. Pomfret 58 14 4-04-54-31 0.7803 3-06 141 BALANDRA .... G. Hennicke 5-18-17-46 .7912 4-13-25-12 47 PAAMELIA ...... B. Woods 20 11 3-22-11-56 0.8367 3-06-4 142 CYBELE ...... A. Ridley 6-14-13-04 .7066 4-15-47-48 48 BACARDI .. .. . Bacardi Synd . 33 12 4-00-00-45 0.8210 3-06-49- 143 ODIN ...... M. Small 6-02-53-57 .7649 4-16-21 -47 49 NEWCASTLE FLYER ...... P. Rundle 45 15 4-03-06-21 0.7960 3-06-53-18 144 SAGITTARIUS ...... 0 . Rowe 6-07- 10-12 .7510 4-17-31 -43 50 PACIFIC PHOENIX ...... E. Long 55 16 4-04-15-33 0.7872 3-06-55-26 145 TITAN IC ...... A. Boyd t.1unro 6-12-16-28 .7585 4-22-32-03 511NCA ...... B. Ayan 23 13 3-22-50-21 0.8324 3-06-56-39 146 DESTINY ...... T. Taylor6·10·21 ·08 .8245 5-07-15-48 52 MARARA ...... A. Ratcliff 83 10 4-14-58-41 0.7116 3-06-58-19 150 PR IME SUSPECT" .... A. Abikhair 4-03-32-51 .7941 5-07-15-49 53 •GROUNDSFOA ...... B. & N. Hines 71 14 4-03-22-55 0.7732 3-04-50-32 155 INVADER' ...... P. Meguyer 6-09-49-17 .6752 5-07-15-50 (20% PENAL TY Before penalty 28 O'AII) 179 RAMPANT II' ...... A. Tucker 4-00-18-59 1.0529 5-07-15-51 54 AUSPICIOUS ...... N. Marr 75 11 4-11-15-09 0.7364 3-06-58-51 0.7309 55 CASTAWAY ENTERPRISE ..... D. Taylor 3 3-02-55-08 1.0573 3-07-12-42 DRAKE'S PRAYER (37th) 20% Penalty 56 THE ROPERUNNER ...... P. Robinson 52 17 4-03-54-12 0.7941 3-07-20-00 0. 7842 WAR GAMES (91st) 10% Penalty 57 PRIVATEER. .. Around The World Yachts 4 4 3-03-35-43 1.0524 3-07-33-23 DI HARD ( 103rd) 40% Penalty 58 WARLORD...... I.Scott 47 18 4-03-18-27 0.6017 3-07-36-53 PRIME SUSPECT (150th) 70% Penalty 59 LAWLESS ...... J. Green 91 12 4-18-24-25 0.6990 3-07-58-14 0.6938 3-07-22-32 INVADER (155th) 10% Penalty 60 LOW PROFILE ...... A. Zanelli 62 19 4-06-32-23 0.7803 3-08-00-42 0.7569 3-05-36-44 RAMPANT II (179th) 30% Penalty 61 MULLOKA .. :...... P. Jacka 87 13 4-17-18-26 0.7068 3-08-03-48 0.6748 3-04-27-35 62 DUBIOUS ...... G.J . Thompson 70 12 4- 10-43-20 0.7521 3-08-15-57 0.7465 3-07-40-05 83 NED KELLY ...... S.J. Clarke 84 14 4-16-16-02 0.7152 3-08-17-37 64 INFAA RED ...... R.T. Southwood 72 13 4-10-52-09 0.7531 3-08-28-59 0.7475 3-07-53-05 65 SPIDER ...... A. Purssell 85 15 4-16-53-55 0.7260 3-09-57-52 0.7115 3-08-19-39 FASTEST TIME: APOLLO 3-04-32-28 66 CHANGABANG ...... B. Van Oriel 60 14 4-05-34-48 0.6092 3-10-11-55 0.7991 3-09-10-21 IOR DIVISIONS 87TAUMP CARD ...... A. Budd 17 15 3-21-53-29 0.8788 3-10-29-35 IOR MAXI DIVISION : APOLLO IOR DIVISION A: THUNDERBIRD 68 FIAETEL ...... A.Lawler 90 16 4-18-14-51 0.7236 3-10-40-10 0.7019 3-08-11-25 69 •INVINCIBLE ... 86 20 4-04-52-40 0.7783 3-06-30-47 0.7550 3-04-09-46 15 IOR DIVISION B: SAGACIOUS IOR DIVISION C: HUMMINGBIRD (20o/o PENAL TY Before penalty 46 O'aU) 70 SUNSEEKER...... P. & V. Thomas 77 15 4-12-08-33 0.7711 3-11-23-19 0.7364 3-07-38-10 5 71 DERWENT LASS ...... D.H. Colbourn 94 17 5-01-0 1-00 0.6900 3- 11-30-05 0.8693 3-08-59-47 15 DIVISION A: APOLLO II 72 MOONRAKEA AGAIN ...... N. Welfare 57 16 4-04-45-07 0.8289 3- 11-30-48 0.8185 3-10-27-56 11 73 IN IQUITY ...... 5 . Morgan 35 17 4.00-24-17 0.8678 3-11-39-36 0.8813 3- 11 -02-00 12 8 : ONCE MORE DEAR FRIENDS 74 SPIRIT ...... J.W. Miller 59 18 4-05-08-19 0.8281 3-11-45-10 DIVISION C: DIAMOND CUTTER 75 OTELLA ...... C. Montgomery 12 19 3-20-59-53 0.9022 3-11-54-10 76 PANACH E ...... E. Stokans/ 92 18 4-18-34-50 0.7330 3-11-59-15 0.7238 3-10-56-00 16 N. Fyfe n .. ENCORE 11 ...... W. Anderson 73 23 4-05-18-34 0.6017 3-09-13-11 0.7917 3-08-12-24 17 (10% PENALTY Belore penalty 67 O'AII) ROMEDA, ARGUS. BELINDA, BUSHWHACKER, 78 BEWINCHED ...... W. Ferris 7 5 3-17- 16-45 0.9554 3-13-17-50 0.9482 3-12-39-16 2 RY WHITE, DUBIOUS, FIRST LIGH T, FOATLET. 79 NIMROD 11 ...... I.S. Watson 65 21 4-07-34-06 0.8237 3-13-18-33 0.8134 3-12-14-33 13 ERA OF HOBART, HINDSIGHT II . IMPECCABLE. 60 ALEXAN DER OF Royal 22 4-08-55-55 0.8165 3- 13-40-37 0.8083 3-12-36-24 14 ANORAKE, MAALOO II , MOONLIGHTER, NADIA. CRESWELL (3) ...... Aust. Navy 66 DA, QUASIMODO. SCAMPI A. SINGAPORE 81 NADIA ...... J.R. Oakley 89 16 4-18-08-11 0.7521 3-13-50-31 0.7485 3-13-12-10 STORMY PETREL, STRUTH, STYX, SUPER­ 82 TRIAD...... CoombsNickery 40 24 4-01-58-38 0.8779 3-14-00-51 0.8713 3-13-22-03 15 NNEA, THE STING, THUMBS UP. TOO FARR 83 DREAMTIME (4) ...... N.F. McDonald 68 25 4-09-45-23 0.8156 3-14-15-18 0.8095 3-13-36-35 17 84 RAMPANT 11 ...... A. Tucker 5 6 3-10-05-17 1.0524 3-14-23-22 1. 0392 3-13-18-21 3 85 MADMEN'S WOODYARD ...... Bowling/ 98 19 5-03-24-43 0.7079 3-15-21-48 0.7026 3-1 4-42-33 17 Bonallo/Terrell 8G ICARU S...... A.Ridley 67 26 4-09-15-54 0.8307 3-15-26-37 0.8245 3-1 4-47-28 20 ad one of th e most chaotic 87 EVELYN .. ..J. Fraser 10 27 3-20-41-44 0.9453 3-15-37-30 0.9335 3-14-31-53 19 collisions in a 15-18 88 LADY ANN ...... J. & A. Kirkjian 96 20 5-02-44-49 0.7165 3- 15-56-53 0. 7075 3-14-50-36 18 before a fresh 20-25 89 'WITCHDOCTOA ...... C.A. Troup & Plnrs 53 20 4-03-41-03 0.8073 3-08-28-30 0.79 12 3-06-52-12 16 knot nor'easter gh the fleet around (20% PENAL TY Before penalty 65 o ·An) 9.00p.m. The Again it was a 90 CITY LIMITS ...... :;_M . Carr 93 17 4-22-18-34 0.7521 3-16-58-50 0.7465 3-16-19-05 two-day punch into a strong in 25-30 knots, 91 MYSTIQUE ...... C. Wilson 97 21 5-03-23-55 0.7260 3-17-35-15 0.7115 3·15-47-53 19 with a punishing sea (although 92 HELSAL II ...... A. Kelso 6 7 3-15-46-05 1.0461 3-19-48-51 1.0330 3-18-39-52 4 were many. All yachts had stron 93 CASABLANCA ...... G. McDonald 49 28 4-03-26-55 0.9237 3-19-51-38 0.9052 3- 18-01-1 5 21 well Into Bass Strait, and there 94 QUASIMODO ...... M. & V. Innes 8 8 3-20-20-31 1.0326 3·23-21-08 1.0249 3-22-38-29 5 leaders approached the NE lip ol 95 'DYNAMITE ...... 1. French 78 23 4-03-44-19 0.8254 3-10-19-27 0.8089 3-08-40-43 18 encountered, allowing the yachts t (20% PENAL TY Before penalty 70 O'AII) 28th WSW winds were replaced by 96 BALANDAA ...... G. Hennicke 95 21 5-01-37-18 0.7912 4-00-13-37 o.7556 3-19-53-50 14 the leaders, while the tailenders had stro 97 ECSTACY V ...... A.K. Harris 100 18 5-08-42-32 0.7488 4-00-22-38 0.7283 3-21-28-53 10 The next day saw light and fitful airs do 98 JASMIN ······························M.A. O'Keefe 99 22 5-04- 14-26 0.7950 4-02-46-16 0. 7890 4-02-01-33 16 which were replaced by weak NE sea 99 ·JUST JONES (5) ...... C. Denny 101 25 4-10-52-29 0.7803 3-11 -23·40 0.7744 3-10-45-50 19 knots. All yachts had fickle airs in Storm (20% PENALTY Before penalty 74 O'AII) placings changing continuously and boats 100 LASSITEAS REEF ...... J.R. Carroll 46 9 4-03-15-39 f,,..,... T-.,-,...,.,.. lc, l,.,..A t,.. 11-, .,. f,,..[c, 1-, 1.0047 4-03-43-38 GALLERY OF WINNERS

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crew of veteran yachtsmen, all in A their late fifties, sailing a little yacht built in Gosford 14 years ago, has won the Chickadee 17th annual Gosford to Lord Howe Island ocean classic., Well known NSW Central Coast businessman Warren McLean, and his crew of Golden oldies, sailed Narcissus to victory under both IOR and IMS handi­ caps. To complete a vintage year for the Gosford Sailing Club, which conducted the race with professional ability, Brian Bailey's Cole 43, Fowl Play, won the Arbitrary division and finished third in the IOR division. It was McLean's second win in the 408 nautical-mile race with this East Coast 31, designed by Peter Cole 17 years ago and built in Gosford - as was Fowl Play. In fact, it is the third win in this race by an East Coast 31, Peter Rysdyk sailing Onya to victory in the inaugural Buckle Up & Run race in 1974. The lowest handicapped yacht in the 25-boat fleet, Narcissus won with nearly fast and spectacular finish to the hilly 10km run from Manly Wharf to four hours to spare, with the small A MMI 3 Ports Race saw the Pitt­ Middle Harbour Yacht Club where run­ Sydney yacht Sequin coming in second water yacht Buckle Up •take overall ners jumped aboard their allocated last to push Fowl Play back to third in honours in the challenging two-day race yachts for a 20nm race to Bundeena in IOR. involving alternate legs of sailing and Port Hacking. Conditions throughout the race were running. New racing catamaran Catamundle­ ideal for the East Coast 31 - light to The crew and three runners on the pigeons, skippered by Rob Mundie, and moderate headwinds and generally flat Rocket 40 held off strong challenges Buckle Up grabbed the lead in the sailing seas which enabled her to maintain from the record 65-strong fleet to grab leg. optimum hull speed throughout the the overall victory, recording the shor­ With America's Cup campaigner lain race. test combined sailing and running times Murray and three times world Laser The crew's tactics were correct, too, in the six-leg race. champion Glen Bourke onboard, Cata­ sailing below the rhumbline early and Buckle Up, skippered by Ken Christ­ mundlepigeons engaged in a two-way then being lee-bowed by the current east ensen, notched a time of 26h50m for the battle with Buckle Up in the following of the seamounts to lift Narcissus north­ weekend race, which included two legs - a 14km run through the wards as they neared the island. 19h13m32s of sailing and 7h36m28s of Royal National park and a 35nm sail to Narcissus' crew included two of Aus­ runnmg. Patonga. tralia's most famous boat-builders, for­ Paying tribute to his crew Christensen Light winds saw the majority of the mer champion skiff sailors and Amer­ said: "The other boats would have fleet arrive at Patonga in the early hours ica's Cup team members, Trevor Gow­ needed Steve Moneghetti or Andrew of Sunday, with runners having to land from Pt Clare and Ken Beashel Lloyd to beat us," he said. "Our runners prepare for a gruelling 32km run from Elvina Bay in Pittwater. In addi­ were great, they even helped us sail the through the Brisbane Waters National tion to skipper McLean, the others in the boat." • Park before jumping aboard for the final crew were well known GSC member In the multihull division the 30ft 22nm sail to the race finish off Middle Eddie Collett and Alan Burt from catamaran Superoo snatched honours Harbour Yacht Club. Sydney. from Jaffa II and the 43ft catamaran, Maitland's Brian Morgan, a runner on N arcissus' win in the IMS division was Catamundlepigeo ns. Madame de Farge, took out the King of particularly significant to the yacht as The IMS division was taken out by the Mountain title with his consistent this velocity prediction handicap Haupia, IOR by Brunnhilde, Arbitrary 1 placings in the three run legs, followed method is designed to encourage older by Rock 'n Roll and, Arbitrary 2 by The by Northbridge's Geoff Large on and out-designed IOR yachts to con­ Pink Boat. Baguette and Mosman's Ken Rauchpach tinue racing offshore. It also negated any The race, in its fourth year, combined on the Clontarf yacht, Brunnhilde. criticism that she only won IOR because 77nm of sailing and 56km of running Frenchs Forest's Joanne Cowan, a the club used the IOR Australian TCFs. and attracted nearly 600 competitors runner on Madame de Farge, came 31st in Line honours went to the Frers 62 from both sporting disciplines. a field of 130 to claim the Queens of the Freight Train, skippered by Damien Tha. ,:,,u.o. .... t- l,..~ ,_1,.,,.,-l .nff 'IU;th "'I h n.t "lnrl Mnnnt'l1n c t1t1P P'lrlrP~ START of the 1990 Chickadee Gosford to Lord Howe Island ocean race on Broken Bay, north of Sydney, with Jim Davern's Special Effect, getting the windward slot. Below, race sponsor Brian Bailey at the helm of Fowl Play on way to start. Fowl Play won the Perform­ ance handicap category, placed third under IOR and IMS. (Pies - Peter Campbell).

Final placings: IOR Division: 1. Narcissus (Warren McLean, GSC) elapsed time 3days 8hrs 56min 00sec; corrected time 2.03.47.21. IMS Division: 1. Narcissus, 3.08.56.00; Performance Handicap: 1. Fowl Play, 2. Sequin (Malcolm Quine, PRSC), 2.18.33.45. 2. Witchcraft II (Bruce Sta­ 3.00.35.42; 2.06.39.18. 2. Narcissus, 3.11.16.02; 2.06.23.25. 3. Fowl Play ples, RPAYC) 2.23.20.55; 2.21.59.19. 3. 3.08.56.00; 2.07.27.3. 3. Mutineer (Wal (Brian Bailey, GSC) 3. 11. 52.24; Errol Flynn (David Ingall/Bill Rowell, Donnelly, RMYC) 3.12.34.40; 2.07.00.43. RPAYC) 3.02.51.50; 2.22.55.52. 2.08.40.02.

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"RENDERING ASSISTANCE" president and was president of A YF in (2) ELAP. REDUCED BY 40 MINS. REDRESS UNDER I.Y.R.U. " RENDERING ASSISTANCE" 1967-68 and again in 1973-74. Parring­ (3) ELAP. REDUCED BY 6 HRS. REDRESS UNDER 1.Y.R.U. " RENDERING ASSISTANCE" (4) ELAP. REDUCED BY 6 HRS. REDRESS UNDER 1.Y.R.U. " RENDERING ASSISTANCE" ton was chosen as O lympic yach ing (5) ELAP. REDUCED BY 24 MINS. REDRESS UNDER I.Y.R.U. " RENDERING ASSISTANCE" team manager for the Moscow Games, PENALTIES • 20% PENALTY APPLIED - FAILURE TO LODGE DECLARATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAILING INSTRUCTION 25.a but the yachting team was withdrawn •• 10% PENALTY APPLIED - BREACH OF SAILING INSTRUCTION 36 under pressure from the Australian 1988 WEATHER: Light Nor'easter at start freshening to 25 knots. A fresh SW change went through the fleet at about 2000 hours on the first night. This slowly backed to the South for 24 hours freshening to 35 knots, subsequently easing back through SW to West over the next 24 hours. Light conditions Government. prevailed at Tasman ls and up to the Derwent River. Later yachts finished with fresh sea breezes during the day which tended to die through the night. As a sailor, he won the world cham­ pionship in the high-performance 505 class in 1964 and still actively races an SYDNEY-HOBART 1987 Etchells keelboat off Adelaide. He con­ O'ALL IOR RESULTS ILLINGWORTH RESULTS tinues as a member of the A YF execu­ PLACE tive, holding the position of chairman of LINE DIVISIONS DIVISIONS the national coaches committee. YACHT PLACE MA BCD ELAP. TIME TCF CORR. TIME TCF CORR. TIME MA BCD 1 SOVEREIGN ...... B.Lewis 1 2-21-58-08 t .0573 3-01-58-41 1.0360 3-00-29-)6 3 New president of the A YF is Sydney 2 APOLLO ...... V.d'Emilio/J.Rooklyn 2 2-22-55-03 t .0488 3-02-22-42 1.0067 2-23-23-34 1 yachtsman Colin Crisp, replacing 3 GAZEBO ...... S.Fischer 3 2-22-33-47 t .0573 3-02-36-23 1.0150 2-23-37-17 2 4 JUBILATION ...... J.S.James 3- t 1-33-42 0.9018 3-03-21-21 0.8901 3-02-22-42 Tasmanian Bob Gear. Crisp is a mem­ 5 MADELINE'S DAUGHTER ...... P.Kurts 11 3-18-47-24 0.8325 3-03-34-58 6 CHUTZPAH ...... Schitte!Taylor 80 1 4-07-29-01 0.7327 3-03-49-21 0.7322 3-03-46-15 ber of the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club 7 MAD MAX ...... M.Canning 15 3-22-59-15 0.7968 3-03-52-34 and the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron 8 SAGACIOUS V ...... G.Appleby 17 · 3-23-05-37 0.7980 3-03-53-05 0.7980 3-03-53-05 9 SWITCHBLADE ...... P .Whyte 13 3-19-50-15 0.8284 3-04-04-41 0.8280 3·04-02-29 and was commodore of the SASC in 10 BIMBLEGUMBIE ...... K.Jacobs 12 3-19-11-16 0.8346 3-04-08- 19 0.8345 3-04-05-46 1978. He is a former president of the 11 CHRIS' CHOICE ...... M Walker 84 4-07-47-40 0.7343 3-04-12-59 0.7341 3-04-t 1-44 12 BEYOND THUNDERDOME ...... W.Johns 18 3-23-19-17 0.7999 3·04·14-51 0.7999 3-04-14-51 Yachting Association of NSW and has 13 FAIR SHARE Hogg/O'Neill/Ross/Benton 19 3-23-48-29 0.7989 3-04-32-28 14 WITCHCRAFT 11 ...... B.Staples 27 4-00-21-52 0.7954 3-04-38-54 0.7939 3-04-30-13 been on the Executive of A YF for nearly 15 RONSTANCHALLENGE .... L.Abrahams 22 4-00-05-50 0.7984 3-04-43-26 0. 7984 3-04-43-26 12 years. 16 JOINT VENTURE ...... ".. A.Elliot 25 4-00-09-28 0.7979 3-04-43-27 0. 7979 3-04-43-27 t 7 PRIME MINISTER ...... L.Klopper 24 4-00-06-21 0.7987 3-04-45-35 0. 7978 3-04-40-24 18 STARLIGHT EXPRESS ... C.W.Reynolds 6 4 3-06-51-54 0.9735 3-04-46-30 0.9330 3-01 -34-52 4 19 ANOTHER CONCUBINE ...... J./P.Parker 21 4-00-04-36 0.7996 3-04-49-22 0.7981 3-04-40-44 20 BLUE MAX II ...... G.Sargent 26 10 4-00-11-20 0.7995 3-04-54-11 0. 7995 3·04-54- 11 21 SINGAPORE GIRL .... Steigrad/Greenlaw 97 4-08-58-18 0.7341 3-05-03-35 0. 7334 3-04-59- t O ~2 PRIME FACTOR ...... J.P.Milner 28 11 4-01-15-42 0.7992 3-05-43-53 0. 7993 3-05-44-29 _'3 DRAKES PRAYER ...... D.Cawse/M.Dent 14 5 3-22-07-03 0.8279 3-05-55-12 0.8270 3·05-50-07 24 MARARA ...... A.E.Ratclitf 121 4-14-09-04 0.7092 3-06-07-09 0.6743 3-02-16-30 25-ALPHA CRUCIS ...... A.Graham 142 4-20--03-38 0.6775 3-06-37-52 0.6433 3-02-39-42 26 PEMBERTON I ...... : ...... J.Eyles 60 4-06--02-38 0.7706 3-06-38-06 0.7707 3-06-38-43 27 PEMBERTON II ...... J.King 65 4-06-23-24 0.7682 3-06-39-22 0.7678 3-06-36-54 28 HELSAL 11 ...... A.M.Kelso 4 5 3-03-22-12 1.0440 3-06-41 -11 1.0216 3-04-59-53 5 29 MIDDLE HARBOUR EXPRESS... 73 4-06-53-21 0.7651 3-06-43-14 0. 7593 3-06-07-25 R.Stone/G.Challoner 30 RAMPANT ...... R.M.Cassidy 68 4 4-06-37-35 0.7672 3-06-44-06 0.76 12 3-06-07-09 Thousands of Bargains 31 SWUZZLEBUBBLE SIX ...... I.Gibbs 30 12 4-03·03·57 0.7951 3-06-46-02 0.7943 3-06-41-17 t3 32 STORMY PETREL ...... 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D.Calvert 36 15 4-04-30-28 0.7945 3-07-51-12 0.7936 3-07-45-47 18 Personal shoppers 43 PHOENIX CONTRACTORS Hundt/Dale 49 7 4-05-30-45 0.7868 3-07-52-12 0.7809 3-07-16-16 9 44 RAUCOUS ...... D.Rourke 90 8 4-07-59-14 0.7689 3-07-57-21 0.7684 3-07-54- 14 14 I welcome. 45 PIPPIN ...... B.Sweetapple 79 9 4-07-28-32 O.TT3 t 3-07-59-49 0.7697 3-07-38-42 12 I Phone, Fax or Mail 46 STAIPROLL-GEELONG ...... R.Abikhair 32 t6 4-04- 17-02 0.7981 3-08-02-12 0.7967 3-07 -53-46 19 47 PALADIN ...... C.Franklin 35 t 7 4-04-29-36 0.7966 3-08-03-11 0.7952 3-07-54-44 20 orders shipped 48 SUNSEEKER ...... P.N.Thomas/J.Quinn 96 10 4-08-33-55 0.7658 3-08-04-34 0.7297 3-04-18-05 I anywhere in Australia 49 FREIGHT TRAIN ...... D.Parkes 10 6 3-11-36-29 0.9579 3-08-05-17 0.9481 3-07-16-08 50 SILVER MINX ...... G.Ptayer 85 11 4-07-49-13 0.7724 3-08-11-27 0.7696 3-07-54-00 t3 51 MORE WAR GAMES...... D.Urry 38 t8 4-04-42-43 0.7969 3-08-15·26 0.7964 3-08-12-25 22 52 SOUTHERN CROSS...... B.Gilbert 91 t2 4-08-03-15 0.7719 3-08-19-10 0.7639 3-07-29-13 t o 53 NYNJA GO...... R.C .Al

73 HORNET ...... Sting Syndicate 119 15 4-13-35-13 0.7434 3·09-28-01 0.10n 3-05-33-17 12 74 TURKEY SHOOT ...... A.B./M.C.Hutton 69 19 4-06-38·15 0.7941 3.09.30-15 o.n20 3-07-14-10 8 75 MUCH ADO ...... J.Corrie 117 18 4- 12-29-46 0.7514 3-09-31-26 0.7443 3-08-45-13 21 76 CITY LIMITS ...... M.Carr 100 20 4-09-49-12 O.TT16 3.09.39.03 0. 762 1 3-06-38-44 20 n BARNSTORN ...... J.H.Hall 33 4-04-27-03 0.8135 3-09-43-00 78 ROLLER COASTER ...... J.Fuglsang 116 17 4-12-04-04 0.7574 3-09-51-02 0.7438 3-08-22-51 18 79 THUMBS UP ...... T.Aowland 72 27 4-08-44-01 0.7969 3-09-52·06 0. 7960 3-09-46-33 36 80 CENTURION ...... I.Twentyman 115 18 4-11-57-14 0.7585 3-09-52-59 0.7225 3-05-59-48 14 81 MIDNIGHT EXPRESS ...... S.Chapman 70 28 4-06-40-24 0.7978 3-09-54·46 0.7963 3.09-45-32 35 82 SAILMAKER Ill ...... Dr.RP.Ham 133 19 4-15-40-44 0.7335 3-09.54.59 0.6981 3-05-57-47 13 was about to start on the high-tech 83 McCAUGHANS BANK BILLS ... .Williams 75 29 4-07-06-28 0.7955 3-10-01-20 0.7919 3-09-39-04 34 yacht. 84 UPTOWN GIRL ...... A.Winton 57 30 4-05-56-22 0.8072 3-10-11-06 o.no2 3·06·30-50 10 85 L.J.HOOKER ...... Cole/Cook Syn. n 31 4-07-10-52 0.7978 3-10-19-04 0.7810 3·06-31 -15 11 Drumbeat, the 80-footer which took 86 MYSTIQUE ...... C.Wilson 137 20 4-17-39· 13 0.7262 3-10-32-07 0.6909 3-06-31 -24 16 87 NORSKE ...... B.Oickson 71 32 4-06-41-35 0.8041 3·10·34·32 o.n48 3-07·34·00 17 line honours in the last Sydney-Hobart 88 INCH BY WINCH ...... J.Goddard 47 9 4-05-22-36 0.8159 3-10-42-48 0. 7807 3-07-08-41 5 and was a member of Australia's team at 89 MIDNIGHT MAGIC ...... E.Barron 63 33 4-06-16-23 0.8095 3-10-47-24 0.7845 3-06-14-00 24 90 INDIGO ...... Sail PNG P/L 40 10 4-05-07-17 0.8188 3-10-47-53 the recent Kenwood Cup in Hawaii, has 91 BIG SCHOTT ...... P .Bush 88 34 4-07-55- 10 .0.79TT 3-10-53-48 0.7809 3-07-04-48 15 been sold to New York Yacht Club 92 SUNBURST ...... J.H./C.D.Howell 78 35 4-07-07-26 0.8041 3-10-55-19 0.7833 3-08-46-37 28 93 MERCEDES IV ...... P.Stronach 87 36 4-06-34-19 0.8090 3-10-58-51 0.7820 3·06-12-41 23 member Bevan Koeppel whose previous 94 CHRISTA-FARR ...... ~ f'.~~~~~~;~ 1~f 21 4-10-35-10 o.n96 3-11-05-40 O.n64 3-09-41-15 21 maxi, Congere, was wrecked earlier this 37 4-07-30-38 0.8049 3-11-18-55 0.7834 3-09-05-23 33 : :~g;i~;~ ~~~~ ...... Barcardi Syn 56 11 4-05-42-50 0.8205 3-11-27-22 0.7833 3-07-40-21 8 year in a race from Buenos Aires to Rio 97 KINGURRA ...... P.Joubert 93 38 4-08-07-59 0.8024 3-11-33-23 0. 7688 3-08-03-27 21 98 SPANISH FLY ...... J.Corner 92 39 4-08-03·28 0.8047 3-11 -44-07 0.7948 3-10-42-18 37 de Janeiro. 99 SCORPION ...... RHopcratt 81 12 4-06-03-28 0.8220 3· 11·53-29 0.7993 3-09.34.29 12 "Koeppel plans to actively campaign 100 DYNAMITE ...... I.French 58 13 4-05-58-08 0.8243 3·12-03· 11 0.8120 3-10-47-55 18 101 WITCHDOCTOR ...... Rum Consortium 86 40 4-07-51 -44 0.8093 3-12-03-21 0.8004 3-11-07-53 38 Drumbeat in long ocean races including 102 COMPUTERLAND S'LNS ...... M.Boulos 44 14 4-05-15-18 0.6325 3-12-17-41 0.8262 3-11 -39-25 23 the TransAtlantic, Fastnet and Bermuda 103 AMIGO DIABLO ...... N.Drage 141 21 4-19-42-09 0.7294 3-12-23-36 0.69TT 3-08-43-32 20 104 SPIRIT ...... J.W.Miller 62 15 4-06-08-02 0.8272 3- 12-29-07 0. 7897 3-06-39-18 races," Lissiman told Offshore. "He has 105 MARGARET AINTOUL II ..... A.Jackman 64 16 4-06-18-09 0.8267 3·12-34-25 0.7893 3-08-44-51 10 told us he is also interested in bringing 106 PARMELIA ...... B.Woods 50 17 4•05-33-04 0.8349 3·12-47-06 0.7974 3-06-58-37 11 107 PACIFIC PHOENIX ...... E.Long 114 22 4-11-48-18 0.7872 3·12·51-51 0.7801 3-09-56-33 22 the boat back to Australia to contest 108 SANGAREE ...... M.Pryke 41 19 4-05-11-35 0.8404 3-13-02-34 0.8204 3-11-01-08 21 another Sydney-Hobart at some stage." 109 INVINCIBLE ...... A.Behrens 120 23 4-13-51-21 o.nso 3· 13-14-53 0.7828 3-11-47-53 26 110 FRICTION ...... C.Laker 74 20 4-07-04-07 0.6301 3-13-33-26 0.7986 3-10-18-38 13 Lissiman said that with the sale of 111 OTELLA ...... C.Montgomery 16 21 3-23-04-18 0.9012 3-13-40-43 0.8690 3· 10-37-02 16 112BUSHAANGER ...... K.Miller 140 22 4- 19- 13-38 0.7453 3-13-52-44 0. 7096 3.09-45-55 22 Drumbeat, Alan Bond had decided to go 113 FARRAGO ...... S./A.Shaw 63 22 4-07-40-37 0.8298 3-14-01 -52 0.8052 3-11 -28·50 22 ahead with his plan to build a hightech 114 NEVER SATISFIED ...... N.Nlen 129 24 4•15-05-28 o.n55 3· 14-09-04 0.7457 3-10-50-26 23 115 PATRICE Ill ...... P.L.King 89 23 4-07-57-18 0.8299 3-14-16-20 0.7924 3-10-22-26 14 SO-footer for the Admiral's Cup, with 116 DOUBLE IMAGE ...... G.W.Jarren 95 24 4-08-15-48 0.8276 3-14-17-18 0.7902 3-10-23-20 15 the sponsorship from a group of his 117 MIRRABOOKA ...... G.Jensen•Muir 34 25 4-04-26-52 0.8592 3-14-20-00 0.8544 3-13-51 -04 27 118 FIONA (2) ...... D.Coutter 87 18 4-06-41 -11 0.8206 3-12-15-52 0.8022 3- 10-22-30 19 business associates . "Bruce Farr and (10% PENALTY Belore penally 102 o·a11) 119 ALEXANDER OF CRESWELL...... RAN 104 26 4-10-31 -39 0.8129 3-14-35-46 o.n58 3-10-38-39 17 Associates are finalising the design and 120 PATIENCE ...... B.Sherman 103 27 4- 10-24-55 0.8160 3- 14-50-06 O.TT89 3-1 0-53-13 20 Peter Milner will begin building the 121 BALANDRA ...... G.Hennicke 123 25 4- 14-21-15 0.7875 3-14-54-14 0.7510 3-10-52-34 25 122 FORTLET ························· J.Maoonochie 138 26 4-1 7-45-21 0.7645 3·14-57-59 0.7283 3- 10-50-54 24 boat in Perth in October," Lissiman 123 HAMMER OF OLD ...... A.Bloore 7 8 3· 11 -19-26 1.0511 3-15-34-54 1.0398 3- 14-37-25 9 said. 124 AUSSIE RULES ...... RM.Ramsay 101 28 4-09-58-55 0.8267 3-15-36-55 0.7952 3·12-16-37 25 125 NIMROD It ...... I.Watson 109 29 4-10-41-02 0.8221 3-15-42-17 0.8091 3-14-19-05 29 "It will be a development of the 126 HELSAL Ill ...... Dr.T.Fisher 8 9 3-11-32-54 1.0499 3-15-43-03 1.0096 3-12-21 -01 8 127 PACIFIC FLYER ...... A.B.Hathorley 106 30 4-10-38-21 0.8230 3-15-45-51 0.7857 3-11-47-11 24 Australian SO-footer Heaven Can Wait 128 INSATIABLE ...... G./J.Wilson 118 41 4-13-32·04 0.8016 3-15-48-10 0.8002 3-15-38-58 41 which was the topscoring yacht in the 129 SALTY LADY ...... A.Scoble 122 42 4-14-18-40 0.7980 3-16-01-42 0.7612 3- 11 -58-08 39 130 MOON RAKER AGAIN ...... N. Welfare 107 31 4-10-38-23 0.8278 3-16-16-35 0.8101 3-14-23-20 30 Kenwood Cup," he added. "We are 131 GROUP THERAPY ...... P.Wheeler/Syn 46 32 4-05-21 -18 0.8711 3-16-17-25 0.8492 3-14-04-14 28 looking at a launching date of February 132 ICARUS ...... A.Ridley 110 33 4-10-42-51 0.82TT 3-16-19-38 0.7996 3-13-19-43 26 133JASMIN ·················· .. ······· .. ····· M.O·Keefe 131 27 4-15-23-00 0.7936 3-16-23-38 0. 7832 3-15-14-08 27 next year and after trials off WA will 134 ANTHANTA VI ...... A.Gruzman 126 43 4-14-45-46 0.7993 3-16-31-58 0.7625 3-12-27-24 40 135 WHY NOT ...... Robertson/Rowsell 112 34 4-11-33-16 0.8303 3-17-18-09 0.8178 3-15-57-29 32 ship the yacht to Europe to contest the 136 NEFERTITI ...... A.Nyman 128 35 4-15-01 -03 0.8218 3-19-14-03 0.7845 3-15-05-36 31 International SO-foot class regattas and 137 MIAAABOOKA VI ...... G.Jensen-Muir 144 23 5-17-05-31 0.6698 3-19-49-27 0.6357 3·15-08-56 23 138 LARRlKIN ...... N.Jordan 124 36 4-14-34-20 0.8348 3-20-18-20 0.8267 3·19-24-36 35 the Admiral's Cup." 139 LADY PENRHYN OF NIRIMBA ...... RAN 139 37 4-18-02-16 0.8127 3-20-40-43 o.n55 3-16-26-11 33 140 PHOENIX (NSW) ...... J.Munshower 111136 38 4-17-04-18 0.8408 3·23·04-14 0.8031 3-18-48-28 34 141 STAFTIFANO ...... V.Opperman .-143 28 5-04-23-56 0.7698 3·23-45-44 0. 7336 3-19-15-32 28 The 1991 Admiral's Cup will be sailed 142WOOLOOMOOLOO ...... P.Geddes 125 39 4-14-36-49 0.8800 4-01-20-24 0.8451 3-21-28-46 37 under level rating rules without hand­ 143 EVERGREEN ...... W.J.Gibson 134 40 4-16-19-31 0.6672 3·01·24-31 0.8289 3-21-06-23 36 144 MULBERRY .. , ...... W.Wright 145 24 6-02-33-30 0.6857 4-04-29-42 0.6558 4-00-06-47 24 icaps, each national team comprising a 145 ANACONDA 11...... J.Grubic 39 10 4-04-55-48 1.0278 4-07-44-09 0.9862 4-03-32-14 10 SO-footer, a 4S-footer and a 40-footer. 146 AFFAIR (3) ...... D.Livingstone 146 25 5-23-51-18 0.7227 ~-07-57•50 0.6879 4-02-57-28 25 (10% penalty before penalty 146 o'all) For the first time, Australia's team, or at least the SO-footer in the team, will be FASTEST TIME: SOVEREIGN 2-21 -58-08 selected on performances of potential IOR DIVISIONS: ILLINGWDRTH DIVISIONS: contenders in European regattas leading MAXI DIVISION: SOVEREIGN MAXI DIVISION: APOLLO DIVISION A: JUBILATION DIVISION A: JUBILATION up to the Admiral's Cup. DIVISION B: MAD MAX DIVISION B: BLUE MAX II DIVISION C: PEMBERTON I DIVISION C: SUNSEEKER The likely skipper for the Bond cam­ DIVISION D: CHUTZPAH DIVISION D: MARARA paign is Peter Gilmour, who skippered RETIRED: HIGHLAND FLING, INNISFREE, MADMEN'S WOODYARD, RUSSELL DEAN II , in racing in the Mediterranean, SEA EAGLE, SIDEWINDER, THE ROPERUNNER & TICKLE MY FANCY. Drumbeat Australia and in Hawaii. Most of the DID NOT START: BUSHFIRE. MELTEMI. PHOENIX (TAS) & SAGA. crew of16 also will be drawn from those PENALTIES: who sailed Drumbeat, with Bond plan­ (1 ) 5 MIN. TIME PENAL TY IN LIEU OF 720 TURN. (2) RADIO SCHEDULE BREACH. ning to sail aboard himself - as he did (3) RADIO SCHEDULE BREACH. with the maxi. Unlike many wealthy yacht owners, 1987 WEATHER: A history-making raC:e, with the maxi Sovereign becoming the first Australian yacht to take out the double of line honours and first on Bond is very much a hands-on owner/ corrected lime overall. The race began with a magnificent nor'easter filling in to 25 knots before a 30 knot southerly hit the fleet in Bass Strait on the second morning at sea. At that stage Sov6reign had averaged 10.3 knots and was ahead ol Kialoa 'srecord. However, as the southerly eased away the skipper. In most of the racing, he and leaders w~re becalmed off the Tasmanian East Coast for five hours, before they picked up a light breeze to carry them around Tasman Island, across Peter Gilmour shared the steering of Bass Strait and up the Derwent. Sovereign's time was seven hours outside the race record. Drumbeat, including the recent Ken­ wood Cup. Apart from his America's Cup chal­ Bond's SO-footer The new yacht will be the leading lenges, Bond has contested several contender for a place in Australia's team Admiral's Cup ocean racing series at For Admiral's Cup for the Admiral's Cup at Cowes next Cowes, England. The last was with LAN Bond has sold his maxi yacht July-August. Apollo Vin 1981, when John Bertrand A Drumbeat and with sponsorship Bond's project manager and sailing was his skipper - and two years later from business associates is building a master, Skip Lissiman, confirmed the they won the America's Cup. state-of-the-art SO-footer to challenge millionaire yachtsman's ongoing sailing for the 1991 Admiral's Cup in England. plans in Perth last month where work Peter Campbell RACE ST AT lSTl CS Syd Fischer Starts Building IACC Yacht YD Fischer started building in 1988 AWA44TH SYDNEY-HOBART SOctober Australia's first new Inter­ national America's Cup Class yacht as his challenger for the 1992 America's Cup. The yacht has been designed by Dr IOR RESULTS ILLINGWORTH RESULTS Peter van Oossenan, the naval architect YACHT NAME LINE DIVISIONS ELAP. TIM E TCF CORR. TIME TCF CORR. TIME DIVISIONS and engineer who worked with the late PLACE MA BCD D-H-M-S D-H-M-S MA BCD Ben Lexcen in developing the now 1 ILLUSION ...... G.Knezic 13 1 5-03-12-03 0.7333 3-18-20-35 2 SOUTHERN CROSS ...... W.Gilbert 4 4-18-30-12 0.7989 3- 19-28-36 legendary keel of our 1983 America's 3 RAGAMUFFIN ...... S.Fischer 1 1 3-15-29-07 1.0559 3-20-22-33 1.0136 3-16-40-30 1 Cup winner, Australia II. 4GREATNEWS O.Forbes/J.Calvert-Jones 2 4·09·14-12 0.8789 3-20-29-33 5 MIDDLE HARBOUR EXPRESS ...... 20 5-04-38-55 0.7638 3-23-12-24 0.7548 3-22-05-05 Fischer, the veteran ocean racing and R.Stone/G.Challoner 6 DICTATOR ...... R.Fidock 22 5-05-13-15 O.TT70 4-01-1 7-48 American's Cup yachtsman, expects to 7 NADIA IV ...... T.Oalton 12 5-03-03-40 0.7917 4-01-25-39 0.7901 4-01 -13-50 have the multi-million dollar, hightech, 8 SHERATON HOBART ...... I.Smith 9 5-02-31-55 0.7955 4-01-28-27 0.7947 4-01 -22-34 9 PRIME FACTOR ...... R.J.Brady 10 5-02-33-11 0.7982 4-01 -49-19 light displacement 75-footer in the water 10 INDIAN PACIFIC (VIC) ...... G.Durran 14 5-03-29-00 0.7932 4-01-56-49 0.7918 4-01 -46-27 by mid-1991. Challenger eliminations 11 FERRIS AUDIO ...... D.Coutter 15 5-03-42-02 0.7943 4-02-15-19 0.7942 4-02-14-35 12 HARBINGER ...... B.Oean 42 2 5- 14-19-54 0.7346 4-02-40-48 for the America's Cup will start off San 13 SCALLYWAG ...... A.Corrie 26 5-06-32-56 0.7807 4-02-47-48 0.7677 4-01-09-06 Diego, California, in January, 1992, 14 OCEAN BLUE RESORTS ...... G.Lambert 11 5-02-35-06 0.8069 4-02-54-50 0.7869 4-00-27-44 15SOLANDRA ...... R.W.&C.A.Escott 52 5-20- 17-33 0.7114 4-03-48-15 0.6764 3-22-53-38 with the Cup Match in May that year. 16 MOONSHINE ...... R.St.J.Cross 31 5-09-20-26 O.TT73 4-04-32-11 0.7641 4-02-49-45 17 INTRIGUE ...... D.Calvert 29 5-07-14-04 0.7929 4-04-53-03 0.7920 4-04-46-11 Construction of the hull, using the 18 MADMEN'S WOODYARD ..... J.Messenger 60 4 5-23-02-56 0.7061 4-05-00-25 0.7020 4-04-25-13 4 latest techniques in carbon fibre compo­ 19 MARK TWAIN ...... H.O'Neill/C.Ward 41 5-14-18-21 0.7555 4-05-28-05 0.7196 4-00-38-47 2 20 KINGURRA ...... P.Joubert 28 5-06-44-06 0.8016 4-05-35-27 0.7659 4-01-03-59 site yacht construction, is the result of 21 SPIRIT ...... W.Miller 18 5-04-17-02 0.8263 4-06-41-45 0.7889 4-02-02-51 two years of computer design work, 22 CHALLENGE II ...... J.Dacey 19 5-04-21·32 0.8271 4-06-51-26 0.8181 4-05-44-17 23 KINGS CROSS ...... B.Edmunds/R.Green 40 5-14-0&-14 0.7669 4-06-52-11 tank testing and on-the-water evaluation 24 HUMMINGBIRD ...... P.Nichotson 32 5-13-07-58 0.7747 4-07-08-17 0.7738 4-07-01-05 25 CENTURION ...... I.Twentyman 48 5-16-1 3-49 0.7575 4-07-11-40 0.7215 4-02-17-25 with two 40 per cent scale models of the 26 OUTRAGEOUS ...... J.Partridge 43 5-14-27-35 0.7684 4-07-19-08 0.7641 4-06-44-26 new America's Cup Class. . 27 PLANETX ...... J.Goddard Jr 68 6-04-09-42 0.6976 4-07-21-27 28 FRICTION ...... C.Lake 24 5-06-10-45 0.8220 4-07-43-09 0.7869 4-03-17-25 Fischer and his syndicate executives 29 IMPECCABLE ...... J.Walker 55 6 5-22-09-45 0.7301 4-07-47-34 0.7198 4-06-19-43 are keeping a closely guarded secret the 30FARROUT ...... R.J.Pattison 45 10 5-15-46-56 0.7678 4-08-15-13 0.7547 4-06-28-29 building location of the yacht, although 31 PARMELIA ...... B.Woods 21 5-05-00-44 0.8343 4-08-17-52 0.7968 4-03-3~-35 32 MORNING TIDE .. .. J.M.Lawler 65 7 6-02-44-59 0.7138 4-08-45-00 0.6788 4-03-36-49 it will be close to Sydney. Designer van 33 MIRRABOOKA ...... J.&P.Bennetto 8 5-02-29-33 0.8553 4-08-46-04 34 FIRETEL ...... R.Lawler/K.Taylor 64 6-01-16-00 0.7213 4-08-46-51 0.6861 4-03-40-03 Oossanen's only public comment has 35 COMPUTERLAND SOLUTIONS .. 23 5-06-09-43 0.8310 4-08-50-26 0.8223 4-07-44-35 been to say "we're working on some­ NSW Police Sailing Assoc 38 VETER ...... Farr Eastern Shipping Co. YC 27 5-06-40-17 0.8293 4-09-02-55 0.7963 4-04-52-06 thing more exciting than the winged 37 BACARDI ...... Bacardi Syndicate 30 5-08- 16-51 0.8207 4-09-16-48 0.7838 4-04-32-47 keel" . 38 HORNET ...... The Sting Syndicate 56 5-22-12-09 0.7424 4-09-34-16 0.7067 4-04-29-40 39 SUREFOOT ...... D.Mit1ikan 38 10 5-13-55-03 0.7909 4-09-54-55 0.7810 4-08-35-22 However, project co-ordinator 40DRYWHITE ...... O.Leitch 35 11 5-13-43-20 0.7966 4-10-31-23 0.7940 4-10-10-32 11 Andrew Buckland confirmed that the 41 SWEET LAURAIN E ...... J.Flachs 62 10 5-23-14-09 0.7501 4-11-26-28 0.7221 4-07-25-50 42 LONGHORN ...... W.Beavers 16 10 5-03-54-13 0.8677 4-11-30-40 0.8295 4-06-46-41 7 building of the yacht had started. Buck­ 43 CHANGABANG ...... 8 .Van Oriel 39 12 5-13-55-19 0.8046 4-11 -45-13 0.7692 4-07-00-46 8 44 FIDDLERS GREEN ...... L.Savage 36 13 5-13-51-49 0.8067 4-11-59-16 0.7848 4-09-03-22 10 land is a former 18-footer world cham­ 45NYNJAGO ...... A.Axe 54 11 5-21-28-00 0.7740 4-13-29-43 0.7609 4-11-38-31 9 pion crew whose skiff skippers have 48 WITCHDOCTOR ..... The Rum Consortium 46 14 5-15-54-35 0.8082 4-13-50-32 0.7993 4-12-37-56 14 47SEAHAWK ...... J.Davern 33 11 5-13-17-38 0.8280 4-14-06-03 0.8088 4-11 -48-29 10 included, ironically, the other Australian 48 DOCTOR WHO ...... G.Snow 6 2 4-23-06-56 0.9255 4-14-14-29 0.8880 4-09-32-11 2 America's Cup challenger, Iain Murray. 49 RUTHLESS ...... P.Hill 44 12 5-15-43-11 0.8190 4-15-09-16 0.8035 4-13-03-03 11 50 WHITE SWAN ...... A.Ftecknoe-Brown 25 ' 13 5-06-14-08 0.8872 4-15-59-46 0.8485 4-11 -06-39 9 "We have completed a two year 51 SANGAREE ...... G.Cresse 34 14 5-13-38-59 0.8382 4-16-01-31 0.8167 4-13-09-06 12 52 MERCEDES IV ...... P .Stronach 50 15 5-18-58-06 0.8083 4-16-19-41 0.7787 4-12-12-53 13 testing program and are just about to 53·MULBERRY ..... W.Wright 78 11 6-19-20-52 0.6889 4-16-31-49 0.6549 4-10-58-35 move into the building mode," Buck­ 54 LADY PENRHYN OF NIRIMBA ...... 49 16 5-18-50-56 0.8106 4-16-33-05 0.7736 4-11-24-50 12 Dept. of Defence (HMAS Nirimba) land said. "We have also had a major 55 PACIFIC BREEZE ...... B.Hitchman 47 15 5-15-55-22 0.8345 4-17-25-39 0.8247 4-16-05-44 14 input from the on-the-water sailing and 56 SALTY LADY ...... A.Scoble 61 17 5-23-14-00 0.7964 4-18-04-16 0.7596 4-12-48-00 15 57 NELLIE ZANDER ...... J.Oayman 70 12 6-13-10-47 0.7268 4-18-14-18 0.6915 4-12-41-23 evaluation of the two 40 iper cent scale 58 OVERDRAFT ...... D.Smith 53 16 5-20-28-32 0.8153 4-18-31 -47 0.8084 4-17-33-38 17 59 PACIFIC FL YER ...... R.B.Hatherley 51 17 5-19-35-57 0.8205 4-18-32-28 0.7832 4-13-20-03 13 models. 60 EAST OF THE LIZARD ...... P.S.Gibson 59 18 5-22-33-26 0.8038 4-18-35-15 "The ease and speed of making 61 BILLABONG ...... L.Wings 71 13 6-13-24-12 0.7282 4-18-37-16 0.6929 4-13-03-53 10 changes to various variables of rig, sails, 62 BUGGBEAR...... R. L.Bugg 67 12 6-04-03-31 0.7781 4-19-12-16 63 GROUP THERAPY ... Group Therapy Synd 37 18 5-13-53-44 0.8702 4-20-30-57 0.8463 4-17-18-57 16 keel and displacement with boats of this 64 STRAND BY STRAND ...... R.P.Ham 74 14 6-16-03-20 0.7322 4-21-11-34 0.6968 4-15-31-36 11 size will help us overcome most of the 65 HELSALII ······ ·····························A·M·Kelso 3 3 4-16-12-13 1.0463 4-21-23-55 1.0222 4-18-41-40 66 LA VIDA ...... J.Amos 75 15 6-16-54-49 0.7296 4-21 -24-09 0.6943 4-15-43-20 12 problems encountered by syndicates 67 ICARUS ...... A.Ridley 57 19 5-22-16-09 0.8256 4-21-27-27 0.7959 4-17-13-55 15 who have already built fullsize IACC 68 ECSTACY V ...... A.Harris 73 16 6-14-19-25 0.7470 4-22-16-04 0.7113 4-16-36-56 13 69 GALAXY Ill ...... D.Kitchener 72 13 6-13-26-59 0.7543 4-22-45-52 0.7185 4-17-07-39 10 yachts. 70 SIROCCO ...... A.Robinson 63 20 6-01-05-42 0.8211 4-23-08-15 0.7866 4-18-07-54 18 71 ALEXANDER OF CRESWELL ...... 66 19 6-03-20-10 0.8109 4-23-28-29 0.7738 4-18-00-31 16 "We can make changes in a matter of Dept. of Defence (HMAS Creswell) hours which it is taking weeks with the 72 DERWENT LASS ...... D.Cotbourn 80 17 7-06-42-36 0.6908 5-00-41-23 0.6562 4-18-38-41 14 73 HYPERDRIVE ...... J.Clark 17 4 5-04-10-24 0.9784 5-01 -29-28 fullsize hulls, because of the strict refine­ 74 CHRISTINE ...... D.Pflaumbaum 69 20 6-06-34-33 0.8074 5-01 -34-30 ment of working with carbon fibre," 75 DON PEDRO ...... A.Marks 76 14 6-17-01·00 0.7678 5-03-37-43 0.7316 4-21-47-59 11 76 SOUTHERN VENTURE ...... A.Grice 77 15 6-19-09·11 0.7593 5-03-52-56 0.7293 4-22-59-15 12 Buckland added. 77 ANZ McCAUGHANS HELSAL H.A.Fisher 5 4-22-30-33 1.0474 5-04-07-35 1.0053 4-23-08-14 4 78 MONTANO REALTY ·s AN IMAL FARM ... 7 5-02-28-16 1.0202 5-04-56-42 A.&M.Beitby 79 ANACONDA II ...... J .Grubic 58 5-22-16- 10 1.0268 6-02-04-56 0.9851 5-20-08-59 Another World Win 80 SIR THOMAS SOPWITH ...... 79 7-01-27-35 0.9318 6-13-54-09 0.8922 6-07-11-31 Ocean Youth Club of Aust. To Australians 81 FIONA ...... D.Walsh(1) 81 21 6-05-56-01 0.8189 5-02-46-50 0.7992 4-23-49-37 19 10% PENAL TY Before penalty 75 O 'Alt USTRALIAN sailors John Drans­ field and Andrew Perry have won RETIRED: All That Jazz, Apollo Batteries, Big Schott, Carina, Casablanca, Chutzpah, City limits , Fly By Night, Franklin, Hall Hour, Hammer Of A Queensland, Indian Pacific, Insatiable, Madeline's Daughter, Mistress Again, Mr Bojangles, Nantucket, Night Raider. Northern Territory Spirit, Ocean their second successive world cham­ Road, Otelia, Padam II , Pemberton IV, Rager, Raucous, Revelation, Ronstan Ultimate Challenge, Singapore Girl, St Jude, Stormy Petrel, Tradition, Turkey Shoot, Uptown Girl, Ventura Highway, Venture One, Westerly, Wild Oats, Windward Passage II. pionship in the International Fireball dinghy class. The Melbourne crew, sailing Dogbolter, won the final race of 1988 WEATHER: The race underlined the toughness of the 630 n mile bash race southwards, a race that brings back every yacht and yachtsman to the the world series in Japan in what was common denominator of sound seamanship and stout craft in big seas and strong winds. Of the 119 starters, 38 retired, nearly half of them with broken masts or damaged rigging. The race started in a light northerly, but 12 hours after the start a 30-40 knot southerly hit the fleet and against a 3-4 knot also their last race together after six south-running current it kicked up boat and body-breaking seas which continued for two days and two nights. The wind died away on the third night al sea, giving the fleet light winds tor the final 200 miles, with Ragamuffin's elapsed time almost 24 hours outside the record. years of State, Australian and World championship successes. FASTEST TIME: RAGAMUFFIN 3-15-29-07 • -==:1• ~y --- R A C E STATISTICS 7 9 g (:) 1989 NorTel 45th $12 million a Year Boat Theft in NSW Sydney-Hobart OAT theft in N ew South Wales has B increased to $12 million a year, ranging from stealing a bottle of rum FINAL RESULTS IOR from the galley of a cabin cruiser to sailing a 45ft steel ketch to the South Pacific islands. O'ALL LINE DIVI SIONAL ELAPSEO TIME CORRECTED TIME PLACE PLACE However, the Water Police believe YACHTNAME PLACE M A B C D 0-H-M•S TCF D-H•M•S they have the measure of aquatic burg­ 1 ULTIMATE CHALLENG E ...... L.Abrahams 12 3-21-07-24 0.7980 3-02-18-45 2 SAGACIOUS ...... G. Appleby 11 3-21-04-20 0.7995 3-02-24·40 lers in areas where they have introduced 3 TRUE BLU E ...... L. Klopper 14 3·21 -35-25 0.7979 3-02-40-32 N eighbourhood Watch Marine and the 4 CANON EX PRESS (1 ) ...... N. Statis/E. Owen 15 3·22·06-16 0.7999 3-03-16-27 5 MADELINE'S DAUGHTER ...... P. Kurts 10 3·19·09-50 0.B325 3-03-53-38 Identiboat scheme. 6 ILLUSION ...... G. Knezic 48 4-07-45-44 0.7321 3-03-57-52 7 HEAVEN CAN WAIT ...... H . Cudmore 3 3-14-16-25 0.88 15 3-04-03·01 NRMA Boat Insurance manager 8 VENTURE ONE (2) ...... J Goddard 17 4-00- 11-39 0.7970 3-04-40-00 Graeme Adams said there had been a 20 9 CYCLONE ...... M. Ryan 7 3·15-19-54 0.8794 3.,i-47-58 10 FOO 2 ...... W. Miller 6 3-15-18-14 0.8814 3-04-56-59 per cent increase in the cost of boat theft 11 PRIME FACTOR ...... B. Brady 19 4-00·39·18 0. 7986 3-05·11-19 to the com munity throughout N SW, 12 INTRIGUE ...... 0 . Calvert 20 4-0 1-45-22 0.7926 3-05-28-53 13 MIDDLE HARBOUR EXPRESS .. .. A. Stone 37 4-05-28-49 0.7638 3·05-30-38 bringing the total cost to $8 million a 14 NADIA IV (3) ...... T. Dalton 24 4-02-09-05 0.7908 3·05•37•05 15 SH ERATON HOBART ...... 1. Smi1h 21 4-01 -47-52 0.7938 3-05-37•55 year. 16 FUJITSU DEALERS ...... J . Eyles 38 4-06-00-28 0.7648 3-06-00·56 But Constable Burt said later fi gures 17 HILLS ANTENNAS ...... 0 . Coulter 27 4-02-26·22 0.7942 3-06-10·50 18 ONCEAJOLLYSWAGMAN ...... C. Jacobsen 25 4-02-09-18 0.7966 3·06·11 -25 fo r 1989-90, which came available only 19 PRI ME MI NISTER ...... K. Court 23 10 4-01·58-46 0.7984 3-06-13-36 yesterday, had lifted the fi gures to an 20 BLUE MAX II ...... J. King 28 11 4-02-27-22 0.7986 3.05.37.37 21 SUNDANCE (4) ...... W. Steele 30 12 4·02·46•07 0.8002 3•07•02-05 alarming $12 million a year. "They have 22 SWITZERLAN D INSURANCE ...... H. Isela 32 13 4-03-14-43 0.7978 3-07-10-40 knocked off anything from bottles of 23 IN OIAN PACIFIC ...... S. McDonald & L. Shannon 36 14 4-04-27-44 0.7932 3-07-41-12 24 MINlJUMBUK ...... J. Howell 34 15 4-03-45-27 0.8031 3·08-06-55 grog· and electronic equipment through 25 CHUTZPAH ... .. 8 . Taylor 54 4- 13-47-11 0.7315 3·08·18-31 26 HALF HOUR .. ···· -y ...... J. Hancock 75 4-18-38-11 0.7096 3·09-20-46 to Scarab speedboats worth $500, 000 27 CHALLE NGE II ...... J. Daley 26 4-02-24-01 0.8271 3·09·23-13 and the cruising ketch they sailed to , 28 PRIME SUSPECT ...... , ...... P. Nicholson 39 16 4-06-19·28 0.7959 3·09-26-24 29 RE VELAflON ...... D. Curchod 45 4-07- 11- 19 0.7916 3-09-41-03 Noumea," he said. 30 HAUP(!'········ ...... T.Johnstone 41 17 4-06-22-28 0.8041 3- 10-19·09 State co-ordinator of the Sydney Har~ 7 4·06•27-06 0.8082 3-10-48·05 ~! ~~~~~Ei: ::z AW i~i~;;i':s:~~:c~ :; 4-06-31-06 0.8079 3- 10-49·28 bour version of the highly successful 33 DAFRA SUNSCREENS ...... H. Hertsberg 88 4-22-20-22 0.7001 3- 10-50-58 34 DRUMBEAT ...... A. Bond 1 1 3-06·21 -34 1.0574 3-10-51·26 N eighbourhood Watch, First Class 35 COMPUTER SOLUTIONS ...... NSW Police Sailing Assn 35 4-04-06·01 0.8310 3-11-11-00 Constable M ark Burt, released the over­ 36 INCH BY WINC H ...... J. Goddard SN R40 4•06-19-52 0.8143 3-1 1-19-42 37 MI RRABOOKA ...... J. Bennette 22 10 4-01 -55-26 0.8537 3-11 -35-51 all boat theft fi gure at a media day on the 38 SINGAPORE GIRL ...... P. Steigrad 69 4- 18-04-44 0.7338 3-11-42-40 harbour organised by the Water Police 39 ARABESQUE ...... N. Marr 44 11 4-07-05-23 0.8133 3-11-50-34 40 IM PECCABLE ...... J. Walker 78 4-18-59-29 0.7301 3-11-57-19 and the State's largest boat insurer, 41 SOLANORA ...... R.W. & C.A. Escott 86 4-22-03-37 0.7114 3-11-59-17 42 STORMY PETREL ...... A. Pearson 66 4-17-13·12 0.74 19 3-11-59·53 NRMA, who sp0nsor N eighbourhood 43 FUELS PARADISE ...... J.Messenger 91 4-23-20-05 0.7061 3- 12-15-44 Watch M arine and Identiboat. 44 KINGS CROSS ...... A. Green & B. Edmunds 58 4-15-05-59 0.7637 3-12-50-49 45 GUMBLOSSOM ...... T.H. Gunnersen 100 9 5-05-04-37 0.6794 3- 12-58-38 " But in areas where we have intro­ 46 ZEUS II ...... J. Dunston 103 10 5-06·17-14 0.6768 3-13-28·16 47 SUNSEEKER ...... V.C. Thomas & J.H. Quinn 62 4-15·55·55 0.7848 3·13·36-20 duced N eighbourhood Watch M arine 48 STR ATUSCOMPUTER ...... O. Parsons 104 11 5-07-07-54 0.6744 3-13-44-15 the degree of stealing frnm boats on 49 TURKEY SHOOT ...... A.& M. HUTTON 51 4-12-24-42 0.7924 3-13-54-19 swing moorings and marinas has drop­ 50 BIG SCHOTT ...... P. Bush 52 18 4-12-26-22 0.7965 3·1 4·22-19 51 KAMEHAMEHA ...... A. Townley 95 12 5-02-41-27 0.7044 3-14-25-24 ped dramatically by between 40 and 60 52 AUDACI TY ...... R. Latham 84 13 4-21-37-00 0.7352 3-14-28-1 8 53 GREAT NEWS ...... J. Calvert-Jones & 0 . Forbes 8 13 3-17•08·40 0.8798 3-06-25-45 per cent. (Penalty 30% - unpenatised positions- 20 overall- 5 in division) " Boat owners and residents living on 54 ROLLER COASTER ...... J. Fuglsang 72 10 4·18-21- 0.7562 3-14-28-32 55 RECOOPERATOR ...... W. Cooper 99 14 5-04-58•4 0.6923 3-14-31 -24 the foreshores of the harbour are making 56 FREIGHT TRAI N ...... 0 . Parkes 9 2 3-18-31 -5 0.9559 3-14-32·26 a great contribution in deterring boat 57 ADVISOR RESEARCH (6) ...... B. Woods 49 12 4-07•47•2 0.8343 3-14-35-35 58 DOCTOR WHO ...... A.Jackman 13 3-21-31· 0.9262 3·14•37-00 thieves, simply by watching and report 59 THE STING ...... G. Sherwinski 71 11 4- 18-18-5 0.7581 3·14·39-48 60 PE RIE BANOU II ...... J. Sanders 85 12 4·22·00·3 0.7424 3-15-36-35 to the Water Police any suspicious acti­ 61 RAGAMUFFIN ...... S. Fischer 2 4 3-11-06-33 1.0559 3-15-45-18 vities. 62 MARK TWAIN ...... H. O'Neil 80 13 4-20-36-20 0.7537 3-15-53·08 63 PADAM II ...... K. Quinert 79 14 4-20-09-48 0.7566 3·15·53·21 "In one incident, thieves were 64 DERWENT LASS ...... D.H. Coulbourn 106 15 5-07-23-06 0.6908 3-15-59-51 arrested on charges of stealing a runab­ 65 BUGGBEAR ...... R.L. Bugg 70 15 4·18·17·26 0.7735 3-16-24-13 65 MISTRESS AGAIN ...... 0 . Senogles 77 16 4-18-48-22 0.7712 3·16-32-19 out and equipment from other boats 67 KINGURRA(7) ...... P. Joubert 56 19 4-14-4 1- 12 0.8016 3-16-43-35 68 PATRICE Ill (8) ...... P. King 50 14 4·11·20-21 0.8289 3- 16-58·24 after spotted by a Middle Harbour 69 OTELLA ...... C. Montgomery 29 15 4-02-41-08 0.9016 3-16-58-30 N eighbourhood Watch M arine patrol," 70 AUSTRALIAN MAID (9) ...... J. Wardill 16 5 3·23•17•13 0.9392 3•17-29-37 71 MORNING BRE EZE ...... P. Lalor, P. Manger & P. Godfree 107 16 5-07-25-21 0.7041 3·17-43-05 Constable Burt added. 72 SEAQUE STA ...... P. Nicholson 63 20 4-15-56-29 0.8026 3-17-50-39 T he Water Police and NRMA Boat 73 WITCHOOCTER ...... The Rum Consortium 60 16 4-15-17-30 0.8082 3-17-56-45 74 HAMMER OF QUEENSLAND ...... A. Bloore 4 3-14•1 7-59 1.0455 3- 18-13·35 Insurance this summer will make a 75 SALTY LADY ...... R. Scoble 67 21 4-17-36-43 0.7984 3·18·28·50 concerted effort to expand N eighbour­ 76 ST JUDE ...... H. House 102 17 5-06-01-03 0.7192 3·18•37-54 77 NYNJA GO ...... R. Axe 83 17 4·21-25·19 0.7740 3·18·53-05 hood Watch M arine on Sydney Har­ 78 CONDOR...... A. Paola 5 7 3-15-04-08 1.0538 3· 19-45-12 79 APOLLO II ...... J. Outtin 61 17 4·15-21 - 11 0.8272 3-20·06·40 bour. 80 BALANDRA (10) ...... G.Hennicke 82 18 4-21 ·20-20 0.7872 3·20·22·09 T he latest zones just established are 81 CENTREFOLD ...... B. Folbigg 59 18 4-15-13-45 0. 8323 3·20·34-34 82 INSATIABLE ...... G.& J. Wilson 81 22 4-21 -19-04 0.7946 3-21-13-15 Double Bay/Rushcutters Bay and Athol 83 RAG ER ...... M. Clement 8 3-17-14-22 1.0538 3-22-02-26 Bight, which covers the northern har­ 84 ICARUS ...... A. Ridley 76 19 4-18-38-53 0.8256 3·22-39-1 2 85 KOMANDER NEVELSKOY ...... V. Gamanov 68 20 4-17-55-57 0.B352 3-23-09-23 bour fo reshore east from the Bridge to 86 ADMIRAL NE VELSKOY . L. Lysenko 73 21 4- 18·30·29 0.8358 3-23-42-21 87 MIDNIG HT MAGIC ··································································· I. Ritchie 89 22 4-22-33·06 0.8079 3-23-46-40 ' Taylor's Bay. O ther zones are Middle 88 CAN CAN ...... G. Carlyle-Clarke 101 19 5-05-54-27 0.7685 4·00-45-38 Harbour, M anly/North H arbour, Rose 89 BELLES LONG RANGER ...... Women on Water Syn. 90 23 4-22-44-26 0.8382 4-03-31-42 90 HYPERDRIVE ...... J. Clarke 46 9 4-07-32·26 0.9789 4-05-21-21 Bay/Watsons Bay and Lane Cove River. 91 ENTREPRENEU RIAL SPIRI T ...... B. Ashenden 96 24 5-03-08-05 0.8500 4-08-39-52 NRMA Boat Insurance announced an 92 ANACONDA 11 ...... J. Grubic 64 10 4-16-44-31 1.0268 4-19-45-48 RETIRED: ALEXANDER OF CRESWELL, BI MBLEGUMBI E, BP BL YI NG COLOURS, DOW AIR, HARBIN• average seven per cent reduction in GE R, JUNO IV, LE ROY BROWN, MARISH ITEN, OUTRAGEOUS, SHENANDOAH Ill, SIR THOMAS SOPWITH, SOU THERN CROSS, VENINDEE Ill, WESTERN PORT EXPRESS. premiums, with manager Graeme REDRESS ANO PENALTIES: 1. 3 hours 34 min redress ; 2. 3 hours 24 min redress : 3. 45 min redress ; 4. 5 Adams pointing out that but fo r the hours redress; 5. Infri ngement al rule 60 - penalty 30% - unpenalised positions- 20 overall ; (5 in division). 6. 1 hour redress : 7. 10 min time penalty (S.I. 27 .2 (b) ); 8. 4 hours redress; 9. 2 hours 30 min redress; 10. 10 increase in the cost of boat thefts, the min time penalty (S.I. 27.2 (b) ). " rPm;11m c: u1A11l~ h P l rvn rPr FASTEST TIME: DR UMBEAT (A BOND\ 3-6-2 1·34 RACE STATIST I CS

IOR DIVISIONS: Maxi Divisions: Drumbeat Division A: Madeline's Daughter Dlvl1lon B: Ultimate Challenge Division C: Intrigue Division D: Illusion ILLINGWORTH DIVISIONS: Maxi Division: Doctor Two Division A: Uptown Girl Abel Tasman to Division B: Sheraton Hobart Division C: Middle Harbour Express Race Yachts Di vision D: Sciandra

THE RACE ANO THE WEATHER: The 1989 NorTel Sydney-Hobart race saw the introduction of the new IMS HE Bass Strait Ferry A bel Tasman is handicap category, with yachts able to enter both categories ii eligible. The race began in a fading 10 knot T to challenge the yachts for line westerly, with the entire fleet starting on port hand but as the leaders cleared the seam ark outside Sydney Heads, the breeze kicked into a 20 knot nor'wester giving the fleet a spinnaker run down the coast, with a honours in Australia's oldes t race; ·the gale-warning issued for strong nor'westers. By the time Drumbeat had passed Port Kembla, it had back to the b l u ewa t er classic M e lbourne­ west again and during the first night to the south-west at 40 knots. Throughout the next day the lleet two-sail reached down the NSW South Coast in strong westerties and south-westerlies ol between 30 and 40 knots. Devonport. Strong to galeforce south-westers were howling across Bass Strai1 as the fleet headed into " the paddock" with several yachts suffering damage and a crew member ol BP Flying Colours, Peter Taylor, receiving fatal The TT Line's Abel Tasman, a 490ft head ir'4uries when a runner broke and the rig collapsed. While the winds eased for the leaders off the (149 metres) passenger ship weighing Tasmanian East Coast, a fresh nor'easter powered in again for the One Tonners, giving Ultimate Challenge and Sagacious a boat-for-boat surfing ride to take the top honours on corrected time. 19,200 tonnes, has agreed to sponsor On an historic note, the overall winner of the inaugural IMS division was Challenge Ill, which in 1983 had this year's race and has thrown down a been overall winner under IOR ratings. challenge that it ca n bea t all of the yachts into Devonport. • The Abel Tasman will give the fl eet a 3 hours and 50 miles start on Thursday, December 27 this year as the fleet and ship head from Port Phillip Bay across FINAL RES ULTS IMS the 197 miles to Devonport. The Abel Tasman will be making a regular cros­ sing on the 27th and will leave Station Pier at 6pm. However, three hours HANDICAP LINEAR RANDOM 14 COURSE LENGTH 630.4NM SCRATCH VALUE 377.8 O'ALL LINE DIVISIONAL ELAPSED TIME CORRECTED TIME earlier approximately 80 yachts will be Pl.ACE PLACE dispatched from Portsea to race through YACHT NAME PLACE M A B C D 0-H-M-S H'CAP 0-H-M-S CHALLENGE II ...... J. Daley 26 4-02-24-01 488.5 \ 3-07·00·56 the Heads and across Bass Strait. MINI JUMBUK ...... J. Howell 34 4-0345-27 495.0 3-07-14-04 HAUPIA ...... T. Johnstone 41 4-06-22-28 509.8 3-07-15-35 CONTINENTAL ...... M. Champion 18 4-00-38-43 474.7 3-07-40-37 TT Line will award the lead yacht MIRRABOOKA ...... J. Bennette 22 4-01-55-26 472.1 3-09-24-39 which can beat their ship a barrel of UPTOWN GIRL ...... R. Winton/USSR Team 43 4-06-31-06 498.0 3·09-28-12 7 NEVER A DULL MOMENT ...... C. Wilson 33 4-03-36-09 480.9 3·09-32-55 Tasmanian beer and for other yachts 8 DOCTOR WHO ...... R. Jackman 13 3-21 -3 1-06 444.1 3-09-54-30 that arrive before the ship, a bottle of 9 MERCEDES IV... .. P. Stronach 42 4-06-27-06 494.9 3-09-56-46 10 INCH BY WINCH ...... J. Goddard SNR 40 4-06-19-52 488.2 3-10-59-56 TT Line Port. For yachts to beat the TT 11 ARABESQUE...... N. Marr 44 4-07-05-23 490.9 3-11-17-05 Line Abel Tasman this year they will 12 SOLANDRA ...... R.W. & C.A. Escott 86 4-22-03-37 568.8 3-12-36-51 13 WHITE SWAN ...... A. Flecknoe-Brown 31 4-02-49-40 455.1 3-13-17-30 need to sail the course in under 18 hours 14 STORMY PETREL ...... A. Pearson 66 4·17· 13-12 534.3 3-13·48·54 15 AUSTRALIAN MAID (1) ...... J. Wardill 16 3-23-17-13 431.0 3-13-58-16 to reach Devonport before the Abel 16 TURKEY SHOOT ...... A.& M. Hutton 51 4-12-24-42 505.3 3-14-05-06 Tasman. 17 HYPERDRIVE ...... J. Clark 46 9 4-07-32-26 476.8 3-14-12-16 18 HAMMER OF QUEENSLAND ...... A. Bloore 4 10 3-14--17-59 377.8 3·14·17·59 19 SUNSEEKER ...... V.C. Thomas & J.H. Quinn 62 4-15-55-55 522.3 3-14·3742 The first Melbourne-Devonport was 20 ADVISOR RESEARCH (2) ...... B. Woods 49 11 4-07-47-29 474.8 3-14-48-20 held in 1907 when four yachts raced 21 OTELLA ...... C. Montgomery 29 12 4-02-41-08 443.7 3-15-08-45 22 ROLLER COASTER ...... J. Fuglsang 72 4-18-21-20 532.6 3-15-1 4-54 from Port Phillip H eads to Low Head at 23 BUGGBEAA ...... A. L. Bugg 70 4-18-17-26 528.5 3-15-54-05 the mouth of the Tamar River in north­ .24 GUMBLOSSOM ...... T.H. Gunnersen 100 5-05-04-37 586.8 3-16-28-43 25 PATRICE Ill (3) ...... '...... P. King 50 13 4-11-20-21 485.5 3-16-28-47 ern Tasmania. The race then was call ed 26 KINGUAAA (4) ...... P.Joubert 56 10 4-14-4 1-1 2 496.6 3-17-53-00 'the Bass Strait Race'. 27 RECOOPERATOR ...... W. Cooper 99 4 5-04-58-47 578.0 3• 17-55-21 28 AUDACITY ...... A. Latham 84 5 4-21-37-00 535.5 3·18-00-06 Later a trophy was crea ted which was 29 KAMEHAMEHA ...... A.Townley 95 6 5-02-41-27 562.7 3·18-18-46 30 ZEUS II ...... J . Dunston 103 7 5-06-17-14 583.1 3·18-20-13 to be called the Rudder C up and this has 31 MARKTWAIN ...... H. O'Nei1 80 11 4-20-36-20 526.9 3-18-29-47 continued an 83 year old tradition since 32 PERIE BANOU II ...... J. Sanders 85 4-22-00-32 534.0 3·18-39·24 33 WITCHDOCTOR ...... The Rum Consortium 60 12 4·15-17-30 495.6 3-18-39-49 the Race's inception. 34 MISTRESS AGAIN ...... D. Senogles 77 13 4-18-48-22 512.3 3-19-15·13 35 PADAM II ...... K. Ouinert 79 14 4-20-09-48 519.6 3-19-19•57 36 SALTY LADY ...... A. Scoble 67 15 4-17-36-43 504.4 3·19·26-34 The 1990 Abel Tasman Rudder C up 37 APOLLO BATTERIES ...... A.Nyman 53 14 4-13-19-00 478.1 3-19-45-11 will be awarded to the boat with the best 38 DERWENT LASS...... D.H. Coulbourn 106 5-07-23-06 577.0 3-20·30·10 39 CENTREFOLD ...... B. Folbigg 59 15 4-15-13-45 482.6 3-20-52-39 performance in 3 races (The Cock of the 40 RUFF'N TUMBLE ...... L. Rose 74 16 4-18-37-48 500.2 3·21-11-47 Bay, the Abel Tasman Melbourne­ 41 ICARU S ...... A. Ridley 76 17 4-1 8-38-53 497.9 3-21-37-02 42 ADRIANE ...... J. Davern 57 16 4-14-53-49 475.8 3-2 1-44-10 Devonport and the Mobil Top of the 43 MOANING BREEZE ...... P. Lalor, P. Manger & P. Godfree ...... 107 10 5-07-25-21 569.8 3-21-48-04 44 BALANOAA (5) ...... G. Hennicke 82 18 4-21-20-20 511.9 3-21-51-23 Island Race) from the IMS/I OR or CHS 45 OUTLAW ...... 6 . McKay 55 17 4-14-24·54 470.4 3·22-11-59 Divisions. 46 THE GOODIES ...... C.& L. Andrews 94 11 5-01-55-51 531 .2 3-23-04-08 47 EMMA ...... M. De Burca 93 19 5-01-53-44 529.1 3-23-24-04 48 MARGARET AINTOUL ...... B. Gould 92 20 5-00-58-56 522.4 3·23-39-40 One of Victoria's yachting greats, 49 BUSHRANGEA ...... K.Miller 97 12 5-04-19-09 539.5 4-00-00-13 50 ST JUDE...... H. House 102 13 5-06-01-03 545.7 4-00-36-59 .America's Cup Skipper Jock Sturrock, 51 ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT ...... B. Ashenden 96 14 5·03-08-05 529.1 4-00-36-25 holds the Melbourne-Devonport record 52 ADAMS APPLE ...... D. Wivelt 65 18 4-17-07-36 460.3 4-02·40-48 53 TERENCE J...... R. Ratcliffe & Sons 98 15 5·04-21-02 523.4 4-02-51·16 which he set in 1985 in the former 12 54 MORE IMAGINATION ...... T.Nicholas 105 16 5•07-19-44 540.0 4-02-55-33 metre yacht Gretel. Sturrock set a record 55 GUSTO...... H. Denison 108 17 5-10-33-43 547.1 4-04-54-56 56 BELLES LONG RANGER ...... Women on Water Syn.90 19 4-22-44-26 476.0 4-05-32-41 of 21 hours 19 minutes and 17 seconds 57 CHINA BEAR ...... A.G . Clubb 87 20 4-22-05-11 469.8 4-05-58-34 when he was swept across Bass Strait 58 INNISFREE ...... l. Anderson 109 18 8-06-08-40 568.7 4-20-42-57 59 GOLDEN SEAGULL ...... N. Hunter 110 19 7-01-48-18 589.0 5-12-49-18 before a westerl y gale. T he record has withstood challenges for 15 consecutive

IMS RETIREMENTS: DOW AIR, SHENANDOAH 111 , TANGLEFOOT. TERRA NOVA,VENINDEE Ill. years from many bigger and potentially faster boa ts. REDRESS ANO PENALTIES : 1..2 hours 30 minutes redress; 2. 1 hour odress; 3. 4 hours redress; 4. 10 minute penalty (S.I. 27.2 (b) ). (5) 10 Mobil Oil Australia will again spon­ minute penalty (S.I. 27.2 (b) ). 6. Calc.ulated Finish time after time limit. sor the third leg of the Rudder Cup Series, the 20 nautical mile 'Top of the IMS DIVISION WINNERS: DM1lon A : Challenge It Island' Race. OM1lon B: Mini Jumbuk - Mike Sabey DM1lon C: Solandra Sardinia Cup To Italians

T ALY has never won the Admiral's ICup, but got close to it in 1981 with what was dubbed the American B team , with Dick Deaver, Tom Blackaller and l Rod Davis as their skippers. Times have changed. Outside of the maxi and 50ft By Tim]effery class, the IO R offshore scene in the U SA is weak, whilst Italy is one of the most active grand-prix yachting countries in mast as soon as the spar loaded up on the boats over. In Sardinia, the Vrolijk boats the world now. new tack. Albert Euell 's Sa udade had a looked every bit as competitive 11s the After the 1989 Admiral's C up, Italy carbon copy fa ilure, while the much­ Farr boats except for the new Vento , sought to turn activity into success . travelled French Two Tonner Corum sailed by Geoff Stagg and lb Anderson, Three owners were blessed by the kinked her spar at the gooseneck so a double act which rarely misses a Federazione Italiana Vela as the pre­ severely it was a wonder the stick wasn't grand-prix regatta nowadays . ordained 1991 Italian AC tea m and en fell ed. Li ghter masts, stepped on drum­ N ew out of the box, Vento was masse they went to Bruce Fa rr for their tight ca rbon fibre hulls and set up with erratically fas t, but showed impressive design and to Cookson Brothers in N ew double the runner tension used just a recovery skills - fi ve places in one beat Zeal and fo r their boats. few seasons back seem to be out the root on one occasion - to show that Farr is of the fa ilures. still the benchmark one ton designer. They swept all before them at the Excused from further racing, their Even as the Farr office's fr ontline sales­ Sardinia C up in Porto Cervo, not mere­ absence highlighted the peculiarities of man, Stagg was quick to moan that the ly because they were the only one of the Sardinia Cup scoring\ Shadowing Spanish had down-sized the ri gging spec seven teams to field a boat in each of the the new Admiral's C up system of teams so they were lucky to escape dismas ting rating bands: Pas quale Landolfi's one racing level with a O ne Tonner, Two in the Race 1 ca rnage. tonner Brava; Giuseppe Degennaro's Tonner and 50 foo ter each, the Yacht two tonner Larouge; and Giorgio Car­ Ven to has been bought by Britain's Club Costa Smeralda introduced it riero's 50ft Ma ndrake K riz ia. D avid Bishop to replace not just his themsel ves. But Italy alone had one current Billoch O ne Tonner j ockey Club , As in years pas t, the Sardinia C up's yacht in each rating band. In Sardinia but the new Humphreys One Tonner he laughingly lax nati onality rules saw U S only the bes t two results counted and had planned to build this winter. N ot a sailors aboard, though only John Kolius, only one boat fr om each rating could be member of the British team, Jockey Club arguably the bes t 50ft jockey on the scored, which was not so bad fo r Britain joined with Peter Wes tpahl-Langloh's circuit, was given the helm. John Kos­ which had Mike Peacock's Castro 45 Beck 's Diva to form the German B team, tecki watched over Francesco de Angelis Juno I V leading a tea m rounded off with which beat the A team due to oddities of on Brava and John Bertrand helped C hris Brown's 1977 generation Farr the scoring and Sa udade's mishap. Roberto Ferrarase aboard Larouge, One Tonner, Spirit of Intel. though Bertrand who is probably the It was a different story fo r the Ger­ most modes t pro you'll find , admitted mans and Dutch. With Sa udade gone, Two Soviet yachts half jokingly: "I do little m ore than sit at Germany was left with Willi Illbruck's in Melbourne-Osaka the back, hold the hand bearing compass 1989 Reichel/Pugh 44, Pinta (s kippered and try to look good." by Harold Cudmore) and H ans-Otto WO Soviet yachts have entered fo r Schumann's Jude! & Vrolijk, Rubin X I T next year's Yamaha C up two­ T wo T onner (s kippered even more handed ocean race fr om Melbourne to noisily by American Dee Smith) whi ch O saka in Japan. T heir entry fo llows the effectively reduced the Germans to a one successful participation of Soviet yachts boat team. T he Dutch were no better in Australia's 1988 Tall Ships Race and off, for Bert Dolk's Frers 50, Pro- motion , the 1989 N orTel Sydney-Hobart classic. only beat the Farr-des igned Mandrake In fa ct, this will be the third voyage to once in six races and the bored look of Australia for one of the yachts, Koman­ helmsman Jens Christensen made it dor Bering, a 13.6m sloop owned by the plain he felt Pro-m otion hadn't a ghost of Far-Eastern Higher Engineering Marine a chance of catching the Italian boat once School at Vladivostok. behind. Kom ander Beri ng will be sailed by two With two very quick one tanners, instructors fr om the school, Vladimir Italian two tonner Larouge. Peter de Ridder's Mea n Machine and Gamanov (45) and Sergey Sipotenko Jochem Visser's Amsterdamed, the Dutch (28). Gamanov skippered the yacht in would have been in better shape had not the 1989 Sydney-Hobart and Sipotenko And look good the Itali ans ce rtainly the YCCS fac tored the scores to adjust was a member of the crew. did. T hree teams fail ed to survive the for class size. With only two Fifties T he second entry from the USSR, as opening race intact. A heavy 40-knot competing, they were fac tored the high­ yet un-named, will be crewed by two wind which clothed some reall y sharp est, so Pro- motion's second place points experienced dinghy and IO R sailors, gusts, and blindingly bright sunlight, had to be counted even though she Vladimir Arbouzov fr om Sochi on the made for a fa bulous spectacle. Some scored less well than the one tanners in Black Sea and Sergey Shishikov fr om crews reported their bes t downwind all but one race. Kronshtadt nea r Leningrad. rides for a long time, and some of the T he O ne Ton scrap was of particular Entries fo r the 5,500 nautical mile snappies t broaches ever as the IO R boats interes t, more es peciall y as dismas ting race, which starts from M elbourne on slithered around as if on ball bea rings. to New Yorker and Saudade in the O ne March 23, 1991, have reached 48 with On the very first tack of the race, Ton C up had left Mean Machine and the announce ment that race sponsor, n ,.. .. ,.._ o _;,..,_,. , u;,.,.1,. 1,.; L. ,.,.,. TT ,-,1 .. ,..,, ...... "" ,..,1 h ..... A C' t bvrl,1 »1 0 .-I t ("'\ nrrn , ;rl P t h P r'l<:P fA r r/ \ 1 Y am ha M o tor C'. n Trrl is cl ,-,i,min o- onrl building a high-tech racing yacht for the up the five regatta tour. trials off Sete, France, makes her a event. The runner's-up slot was decided in valuable yardstick. The hull of the 16m sloop is being the final moments of the last race in But, it was much more than a straight built of carbon fibre and kevlar with a Newport when Udo Schutz's German purchase, taking in long term co­ honeycomb core, resulting in a strong Container, steered by Jens Christensen, operation and technology transfer which but light boat with a displacement of edged out David Rosnow's Springbok, makes the previous collaboration be­ only 10,300kg. an American boat skippered by North tween a challenger and defender - The yacht, to be named Lucky & Sails president Tom Whidden, by 23 when KZ-7 tuned up with Kookaburra Luppy, will also move into new technol­ seconds. Ill - seem small beer. ogy with a 26m tall mast built of carbon For their 1991 season, the 50s kick off Ft is now on the way to San Diego. fibre as against aluminium on most in Florida's Key West Oanuary 13-16( The French crew headed by Marc Pajot ocean racing yachts. Lucky & Luppy will move north to Miami in March, cross and Marc Bouet will continue to sail on be sailed by Y asuyuki Hakomori (35) the Atlantic to two key Admiral's Cup the boat in San Diego, using America's from Japan and Ray Haslar (47) from warm up events in Travemunde (Ger­ first IACC yacht to tune up their own New Zealand, both highly experienced many) in May and Lymington in July, F-2, a more light air orientated design international yachtsmen. before ending up in Muira Oapan) for Ft was created before the Cup finally The boat's name comes from the October. went to San Diego courtesy of the New mascot characters, sea otters, on the York court, before next May's IACC logo of the yacht's sponsors, Kankaku World Championship. F2 will then Securities, a Japanese security firm. bring Bertrand's own first boat up ,to Strong US Bid speed after the worlds, her design the responsibility of John Reichel and Jim For Admiral's Cup Pugh who have recruited their former 50 Footers Cut Costs NCE one of the most dominant boss, Doug Peterson, to their team. O teams in Admiral's Cup racing, the This co-operation will run through to N the last regatta of the 1990 season, USA, had a lean time in 1980s. For 1991 next summer, in essence giving both Ithe !OR 50ft owners adopted mea­ their challenge looks potent, a factor camps three-boat campaigns for the cost sures to cut the cost of their racing. helped largely by the new Royal Ocean of two actual boats apiece. They even Apparently even these owners, some of Racing Club requirement for teams to intend to share compounds in San whom spend as much on a 50ft cam­ have one boat from each of the rating Diego, so cosy is the relationship._ paign as others do on a maxi, felt that bands: One Ton, Two Ton and 50 costs were spiralling to exalted heights. footer. This means countries o longer One boat this year had no fewer than 10 need a huge domestic fleet to raise a mainsails for a mere five regattas, at a viable team. Just one good boat in each cost USS12,000 apiece. slot will do the trick. Headed by London-based Swede The team's small boat is a new Farr Wicktor Forss of Carat fame, the owners One Tonner for New Jersey's David decreed that for 1990: only 11 sails can Clark, former owner of the Joubert/ be checked in for the season, two of Nivelt One Tonner Rising Star. He's which can be mains and seven of which bought the Farr package, which means are forward-of-the-mast sails; carbon Geoff Stagg will be on board and the fibre rigging is banned as are custom boat is being built by Terry Cookson in titanium fittings on the mast, though off New Zealand. Cookson are responsible the shelf items are OK; and continual for the Two Tonner also, a new Farr tinkering with ratings is restricted to designed Bravura for San Francisco's only one re-trim and only two haul outs Irving Loube who has retained Soling CALIFORNIAN John Bertrand. for major corrective surgery after a gold medallist Robbie Haines as skipper. rating is registered with the class. Not surprisingly, the US is spoilt for Such harmony with the Beach Boys As the hottest offshore class bar none, choice among the SO-footers, though incensed the Itali ans who accused the the industry professionals hailed this a some owners are less keen to take their French of sharing secrets with the great move by the owners, which is a inshore boats, optimised for windward/ enemy. They cancelled the IACC Euro­ curious volte-face if there ever was one. leeward courses, into the Admiral's Cup peans which Raul Gardini was funding In no other class will you find so many arena. Not only is there a strong emph­ to the tune of $1 million, a decision sailmakers, rig makers, winch manufac­ asis on reaching, but outside of the made easier by Japan's Nippon Chal­ turers and hardware hotshots trying to Southern Cross series, the Admiral's lenge saying it would be too disruptive sell owners success on a plate. With C up is one of the few regattas remaining to attend. This, and the delayed launch moves in Europe to give One Ton and with a genuinely testing offshore race - of the first Spanish boat, would have .other !OR owners more say in their the classic fastnet. To date Abracadabra, just left Ft, complete with Bertrand and affairs, perhaps the people who matter Springbok, Fujimo and Insatiable have Pugh aboard, and II Moro II. are at last freeing themselves from the thrown their hats into the ring, with The intense politics of the Italian industry professionals who have more selection based on the Key West and effort are matched only by the bottom­ to say about the style and cost of their Miami opening rounds of the 1981 50ft less budget and by some of TV's worse racing than any grey-haired committee tour plus an additional offshore race. soaps. The story so far . . . Syndicate meeting once a year in London. manager Gabrielle Rafanelli accused In the event, the 1990 championship skipper Paul Cayard of fai ling to spot was not as close as expected. Going into American stooges in Ft 's crew during the final round in Newport, Rhode the Sete trials ( there were none). Island (October 4-7), Container Oudel/ America's Cup All this 18 months from the Cup Vrolijk), Springbok (Farr) and Abraca­ Moves in USA itself. As Rod Davis sagely commented: dabra (Reichel/ Pugh) were just 0. 75pt "It's how the Italians deal with problems UROPE is the centre of America's apart but John Kohus steered Abracadab­ of their own creation which will deter­ ra to four straight wins to the delight of E Cup activity at the moment. While mine their ultimate success." her owner, Alabama surgeon Jim John Bertrand was contesting the Sardi­ So far , a fast boat has eluded them in Andrews. She eventually scored a 1-1-1- nia C up, his Beach Boys defence syndi­ two attempts. Some would say, that the 1-3-3-1 res ult to clinch the series and the cate announced a Sl million purchase of Italians are almost starting again by championship, a remarkable feat given the Philippe Briand designed Ft from making hulls 3 & 4 sisterships in order to that she was launched mid-season, mis­ the French, which having trounced the leapfrog development of the race boat sine: nearlv half the 46 races which made Italian II Moro di Venezia 1 in private No. 5. The Soviets , mea ntime, have declared Their biggest coup was to pick up Wallin's N o 2, British designer Dave their hand, having made the September remnants of the aborted Danish chal­ H ollom - crea tor of the Hippo 12- $150,000 perfo rmance bond deadline by lenge, including the design which was metre C ru sa der - joining the design dint of an extension. They have already more advanced than the Swede's own team . If the Swedes can build their boat started construction of their first boat, in cash-starve d effort. Into the bargain in the projected 22 weeks and ship it in aluminium, at the Emergia company. ca me Jacob Veiro who had been running time, they will contes t the Worlds. This Moscow-based firm is bes t known the Danish computer modelling prog­ NA TIONAL Gaffers Day, conducted by as builders of the Soviet space shuttle, ramme. Kim N eilson also crossed the Sydney A mateu r Sailing Club , attracted some Duran. Skagerrak to Sweden to become opera­ of the finest gaff-rigged yachts still sailing, with The problem of course, is that IACC ti ons boss. man y crews dressing fo r the part . The fleet can only be built fr om co mposites or T he multinational fl avour is boosted ranged f rom a gaff-rigged schooner dow n to a wood, but aft er consulting challengers by Australia's Scott M cAllister acting as tin y six-foot ski.ff and resto red Queenscl i.ff and defenders, the San Diego YC's 'co uta boa ts. (Pies - Da vid Clare) . America's C up Organising Committee found enough support to all ow the Soviets to compete in the preliminary rounds of IACC Worlds next M ay, though not the semis or the finals, or of course, the Ameri ca's C up itself. The Soviets have been brushing up their Cup history, and reckon Alloygate is a logical successor to Keelgate and Glassgate. Said Soviet chall enge leader, Vsevolod Kukuskhin, who is head of sport in the M oscow newsagency TASS: " Maybe this will be a scene for an argument." His contention was that the IACC rules permit onl y wood and composites without expressly prohibit­ ing other materials. " In our country, we sa y everything is possible if it is not prohibited." The Soviets, whose Red Star chal­ lenge is lodged through the Leningrad YC, intend to bring a full tea m to San Diego to measure and observe the other boats. "We are pramati c people now, " Mr. Kukuskhin, recognising that it will much easier fo r the Soviets to cut and weld an aluminium hull. While the Soviets are a first time challenger facing longer odds than nor­ mal the fo rtunes of the Swedish group has improved immeasurably since September. A week before the bond deadline, a meeting with King Karl Gustaf galva­ nized 20 prominent businesses into pro­ viding $10 million backing and the group, headed by T homas Wallin, who owns the Stenungs b aden YC o n Sweden's West Coas t, have been on the acquisition trail ever since . 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BACK in Australia after the Kenwood Cup, Grant Wharington is expected to enter his fog/is 47, IMS Introduced Wild Thing, in this year's Life Be In It-spon sored Melbourn e to Hobart race. Wild Thmg took For Petersville lin e ho nours in the inaugural Sanford Hutton Bass Strait Triangle. (Pie - Mike Sabey). ICTORIA'S prestigious keelboat V regatta, The Petersville, will see an IMS division for the January 13-19, 1991, event on Port Phillip. Despite a sluggish start, IMS has started to catch on with Victorian keel­ boat owners. From just nine measured yachts in July, the total now exceeds 40. The Petersville Regatta has dropped the Channel handicap division for the newer and more relevant IMS system, giving a lead to yacht owners and clubs on the bay. The move is expected to attract more interstate entries for the popular week-long regatta. Regatta race director Warwick Hoban described IMS as "the best news for keelboat racing in the 1990s" and said he expected as many as 25 yachts to com­ pete under IMS in the 1991 Petersville Regatta. However, the IOR category con­ tinues to holds its strength in Victoria and the Petersville Regatta fleet entries includes the 1989 Nor Tel Sydney Hobart Race winner, Lou Abrahams' One Tonner, U ltimate Challenge. Among interstate entries expected are John Eyles' Fujitsu Dealers, the new Oz Fire from Lake Macquarie, and the UK designed purpose-built IMS racer, Light­ wave, from Queensland. Oz Fire, owned by Doug Coulter, is a near sistership to the fast Kiwi yacht Ice Fire which was the star of the 1990 Hamilton Island Race Week. The six-event Petersville Regatta will start with a 50 mile overnight race on SYMBOL OF Race Information at Myer Store OBART'S major department EXCELLENCE. H store, Myer Hobart, will again The world's most prized satnav is the Magnavox 4102. provide a Race Information Centre for this year's NorTel Sydney Hobart ocean It has won acclaim for its rugged reliability and ease of use race in its Liverpool Street store. wherever blue water sailors cruise. It's truly world class The Myer store will receive up to the minute information provided by the satnav. Now with more useful features than ever before. CYCA and the RYCT, with the posi­ For information and brochure contact: tions of all yachts displayed on a wall chart. These will be updated twice daily. Coursemaster Autopilots Pty Ltd, To complete the nautical theme, 7 Smith St., Chatswood, NSW 2067. videos of past races will be shown at the information centre and in Myer's tele­ Phone (02) 417 7097. vision department. G.P.S. Upgrade Kit available for all existing MX4102 owners late 1989 Crews racing to Hobart also can have the chance of winning a $500 fashion wardrobe by entering some tall tales of the race from Sydney - entry forms will be available at the M yer Store. M yer Hobart will also have a special race information hotline for the NorTel Sydney Hobart - (002) 34 2179. Meeting the challenge! 22 yachtsmen and women against the sea - The BOC Chai lenge. Around Alone 1990-91. CIG, host of the Sydney stopover - meeting the challenge of providing quality industrial, medical and scientific gases. ~ lll'CIG

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New owner John Conroy came to us make sure this is done - they should This keel was complemented by an for recommendations out of which came not equal 0) . addition of 662kg of internal ballast. a series of cost effective changes which 4) Modernise deck layout. Five winches When work was completed Ex Ten­ improved actual as well as rated per­ on the coachroof and an awkward main­ sion's rating had dropped from 27.32 to formance. As we were confident in the sheet system suggested a more efficient 26. 99 . Boat speed had noticeably im­ boat's basic set up (trim, ballasting, and layout was in order. This was handled proved and she went on to win the sail area) through our long term in­ by rigging specialist Don Buckley with XXXX series with ease. volvement with the boat it was a matter a resultant weight saving in excess ot Kings Cross was purchased by Ray of upgrading problem areas to 1990s 30kg and much smoother operation. Stone fo llowing the sale of Middle Har­ standards. As a result the following The end result of these changes was to bour Express . The boat pre-dates Ex­ changes were made: maintain all significant rating variables Tension by one year and, though from 1) Replace cassette rudder with high while noticeably improving boat speed the same mould, she has a different keel and some changes to the aft stations. Her keel was modified by her previous owners and the rig was recently replaced when the old one went over the side last season. The plan was to lea,ve the rig "as is" and to modify the keel on the boat if SCOTT JUTSON YACHT DESIGN possible. A new rudder and removal of NEW DESIGN & PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION the old skeg was also on the list of things to do. IOR - IMS - SHORTI-IANDED The obvious shortcoming of the boat 23 GRANDVIEW GROVE-SEAFORTH-2092-NSW-AUSTRALIA was a noticeable lack of stability and an TEL: (02) 94 1512 FAX: (02) 94 2392 oversized trapezoidal keel. Changes to the keel's planform were not feasible due I

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to a throughkeel shaft and the keel Cross, balance out the extra wetted varying breeze strengths. This approach bolting pattern. T he only option was to surface drag so both boats should be was selected over other course options add lead to the existing planform. This very equal. as the one most suitable to the kind of was achieved with no increase in frontal All the above changes to the three the racing experienced by these yachts. area by wrapping a super high volume yachts were derived through velocity The fo llowing is a table of comparitive laminar flow section around the existing prediction vs rating analysis with the values for the three modified yachts NACA 64 keel sections which allowed optimal determined from averaging per­ including values for Ex Tension in her for a 250kg addition of lead to the keel. formance around an Olympic triangle in original Hobart winning form: The keel was no smaller but a lot more efficient in both performance and weight terms. Rig and sail parameters were near EXTENSION optimal on this boat due to good input VALUE KINGS CROSS STAR FERRY EXTENSION '86 from the previous owners but the steer­ R 26.99 28.82 26.99 27.32 ing was average. Fitting a new blade L 9.275 9.684 9.256 9.17 over the existing stock proved to be the RSAT 62.64 56.63 62.50 62.67 most cost effective option and cured the SHR 15.12 14.11 15.13 15.50 helming problem. RMC 11 7.6 106.9 117.16 116.8 Kings Cross has fractionally greater sail CGF .968 .962 .9708 .9748 area than Ex Tension while gaining a DSPL 4612 4740 4592 4250 slight rating advantage due to her 1985 age date which means no Crew Stability NOTE: Rd !OR Rating, L d !OR Rated displacement ratio), CGF d Center of Factor multiplier to the rating. As a Length, RSA T d Rated Sail Area Total, gravity factor, DSPL d !OR measured result, both boats rate dead even at SHR d Sail/Hull Ratio (Sail area to displacement. 26. 99'. The extra sail area will help Kings Telescopic DANBUOYS 11IAT WORK!! MAKO Ever watched a danbuoy in a stiff breeze? Usually the lead is so far up the tube and the top so flexible that the danbuoy not only leans c--:er but belids as well. Conse­ TOUGH PVC DUPLEX ~IP:(' quently the flag is just skimming the NON-FRAYING water, little use as a life saving marker BRIGHT ORANGE buoy. FLAG. HI-LOAD BLOCKS Not so the LaMer Spars danbuoy! Oteck the following features: - Extreme stiffness resulting from a con­ centrated weight low down and a stiff aluminium drawn tube. - One-piece foam filled slender floa l - Tough PVC Flag. - Backstay Groove. - Tie points for life rings. (Be sure to pass the line through the ORAWN ANODISED loop and around the pole). ALUMINIUM TUBE - Sealed joint between lead and aluminium so that the e,rtreme cor­ rosion potential between the two is limited. - Telescopic for ease of storage and TELESCOPIC FOR handling with positive stainless steel EASE OF STORAGE /RAN SPORT. locking pin.

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A tant, who s sa il ed for most of his have been training hard to get the boat H e is hoping to make the trip to life, will fina ll y fu lfil a li felong ambition on the pace before reaching Sydney in Hobart in amongst the leaders and has a in this year's NorTel Sydney to Hobart w hat will be an expensive trip. new mas t and several new sails to help race. Although John Buckland has done H e estimates it will conservati vely the challenge. Complimenting with the the race twice before, this will be the cost more than $10,000 but that's prob­ impressive wardrobe and rig is a very first time he has skippered his own boat ably optimistic and a good figure to experienced, top line crew headed by to make the hazardous trip down the prevent his wife lynching him. Fred Neill. East Coast and across Bass Strait. But, then again dreams don't come Neill has had a wealth of experience in Two other leading South Australian cheap and the las t Lincoln boats to do the toughes t Offshore events here and skippers, Keith Flint in Helsa / II, which the trip were Moonraker and Stan Mor­ overseas. • won las t season's Melbourne to Hobart gan's 50 footer, Iniqu ity in 1986. Conse­ Neill will be the ta ctician while race, and Bob Francis with Renegade, quently Buckland and his crew ha ve all another veteran, Jim Howell , is the form an experienced trio for the famous the locals behind them. navigator and Flint's son Ian will be a race. Three of them - Gavin James in the relief helmsman. Others on board in­ On the other occasions Buckland did cockpit, Geoff Bascombe on the mast clude Chock Smith, who did the Syd­ the journey he was the sailing master on and Lloyd Burgess up fo rward have ney to London race with Jasko Grubic Noel Welfare's Farr 11.6, Moonraker in been sailing with him for the past five his son Peter who was aboard SA's 1982 when they finished in the mid 60s seasons. America's C up boat and Peter M cLeod. while the fo llowing year he was aboard _A lso doing. the race will be Kym Flint did his first Hobart in 1958 the Adams 12, Pronto , owned by Barry Nisbett on mamsheet, two relief helms­ aboard Norm Howard's Southern Myth Roach which fai red better and crossed men Wayne Smith and Steele Seeman, when they finished second in division the line in the high 30s. with Barry Roche also, ,j oining the one and third overall. " In those days we T his time he will be in charge of a Ben crew. were still using Egyptian cotton sails but Lexcen designed 41-footer built by Don SA's former America's C up navigator this time we have a Mylar/Kevlar main­ Henderson in WA four years ago. Buck­ Steve Kemp has been helping to tune the sail worth $15,000," Flint says . land bought Sue/an, which is a fibreglass boat and was going to be part of the Times have certainly changed but for boat built under the West System with a nine-man crew but he's required to sail Bob Francis it will be like old times cedar core, las t C hristmas . on an Admiral's C up boat. Buckland left when he returns to Sydney this year. The one thing that does count against Port Lincoln ea rl y this month and es ti­ "The last time was in 1987 but I keep him is experience in the boat. But he did mates the round trip will take about six going back because I enjoy the total well in last season's Adelaide to Port weeks. sailing, the scene and meeting up with Lincoln race where he fnished second on Like Buckland, Keith Flint has done guys I have met over the years," Francis IMS to John Hood's Cole 43 , Pandemo­ the Sydney classic twice before, but this says . nium, and then had a successful week will be the first time at the helm of his This will be his ninth time aft er around the sticks on Boston Bay. own boat and he's taking an impressive making the first trip in 1969 with . Another pleasing aspect of the race record. Grubic, but ever since then he's taken across was . he bea t Jimmy Howell 's Since bringing the sleek navy bl ue his own boats. Sunburst, which sail ed in last season's ra cer to Adelaide in July las t year, Flint Francis was unable to sail the fu ll Hobart race, by 21 minutes. has not been beaten over the line and just winter series with Renegade so many of "For two thirds of the race we reall y got pipped in the winter se ries by the races were used to tune the boat and had to battle because our best conditions sailmaker Ray Brown. crew work. That's what he has been are on the wind and we didn't get a lot Unlike Flint, the Adams and Radford concentrating on in the lead up to of that," Buckland says . des igned Helsa / II, built in Sydney 11 leaving early this month (December) "She rea ll y goes on the wind and years ago, has racked up nine Sydney to along with testing new sails. He has also that's what we are hoping for in the H obarts. Without a doubt she has been readjusting his boat by sli ghtly Hobart race. creamed the local SA fl eet but then again pruning the length of his spinnaker pole " It's been a lifelong dream to win the she should because she is by fa r the and some other minor adjustments ace and that's what I am going to try to biggest racing machine in the di vision which have given him a better IMS do." one group. rating. " It's an improvement on our IOR rating es pecially compared to some of our neares t rivals and it will make this Hobart race extremely interesting," Francis says. On board with Francis are Dave Hurford who will help on the helm, navigator Sam Cowell, mainsheet Paul Henshall , mastman Graham Lay, for­ ward hand Mark Hall , grinders Graham Davis and Peter van Vught and cook Wayne Hartley. Francis and Flint both agreed they would spend more than $10,000 on the Fib.reg /ass 41jooter trip but said the final total was classified Suelan. especiall y when it ca me to their wives. 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