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Peter Bush New backgrounds while Brenac was Sailing Peter Bush - Secretary of the CYCA until he cycA Commodore resigned last year. Experience and skill eter Bush has been elected as the Commodore Bush paid tribute to Peter Bush brings to the role of Com­ Commodore of the Cruising the great contribution to the Cruising modore of the Cruising Yacht Club of PYacht Club of Australia, taking Yacht Club by retiring Commodore Australia vast experience as an ocean over the helm of Australia's premier David Fuller who had completed his racing yachtsman and extensive skills ocean racing club from retiring Com­ two-year term. In all, Past Commodore in senior business management with modore David Fuller. Fuller had served 12 years on the some of Australia's major public com­ Bush, an experienced ocean racing Club's Board, including Chairman of panies, fitting attributes to lead one of yachtsman and owner of the pocket every major administrative committee the world's major yacht clubs. maxi, Rager, had previously been Vice­ over that period. He has played a key role in the Commodore and Chairman of the "David has made an outstanding administration of the Club over the club's Sailing Committee. He was contribution to all aspects of club past three years as a Director, Rear elected at the annual general meeting administration in his long term as a Commodore and Vice-Commodore. in a close ballot with Rear Commodore director and flag officer and, in partic­ For the past two years he has been John Keelty. ular, during his past two years as Com­ Chairman of the Sailing Committe~'. The annual elections saw every modore," Commodore Bush told mem­ On the broader field of sailing, position of Flag Officer, Honorary Trea­ bers at the AGM. "The financial turn­ Commodore Bush has been part of the surer and Directors of the board go to around of the Club over the past 12 three person Whitbread Committee the ballot. An unprecedented 18 candi­ months is testimony to the work that responsible for getting Sydney as a dates were nominated for the six posi­ David has put into the CYCA." stopover for the 1997-98 Whitbread tions of Directors and the annual gen­ Commodore Bush said the atten­ Round-the-World Race. eral meeting saw a record attendance dance of more than 300 members at the "Long ocean racing is my greatest of more than 300 member-s. annual general meeting was a land­ interest and passion, " he told OFF­ History was made when members mark in the history of the CYCA and is SHORE after his election. "I would sail · elected well known offshore sailor Ms "a vote by members of their faith in the in every long ocean race on the calen­ Lori Wilson as the first woman to serve CYCA as a great yacht club." dar if it wasn't for having to work for a on the Board of the CYCA. Lori has living." competed in six Sydney-Hobarts and Retiring Commodore David Fuller (right) Currently the owner of the Greg was for'ard hand aboard Wild Oats congratulates Vice-Commodore Peter Bush, Elliott-designed pocket maxi Rager, when it was overall IOR winner of the his successor at the helm of the Cruising Yacht Commodore Bush has been ocean rac­ galeswept 1993 race. In 1994 Lori was Club of Australia. (Pie - Peter Campbell} ing for 18 years and has sailed in 14 named Ocean Racing Crew of the Year. Sydney-Hobarts. The new Vice-Commodore of the A BA (Econ), Peter Bush has a back­ CYCA is Hugo Van Kretschmar while ground in consumer marketing, with the two new Rear Commodores are his key focus being on company turn­ Hans Sommer (formerly a Director and around and change management. He is Chairman of the House Committee) currently General Manager (Sales & and' Ed Psaltis (formerly Honorary Marketing) with Arnotts, Australia's Treasurer). The new Treasurer is Alan largest biscuit company and, in fact, Green. In addition to Lori Wilson, the the seventh largest biscuit manufactur­ elected Directors are Bob Brenac, Mau­ ers in the world. Commodore Bush rice Cameron, Roger Hickman, Dennis and his wife, Adrienne have two chil­ McDonald and John Messenger. Apart dren, Kate (14) and Hamish (10) and from Cameron, all are new to the live in the Sydney suburb of Cremorri£ Board, but have extensive active sailing -Peter Campbell August• September 1996 hore

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COVER: Elle Racing, Australia's first challenger for the BUIZEN 40: Sail test of this new pilot house 1997-98 Whitbread round-the-world race, is already high performance cruising yacht, plus other new campaigning with an all-women crew sailing halfway round the world from England to Australia in their training designs for ocean racing boats ...... 38 Whitbread 60. Picture by Allsport. August• September 1996 c» CANON SYDNEY-GOLD COAST CLASSIC Brlndabet Heads

Ranking second only to the Sydney to Hobart, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's winter race to Queensland, the Canon Sydney-Gold Coast Classic is again expected to attract a large and competitive fleet of IMS and PHS racers and cruiser/racers. Peter Campbell looks at some of the contenders for line and handicap honours.

ustralia's fastest maxi yacht, With final entries closing after OFF­ Brindabella, will return to ocean SHORE went to press, the Club expects A racing in the Canon Sydney­ another large and competitive fleet to Gold Coast Classic, heading a fleet head north to warmer climes with which the Cruising Yacht Club of Aus­ many expected to continue on to the tralia is confidently predicting will see Whitsundays. By late June, entries had between 70· and 80 yachts on the start­ already been received from Victoria, local yachts. Several Queensland ing line on Saturday, August 3. Tasmania, New Zealand and many yachts were expected to also come south to join the race back. Last year 71 yachts, the largest fleet in several years, contested the race to Southport and CYCA sailing manager Phil Thompson says this year's line-up could exceed the record 83 yachts which set sail in the inaugural race 11 years ago. The one disappointment is that the radical New Zealand schooner Primo will now miss the race to Southport, with owner Tom McCall unable to put together sufficient crew for this race and the Whitsunday regattas. She will now sail direct to Queensland waters. Brindabella took line honours last year in her first race to the Gold Coast and with the likelihood of strong sou'westers at this time of the year, she C. August• September 1996 has every ·chance of breaking Hammer finally overtaken by Brindabella when ABOVE: The fleet heads to sea before a of Queensland's race record of 38 hours the wind direction switched to head­ freshening westerly breeze in last year's 57 minutes 00 seconds even though it winds just south of the border. Canon Sydney-Gold Coast Classic. (Pies - Peter Campbell) was set in a south-westerly gale in The entry of Brindabella is a very 1988. welcome sign for Australian ocean rac­ LEFT: Brindabella sweeps up the Queensland Apart from Brindabella, the front ing. After another luckless bid for line Gold Coast to take line honours in last year's runners will be Foxtel Amazon, a three­ honours in the Sydney to Hobart last Canon Sydney-Gold Coast Classic. (Pie - times line honours winner, the veteran year, owner George Snow was quoted Peter Campbell) Condor of Currabubula, which got the as saying that the Jutson 75 was "on gun in 1994, Bobsled from Queensland the market" and he would take a break and the two Greg Elliott designed from ocean racing. Classic, with David Kellett returning as speedsters, Rager and PL Lease Future He has been racing Brindabella regu­ sailing master. Shock. larly in the CYCA's Digital Winter Another big boat racing north, but Rager, owned by CYCA Com­ Series on Sydney Harbour and has also for the last time in a long career, is modore Peter Bush, is a Gold Coast entered her for the Fujitsu Gosford­ Freight Train which will be joining line honours winner (1989) while Lord Howe Island race in October, many other famous ocean racing Future Shock, now owned by Mel­ indicative that he will once again have yachts "put out to grass" as day char­ bourne yachtsman Peter Hansen, led a tilt at the Sydney to Hobart. ter yachts in the Whitsundays. Owner the fleet for much of the way last year Condor of Currabula has undergone a Damien Parkes has ordered the first of as the fleet ran and reached north major refit and owner Tony Paolo is the new Iain Murray-Designed Bash­ under spinnakers. Future Shock was expected to again enter the Gold Coast ford/ Howison 60-footers. August • September 1996 New Munay, Farr Designs in Bid for IMS Honours The worldwide growth of interest in smaller, high performance one-design or non-IMS offshore racing yachts will be underlined in the Canon Sydney­ Gold Coast Oassic when two of the first three Mount Gay 30s to be launched in Australia compete in the 386 nautical mile dash up the NSW North Coast to Queensland waters. Adding interest to the handicap competition will be the ocean racing debut of the latest IMS cruiser/ racer from Iain Murray and Associates, the 41-footer Zoe, and the expected first appearance in Australia of the Bruce Farr-designed Cookson 39, the Queensland owned No Fearr. Unlike the Sydney to Hobart, there is no overall IMS handicap winner of the Canon Sydney-Gold Coast Oassic. Depending on final entries - and the CYCA is confident there will be between 70 and 80 - there will be at least three IMS Divisions plus one or two PHS divisions, thus providing keen competition right across the fleet. This will be the first time two Mount Gay 30s, originally called Whit­ bread 30s, have raced against each oth­ er in a long ocean race and will focus Among several new yachts making their ocean racing debut in the Canon Sydney-Gold Coast world attention on the Oassic. The two Classic is Ivan Wheen's Zoe, a development of Sydney-Hobart winner Terra Firma, designed by yachts are a David Lyons design for lain Murray and Associates. (Pie - The Northern Beaches Weekender). Nigel Holman called Te~ Fujitsu and a Scott Jutson design for Ray Stone, un­ draft, displacement, sail area, stability, across the Tasman. named when OFFSHORE went to etc. The designer can work within the The first two Jutson designed press. "box" rules on variations of hull form, Mount Gay 30s have been built side by Both designers and both owners keel draft and sail aspect ratio. side by Tim Brown's Salamander have had considerable succes.s in IMS Basic specifications within the Yachts at Tomago, just past the Hex­ racing and the decision by two high "box" rules provide for a maximum ham Bridge north of Newcastle. One is profile yachtsmen to order Mount Gay LOA of 9.59m (31' 6"), maximum beam for Ray Stone, the other for David Far­ 30s will certainly give a fillip to the of 8.10m (20' 8"), draft of 1.95m (6' 4"), rell, a well known short-handed sailor class in Australia. Holman won the displacement of 2300kg (5072 lb) and who plans to team up with David 1993 Sydney to Hobart with the Lyons ballast of 1100kg (2246 lb). The yacht Adams in campaigning the yacht at 40, Cuckoos Nest, while Stone won the carries a mainsail of up to 36.0 sq m Hamilton Island Race Week. A third CYC.Xs prestigious Blue Water (388 sq ft), a genoa of 30 sq m (323 sq ft) boat is being built for a US yachtsman Pointscore an unprecedented four and a maximum spinnaker of 100 sq m and will contest the inaugural Mount times with the Laurie Davidson­ (1077 sq ft). Gay 30 world championships. designed 36-footer Kings Cross-Sydney Holman's yacht was the first out of While the design allows for water which Jutson succes.sfully optimised the mould at Andrew Bristow's BAC ballast to compensate for crew weight, firstly for IOR racing and then for IMS Yachts in the northern Sydney suburb this will not be permitted in the Canon competition. of Dural, and is a superbly constructed Sydney-Gold Coast Oassic in which The Mount Gay 30 is an internation­ craft, built to ABS Plan Approval and they will race in the Performance al offshore racing class which allows AYF Category 1. Holman's plan is to Handicap division with crews of prob­ individual designs within "box" rules - also race the yacht in this year's Fujitsu ably seven. maximum restrictions on LOA, beam, Gosford to Lord Howe Island race Zoe, the new IMS 41-foot cruiser/ «- 1191st • Septe ■ lter 1996 racer from Iain Murray and Associates, is a development of Terra Firma, overall IMS winner of the 1995 Telstra Sydney to Hobart, built by America's Cup yacht builder John McConaghy. A sis­ tership built in England and already racing in the UK for an English owner, has won selection for the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Rolex Commodore's Cup at Cowes in late July. Zoe, which made an impressive rac­ ing debut in the CYCA's Digital Winter Series on Sydney Harbour in late June, is owned by Ivan Wheen, an active Etchells sailor and member of the Roy­ al Sydney Yacht Squadron. The yacht ABOVE: Aspect Computing will again sail north will be skippered by Richard Chap­ in the Canon Classic, skippered by David man, his partner in the Etchell, Preda­ Pescu d and sailed by a crew with disabi lities. tor. Tactician will be America's Cup (P ie - Ron Clemens) and international yachtsman Grant RIGHT: David Lyons and Nigel Holman (left) Simmer from North Sails whose loft inspect Holman's new Mt Gay 30. made the 3DL sails. In designing Zoe and her sistership, Blue Water Pointscore and is a signifi­ Iain Murray & Associates have utilised cant starter for the ocean racing season developments achieved during the last of 1996-97 as well as being the feeder America's Cup campaign, including a race for yachts from southern States carbon fibre mast, boom and spinnaker heading further north for the TAG poles, a stainless steel, hard-cast keel Heuer Ansett Australia Big Boat Series with a lead-filled bulb, and a high at Hayman Island and the XXXX strength stainless steel rudder stock. Ansett Race Week at Hamilton Island. lion, Aspect Computing, Adria, Caliban, As well as building the hull, keel and Many of the fleet will also contest Classic Blue, Charisma, Eclipse, Freight rudder, McConaghy also made the Southport Yacht Club's XXXX Winter Train, Hewlett Packard Farr Lap, New one-pierce carbon fibre mast at his new Regatta off the Gold Coast which fol­ Horizons, Pendragon, Storm Rider and mast-making facility at Mona Vale. lows the race from Sydney and the Spirit of Defiance. No Fearr, the other new boat expect­ SCOR regatta at Mooloolaba. The 1996 Canon Sydney-Gold Coast ed to make its ocean racing debut in Early entries for the Canon Sydney­ Classic will start from Sydney Harbour the Canon Sydney-Gold Coast Classic, Gold Coast Classic ranged from David at 1300 hours on Saturday, August 3, Gough's luxurious with the leading maxi and pocket maxi Buizen 48 fast cruis­ yachts expected to cross the line off "Aside from these high-profile ing yacht from Southport on the Monday morning. )j yachts, the 11th annual race to Hobart, Eclipse, and Southport is expected to attract a Peter Kurts' vintage Faster Results For former Admiral's wide cross-section of the Canon Classic Cup team boat and he CYCA is confident it will be two times Sydney­ Australian offshore yachting able to produce much faster Hobart winner, Love T scene" results in the Canon Sydney-Gold and War, through to Coast Classic, using a preconstructed the state-of-the-art course and providing scratch sheets is owned in Townsville by Carey IMS cruiser/ racers like Zoe and and to competitors on the morning of the Ramm and is the first of the Farr­ the maxis Brindabella (George Snow) race. This is the same method it plans designed Cookson 39s to be imported which won line honours last year, and to use in this year's Sydney to Hobart into Australia. It is a development of Foxtel Amazon (Peter Walker) which race. the successful High 5, campaigned by has taken the gun three times in this The race will be scored by using a Terry Cookson. race. preconstructed course with a selected Aside from these high-profile The CYCA's Youth Sailing Academy windspeed, based on information yachts, the 11th annual race to South­ will again be crewing John Needham's received from the Bureau of Meteo­ port is expected to attract a wide cross­ Dubois 50, Sidewinder, while Academy rology and historical data. section of the Australian offshore students will also be aboard other The recommended AYF Cruiser / yachting scene. yachts, including Never a Dull Moment. Racer allowance will be applied. It is the opening race of the CYCA Other early entries include Addie- August• September 1996 TAG HEUER - ANSETT AUSTRALIA BIG BOAT SERIES

o be accepted as a competitor in ------~---!~ ·· :._ ·· ' . • Relaxing aboard one of the yachts racing in last year's Big Boat Series at Hayman Island ... the TAG Heuer - Ansett Aus­ a mix of good racing and social activity ashore. Ttralia Big Boat Series at Hayman Island has become something of a sta­ Hayman Island, the beautiful resort in the Whitsunday tus symbol in Australian offshore yachting. Group off the coast of North Queensland, will host Perhaps best described as a bou­ the second annual TAG Heuer - Ansett Australia Big tique regatta, this second annual social and sailing event has not attracted any Boat Series in August. real "big boats" other than pocket max­ is Bobsled, Hammer of Queensland and guests wanting to experience the excit­ from New Zealand; Sycorax, Sydney PL Lease Future Shock, but it is very ing atmosphere that will encompass yachtsman Michael Quinn's lain Mur­ much a prestige fleet of top-shelf ocean the resort during the regatta. ray designed BH41; Yendys, Farr racers. The size of the fleet is limited to The resort's new $5 million luxury designed Beneteau 45, owned by Syd­ 17 or 18 yachts and participation is by motor yacht will carry guests wishing ney yachtsman Geoffrey Ross; and Zoe, invitation. to watch the action on two of the four newly launched IMS 41 designed by Focus of attention will be on the race days while much of the sailing Iain Murray for Sydney yachtsman radical New Zealand 16m schooner will be within sight of the island. Ivan Wheen. Primo, the Greg Elliott downwind flyer Yachts so far accepted as entries for In addition, Warren Johns is plan­ which finished second in last year's the Big Boat Series are: ning to return this year. He will either marathon double-handed race from Abracadabra, James Mark Anthony's charter a yacht or bring the "old girl" Melbourne to Osaka in Japan. Primo powerful Tripp 48 from Sydney; Assas­ (Heaven Can Wait) out of retirement for features two wing masts, carries mini­ sin, Robin Crawford's successful Farr the Big Boat Series. Johns sailed the 50- mum crew and is capable of high 40 from Sydney; Atara, the Farr IMS 43 footer to victory in the Performance speeds downwind. chartered by Sydney yachtsman Roger Handicap division last year and fin­ Now owned by prominent Auck­ Hickman; B-52, Queenslander Wayne ished second to the Big Boat Series land yachtsman Tom McCall, Primo Millar's Bashford/Howison 41; Barter­ champion, New Zealand's Thai Airways will sail in the Hamilton Island Race card Morning Mist III, Victorian Alf International, in the IMS division. week following the Big Boat Series. Neate's Farr 50; Bobsled, Queenslander The 1996 Big Boat Series has the The Big Boat Series will be decided Kerry Spencer's flying Steinman, Ham­ potential for a highly competitive joust over six races between August 18-22, mer of Queensland, Arthur Bloore' s between the new boats, No Fearr and with four short races on the waters of pocket maxi, another Steinmann; J44 Zoe, and the proven IMS racers such as the Whitsunday Passage adjacent to Phoenix, Rob Reynold's US-designed Assassin, a past Sydney to Hobart IMS Hayman Island Resort. There will be J44 from Sydney; Maglieri Wines, Dr winner, Ninety Seven which recently two other distance events over courses Geoffrey Vercoe's Jutson 42 from Ade­ took line and IMS honours in the inau­ set around the rugged uninhabited laide; Ninety Seven, the much-travelled gural race from Brisbane to Gizo in the islands east of Hook and Whitsunday Farr 47 owned by Andrew Strachan Solomon Islands, Atara and Maglieri Islands. from Sydney; No Fearr, a Farr-designed Wines. Like similar exclusive regattas over­ Cookson 39 newly imported from New Incidentally, Andrew Strachan has seas, the social side of the event such as Zealand by Queenslander Carey nominated Ninety Seven under the poolside cocktails and evening dinner Ramm; PL Lease Future Shock, Greg burgee of the Royal Ocean Racing Club parties is very much part of the attrac­ Elliott designed 55-footer owned by in England while Roger Hickman will tion of the Big Boat Series. Hayman Victorian Peter Hansen; Primo, radical be representing his longtime home Island Resort is offering special travel Greg Elliott designed 16m wing mast­ club, the Royal Yacht Club of Tasma­ and accommodation packages for ed schooner, owned by Tom McCall nia, with the chartered Atara. jj 4I:, August • September 1996 XXXX-Ansett Ham Island Race w--ia Hamilton Island Race Week, coming up for its 13th anniversary, is still the hottest and most popular week-long winter regatta in the South Pacific. Ian Grant previews Australia's best known regatta in the tropics

The famous Whitehaven Beach party will again be a feature of the social activities of the XXXX-Ansett Hamilton Island Race Week in late August. (Pie - Ian Grant)

un-drenched beaches, warm 30 downwind at 20 knots plus has Week while No Fearr is a newly import­ degrees breezes to sail in against enabled it to set four New Zealand race ed Cookson 39, a development of the Sinternational competition, and records after being narrowly beaten by successful New Zealand yacht High 5. endless warm balmy nights to party in Wild Thing in last year's 5500 nautical Other Queensland entries include port...they are the ingredients which mile race from Melbourne to Osaka in Arthur Bloore's Hammer of Queensland have made Hamilton Island's XXXX­ Japan. and "Robbo" Robertson's latest IMS Ansett Race Week in the Whitsunday Yachts entered when OFFSHORE racer, The Last Picasso. Islands of North Queensland the South went to press included another new Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron Pacific's biggest annual international Elliott designed yacht from New commodore Bruce Taylor is bringing winter keelboat regatta. Zealand, Rod Brittain's 49-footer his Hick 35, JLW Chutpah, north for This year's regatta running from Hydroflow which has dominated Auck­ Race Week as is Joe Westerlo with his Saturday, August 25 through to the fol­ land races over the past summer. Also Elliott 49, Indospray Prowler, and Trevor lowing Saturday, August 31, will be coming across from NZ are Cotton Blos­ Neate with Morning Mist III from one of the biggest Race Weeks in its som, a Dubois 72 owned by Peter Mornington. Other Southern States colourful and, at times, dramatic histo­ Spencer and a Dibley 46 named Max entrants are Maglieri Wines, owned by ry. Entries are flowing in from around Out. Adelaide medico Dr Geoffrey Vercoe Australia, Papua New Guinea and At least two yachts are sailing down and Hartz Mineral Water, skippered by New Zealand, including several new from Papua New Guinea - API-More­ Tasmanian John Fuglsang. state-of-the-art ocean racers. bartalk, an Elliott 10.65m sloop owned As always, a strong contingent is At the same time, Olympic, Ameri­ by Laurie Need- ca's Cup and World champion sailors ham, and Kai Mai will be jetting in to "splice the main­ Flyer, a Young 11 ""Race Week 1996 is expected to brace" with their Aussie compatriots in owned by Chris attract around 120 boats, ranging the island resort's many bars and enjoy Walmsley. the international competition on the Hamilton Island from the latest 25-foot high­ water in this "land of the twelve month Race Week gets performance day-sailers to the summer." strong support powerful maxis and pocket maxis" Race Week 1996 is P-xpected to from the growing attract around 120 boats, ranging from North Queensland the latest 25-foot high-performance fleet of offshore racers, with early coming from New South Wales and day-sailers to the powerful maxis and entries including Warwick Miller's B- Victoria, including the newly launched pocket maxis. This year the red hot 52 and No Fearr (Carey Ramm). B-52 is Iain Murray-designed Zoe, a develop­ boat looks likely to be Primo, the 16m the former Australian Challenge 2000 ment of 1995 Sydney to Hobart winner wing-masted schooner from Auckland. which Ray Roberts and the late Ian Terra Firma owned by Sydney yachts­ Designed by Greg Elliott and owned Bashford sailed to victory in the IMS man Ivan Wheen. Murray may be by Tom McCall, Primo 's ability to plane cruiser/ racer class of last year's Race aboard during Race Week. August• September 1996 4a wick Sherman), the two J44s Adria (Chris Gorman) and Phoenix (Rob Reynolds), Assassin (Robin Crawford) and Aspect Computing, which David Pescud is again campaigning with his crew with disabilities. NinehJ Seven, still in Queensland waters following her line / handicap win the inaugural race from Brisbane to Gizo in the Solomon Islands, is another big boat in the impressive fleet. Entries for the 1996 XXXX-Ansett Race Week at Hamilton Island close on August 16, but there is a special offer for crews to have their yacht's name Boatspeed 23 at ful l flight during last year's XXXX-Ansett Hamilton Island Race Week. embroided free of charge if skippers order top quality, Australian-made Two interesting new yachts will be Both yachts were due to be launched in Race Week '96 polo shirts from the race Australia's first Mount Gay 30s, late July. office by Tuesday, August 6. designed by Scott Jutson, designer of Successful ocean racing yacht Roger Orders for the $45 shirts can be the maxi yacht Brindabella. One has Hickman has chartered the Irish-regis­ faxed to 07 467 278 on the order form in been built for Ray Stone, who previ­ tered, Sydney-based Farr 43, Atara, for the notice of race. ously raced the successful IMS racer all the major winter events, and Kings Cross, while the other is for well­ expects to be a strong force at Race Magic 25s in Race known short-handed sailor David Far­ Week while other Sydney entrants Week Debut rell. BOC Challenge solo round-the­ include Abracadabra, a US-built Tripp An expected fleet of 30-plus trailable world race class winner David Adams 48 owned by James Mark Anthony, yachts, including ten Magic 25s and at will skipper Farrell's boat in Race Sycorax (Michael Quinn), Yendys (Geof­ least four Boatspeed 23s, will provide Week, sailing as a fully crewed entrant. frey Vercoe), A Crewed Interest (War- an added spectacle at the Hamilton The new heart of Whitsunday cruising!

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49 August• September 1996 Island Race Week. the Whitsundays, has been offered for lost $10,000 when the safety deposit it With some 40 Magic 25s already the winner of the match racing series. was stored in was incinerated. sold in Australia, the lain Murray­ Nominations are restricted to crew However, the ashes were sent to the designed high performance sloops will members officially contesting Race Reserve Bank which carefully counted provide spirited competition for the Week with the racing on a course the tiny metal threads from the notes Boatspeed 23s which have been regular inside Hamilton Harbour and Ameri­ which had survived, and his lost mon­ participants at Race Week. ca's Cup style on-the-water judging. ey was subsequently refunded. jj Aside from these boats, an eye­ The event is expected to attract up to -Mike Sabey catcher is expected to be the new David 120 competitors with the series being Lyons' designed 8.0m fluoro flyer, Too slotted in between the big boat events Hot 2 Tro t, owned by David Eickmeyer, of Race Week. XXXX-Ansett Race one of Australia's most skilled trailable Week - The Racing yacht skippers. Dramas and Disasters Saturday, August 24: South Molle and Daydream Island Trophy, 25nm Olympic Laser Despite the magnificent location, cen­ tred on Hamilton Island in the Whit­ Sunday, August 25: XXXX Classics, 2 Dinghies To Match sundays, Race Week has never been far races of 15nm each. Race at Hamilton from drama and controversy. Tuesday, August 27: Coral Sea Race, Whitsunday Tourism's David Hutch­ In 1985, as crews tucked into their IMS, PHS yachts to sail 85nm course, en, one of the founders of the XXXX cornflakes at breakfast one morning, shorter Coral Sea Race for cruising Ansett Hamilton Island Race Week, they watched helplessly as the resort's yachts, trailable yachts and day will provide his Fantasea fleet of Laser main office, reception centre and com­ sailers, 25nm. dinghies, the new Olympic single­ puter system, together with several Thursday, August 29: Ansett Australia handed class, for a special match race shops and a vast restaurant complex, Classic, 2 races of 15nm. (one race series at Hamilton Island during Race was burnt to the ground in a spectacu­ for cruising yachts) Week. lar fire. Friday, August 30: Hamilton Island With sponsorship from The Moor­ Damage was estimated at $5 million Challenge, 30nm triangle course. ings charter company and Ansett Aus­ and it caused a major disruption to Saturday, August 31: The Lindeman In tralia, a prize worth $10,000 in airfares, guest movements. one incident, a Island Trophy, 22nm accommodation and a charter cruise in wellknown international yacht owner

Aug ust • September 1996 Kiwi Scllooner for

very now and then a new boat comes along to nudge the state­ of-the-art - and define the designer. For New Zealander Greg New Zealand schooner Primo heads for Port Phillip Heads after the start of last year's race from Elliott his own ocean racer Parti; Pro, Melbourne to Osaka in Japan . The Greg Elliott design was just beaten by Australia's Wild Thing. which burst onto the scene in 1986, was (Pie - Kevan Wolfe). one such defining project. It announced the arrival of a cre­ The rad ical wing-masted schooner Primo from New ative thinker prepared to move outside Zealand promises to be one of the star attractions at the the square and to follow his own Hayman Island and Hamilton Island regattas in instincts. Party Pro, with its pugna­ Queensland in August. Ivor Wilkins writes about this cious, slope-shouldered appearance, ignored the aesthetics of the time and innovative and fast ocean racer. certainly ignored the dictates of the IOR, which was the predominant rac­ Osaka in Japan, later sailing to the US sailed to the US to contest the famous ing arbitrator of the time. This was def­ for the TransPac. In both events, she TransPac Race from Los Angeles to initely a boat with an attitude, showed she is an unrestrained ocean Honolulu. While in the US, she fin­ although it hardly had time to demon­ speed machine. ished second to 1995 Sydney-Hobart strate its real performance before it was Owned by well known Auckland race line honours winner Sayonara in lost in a wreck while comfortably lead­ yachtsman Tom McCall, Primo origi­ the San Francisco to Catalina Island ing the New Zealand to Fiji race in nally was entered for the Canon Syd­ race. TransPac officials placed her in 1987. ney-Gold Coast Classic, and then all the division for 70-footers, and she beat Now, a decade later, ' Elliott has races and regattas north to the TAG five of the nine big boats to Hawaii. come up with something altogether Heuer Ansett Australia Big Boat Series She also overtook the SO-footers which different again. While this may not at Hayman Island and the XXXX­ had started a day before under the exactly redefine the designer - some of Ansett Hamilton Island Race Week. staggered starts used for the TransPac its features have been seen in his earli- Now she is sailing direct across the and beating the first of these by a total Tasman to Queensland of 29 hours in elapsed time. At one waters. stage of the race the Kiwi flyer main­ "She has a bigger wheel, quite Primo is another step tained more than 20 knots for some 30 a lot of subtle changes and forward, a large one at minutes sailing in 25 to 28 knots true she has second generation that, in Greg Elliott's breeze on a broad lead under full sails. design thinking and a Back in New Zealand, Primo took mainsails. She is faster to project very much close fastest time and broke the record in this windward without loss of any to his heart. So much so, year's double-handed race around the downwind speed!' that he joined fellow North Island, sailed by former Whit­ Kiwi Brian Peterson in bread Race sailors Mike Sanderson and sailing the yacht in the Brad Jackson. Greg Elliott sailed on the er boats - it does present an amalgama­ 5,500 nautical mile south to north race second yacht, Hydro Flow, a 49-footer tion of concepts in a single, highly indi­ to Osaka. After leading for most of the he designed for Auckland yachtsman vidualistic project. race, the schooner got caught by Brian Brittain. The design is Primo, a radical wing­ unfavourable winds and currents and "We've made quite a few changes to masted 16-metre schooner, which as lost the race to the Australian yacht, Primo since she returned here," Elliott Elliott Marine contested the 1995 two­ Wild Thing, by just 96 minutes. told OFFSHORE. "She has a bigger handed marathon from Melbourne to Subsequently, the schooner was wheel, quite a lot of subtle changes and

August• September 1996 she has second generation mainsails. meaning to the term square-rigger. The running performance." For upward She is faster to windward without loss two mainsails feature squared head­ efficiency, a retractable canard foil just of any downwind speed." boards made of kevlar and carbon ahead of the forward mast comes into Primo looks every inch a speed which project the roach well back from play. machine. The small blister coachroof the mast and maximise the sail area on The hull construction comprises a denotes a boat with serious offshore relatively short masts - big horsepower carbon and kevlar outside skin over a work in mind and the shape and char­ with low centre of effort. divinycell core with a kevlar inner acter of the hull makes it clear that no With only kevlar standing rigging to skin. For the bottom of the hull, the handicap rule has influenced the hold up the masts, it all sounds like a divinycell is replaced by a balsa core. designer's pen. This is an unrestricted major engineering feat, but Elliott The hull shell is well supported by ocean speed machine. insists it is not a complex arrangement. bulkheads and frames which Elliott Elliott has given the traditional "Actually it is very schooner configuration a modern simple. It is far simpler shake-up. The radical rig comprises than the multi-spread­ ''If the boat is different two equal length carbon fibre wing er, multi-stay arrange­ masts, both rotating through 180 ments you see on an above the water, it is also degrees with diamond stays for col­ IMS boat with all the interesting below the water" umn strength and kevlar standing rig­ rig tension and com­ ging. The masts are well separated, pression that goes with the aft mast considerably raked to with it," he says. "With this set-up, describes as "a girder and diaphragm maximise the separation for the effi­ once the stay is attached, that's all arrangement like the old aeroplanes cient use of staysails. The ample deck there is to it. It's just a question of get­ used." beam forward provides an efficient ting the angles right." Primo will certainly add a new staying base for the forward mast. If the boat is different above the dimension to the race in the Whitsun­ Between them the masts represent 200 water, it is also interesting below the days, up against speedsters like the square feet of sail, before any kevlar is water. The two masts are matched by Elliott-designed PL Lease Future Shock hoisted. two foils. The main keel is in the back and the Kell Steinmann-designed When the sails, developed by third of the boat which Elliott says Queensland flyers, Hammer of Queens­ Norths, are revealed they give a new "promotes exceptional reaching and land and Bobsled. jj

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"A~ NMEA0183 GPS and autqJDI ca, be NAVICO ~~~~~;)~1~ 7097 connect«tcirect !Otha Naw:lo N8\1Stall0n, Ytittlouc the Fax: (02) 417 7557 neediora,nterlacet.nt. Aussie tor H Co Australia has mounted a strong bid to regain the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii and will also be represented for the first time in the Commodore's · Cup at Cowes. Peter Campbell reports. Trio For The Tradewinds ustralia's most successful ocean racing skipper, Syd Fis­ A cher, is leading a formidable team to Hawaii for what promises to be one of the best Kenwood Cup regat­ tas in the warm tradewinds of the Pacific, the tenth biennial Hawaii Inter­ national Ocean Racing Series. Racing starts on August 5 with the first of six spectacular short ocean The Farr 50 Ragamuffin, which will lead Australia's team at the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii starting races in the deep blue waters off Hon­ August 5. (Pie • Ian Mainsbridge) olulu's famous Waikiki beaches, the series also including two demanding standing chance of winning the Ken­ Andrew Crowe (mast), Greg Johnston medium to long ocean races, the 150 wood Cup (previously the Clipper (pit), Chris Hoskins (trimmer), Tony nautical mile Molokai race and the Cup) for the first time since 1988. Ellis (crew boss), Hugh Bradie (trim­ final Kaula race of 400 miles. Before then, Fischer had played a mer), Michael Mottl (trimmer), with Joining Fischer and his Farr IMS 50, major role in Australia's wins in 1978 Glenn Bourke, Adam Beashel, Grant Ragamuffin, are two other outstanding and 1980 with previous yachts named Simmer and Syd Fischer in the after­ Australian yachts - Bob Steel's Nel­ Ragamuffin. For the other two owners, guard. Yet to be chosen when OFF­ son/Marek 43, Quest, also from Syd­ this will be their first to date of racing SHORE went to press were the grinder ney, and Giorgio Gjergja's Farr IMS 47, in Hawaiian waters but they have con­ and mainsail trimmer. Ausmaid, from Melbourne. Each owner siderable experience in their crews. Aboard Ausmaid, owner Giorgio has put together crews comprising Fischer has put together a most Gjergja will be joined by sailmaker many of Australia's outstanding capable crew of experienced and Ross Lloyd as sailing master and tacti­ sailors for the eight race event, a com­ younger yachtsman to sail Ragamuffin cian, mastmaker Iain "Barney" Walker bination of longtime ocean racing in Hawaii. Principal helmsman will be as principal helmsman, young Robert experience and talented one-design Olympic and America's Cup sailor and Case as navigator, Glen Ferguson, expertise. three times Laser world champion Simon Cunnington, Mick Maloney and Fischer is a veteran of the Royal Glenn Bourke, fresh from coaching the the yacht's builder, Mal Hart, as trim­ Hawaiian Ocean Racing Club's inter­ Australian Laser and Finn sailors in the mers. national ocean racing series and has Olympic yachting at Savannah. Bob Steel's crew for Quest will be captained winning teams. Under his Other crew members for Ragamuffin much the same team who have sailed driving force, Australia has an out- include David Blanchfield (bow), the boat with success since it was 41» August • September 1996 LEFT: Melbourne yachtsman John Calvert­ Jones is leading the Australian team at the Rolex Commdore's Cup at Cowes, England, with his new Bashford/Howison 41 , Great News. (Pie - Peter Campbell)

world's fastest yachts in the over 65- foot class, including Australia's Exile, and four new ILC Maxis from five dif­ ferent designers including the Reichel/Pugh designed 80-footer Morning Glory, the Farr-designed 78- footer Sayona ra which took line hon­ ours in last year's Telstra Sydney to Hobart, Falcon 2000, a new Nelson/ Marek 78-footer built in New Zealand, Boomerang, a Frers 80, along with Cas­ LEFT: The "green machine", Exile, owned by siopeia, a Davidson 72, and Sagamore, a expat Australian Warwick Miller, wi ll be Sparkman and Stephens 78. competing in the Kenwood Cup as a member of the Victorian team. (Pie • Peter Campbell) Australian Designs imported from America a year ago. this year. The team is a good one with on Show at Cowes Jamie MacPhail will be principal three proven ocean racing yachts and Australia is represented for the first helmsman, Ron Jacobs is handling the experienced crew on each of them," time by a three-boat team at this year's dual role of tactician and navigator said Fischer. Rolex Commodore's Cup at Cowes, (the 1996 crew weight means the yacht Australia's strongest opposition will England, including two Australian­ is down from eleven to ten crew), come from New Zealand and the Unit­ designed and built IMS cruiser/ racers. while other key members of the crew ed States, current holders of the Ken­ Heading the team is Melbourne include the owner, sailmaker Peter wood Cup. The Kiwi team comprises yachtsman John Calvert-Jones, sailing Antill, with Tom Braidwood the bow­ White Cloud, a new Farr-designed his new Iain Murray-designed, Bash­ man. Cookson 39, Georgia, a Farr 43, and ford Howison 41, Great News, in a sig­ Three other Australian yachts will Georgia Express, a Mumm 36 nificant appearance leading up to the be competing in Hawaii as individual The US is fielding three teams with 1997 Admiral's Cup. He and Syd Fis­ entries: the Iain Murray-designed IMS the Red team comprising Infinity, a cher have already indicated to the Aus­ racer, Terra Firma, the 1995 Telstra Syd­ Nelson/Marek 43, Flash Gordon II, a tralian Yachting Federation they are ney to Hobart overall winner, the Mur­ Farr 43, and Gaucho, the powerful Farr interested in forming a team for the ray designed Bashford/ Howison 41 46. The US White team comprises Admiral's Cup. cruiser/ racer, Seaview Challenge Again, Recidivist, a Schumacher 39, Jack Rabbit, The other Australian team boats for and the dashing "green machine", the a Nelson/Marek 39, and Desperado, a the Commodore's Cup will be the BH Reichel /Pugh 65, Exile. They have Lidgard 36. The US Blue team had not 36, Virginia, which will be skippered by formed a Victorian team. been finalised when OFFSHORE went Bashford / Howison export director Skippering Terra Firma for Victorian to press. Geoffrey Howison, and Mean Mousse, a owners Dean Wilson and Scott Carlile The Kenwood Cup Hawaii Interna­ Judel /Vrolik-designed ILC 30, char­ will be hard-driving international tional Offshore Series will start on tered by UK-based, former Sydney yachtsman Grant Wharington who August 5 with two short wind­ yachtsman David Lowe. sailed his own boat in Hawaii in 1992, ward/ leeward races off Waikiki, with a When OFFSHORE went to press, while this will be yet another Hawai­ similar format the following day. The the RORC expected a record number of ian appearance for Lou Abrahams with fleet will set sail in the 150 nm Molokai teams for the Ro lex Commodore's his latest yacht, Seaview Challenge race on August 6, with two more short Cup, including the Channel Islands, Again. Abrahams is a director of the windward/leeward races for the USA (holders of the Cup), Chile, Nor­ Royal Hawaiian Ocean Racing Club. Corum Trophy off Waikiki on August way and Russia with one team each. At Exile, owned by expatriate CYCA 10. The next day the fleet will contest least two teams each were expected member Warwick Miller, will be on her the Champagne Mumm short ocean from England, Wales, the Netherlands, way back to Australia to contest this triangle, with the final race, the 400 nm Germany and Sweden. year's Sydney to Hobart, in which she Kaula Race starting on August 13. The Cowes Week, which will follow the was third across the line in the 50th awards banquet is scheduled for Commodore's Cup, will also have a Hobart in 1994. August 16. strong Australian representation, with "I believe we have a strong chance In addition to team yachts, the pop­ seven BH 41s and four BH 36s expect­ of winning the Kenwood Cup series ular regatta will include several of the ed to race. )j August• September 1996 for

Super model Elle McPherson has given high profile support to Australia's first challenge for the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1997 -98, an all-women crew headed by experienced Sydney sailor Adrienne Cahalan. Peter Campbell reports that the challenge is already well under way.

Elle McPherson, ustralia will finally have a who has given a yacht in the Whitbread Round high profile to the the World Race - an all­ Australian A challenge for 1997 - women crew with super model Elle 98 Whitbread McPherson as chief executive of the Round the World Race. (Pie $10 million Elle Racing project and courtesy, Barry Adrienne Cahalan as the skipper of a Mackinnon, The yet-to-be-built Bruce Farr-designed Sunday Telegraph) Whitbread 60. Elle Racing and its crew of women and members of the Elle Racing crew to basis for success in the Whitbread have upstaged earlier announced chal­ be present at OFFSHORE'S Fashion Race. lenges lodged by Melbourne yachts­ Parade at the Cruising Yacht Club of Elle McPherson's commitment to ~en John Bertrand and Peter Elliott by Australia on Friday, September 6. the Whitbread is significant to women being first on the water. The seventh Whitbread Race starts around the world. Cahalan and a crew of Australian, from Southampton on September 21, "Involvement in the Whitbread New Zealand, English and American 1997 and will finish back there at the Round the World Race represents a women are already sailing the previ­ end of May of May, 1998. For the first rare opportunity for personal chal­ ous Whitbread Race contender, time, there will be two stopovers in lenge, adventure and team spirit," she Heineken, from England to Australia as Australia - at Fremantle in November­ says. part of crew training and evaluation December, 1997 and in Sydney in Her hands-on approach to the aboard the 60-footer. December-January. development of the overall corporate The yacht, re-named Elle Racing, is Renowned as one of the world's strategy and marketing of the project due in Sydney in late August, after toughest races, the Whitbread is will greatly assist the team's ultimate stopovers in Cape Town and Freman­ designed for people with strength, success. With the experience of sailing tle, with Elle McPherson flying back to endurance, team spirit and a driving with her father in Sydney as a teenag­ Australia specially for a major launch passion for success. The combination er, Elle plans to compete in two short of the Whitbread Race project in Sep­ of McPherson's success in the interna­ legs of the Whitbread Race, from Fort tember. As part of the training pro­ tional fashion business and Cahalan's Lauderdale to Baltimore on the US gram, the yacht will contest the 52nd experience on the water, including East Coast, and the final dash from La Sydney to Hobart race in December. sailing as navigator aboard Heineken Rochelle, France, to the finish back at OFFSHbRE Yachting has invited with an all-women crew in the previ­ Southampton, England. Elle McPherson, Adrienne Cahalan ous Whitbread Race, provides the Sailing aboard Elle Racing on the

C:, 119111 • Septe ■ ber 1996 -'-'Our combined sailing credentials represent the best from Australia and the world. Many crew members have special technical skills to back up their yachting experience"

sible for much of the organisation and fund-raising for John Bertrand's oneAustralia Challenge for the 1995 America's Cup before a fall-out with Bertrand. The purpose-build Elle Racing yacht will be launched early in 1997 and in the lead-up to the 1997-98 Whitbread, Elle Racing will nominate for this year's Sydney to Hobart (with the training W60) and, with the new boat, the 1997 New York to Southampton race and the Fastnet Race. The Whitbread Race will cover more than 31,600 nautical miles and take about eight months to complete, with stopovers in five continents: • Leg 1 - Southampton-Cape Town, 7350 nm, September 21, 1997. • Leg 2 - Cape Town-Fremantle, The crew of Elle Racing, with skipper Adrienne Cahalan in the cockpit, posed for this picture in 4600nm, November 8, 1997. Southampton before sailing-for Australia. (Pie - Allsport) • Leg 3 - Fremantle-Sydney, 2250nm, December 13, 1997. • Leg 4 - Sydney-Auckland, 1270 training voyage from England to Aus­ campaign. Solid pre-race technical nm, January 4, 1998. tralia are Australians Adrienne Caha­ development is complemented by • Leg 5 - Auckland-Sao Sebastio, lan, Clare Richards, Belinda Stowell, high skill levels on board in navigation 6670nm, January 31, 1998. Teresa Michell and Lindsay Marwood; and meteorology, with unfaltering • Leg 6 - Sao Sebastio-Fort Laud­ New Zealander Jenny Armstrong; team work." erdale, 4750nm, March 14, 1998. Americans Joan Touchette and Molly Preparatory design and weather • Leg 7 - Fort Lauderdale-Baltimore, McC!oud and Englishwoman Emma analysis work is already under way at 870nm, April 19, 1998. Westmacott. All are experienced Bruce Farr and Associates who • Leg 8 - Annapolis-La Rochelle, sailors, ranging from Olympic classes designed eight yachts in the 1994 3390nm, May 3, 1998. through to ocean racing and the Amer­ Whitbread Race. The Elle Racing team • Leg 9 - La Rochelle-Southhamp­ ica's Cup. also has retained Whitbread Race vet­ ton, 450nm, May 22, 1998. Speaking before she set sail from eran Chris Dickson as a consultant on Southampton in June, Adrienne told design, yacht construction and sail OFFSHORE: "Our combined sailing program. David Ryder is in charge of Dennis Connor gains credentials represent the best from logistics and the Australian Bureau of Toshiba sponsorship Australia and the world. Many crew Meteorology will provide special Four times America's Cup winner and members have special technical skills weather services. world champion yachtsman Dennis to back up their yachting experience. John Harvey is heading the market­ Connor has received sponsorship for "Dedication, hard work and strong ing and public relations aspects of the his Whitbread challenge from the management will ensure a balanced major campaign. Harvey was respon- Computer Systems Division of Toshiba August• September 1996 41) America Information Systems. and two training boats and is being Conner's new Bruce Farr-designed backed by a newly created company, Whitbread 60, to be named Toshiba, will EF Yacht Racing AB. be equipped with advance notebook Project vice-president Johan Salen computers with infrared/ wireless headed the campaign for the second­ communication capabilities and other placed Intrum Justitia European team advanced computing features. in the last Whitbread. This will be Conner's second Whit­ The $15 million plan is to build two bread Race campaign, in which he will training and two racing yachts with be supported by a crew of eleven expe­ strong support from major Swedish rienced round-the-world sailors. Team companies. Dennis Conner has already named New Zealander Chris Dickson as co-skip­ per and Australian Andrew Cape as nav­ igator. B_oth compet­ ed in the last Whit­ bread race aboard Tokio. In other Whit­ bread Race news, with 40 registered syndicates from Norway has announced it will cam­ Elle Racing, the training boat for Australia's all­ countries around the world: paign a yacht to be named Innovation women crew challenging for the 1997-98 British yachtsman Lawrie Smith has Kvaerner, with former Olympic sailor Whitbread Round the World Race , in action on signed a contract to skipper Sweden's Knut Mauriz Frostad as the skipper. The Solent in England before setting sail half Team EF in the Whitbread Race. The $8 million project is being financed way round the world to Sydney. (Pie - Allsport) The project includes two race boats by some of Norway's companies. ij I ·t~ / . ~t)/tY

ffshore's Gala Fash­ ion Parade, being O held in conjunction with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, on Friday, September 6, will not be just about sailing garments or even leisure wear. It will cover a broad range of fash­ ion, from swimwear to - smart casual wear, even -- business clothing and the trend-setting footwear so much in vogue. Guests at Offshore Yachting magazine's Gala Fashion Featuring many of Syd­ Parade and Dinner at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia ney's top models, the Fash­ ion Parade will include the will have an exclusive introduction to the summer season's latest in yachting, leisure range of yachting, leisure, business and fashion wear from and smart fashion wear from well known brands many of Australia's leading companies. and outlets such as Country Road, Burke/Henri Lloyd, Douglas The Parade and Dinner will be held This inaugural Offshore Fashion Gill, Gottex from Evelyn's Resortwear in the upstairs auditorium of the Parade, directed at the affluent yacht­ at Double Bay, Musto/Line 7, Sebago CYCA at Rushcutters Bay and will be ing community, is causing consider­ Docksides and Double Bay's John Ser­ attended by prominent inshore and able interest among sailors and their afino. offshore sailors as well as the media families. Bookings are still open, with Members of the Elle Racing all­ and the fashion industry. tickets $49 person, and can be made at women's crew who have challenged There will be three Fashion Parades the CYCA reception - phone 02 9363 for the 1997-98 Whitbread Round-the­ of 15 minutes duration, timed to run 9731. There will be a lucky door prize World Race, and their executive direc­ between the courses, with professional drawn during the evening - two return tor, Elle McPherson, have been invited models displaying the very latest gear tickets to Port Douglas. to the dinner. The crew, kitted out in for men and women to wear during On the following pages Offshore Musto and Line 7 gear, is currently sail­ the summer sailing season, both off­ Yachting magazine presents a repre­ ing their training Whitbread 60 from shore and onshore, as well as sentation of some of the things you will England to Australia to compete in this swimwear, resort clothing and smart see at our first annual Yachting Fashion year's Sydney to Hobart race. casual clothing and shoes. Parade. August• September 1996 fJ» Burke's Tasman jacket and pullover look and International yachtsman Lawrie Smith wears The Southerly jacket and trousers from Burke feel great, keeping you warm , wet or dry, and the new Henri Lloyd breathing Offshore Racer Accessories. The jacket is also available now make an ideal middle layer under wet weather Jacket with his Gore-lex Ocean Racer in red/white and has an internal harness gear. trousers. facility. Burke Accessories Henri Lloyd Dealer listings are available from Burke has added all red trousers to the Henri Lloyd has recently introduced Burke Accessories and Safety Equip­ ever popular white in their latest range the new 1996-97 yachting range with a ment, phone 02 9638 4333 or fax 02 9638 7951. of Southerly, Pacific and Super Dry host of innovative features and ranges. The Southerly jacket is also designs. The new range covers all Country Road available in red/ white with an internal forms of sailing from the dinghy and There's a lot of talk about men "dress­ harness facility. coastal sailor through to the offshore ing down" in the workplace; about the The Southerly Jacket and Pants Off­ sailor. new clothing options that men can shore has been developed and tested Henri Lloyd leads another revolu­ consider today as alternatives to the over thousands of miles of America's tion with Breathing (TM) incorporat­ corporate suit. With the bewildering Cup, Admiral's Cup and by cruising ing GORE-1: X fabric Ocean Technolo­ array of casual business wear now in sailors. gy th fast 100% water proof and contention, the question still remains: The resulf is wet t reatliable c1othing system specifically What are these new rules of dressing f designed to cope with the demands of for the office? What constitutes formal and com£ io the marine environment. The introduc­ versus casual and how can men dress sailor. T av tion is th~ ,first breakthrough since smarter within these new, relaxed stitching Henr· ~ loy'q introduced Neoprene dress rules? seat rein coated ny o to yachting more than 30 In defining these new parameters cised back f o. for men internationally, Country Road Enviro he Henri Lloyd Reef Jacket is an all is giving its menswear customers what using Polar e from ne · rment for harbour rac- it has always done: a great range of recycled Pet th 1 nywhere you urban career options, superbly durable and warm,1'asman jac eel warm and designed and coordinated to provide ets. The new fa ilky s a the ease and versatility required when is available in grey: a from soft satin feel taking the Friday to weekend dressing neptune green. "Microplex", a Teflon coated high tech­ option. The Burke Sp ay Jacket has also nology fabric with a finishing process If you begin by defining the work­ been re-designed for 1996-97, using the that forms a molecular barrier around place, then the clothes will easily fol­ same colour ways as the Super Dry. the fibres of the cloth, making it water low. Casual business attire is not The new design is fully lined with a and dirt repellent. Features include leisure or athletic wear - that is strictly stow away hood storm flap and comes breathable and water resistant fabric, time-out clothing. in blue/ white, green/white and zip-fronted Polartec lining, fleece lined The answer for some could well red / white colour combinations. pockets with zips, ribbed cuffs and begin with the suit that presently Dealer information from Burke, hem, fleece lined collar and secure hangs in the wardrobe. By splitting the phone 02 9638 4333 or fax 02 9638 7951. inside breast pocket. suit up and not wearing it with the August• September 1996 Simple casual shirts from Country Road ... part of the modern man's streamlined wardrobe.

same familiar shirts and ties, it can become the most versa­ tile piece your own. Certainly nothing can match it for ease and comfort and by adding a fine knit piece or soft shirt in a luxury yarn you'll soon be regarding your trusty favourite with renewed confidence. The suit is definitely made to be split-up at Country Road: consider other jacket options with the pants or work with the jacket back with different fabrics that suggest a new silhouette and modern approach. Still unsure about what constitutes a more casual approach to business wear? DON'TS: Logo t shirts, tank tops, baseball caps, seats, holes or Southerly Jacket and Pants tears, shorts, shiny black brogues, sandals, athletic gear, Develq{ed and tested over thousands of sea loud patterns on shirts or pants, sneakers, baggy miles by Ameri cas Cup, Admirals Cup and oversized pants or anything that incorporates elastic in its cruising sailors. The result is wet weather gear design. that has the most practical design, safety and · comfort features for serious sailors. Made from DO's: durable PVG coated nylon. Its fabric exterior has Fine gauge turtle or polo neck knitwear - always looks sophisticated under split suits, subtly patterned shirts, a soft supple handle that looks and feels great. softly tailored pants, urban casual jackets, well-pressed Seams are sewn and tape welded 1'00% Chinos, suede or pebblegrain shoes, socks with waterproof. Fully lined using the Burke lining "personality", the new soft chambray or Oxford shirts. system for comfort and condensation control. One of Country Road's new urban split suits in a textured luxury blend and if you must have a tie, try a softer style th at's not too corporate.

The pace of modern life demands a streamlined wardrobe that offers multiple choice across a range of sim­ ple pieces with wearability and comfort. R DEALER LI Tl So if and when your company declares Friday a dress­ down day, relax - and let Country Road present you with its 638 4333 Fax:. '82J 63 stylish business plan for casual dressing at work. August• Se pt emb er 1996 LEFT: Gill Deck Coats have always been a trend setter in casual sailing clothing . ABOV E: Gill Hot Togs .. .th ermal wear not only wicks moisture from the skin but is light and stretchable. Douglas Gill Bi Polar Technology. This thermal wear not only wicks Australia moisture from the skin, but is light 101 Pil ot Jacket weight and stretchable to allow unre­ Gill has always been a leader in casual stricted movement. sailing clothing and their range of A free catalogue is available from Simplicity is the keynote of these garments in Deck Coats is no exception, fulfilling Marineline Distributors Pty Ltd in the Spring range from Country Road. the sailor's. and non-sailor's every Hobart, ph 002 31 0345 or fax 002 31 · need. 0347. In editing the season's influences, The Pilot, a practical year-round Country Road has narrowed down a crew jacket, is a must for every sailor. Evelyn's Reson bewildering array of options to pre­ Its key features include an outshell soft Wear, Double Bay sent an easy guide to looking good. fabric of double brushed microwave Gottex stockist, Evelyn's Resortwear of • The jacket has minimum tailoring for polyester with waterproof, breathable Double Bay in Sydney, is a swimwear maximum ease. Styling is simply de­ microporous PU coating while thermal paradise for women of all ages, tastes tailed and devoid of clutter providing fleece lining allows water vapour to and sizes. Evelyn has over 2000 swim­ career to urban weekend versatility. escape through the outer layer. suits and bikinis in.sizes 8 - 20 (includ­ • The back button shell top and skirts The jacket has an elasticised ing at,.e_¥1ity and mastectomy), provide complete dressing with a large zi µed inside p0ckef, uter mate ing/'overshirts, wraps, caftans, nylon coat replacing the jacket. Soft zipped:pockets. The 'Pilot a so i s mto pareu's etc. meadow colours in knitwear go the Gill 520 Defender Jacket, 502 The new Gottex collection for 1996 beyond the pale as silky T's and Atlantic, 503 At antic GTX and 512 features a exciting array of colours, sweater sets slide with languid ease Souther Cros ·ack desi s a ti fabrics inspired by a col­ over the body. The Gill 10 ilo r leGtion o exotic themes. From Africa to • Stretch the imagination in Country able in );e / d f e Far East, from Hollywood and for­ Road's cotton/ elastone essential navy/ emerald d d , ties chic to the magical world of a spring pants. sizes extra sm o . . scent d garden, Gottex '96 presents a • The crispness of a fresh linen shirt in myriad of looks and combinations that linear black or white looks great at any Gi ll Hot Togs pro i e t compl ment a woman's time. This thermal wear from D s ever}'l m • od • An exuberantly striped tank top to Australia comp ises the ad'i. ottex design created a com­ add weekend vitality and a pair of chi­ neck, 182 Zip Neck and 185 · plete wardrobe of coordinated nos are indispensable this spring. The first la er ·n the Gill m eractive resortwear that will take you through Whether worn casually or dressed up, layering system, this stylish and hard­ from dawn to dusk - breakfast, loung­ chinos continue to be the classic working thermal wear is revolutionary ing around the pool, a casual lunch or wardrobe essential. in design and comfort, made from an a romantic dinner. Welcome to Spring. advanced new Polartec fabric that uses The new Gottex swimwear will turn August • September 1996

ABOVE: The revolutionary Musto Drop Seat Trouser system - .originally designed for women offshore sailors but now in demand by men, too. LEFT: Musto HPX, a breakthrough in Breathable Wet Weather Garments. now available in red/navy/white. dyed. The colours are fresh, going from Line 7 wet weather clothing is an inex­ washed out marine blues to the solid pensive range of wet weather gear and earthy tones of Kevlar and Redwood. warm gear, including the classic Line 7 Relaxed dressing is the theme, vest, thermals and gloves. therefore the look is casual with a dis­ tinct nautical flavour. Line 7 Whitbread Clothing The range consists of polos, T's, Line 7 is also the official licensee for the casual shirts, jackets, shirts and pants - authentic range of Whitbread Round­ both dressy and casual. Line 7 also has the-World Race clothing, with the race a full range of leather accessories as DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: A daring starting on September 1997. well as belts, hats, socks and bags. combination of sophistication and elegance. The first range of Whitbread cloth­ Black, highlighted with diamante brooch trim, ing will be in store from September Musto yachting this exciting ensemble definitely takes you 1996 to celebrate the build-up to this Musto wet weather gear and warm­ from dawn to dusk. great international event. wear, considered widely to be the pre­ With two stopovers in Australia mier brand in the world, is manufac­ your head at Evelyn's Resortwear, (Perth and Sydney) as well as the Elle tured locallx under lie nee in New Hunters Arcade, Cross Street, Double Racing ent · Zealand. Bay, phone 02 9328 6230, while the fol­ have a for their research and lowing swimwear will be modelled at around usto are the innova- Offshore Yachting magazine's Fashion Line he three layer system: Gala Night at the CYCA. sive ne wick moisture away as well Line Seven eight to to keep in the warmth Line 7, the wet weather clothing worn ing jerseys, by the crew of Australia II when they make up the clothing to keep the won the America's Cup in 1983, will water out. launch a new range of sailing clothing Line 7 Cl e wear 0 e ast two ears, Musto has for the 1996-97 season at Offshore A brand bor o~ rotectio er develop- Yachting's Gala Fashion Parade at the from the elemen ped · in CYCA on September 6. heritage from an dea i a sist women With new colours of classic red, producing the fine difficult situations at sea. white and navy, Line 7 will introduce men - second to That' v ped in conjunction with Kerry the new breathable One Design Jacket classical streetw . Goudge of Women on Water, the and Dinghy Regatta Top and the all­ Everything from pure cottons that dropseats have now been adopted by new UV 50+ Rash Shirt. have been indigo dyed and enzyme male sailors. Line 7's existing and well accepted washed to the newest look in man­ Breathables - the biggest break­ cruising range in navy /white is also made fibres that have been pigment through in wet weather gear since the fl» August • September 1996 PROTECTIVE CLOTHING The performance and safety of a yacht ultimately depends mainly on the crew. If they are not functioning efficiently for reasons of physical deficiency - be it lack of sleep, proper meals or cold - then survival is in question. Basic seasmanship demands that this must not happen. Assuming we appreciate the need to drink plenty of fluids, and eat regular, nutritious, and when possible, hot food, close attention must be paid to the importance of clothing. For many years, the Three Layer System has proved to be a successful means of warmth and protection on the water.

The First Layer must be one or two piece underwear of reasonable thickness made preferably from polypropylene yarn. Its responsibility is to provide warmth through the air trapped witl1in the weave and to wick dampness from the skin's surface. These functions allow tl1e body to retain heat and disperse perspiration. Cotton and wool next to the skin, do not dry quickly from body heat when wet. Polypropylene, by contrast, dries quickly.

The Second Layer's requirement is to trap lots of air (warmth). A high-loft fibre pile which, like Layer One, absorbs little water, is one of tl1e favourite linings for this layer. It is beneficial; to have a breathable, finely woven outer shell cover to tl1e fibre pile as this stops the wind stealing the wannth that is generated by the body inside the garments. The second layer has an alternative as any garment that is capable of holding warm air such as a ski jacket can serve altl10ugh its lack of specialist design can be noticed.

The function of the Third Layer is to keep the water out. It is as simple as that. When choosing fo ulweather gear, check in pa1ticular that the collar/ hood design will allow little water to penetrate, tl1e same applies as the wrist and ankle closures. The latest generation of breathable outer garments which are soft, light in weight and hard wearing represent the ultimate two piece suit in terms of protection, comfort and safety.

Do not forget the importance of a good pair of boots. Pui::chase a size in which you can comfo1tably wear two pai~s of socks; as witl1 under wear, you need to trap warmth. Also ensure that the tread on the sole is deep and wide to reduce the risk of aquaplaning; a large surface area of sole is also essential. _i Good gloves and a hat are also essential items. Combination Lifejacket-Harness is a practical tool and the wearer will be wise to ensure M comfortable compatibility between items of clothing and the harness/ life jacket.

A d1y suit is valuable to foredeck crews, in pa1ticular and can be a survival aid . Using the firs t layer underwear with such suits is essential to avoid skin sores from perspiration, fats etc. Also remember that a dry suit virtue of being sealed offers more warmth than a conventional two piece suit. If you wear too much underneath such a suit heat exhaustion can be a serious problem. The ideal is a breathable one piece suit designed to meet tl1e EEC draft for a Constant Wear Suit. The suppleness of the material coupled with the practicality of design make it tl1e ultimate suit to wear in poor weather.

Cost is always a consideration. Value for money is essential and best realised by 3 a.m. on a dark night in a 30 knot wind and a lumpy seaway. It is then appreciated that there is no substitute for good under and outer wear.

When considering your programme of clothing, bear in mind the importance of keeping the weight down and retammg maximum flexibility. DO OT purchase close-fitting outer clothing as this reduces flexibility and adds to the build up of condensation. Remember, stamina is reduced by wearing heavy, stiff clothing. Also dressing fully before the first wave hits is essential. The object of sailing includes having fun and being safe. Keeping warm and dry plays a fundamental part in achieving this. Two of the striking advertisements and posters being used to market Sebago Docksides .. .in this case a catamaran version of the Oceanside, made from stonewashed cotton canvas. oilies were used by the Cape Homers last century. After Musto is the only brand to cover every spectrum of boat­ years of testing in the Whitbread Round -the-World Race, ing clothing and safety equipment in Australia. Musto have launched, in conjunction with WL Gore, the HPX Ocean Technology range with Musto's exclusive softer, Sebago Docksides lighter fabric. Docksides is arguably one of the best known brands of boat This is ideal for Australian conditions, for all types of shoes in the world, with its makers, Sebago, this year cele­ boating and sports activities. brating 50 years of manufacturing handcrafted footwear that's at home on the land, in the streets and on the water. Sebago originally manufactured Docksides for Sperry as an OEM brand and, hence, old Sperrys were known as Sper­ ry Docksides. When Sperry took their manufacturing to Indonesia, they changed the name of the shoe to Sperry Top­ sider. With Docksides a registered Sebago trademark, the range now covers the original one colour boat shoe known as Dockside but the description "Dockside: now includes Seba­ go's coloured boat shoes called Spinnaker and Burgee. It also covers boating sandals known as Sunsplash, as well as the casual boating orientated street shoes called Schooner. Sebago is also well-known for its range of High Street Fashion shoes, in full leather with steel shank arch support, Sebago Lites for lightweight formal street wear, as well as shoes and boots under the Dryside label. These are water­ proof leathers for cooler season wear. Sebago manufactures shoes in a wide variety of widths. In Australia, the common fitting is wide, EE or EEE fitting. Anyone who has worn Sebago Docksides know that they look right, fit right and feel right from the moment you put them on, right through the life of the shoes. Contact Mark Baker or Mary Fung on 02 9809 4800 for the name of your nearest Sebago dealer.

John Serafino, Double Bay The name John Serafino has been synonymous with style, Shop 4, Hunters Arcade quality and service in the fashion industry for many years. 16 Cross St, Double Bay NSW 2028 John is justifiably proud of his reputation which is no doubt Telephone: (02) 9328 6230 the reason why he enjoys the patronage of a top clientele. SpeciaLiJing in Swimwear anrJ Beachwear At John Serafino's Double Bay shop in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs will find a collection of elegant Serafino designs to

August• September 1996 Her: Black satin sleeveless shirt and matching She wears Pacific Knit Polo in cotton pique Her: Cream/black hounds tooth microfibre shirt pants. Him: Pale blue Irish linen two-piece with cotton washed Quadrant Shorts. Big Bill dress. Him: White linen two-piece suit, black suit, cotton shirt, pure silk tie. All available at Cap in natural is worn as an accessory. silk shirt. Available from John Serafino, Double John Serafino, Double Bay. Available from John Serafino, Double Bay. Bay. suit men and women of all ages and lifestyles - casual sports summer 1996 collection at Offshore Yachting's Gala Fashion · clothing, classic business suits and day wear, and a superb Parade at the CYCA on September 6. selection of after-five dressing. He has recently added a boutique selection from the Mus­ Simona Spon to and Line 7 clothing. Thus, at John Serafino, Double Bay, The Simona Sport label is not even two years old, but is you will find a garment to suit every occasion. John will be already becoming the hottest name in casual weekend wear. showing a selection of his men's and worn-en's spring/ Sales have more than doubled in just two season.

Southern Cross Jacket Our new Southern Cross jacket brings higher levels of comfort, protection and safety to coastal sailing and offshore cruising at a very sensible price. Features include an internal safety harness channel, inner zip for flotation vest, a well designed hood and retro-reflective strips. Also available In ladles' sizes.

Latitude 42 Jacket Perfect for Inshore and coastal sailing - wh r you are cruising or day racing. The new Latitude jacket offers a good level of protective features, including a stowaway hood and fleece-lined handwarmers, while its shorter length is both practical and comfortable.

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August• September 1996 THE SIMONA SPORT 1996 SPRING/ SUMMER COLLECTION IS AVAILABLE AT SELECTED BOUTIQ UES, DAVID JONES AND SI MONA CO NC EPT STORES NATIONALLY. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL 1 800 654 116 Here are just a few of the easy looks that you can put together yourself for Summer '96.

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soft for summer ona as well as classic c d stripes. The simplest solution for a sum- mer weekend is to throw on a bright coloured gingham overshirt and pull on a pair of skinny leg pants! jj August • September 1996 for December Sydney will see a feast of offshore and inshore racing in December as a lead-up to the 52nd Sydney to Hobart race and other major ocean races over the The Canon Big Boat Challenge along with the races of the Sydney Offshore Regatta will be sailed on Sydney Harbour in December as a lead up to the 52nd Sydney to Hobart race. Christmas-New Year (Pie - Peter Campbell) holiday. Peter Campbell Regatta races will be staged each day formance Handicap series, includes the summarises the 1996-97 except on Friday, December 22, with Pittwater to Coffs Harbour race con­ Summer of Sail. the Canon Big Boat Challenge for maxi ducted by the Royal Prince Alfred yachts to be held on the Harbour. Yacht Club, starting on December 27. he Cruising Yacht Club of Aus­ The Regatta inshore races will be The CYCA, MHYC and RSYS will tralia, with the support of other two short events on Wednesday, again conduct the Combined Clubs off­ Tmajor clubs in the Sydney area, December 18, over courses yet to be shore racing program which over the will host a new series in December determined and, like the Big Boat Chal­ past season attracted fleets of more called the Sydney Offshore Regatta (or lenge, are expected to attract large than 80 yachts for short ocean races off the Sponsor's Cup), comprising six spectator fleets. the Heads. The fleets will be further short and medium races off Sydney The Sydney Offshore Regatta is the expanded by yachts from the RPAYC's Heads and two spectacular races with­ highlight of an innovative program of offshore fleet joining in several of the in the Harbour. ocean racing out of Sydney for the weekend regattas. The Sydney Offshore Regatta, summer of 1996-97, developed by the The Combined Clubs' regattas will which replaces the Asia Pacific Series, CYCA in consultation with Middle start with the Royal Sydney Ya cht Harbour Yacht Club, the Squadron Spring Regatta over the long Royal Sydney Yacht weekend of October 4-7, with the Mor­ ''For the first time, the Ocean Squadron, Sydney Amateur na Cup overnight race from Sydney to Point Score which in the past Sailing Club and the Pittwa- Bird Islet and finishing in Pittwater. has been a Performance ter-based Royal Prince Following a Saturday evening function Handicap series, includes the Alfred Yacht Club. at the RPAYC, the regatta will continue Pittwater to Coffs Harbour race" Emphasis has been on on the Sunday with a short race in Bro­ regatta weekends over the ken Bay and a passage race back to summer program while at Sydney Harbour. Yachts from all major will be a stand-alone event and will not the same time retaining the Short clubs, including the Alfreds, are include the Sydney to Hobart as part of Ocean Point Score (SOPS), Short Haul expected to participate. the series. CYCA officials hope it will Point Score (SHPS), the Ocean Point On Saturday, ovember 2, the Syd­ attract not only yachts preparing for Score (OPS) and the prestigious Blue ney offshore fleet will be joined by the the Hobart race, but also those plan­ Water Point Score (BWPS). The Blue Pittwater fleet in a regatta off Long ning to head north in the Pittwater to Water Point Score will comprise nine Reef comprising two 10 nm wind­ Coffs Harbour and Sydney to South­ medium to long ocean races, starting ward/leeward races. Middle Harbour port races. with the 1996 Sydney-Gold Coast Clas­ Yacht Club will conduct its fo ur-race The Sydney Offshore Regatta will sic and ending with the 1997 Sydney­ Bruce & Walsh Regatta over the week­ run from Tuesday, December 17 Mooloolaba Race and, as always, end of November 30 and December 1, through to Sunday, December 22, and including the Sydney to Hobart. and this will be followed by the will be part of the sponsorship package For the first time, the Ocean Point CYCA's new Sydney Offshore Regatta for the Sydney to Hobart race sponsor. Score which in the past has been a Per- from December 17-22. jj

-- August • September 1996 Down the Rhumbline

David Fuller's Great Past Commodorfs burgee, "the finan­ Wittey wasn't dared to shave his Contribution to cycA cial turnaround of the Club over the moustache at the NSW Yachting past 12 months is testimony to the Awards Dinner (also a fund-raiser) as uring my own 25 years as a work that David has put into the he was the recipient of the 1995-96 member of the Cruising Yacht CYCA." NSW Yachtsman of the Year award. Club of Australia - and in the D On a personal note, David has There were some 250 sailors and sail­ quarter century before that - the Club always been of great assistance to me ing supporters eager to bid for items at has had many fine Commodores who in my various roles as Editor of "Off­ an auction as well as pay their $100 a have led it through good and bad years shore Yachting" and as the Media plate for the dinner at Kings Cross' and through times of great celebration Director the Sydney to Hobart Race Gazebo Hotel. at the achievements of the CYCA and and other events for the CYCA. Thank Neville got his guernsey for win­ its members. The CYCA now enjoys a you, David! ning the 1996 Yngling world champi­ status as one of the greatest and most onships, finishing third in the Aus­ influential clubs in the world. tralia Cup match racing series in Perth, David Fuller, who completed his NSW yachting Award and winning the historic Sayonara Cup two year term as Commodore at the to Neville Wittey on Hobart's Derwent River, match rac­ Club's recent annual general meeting, Neville Wittey, one of Australia's most ing in Dragons - and for his contribu­ is one of those outstanding leaders the talented and versatile helmsmen, once tion to the sport as a coach and mentor shaved his famed walrus moustache at CYCA has been fortunate to attract to of many young sailors. its Board of Directors. As Commodore a Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron youth More recently, he finished equal he combined a friendly but strong per­ fund-raising evening - for a $1000 bet first (third on a countback) in the Inter­ sonal presentation with administrative to boost the funds. national Star class of the Sail Sydney skills and extensive sailing knowledge The young crew he supported (and Regatta and second to Gary Gietz in and experience. coached) went on to finish in the top the Musto/Line 7 match racing series David completed a , remarkable 12 six of the Yngling world championship at Middle Harbour Yacht Club. years of dedication to the CYCA's on Sydney Harbour in January while The line-up for this year's awards, administration - including some very Wittey took out the title in the first ever both the open and the youth, gave the difficult and demanding years. During victory by an Australian in the interna­ selection panel their toughest task in that time on the Board he served as tional three-crew keelboat class. years with four world champions, a Chairman of the key Management & bevy of Olympians from NSW, not to Finance, Sailing and House Commit­ NSW Yachtsman of the Year Neville Willey - with his famous moustache - pictured with mention the winning women's team in tees. rising to Flag rank as Rear Com­ Chris Harper, chairman of the NSW Yachting the IYRU Nations Cup, and several modore, Vice-Commodore and finally Foundation, and Olympic commentator successful ocean racing skippers. Commodore from 1994-1996. Norman May at the Awards Presentation. With some half a dozen National This includes leading the Club (Pie - Peter Campbell) champions among the nominations for through its 50th year and the massive the Youth Award, the judges finally logistical exercise of organising and chose 16-year-old John Jefferson from conducting the 50th Sydney to Hobart Toronto on Lake Macquarie who had race in December, 1994. won the Flying Ant Australian cham­ l Perhaps his most difficult time has pionship three times in succession, been over the past financial year which plus two NSW titles. saw major management changes and Jefferson is also a member of the cost-cutting to reverse the CYCA's CYCA Youth Sailing Academy and has major financial loss of 1994-95 through competed in several ocean races, with to a tidy profit for 1995-96. As new the Canon Sydney-Gold Coast Classic Commodore Peter Bush said at the his next event. ij AGM, after presenting David with his Peter Campbell, Editor August • September 1996 EXCLUSIVE

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hallenges for the America's Cup in Auckland in 2000 have Cbeen received from the United States, England, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Spain and the Virgin Islands. By the May 14 deadline, John Bertrand's oneAustralia, Syd Fischer and the Southport Yacht Club syndi­ cate had not lodged an entry. The latter Ray Roberts collects a trophy after the 1995 Telstra Sydney-Hobart later announced it would not be mounting a challenge. America's Cup holder, Team New Zealand, The New York Yacht Club has formed a formidable challenge part­ announced in May that eleven syndicates, two of nership with Pact 2000, the Portland them confidential, had lodged entries for the year Club (Maine), the Bayview Yacht Club (Detroit), the Annapolis Yacht Club 2000 challenge in Auckland. But the intrigue that has and the Florida-based, St Petersburg surrounded the America's Cup for "145 years Yacht Club to take on the other chal­ lengers in Auckland. Ed Baird, the continues, as Kevan Wolfe reports. 1995 World Match Racing Champion, has been named as the syndicate's wave and has enjoyed some creditable Millennium's builder, the late Ian helmsman. wins over the past 12 months. Last Bashford, played a major role in the Two further US entries have since year, sailing Millennium, he won the syndicate before he died of a heart been lodged, by the San Francisco­ Sydney-Mooloolaba, Brisbane-Glad­ attack earlier this year. "It was always based, St Francis Yacht Club headed by stone, Cairns-Port Moresby and Bali­ Basho's dream to take part in an Amer­ Paul Cayard, and by the Waikiki Yacht Jakarta races; the Raja Muda Interna­ ica's Cup challenge and I am trying to Club in Hawaii. tional Regatta in Malaysia and the maintain that goal by putting together Other challengers are the Royal Ninth Phuket King's Cup Regatta in the most professional challenge we can Dorset Yacht Club (England), Societe Thailand. As Stewart Toyota, the boat get," Roberts said. Nautique Grau-Du-Roi/Port Camar­ won its division in the Sydney-Hobart Already some high-profile names gue (France), Aberdeen Boat Club and finished third outright on handi­ are involved with Australia Challenge (Hong Kong), Nippon Yacht Club cap. 2000. Former oneAustralia crewman, (Japan), St Petersburg Yacht Club (Rus­ This year Millennium has already Jeff Rose is the Project Manager, Jamie sia), Montreal Club de Yates de Bay­ won the Singapore Straits Regatta. Wilmot is the Project Adviser, Gwilym ona/Real Club Nautico de Valencia Another BH41, Australia Challenge Hughes, Marketing Manager, David (Spain), St Francis Yacht Club (United 2000, also owned by Roberts, won the White, Marketing Consultant, and States), and St Thomas Yacht Club (Vir­ 1995 Hamilton Island Race Week. Ray's daughter, Samantha, is the Exec­ gin Islands). A brand new Farr, commissioned utive Assistant. Former Melbourne Soling sailor and by Roberts, won the One-Design 48 As yet, the syndicate has not now Sydney-based ocean racer, Ray regatta sailed off Battery Park in Low­ announced a designer or sponsor, and Roberts, has revealed that his Australia er Manhattan in the US in June. has not teamed-up with an established Challenge 2000 syndicate is one of the Ray Roberts plans to use Millenni­ yacht club from which to mount the confidential entries. Roberts, who runs um and the Farr, named Australia Chal­ challenge - a requirement under the a human resources company in Syd­ lenge 2000, to form part of an interna­ Cup rules. ney, is the owner of the Bashford How­ tional match racing circuit to provide a In the meantime, the high-profile ison 41 footer, Millennium. testing and training ground for both Australian syndicates have held back Roberts is riding on the crest of a the syndicate's designers and crew. their entries until the structure of the

tI, August• September 1996 Challenger of Record Committee and many of the rules gov­ erning the event are changed to make the competition fair and equitable for all challengers. At present the rules are HYDRALIGN weighted in favour of Team New Zealand and the New York Yacht Club, which immediately established itself as the Australia's largest range of feathering Challenger of Record after New Zealand's win in San Diego propellers for sailing yachts last year. The Challenger of Record is meant to represent all chal­ 255 mm dia (1 0") to 1000 mm dia (40") lengers and run the series to select the final challenger to shaft sizes up to 65 mm (2 1 /2") compete against New Zealand. However, the New York Yacht Club is represented by four members on the seven­ Original design includes: man committee and according to the other challengers, there Equal efficiency in forward and astern is a conflict of interest with its own challenge. Given the past record of the New York Yacht Club in Positive pitch indexing interpreting the rules in previous America's Cup defences, Large blade area and the $20 million-plus cost of mounting a challenge, there 2 point lubrication is a reluctance by challengers to become involved in the Replacable anodes event when a fellow challenger has a controlling vote over Prec1s1on machined journals & gears the rules. Ironically the Committee was set-up after John Bertrand's Electronically balanced win in 1983 opened up the competition to other countries Constructed of high tensile manganese bronze and syndicates, with 13 challengers competing in Fremantle for corrosion resistance and strength in 1987. The Committee was first established in San Diego in Calculations for diameter and pitch 1990 with challengers electing their own committee. Until now the system has worked well, but the arrangement made to suit each yacht between Team New Zealand and the New York Yacht Club Ph: (02) 957 5123 Fax: (02) 957 5075 has not allowed challengers to select what they see as a fair and equitable committee to represent their interests. HYDRALIGN SALES PTY LTD One of the many powers of the Challenger of Record 1 Bradly Ave, Milsons Point Sydney NSW 2061 Committee is to be able to veto sponsors names from appear­ ing on sails and boats if it feels the sponsor's product is not suitable for the America's Cup. This alone is making it difficult for syndicates, not only in Australia but around the world, to source sponsors willing to commit large amounts of money for the event. Unless there is an equitable representation on the Com­ mittee, John Bertrand's oneAustralia syndicate will probably not compete, according to the syndicate's Chief Executive, MARINE & SAFETY EQUIPMENT Peter Morris. , Syd Fischer, an America's Cup veteran and Chairman of The remarkably safe, practical, and durable RFD inflatable lifejackets are now coming into ''At present the rules are weighted in stock at our RFD Safety Centres. Get a life - get RFD. favour of Team New Zealand and the For your nearest supplier, New York yacht Club, which please con.tact immediately established itself as the RFD (Australia) Pty Ltd MELBOURNE: Challenger of Record after New 129 Herald Street, Zealand's win in San Diego last year'' Cheltenham VIC 3192 Phone (03) 9532 1822 Fax (03) 9532 1949 the Challenger of Record Committee in 1990, said: "It is a no BRISBANE: holds barred event, but it is still sport and should be equi­ 36 Randall Street, table for all competitors. The America's Cup will lose its Slacks Creek OLD 4127 impact if the squabbling continues. They are behaving like a Phone (07) 3808 8918 pack of schoolboys." Fax (07) 3808 8957 SYDNEY: John Bertrand and Syd Fischer are still not out of the run­ 3/7 Kent Rd Mascot 2020 ning, they have until May next year to lodge a 'late entry' at Phone (02) 667 0480 double the $100,000 entry fee. But until there is an even play­ Fax (02) 693 1242 ing field for all challengers, Australian Challenge 2000 could be the only Australian challenger. jj Specialists In Safety & Swvival Equipment

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an outstanding seagoing ABOVE:The Buizen 40 Pilot House Performance performance. Editor Yacht shows her good sailing ability in a light breeze on Pittwater. (Pie • Peter Campbell) Peter Campbell looked at RIGHT: Stern pie of the Buizen 40 shows the scooped transom for easy boarding, the cockpit the latest from Buizen 's helming position and the pilot house of this new Mastercraft Marine, the fast cruising yacht from Mastercraft Marine. (Pie • Peter Campbell) Buizen 40.

ince Eddie Buizen and his brother races. It will be considerably lighter in could be backed into her pen at the Fritz decided to move from cabi­ fit-out and will carry a bigger racing Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. Using Snet making to building their own rig. A third Buizen is already under an imported Swedish mast section, the range of production crmsmg yachts way for another yachtsman. hydraulic furling system had the Hood some 15 years ago, they have added "We like to refer to this yacht as a mainsail filling in the breeze in 45 sec­ some 40 fine yachts to the Australian Pilot House Performance Yacht," onds. It took a mere 10 seconds to cruising fleet. Eddie Buizen told OFFSHORE during unfurl the headsail and she was pow­ Their first yacht was the Joe Adams­ a brief sail aboard the Port Douglas­ ering away on a broad reach. designed Zeston 40 of which they built bound first Buizen 40 on Pittwater. It's David Ingall and Bill Rowell's 21, followed by six Zeston 36s. Then an apt description. It is certainly not a Buizen 40, which will be on display at they commissioned young Brisbane­ motor yacht, but a fast cruising yacht the Sydney Boat Show, will have a based Paul Stanyon to design the that is capable of being raced with the mast that is I.Sm higher than Karma, Buizen 48, arguably the most luxurious added comfort and shelter of a pilot with a fully battened mainsail and lazy production motor-sailor in Australia. house that has become the trademark jacks, and a 150 % overlapping head­ Mastercraft Marine and Paul Stany­ of yachts from Mastercraft Marine. sail from North Sails. "We estimate the on' s latest concept is the Buizen 40, a Karma has an excellent sailing per­ boat will be almost a tonne lighter smaller version of the 48-footer based formance, despite the fact that she has without all the extras that have been on a modern, fast IMS hull but incor­ been fitted out with two air condition­ included with Karma, and be consider­ porating the high level of construction ing units, a water maker and other ably more powerful under sail, " Ingall and luxurious interior fit-out already equipment for its cruising in tropical said. seen in the Buizen 48. waters, an Onan generator to provide Feature of the Buizen 40 is, of The first Buizen 40, Karma, has been the extra power, and it has a suitable course, the pilot house. Apart from built to charter specifications out of conservative rig for charter sailing. trimming sails, you can control all the Port Douglas on the Far North Queens­ Sailing in 12 knots of true wind, Karma boat's operations from within the pilot land coast. The second has been built can sail to windward at more than 6 house and, on Karma, in air condi­ for Pittwater yacht brokers David knots, 30 degrees to the wind, in flat tioned comfort. Apart from the helm­ Ingall and Bill Rowell as a demonstra­ water. ing station, the pilot house/saloon has tion boat but also for coastal racing Handling Karma was a breeze, an L-shaped dining area with drop leaf such as the Gosford to Lord Howe under power or sail. What was impres­ table to port and a settee to starboard. Island and Pittwater to Coffs Harbour sive, was the ease with which the yacht Aft of the saloon is a double guest August• September 1996 forced with E-glass, over a core of 25mm end grain balsa. The Buizen 40 is powered by a 4- cylinder 60hp Volvo diesel with a sail drive unit with a 2.5 to 1 marine gear­ box, which provides an excellent cruis­ ing speed of 7 knots at 3000 rpm, excel­ lent manoeuvrability (including cabin to starboard and a single pilot Aft of the steering console and reversing into the marina pen) and an cabin with a navigation station to port. helmsman's position are two comfort­ efficient hull speed under power and For' ard of the saloon, one steps down able pushpit seats while the scooped sail. into the large galley area, with the transom provided and a large board­ Standard price of the Buizen 40 is owner's double cabin in the bow. ing platform with easy access for $400,000, including sails tax and ex fac­ A standard feature in the heads is swimmers and boarding the dinghy. tory Sydney. the fitting of an electric flush Electra The standard mast is a keel stepped Agents for the Buizen 40 in Sydney San toilet which has a special filter sys­ alloy furling mast with hydraulic mast are Club Yacht Sails at the Royal Prince tem which eliminates the need for a furling system with a double spreader Alfred Yacht Club, phone 02 9997 1144, holding tank and meets ecological rig and fixed boom vang. All controls, and Maurice Drent Boating Services at requirements of waterways authori­ including a roller furler headsail stem, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, ties. are handled from the cockpit. Standard phone 02 9363 9945. Jj The quality of the teak faced bulk­ sail area is a 32 sqm mainsail and a 45 heads and, in particular, the lockers in sqm genoa. The higher, conventional SPECIFICATIONS LOA: 12.2m the saloon, galley and cabins under­ mast with a fully battened mainsail LWL: 10.2m score the quality of w,orkmanship put and lazy jack system is available as a into his yachts by Eddie and Fritz factory option. Beam: 3.97m Buizen right down to the efficient The hull of the Buizen 40 is an effi­ Draft: 1.94m 1 Displacement: 9000 kg (approx) locker door fittings. cient, medium displacement IMS-style Sail area: Mainsail - 32 sqm While the main steering wheel design. The hull is constructed from (hydraulic, of course) and console is the latest fibreglass materials, rein- Genoa - 45 sqm situated well aft in the large cockpit, Yacht builder Eddie Buizen (left) of Mastercraft Marine with yacht broker David lngall aboard the there is a smaller wheel and engine Buizen 40 at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, Pittwater. (Pie - Peter Campbell) and wind instrument repeaters within the pilot house/ saloon. An excellent feature is the "stable door" (fibreglass bottom half and glass top half). The bottom half can be closed as a lower storm board in a seaway and fully , closed when the boat is locked away (or the air conditioning is on). Standard cockpit equipment includes two electric hydraulic genoa winches (Arco), two mainsail winches, electric furling controls, a heavy duty electric anchor winch, with all controls within easy reach of the wheel and engine control pedestal. J'; s·(~1 Ji~8J.J1.t~ tor lMSOv '; J1 r J Dlvlslo

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has fo llowed up the req uests of yacht owners for faster The CYCA is confident it can provide faster results from th e Sydney to Hobart and other long corrected time res ults for ocean races this year, as requested by yacht owners. IMS overall and IMS dictions as yachts finished the 630 nau­ Division A where we will probably divisions in this year's tical mile course. group the larger yachts into one mixed 52nd Sydney to Hobart . "The result will make IMS handi­ division." capping much more user-friendly for Another significant change for the Peter Campbell reports. competitors, the public and the media, 1996 Sydney to Hobart will be the pro­ and will raise the profile of the overall vision of two advertising categories: aster handicap results will be and division handicap winners," Vice­ 1. Category A, which is no advertising. forthcoming from this year's Commodore Bush said. "The same 2. Category C Open, which allows F52nd Sydney to Hobart ocean course construction will be used for the unlimited advertising on masts and race as a result of a new scoring entire fleet and will be based on the booms, the lower 50% of the mainsail, method for yachts racing under the assumed progress of an average yacht the hull except for the forward 25%, International Measurement System to taking four-and-a-half days to sail the and on spinnakers. This does not allow be introduced by the Cruising Yacht course." any advertising on headsails. Club of Australia. All Blue Water Points Score races for Entry fees for the Sydney to Hobart The changes follow the concern of the 1996-97 season will be scored in the will be $675 for unsponsored yachts many owners at the time taken to same way as the Sydney to Hobart. and $1000 for sponsored yachts. announce IMS overall and IMS divi­ The CYCA offshore racing season sion results following last year's race Cruiser/Racer for 1996-97 will start with the Canon to Hobart and were announced at a 11th annual Sydney-Gold Coast Classic second Sailing Forum held at the club Allowances on August 3, with the new sailing pro­ in late May, Meanwhile, the CYCA has referred to gram designed to include more week­ For IMS categories, the race shall be the Australian Yachting Federation the end regattas. scored using a preconstructed course question of percentage time allow­ As a lead-up to the Sydney-Hobart, with a selected windspeed, based on ances for IMS cruiser/ racer yachts, the Club will run a new stand-alone information received from the Bureau with a technical committee considering Sydney Offshore Regatta in December, of Meteorology and historical data. ways of basing such allowances on a comprising eight races, but not includ­ In keeping with the request of own­ yacht's IMS rating certificate to pro­ ing the Sydney to Hobart. This regatta ers, scratch sheets showing each vide variable percentage time will replace the Asia Pacific Series held yacht's IMS time allowance for that allowances. in alternative years to the Southern specific windspeed, will be available "The recommended AYF Cruiser/ Cross Cup. on the morning of the start of the Syd­ Racer allowance will be applied for the "The Sydney Offshore Regatta will ney to Hobart. Sydney to Hobart in determining over­ have a similar format to the Southern Chairman of the Sailing Committee, all and division results," Vice-Com­ Cross Cup, with two additional races Vice-Commodore Peter Bush, said the modore Bush said, adding that the within Sydney Harbour to provide a decision to use preconstructed courses CYCA would continue to have an great spectacle of sail," the Vice-Com­ would enable competing yachts to not overall IMS winner of the Sydney to modore added. only work out progressively their Hobart in accordance with the over­ Notice of Race for the 52nd Sydney handicap status in relation to their whelming wish of yacht owners. to Hobart race, starting December 26, division competition during the race, "The intention is to place IMS Rac­ is now available from the CYCA, with but would allow officials to announce ers and IMS Cruiser / Racers in their details also on the internet: http: // corrected time results or accurate pre- own divisions, with the exception of www.merlin.eom.au / offshore/ jj

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The spacious upper deck Three cabins provide ample features an in mast furling saloon is finished in hand- accommodation for system with electric/hydraulic crafted teak and has 180 five adults. drive. A headsail furling system degree wrap around tinted On deck, accommodation is takes care of the genoa. safety glass windows. similarly spacious. When the sails are furled The fully equipped galley A large t-shaped cockpit can away, there is a 60hp marine features a built-in freezer, seat at least eight people in diesel that will give a cruising fridge, gas stove and oven. comfort. The masthead rig speed of 7 plus knots. If you'd like more information on the Buizen 40 call us on (02) 9450 2170 and we'll send you a brochure.

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finish compared to comparable size all solution and one that will not be soon The fastest keel rounders. superseded in terms of it's pure perfor­ The key to this problem is stability mance generating capabilities on all for fast boats points of sail. We have used it on a ometimes nothing is better than and the way to get stability is simple. wide variety of boats from the BOC 50 going fast. When the handicap Take all the lead in the keel and stick it True Blue to restricted draft cruisers formulations get all too hard in a bulb at as deep a draft as you can S that want maximised performance. (IMS) or all too arbitrary (PHS) then sensibly tolerate. Here are the steps: the best fall back position is pure This is nothing new but the idea is STEP 1: Determine if your PHS or speed. The satisfaction is immediate, not as prolific as it should be due to the the gratification long lasting. fact that so many handicap formula­ fast cruiser is overweight. Look at the Australian keel boat sailing seems tions have favoured heavy boats in the original drawings versus how the boat to be entering its next "fast is fun" first place and therefore the non-rating is floating now. Generally these boats stage and the keys to success in this light designs of the period have keels are burdened on their lines and any area are, as always, the big three : dis­ of similar configuration to their heav­ reduction on displacement will be wel­ placement, stability, and sail area. ier, internal ballasted brethren. comed. Historically, designers have found Thus a Farr 11 .6 has a keel as per the STEP 2: Determine existing keel it easy to keep the boat light and have IOR designs of the period and is thus weight and stability. The former can be lots of sail area but the displacement tender. lofted and calculated if not already has always come at the price of stabili­ However, being a lighter design known , the latter can be had from an ty as the lead mass had to be reduced they cannot tolerate heavier keels as IMS or IOR certificate from your boat to keep the boat light. Unfortunately they start to drag their sterns. The solu­ or a near sistership if you have not this created the all to common scenario tion is to lower the center of gravity of been rated. of what I call bicycle boats -fast down­ the keel for the same or ideally less keel STEP 3: Draft? Determine the opti­ hill, struggle uphill. mass. mal number for the area you sail in. The net result is only partial satis­ There are many solutions to a prob­ STEP 4: This is where the design faction as . you catch up with the lem but the one that I suggest in this engineers come in - optimise the stabil­ upwind oriented boats on the run but situation is one that really takes the ity for the best upwind performance get passed on the work. Usually the concept to its logical extreme. This is based on the assumption that all the bicycle boat is a long way back at the the most severe but by far the fastest lead will be on the bottom of the keel

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ci, August• September 1996 fin. The result of this process will tell you how much displacement you can lose with a reduction in overall keel mass. STEP 5: Fabricate. What we advo­ cate is quite simple. The keel should be a vertical fin with parallel leading and trailing edges and a constant thickness throughout to simplify manufacture. The load is taken through the steel skins which are typically stainless or mild steel plate. - ·---+-· - ·-··-······-··- ··-··-··- ··-··-· These are brake pressed into the I desired shape and welded on the fore and aft seams. A bulb is cast with a cut out for the foil and the two are bolted together. Alternatively the bulb can be cast over the foil . The bulb itself is generally radial in section (i.e., any transverse cut will reveal a circular cross section ). More exotic bulb shapes exist but few are boat. Note the difference in bulb place­ sons for being that preclude the other created on sound theory and many by ment. This is to do with the issue of approach. Also note that the shallower the marketing department of Designer, helm balance versus the location of the draft keel has a longer chord. This Inc. centre of buoyancy. In the case of the planform is not as efficient so the extra The squashed bulb has one reason cruiser it was necessary to have the area is needed to generate the desired to exist and that is for draft constrained keel further forward for balance so the lift. classes such as the IACC but when you CG of the lead had to be moved back as The net result of this process is a look at the variety of solutions to that far as possible. In the 41 footer this was minimisation of displacement and an basic problem you begin to appreciate not required. optimisation of stability. This means just how hard it really is. Tread lightly This will always be a case specific that two out of three speed producers as the radial bulb from a sound lami­ area and it should not lead one to is the best it is going to get for your nar flow section works and works well. believe that one configuration is better particular boat. If you want to go faster Attachment to the hull is a critical than another. Each has practical rea- that's a pretty good result. ij issue. Given that the foil is generally quite small a larger flange plate is required to give adequate bolting area. In a 40 footer this flange may be 20 mm thick and it needs to be recessed into the hull into an area of solid GRP lam­ inate. / The surrounding floors and longitu­ / I dinals will need to be examined and I brought up to adequate strength as OlD KEa PAOFll£ _J well. Generous washer plates in the I I hull which butt up against the floor I I and longitudinal structure are also I I required. I I I . -& ·- I Suffice it to say that these are issues I well beyond the scope of this article I I I but ones that need to be adequately I dealt with. I advise that the current I I I ABS grounding standard be employed I ___ _ I in the keel attachment area. --- I What does it look like? The two \ .,( ). IEW KEEL PROFILE drawings show two different interpre­ ------:, tations of the idea. One is for a restricted draft (2.1 m) 50ft fast masthead cruiser and the oth­ er is for a 41ft fractional rigged PHS

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If water flow in front of it and is not too this option is chosen, it should always close to the leading edge of the keel be remembered that variation changes where all sorts of strange water flows as the boat moves up and down the can be generated at the top of a boat's coast and the calibration must be speed range. adjusted accordingly. Nearly all modern systems gener­ ate log and speed together, and thus Wind Spee and by calibrating log, speed is also cali­ brated. GPS-derived speed is speed calibrating There are two wind measurements, over the ground and can not be used Integrated Electronic to calibrate speed through the water. speed and direction. There are many Systems factors governing the measurement of these parameters which relate to the n our previous look at modern elec­ Depth Sounders environment in which the sensor oper­ tronic systems we ran through Most depth sounders are calibrated at ates. many of the functions that are now the factory and, apart from entering a Wind speed is usually measured commonly available. In common with keel depth, or offset, there is little for using a set of cups that rotate. These all computer-based equipment, the old the owner to do. It is worth checking at systems are factory calibrated and adage, "rubbish in = rubbish out", a known depth once or twice just for should take into account non-linear holds true for yacht electronics. It is piece of mind. Remember, when doing bearing friction. Modern cup design thus important that care is taken to cal­ so, that the tide should normally be has all but overcome any error that ibrate all the primary functions in a added to the chart datum. used to occur when a boat heeled. system and that the user has a good There is little for the user to add. understanding of the accuracy that can Seawater Wind direction, however, must be be attained and thus the reliance that calibrated on board to get any useful can be placed on the eventual output. Temperature Some modern systems allow for the Boat Speed/Log Units calibration of seawater temperature. It is commonly believed that the Whilst the racing yacht is normally importance of a really accurate log has looking for a temperate change that been reduced over recent years with may signify the edge of a current, it is the advent of GPS-derived positions also nice at times to be able relate mea­ and the subsequent reduction in the sured temperature to that seen on reliance · on DR positions. Since boat­ satellite-derived ocean surface tem­ speed through the water is used in perature charts. nearly every computed function, it is most important to get it accurately cal­ 0 ibrated. The calibration of the compass is The majority of systems use a pad­ equally as important as that of the boat dle wheel sensor. The bearing friction speed. The compass fits into the cali­ will vary from unit to unit and the bration of many vital functions and is actual speed of the water over the hull in itself a very important factor. Most at the point that the underwater unit is yacht systems use a fluxgate sensor. fitted may not accurately represent the This is not the place to go into the speed of the boat through the water. details of how the fluxgate works, but Calibration is normally done by is a common misconception that flux­ running backwards and forwards over gate compasses measure "True". This a known distance, calculating a correc­ is not the case, they measure "Magnet­ tion factor and entering it into the sys­ ic" and thus must be calibrated for Forwards tem. It is best to pick a period of slack deviation. water and log an even number of runs This is sometimes done by a com­ in both directions to iron out any pass adjuster with small correcting effects of tide, set and drift. It is also magnets in the same way as the boat's important to maintain a constant speed primary fluid-filled compasses, or by August• September 1996 information. 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If the system is perfect­ ustralia's best known manufacturer of sail ing hard ware, Ronstan Interna­ ly calibrated there will be no difference. tional Pty Ltd (Ronstan) have signed an agreement with the Cruising Yac ht The error in the masthead unit alignment is half the dif­ AClub of Australia as a sponsor for the Club's You th Sailing Academy. ference and should be entered to port or starboard as appro­ The Academy, established in 1992, has provided a source of young talent for sailing in all areas , including offshore rac ing events such as the Sydney to Hobart priate. This procedure can take some time on the water, but and Sydney-Gold Coast races, and as training su pport for Australian Olymp ic and is well worth while if accuracy is appreciated. International Youth competitors. A number of other factors affect apparent wind measure­ Ronstan has supported this program from its inception , which included nam ­ ments and should be appreciated. Wind shear and upwash ing rights for one of the fleet of Elliott 5.9s used at the Academy. Their support factors are terms given to the effect that the boat's own rig closely al igns Ronstan 's internati onal youth sponsorship focus which includes a sim ilar arrang emen t in New Zea land and th e Collegiate (University/College) Sail­ has on the wind measurement directly above it. Some manu­ ing in the USA. facturers have provided calibration routes to attempt to take Based in Sandringham , Victoria, Ronstan are now the largest man ufactu rer of these factors into account. More recently it has become sailing hardware in the Southern Hemisphere. Distribution world wide includes accepted that there are so many variables affecting wind flow offi ces in New Zea lan d, Europe, the USA and in most Australian States (NSW, Vic­ at the head of a rig that the practical solution is to mind a tori a, Western Australia). In the time lead ing up to 1995 extensive development of their export market was supported by Ronstan 's successfu l release of new and masthead unit that rises above the problem area. innovative products for competitive and leisure sa iling. The C-Cleat cam cleat was Mast twist is common on modern fractional rigs. Unfortu­ a technolog ical breakthrough, with the com pany pion ee rin g the use of ca rbon nately, this is dependent on runner tension and pressure on fibre and mode rn co mposite materials in high tech injection moulding processes. the sails themselves. Sadly, little can be done to predict the The C-Cleat to this day is the number one favourite cleat world wide among effect of these variables. Set and drift/leeway may also have Olympic and international sailors . More recently released , the Series 75 blo ck range ideal ly suits today's mod­ a significant affect when apparent wind measurements are ern yac hts which demand strength but low we ight. Made from the highest grade stainless steel, alloys and speciali se d polymers, the Series 75 rang e was designed 11 by boats such as the Mumm 36 and other competitive one-design classes. It has Thankfully for the yachtsman real already been proven in the demands of offshore racing and con tinues to be adopt­ time positioning from GPS has ed on new boats wo rldwide. Ronstan maintains strong growth, now supported by the company's ne w allowed the system itself to calculate owners, Chemring Pie. A diversified UK-based company, Chemring Pie owns sev­ in real time both set and drift" eral marine compa nies, including Pains Wessex (Mari ne distress signals), Hutch­ wilco (life jackets) , McMurdo Ltd (marine safety equipment), Splashdown (marine clothing) and Toggi (leisure clothing ). used in calculations to provide true information. Older Ronstan operates at its 5,500 sq uare metre manufacturing faci lity and head design systems provided for calibration of leeway based on office in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham , with offices in Sydney, Perth , th e USA, New Zea land and Europe. Recent additions of high tech injection moulding the assumption that a constant factor could be calculated for equipm ent and CNC turning ce ntres has increased Ronstan's abi lity to deve lop a given apparent wind speed and direction. This theory was their product range and markets in other such diversified areas as architecture. flawed since the calculated result affected the basic factors The future of this company will poise on their ability to maintain and improve that were input into the equation. the service leve ls and quality Thankfully for the yachtsman real time positioning from demand ed by th e IS09002 accred itation Ronstan received in GPS has allowed the system itself to calculate in real time 1995. In fact, Ronstan was the R0NSTAN both set and drift, by comparing speed and course over the first company in its field to gain ground with speed and course through the water, which is that distinction. then used through the rest of the system. In 1996, Ronstan is continu­ ing its product development pro­ gram , releasing new products and GPS derived position making improvements to existing There are a number of different datums in common use on ones, brought about by new tech­ nautical charts. Users of GPS positions should be aware of nology and materials. Th e V­ the datum that the GPS output is working in, and any differ­ Cleat, for example, has been released after two years of devel­ ence between it in the chart they are using. Electronic chart­ opm ent. These injection mou lded ABOVE: Ron stan's Series 75 of ing systems provide the facility to calibrate this "datum (carbon fibre) cleats are innova­ lightweight blocks ... designed for shift" . Users should be aware that on some carting systems tive in both their design and func­ modern raci ng yachts. the "datum shift" can vary from chart to chart and thus a cal­ tion , providing a lightweight, co r­ BELOW: Ronstan's newest product, the ibration performed in one port may not be valid for another rosion free cleat with incredible carbon fibre V-Cleat, released this year. strength . Ron stan are very proud port. of their association with the A well calibrated system will provide a reliable indication CYCA's Youth Sailing Academy of the changes in the environment in which the yacht is sailing. trai ning scheme and look forwa rd Failure to calibrate will provide misleading information to a long association wi th youth which is worse than none at all. Rubbish in=Rubbish Out! ij development in Australia. - Robin Kydd, Oceantalk Australia. CI» August• September 1996 Weather Watch

Southpon Meteorology Readers may find this article very sim­ ilar to one that I wrote two issues ago titled Mooloolaba Meteorology. I offer no apologies, since meteorologically speaking, there are minimal differences between these two races apart from the fact that the Southport race is sailed lat­ er in the year! You should keep a close eye on the position of the Sub-Tropical Ridge (STR), and for that matter the general weather pattern, on a daily basis at least a week before the race as its posi­ tion may be north or south of Sydney. To achieve this you will have to rely on the daily newspaper weather map or, better still, Weather by Fax, an Infofax A strong south-westerly front hit the fleet in last year's Canon Sydney-Gold Coast Classic soon product, to monitor this situation (lat­ after the start, giving them an exhilarating ride out of Sydney Heads - and a rock-'n-roll ride for est surface weather map 019 725210, some yachts. (Pie - Peter Campbell) directory on 1800 630100 and many, many others at 55 cents per minute). cousins, SO BE PREPARED. As a gen­ The land breeze is generally a big Please remember that to the north of eral rule, NE to NW winds ahead of feature of this race, especially as you the STR, there is general easterly wind­ the front will turn W to SW across the sail north. To benefit fully from this flow; to the south, general westerly state as a high pressure system moves breeze one will have to be positioned flow; and in the middle, basically eastward behind the front, then back within a few miles of the coast, espe­ very light winds. With light winds, fairly shortly to the SE as the high cially from about 2300 hours onwards. local winds, such as the sea breeze and establishes itself in the Tasman Sea. Its direction will vary between SW the land breeze will tend to predomi­ Thunderstorms may occur with or and NW, depending on where you are nate. ahead of the front and, generally along the coast. Typically its speed If the STR is to the south of Sydney, speaking, relatively cooler and cloud­ will vary, too, along the coast, being then SE winds will not only predomi­ free conditions will occur along the strongest near river valleys, high nate but may also provide a showery coast in the post-frontal W to SW air­ mountains close to the coast and over onshore influence along the coast and flow. the southern Qld coast. Please read the adjacent inland area. At times, a The sea breeze can still feature at and digest the article that I wrote in trough of low pressure may be generat­ this time of the year and is generally the last issue of "Offshore". But ed in coastal waters roughly parallel to less intense than its summer colleague. remember that rules are for the guid­ the coast and this in turn enhances the It becomes more regular as you head ance of wise people and the strict com­ shower activity as well as the wind north and generally commences dur­ pliance of idiots!! speed. In fact, this trough can veer the ing the late morning/ early afternoon Some problems at this time of the wind direction more into the south after an overnight land breeze. year: over waters between the trough and The most common sea breeze direc­ - The East Coast Low could be a the coast. tion along the NSW / QLD coast is problem. Imagine running into the sit­ Cold fronts are generally more from the NE, but this can be modified uation off the northern NSW intense than their summertime by the orientation of the coastline. coast / southern QLD coast which August• September 1996 occurred over the period 15 to 17 Feb­ age to water craft. Be aware that even vailing wind and ocean current condi­ ruary this year which the master of the a non-severe thunderstorm can create tions. Never hang in close to the coast II Q.E.2 described as the "some of the problems, especially from a wind just for the heck of it, simply because worst weather that he has ever point of view. The moral of the story someone told you that this is the only encountered". is, DO OT trust any thunderstorm way to go fast to Southport. Assess • Severe thunderstorms, with their cloud. BE AWARE TAKE CARE! the weather and ocean current situa­ attendant problems, can still occur at • With a fairly straight coastline tion very carefully because there just this time of the year. Their problems and few offshore reporting points it is could be a chance that the wind say 10 can be associated with damaging often assumed that coastal stations are to 15 miles offshore could be 10 to 15 winds, damaging hail, very heavy rain representative of conditions at sea, kts stronger than the wind closer and from time to time, waterspouts which may be far from the case. Wind inshore (strong westerly flow would over the water and tornadoes over the speeds may be 25% to 50% stronger be a good example coupled with little land. than over the land. The extent of sea or no current). Keep your eyes open to the west for breezes seaward is not well known. • Get as much weather information development along the mountain • The East Australian Current that you can from the many sources ranges as thunderstorms are steered (EAC) which brings warm water from available during the race e.g. your by the winds at around a height of 4 to the Coral Sea into the cooler Tasman visual observations, Penta, VIS, HF 5 km above the ground, which on Sea can run with speeds up to 4 knots weatherfax, Coastal Patrol, Coast average over coastal NSW are from the around the continental shelf and can Guard and if you are very lucky, the west. This means that storms develop spawn a number of eddies to the south World Wide Web via your suitably along the ranges and move toward the of the main current, is generally felt by equipped board laptop or PC.Dream coast, killing say, the sea breeze that yachts racing north during this race. on Kenn??!! has been blowing for most of the after­ Its meanderings will be elaborated on • Kenn Batt is available for meteo­ noon. at the pre-race briefing. rological advice and tuition. He can be The sea breeze or the surface wind contacted after hours on (02) 99180749 at the time is replaced for a short peri­ GENERAL or work hours on (02) 92961622. od of time by strong to very strong • Your race strategy will, of course, • Above all, good luck, safe racing winds, which can cause a lot of dam- be initiated and changed by the pre- and keep that weather eye open!! jj

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CI» August• September 1996 Peter Campbell, Editor of The Bethwaite designed 49er, one of the nominations for the new Olympic high­ Offshore Yachting is performance dinghy class, in action on Sydney Harbour. currently in Savannah, Georgia to cover the Union appears to have capsized the which was an Olympic class from 1960 Olympic Yachting Regatta. much-publicised bid by the Grand Prix until the 1988 Seoul Games. 18-foot skiffs to become an Olympic All the disciplines currently held by Peter will bring readers an class for Sydney 2000. After its meeting the Olympic classes are open for con­ in -depth report in our next in Cape Town the IYRU announced tention by any suitable boats. Sugges­ issue. In the meantime, he that to be considered for the dinghy tions to replace some of the existing open discipline in 2000, boats must classes were floating around at the looks towards Sydney meet the following criteria: Cape Town half-yearly meeting of the 2000. • Two person IYRU. However, some nations feel that • One or two trapeze(s) and/ or oth­ the costs incurred in changing more 18-Footers Capsize er devices for supporting crew out­ than two classes for the 2000 Olympics board will be extremely high. in Sydney 200 Bid • Capable of providing close com­ The IYRU also confirmed at the he International Yacht Racing petition among crews of a wide weight Cape Town meeting that it would Union will decide at its annual range and both men and women make a presentation to the Internation­ Tmeeting in England in Novem­ • Must have the unquestioned abil­ al Olympic Committee for a match rac­ ber, the ten or possibly eleven yachting ity to meet the requirements of Interna­ ing class for women as an eleventh dis­ classes to be sailed on Sydney Harbour tional Class status within a reasonable cipline for Sydney 2000. It is expected during the Sydney ,2000 Olympic time that the IOC will make a decision on yachting regatta. As already • World-wide availability of materi­ this by December-January. announced, one of the two single­ als and opportunity for construction The IYRU is optimistic of success, as handed dinghy classes will have to go, An extensive evaluation of dinghies across the spectrum of the Olympic with the newcomer to Olympic sailing meeting this criteria will be held at Tor­ sports, the IOC is keen to increase the at Savannah, the worldwide popular bole on Lake Carda, Italy, in early Sep­ number of women participants and the Laser, expected to oust the aged Finn tember. The boats will be tested by number of events specifically for dinghy. sailors of both sexes and a wide range women. If the IOC approves this New for Sydney 2000 will be a of weights. The sailors will then report request, the class to be used will be "dinghy open high performance" to an IYRU evaluation team. The final decided at the 1997 mid-year meeting event, with the IYRU looking to a mod­ choice will be made by the IYRU Coun­ of the IYRU Council, probably a three ern, fast skiff-style boat that can be cil on November 8. or four-person keelboat. sailed by crews of a wide weight range, So far, ten boats have been nominat­ The format of the men's fleet / match and by both men and women. ed for the evaluation series including racing event (currently in Solings), will The possible eleventh class will be a two designed by Sydney's innovative be reviewed for 2000, in a bid to max­ match racing event for women, in a skiff and dinghy designer, Frank Beth­ imise the match racing discipline by keelboat class yet to be selected. This waite - the B14 and the 49er. Other allowing more nations to qualify from would make at least four classes in nominations and their designers are the fleet event through to the match which women sailors could compete at 5000 (Morrison), Boss (Howlett), Iso event. This will increase the number of the Olympics. (Howlett), One Design 14 Gay Cross), match races in the finals, with the plan However, in its now clearly stated International Fourteen (various), Mach being to hold these as a spectacular concept of the new high performance 2 (Van Essen/Mader), Jet (Morrison) finale to the Olympic yachting regatta dinghy, the International Yacht Racing and the Flying Dutchman (Van Essen) on Sydney Harbour in 2000. August• September 1996 ing scholarships from the Yachting Foundation of NSW and the Depart­ ment of Sport and Recreation to further his early sailing career in Laser dinghies. It has proven to be a very worthwhile investment in a young Australian sailor," Peelgrane added. Bourke began his sailing career in dinghies and skiffs on Sydney's Mid­ dle Harbour, later turning to the single­ handed Laser class with great skill and determination. He won an unprece­ dented three World championships in A fleet of Bethwaite designed 49ers line up for the start of the first Australian the class, for which he was chosen as championship on Sydney Harbour. Australian Yachtsman of the Year, the nation's most prestigious yachting Glenn Bourke aboard oneAustralia in the 1995 Amer­ award. ica's Cup. He has twice been named Glenn has been a fulltime sailor yachting Manager Australian Yachtsman of the Year since 1987 when he joined Iain Murray for Sydney 2000 (1989-90 and 1990-91) following his and Peter Gilmour as a sail trimmer Glenn Bourke, one of Australia's most Laser world championship wins and aboard Kookaburra in the defence of the talented and successful international has twice won the NSW Yachting America's Cup. Later he sailed with sailors of the past decade, has been Award. Gilmour on the international match­ appointed Yachting Competition Man­ The Yachting Association of New racing circuit and then switched from ager for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. South Wales has welcomed Bourke's Lasers to Finns, with his eyes set on the The Sydney Organising Committee appointment as one of 27 Competition Barcelona Olympics. for the Olympic Games has confirmed Managers named by SOCOG for each A dedicated training program, that Bourke will take up his appoint­ of the sports of the Sydney Games. which included sailing a Finn dinghy ment following coaching commitments "We know his sailing skills and are from Sydney Harbour to Pittwater with the Australian sailing team at the confident he has the management abil­ (and sometimes back) almost daily for Atlanta Games and as helmsman of ity to be an excellent competition man­ weeks, paid off with his selection for Ragamuffin in the Kenwood Cup inter­ ager for yachting, following his close Barcelona. As an Olympian, he fol­ national ocean racing series in Hawaii. involvement in Olympic, America's lowed in the wake of his father, Bruce From September, the Sydney sailor will Cup and Admiral's Cup team prepara­ Bourke, who was a swimmer at the work on a part-time basis, becoming tion and competition, "YANSW execu­ 1948 Olympics. full-time from February 1997. tive officer Bernard Peelgrane said. In his final preparation for Bourke's task will involve working "As a two-times winner of the NSW Barcelona, Bourke finished second in closely with the International Yacht Yachting Award, Glenn received sail- the Finn Gold Cup - the best ever per­ Racing Union, the Australian Yachting formance by an Australian in this pres­ Glenn Bourke, who has been appointed Federation, the Yachting Association of tigious event. Unfortunately, light yachting competition manager for the Sydney NSW and Sydney Harbour clubs, to winds prevailed at the Olympics and 2000 Olympics. He starts work with SOCOG in Bourke had a luckless series. plan facilities and courses, not only for September following the Atlanta Olympics and the Olympic yachting regatta in 2000, Since then he has sailed with New the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii. (Pie - Peter Zealander Russell Coutts in winning but also for the Pre-Olympic Regattas Campbell) in 1998 and 1999. He will also manage the 1993 world match racing champi­ these events. A major challenge will be onship; with John Bertrand as tactician to bring Olympic yachting to the peo­ aboard oneAustralia in the 1995 Ameri­ ple, with at least some classes compet­ ca's Cup, and skippered a Mumm 36 ing within Sydney Harbour. yacht for Germany in the 1995 Admi­ The concept for yachting at the 2000 ral's Cup. Games will become clearer after the Bourke is currently one of Aus­ IYRU annual meeting in November, tralia's Olympic yachting coaches, con­ when all classes will be chosen, includ­ centrating on the three single-handed ing the new high-performance, skiff­ class sailors for Atlanta - Michael type dinghy for open competition and Blackburn (Laser), Paul McKenzie a match racing discipline for women. (Finn) and Christine Bridge (Europe). Bourke, 35, is a three-times former He and Blackburn are both members of world champion in the Laser single­ the Middle Harbour Amateur Sailing handed dinghy class; represented Aus­ Club. tralia in the Finn dinghy class at the Glenn and his wife Megan, recently Barcelona Olympics and was tactician had a baby daughter, named Bailey. jj

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August • September 1996 Change of Name For IYRU s from August 6, the Interna­ The Corum Cup Hong Kong - Rick Tomlinson photograph from his award-winning 1996 Yachting tional Yacht Racing Union, the Calender. The talented international photographer will be publishing another calendar for 1997 A world governing body of the featuring worldwide yachting regattas. sport, will change its name to the Inter­ national Sailing Federation, taking the Similar to the format of the Cham­ the race sponsor, entrants already reg­ initials ISAF. pagne Mumm Admiral's Cup in Eng­ istered and financial partners, have Originally, the IYRU had intended land and the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii, decided to postpone the start of the to use the initials ISF, but these are the handicap divisions will race a com­ event by about a year. already in use by another Olympic bination of windward/leeward and The race around the world, with sport (softball) which precluded the ocean triangle courses, together with a stopovers in Sydney and Hobart, was IYRU's use of them. short and a long offshore event. due to start from Marseilles, France, in As in 1994, a number of the world's September with the fleet of one-design Hong Kong's The top sailors and yacht designers will be 80-foot maxi yachts due to reach Syd­ Corum Cup Gains present, along with their latest ney in December after a stopover at designs. Cape Town. They were scheduled to Momentum The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club then sail south with the Sydney to The 1996 Corum Cup, Hong Kong's expects at least five Iain Murray Hobart fleet before going on to Auck­ premier international regatta, looks set designed Bashford/Howison 41s to land. to be another huge success as the take compete, including Steve Ellis' Wizard Although another yacht rental up on sponsorship and entry gains the Sequel and Ray Roberts' Millennium agreement was signed recently with momentum - both sides eager to play a which has won the 1995 Raja Muda the Russian team, the number of syn­ part in history and participate in Hong and Kings Cup and the 1996 Singapore dicates which would have been able to Kong's final regatta before the Territo­ Straits Regatta. complete their sponsorship budgets in ry is handed back to China in 1997. A particularly strong showing is time for the planned start was still Scheduled for October 19-27, The expected from Australasia with further insufficient to make it a real race. At Corum Cup is expected to attract an BH41s and the exciting new Magic 25s the most, five or six yachts, as against even larger fleet than the 60 boats from which have recently arrived in Hong the original forecast fleet of more than ten nations which took part in the Kong. a dozen maxis, would have been ready inaugural event in 1994. Organised by the Royal Hong Kong to race around the world. One of the big attractions of the Yacht Club and co-hosted by Heve regatta is the perfect sailing conditions Haven Yacht Club, the secret to The Nick Rogers of Hong Kong's eastern approaches Corum Cup's success lies not only in and Shelter Cove which has always its superbly organised and competitive To Defend attracted a strong overseas contingent. regatta, but also in the great social Seawanhaka Cup New for 1996 is the introduction of activities on offer in one of the most Former world Dragon class yachtsman four one-design classes. exciting and vibrant venues in the Nick Rogers will defend one of the world. Sonatas, Impalas, Ruffians and world's oldest match racing trophies, Dragons will contest their own inshore Grand Mistral Race the Seawanhaka Cup, on behalf of the series while the IMS, CHS Racing, CHS Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania in Sep­ Cruising and Portsmouth Yardstick Postponed a year tember - not on Hobart's Derwent Riv­ classes will race in inshore and off­ The organisers of the Grand Mistral er but on Oyster Bay, Long Island shore regattas. World Yacht Race, in agreement with Sound, New York. The racing will also

August• September 1996 be in Etchells instead of Dragons in Gary Gietz Gives footer champions Rob Brown, Chris which Rogers won the Cup for the Nicholson and David Witt, ocean racer RYCT in an international challenge on Match Race Boost Robin Crawford, J24 champion Jan The Solent in England in 1989. toNSW "Clogs" Scholten, Yngling world The 1996 challenge will be hosted Former Olympic yachtsman and many champion and Sayonara Cup winner by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht times State and National champion Neville Wittey, and America's Cup Club as part of their 125th anniversary Gary Gietz has finally put match rac­ sailors Mark Richards, David Blanch­ and the 100th anniversary of the first ing on the map in New South Wales field and Andrew Parkes. Seawanhaka International Cup chal­ with the successful staging by the With the crews swapping boats and lenge on Oyster Bay in 1885. Rogers NMA NSW Match Racing Association the racing continuing at a fast pace, won the right to defend the Cup in a and Middle Harbour Yacht Club of the identification was made easier by each sail-off on the Derwent in May, con­ inaugural Musto/Line 7 match racing team sailing in different coloured Line vincingly winning the finals from championship. 7 jackets supplied by the sponsor. David Conner, Howard Piggott and Not only did the series attract most Lack of wind saw only one round of Andrew Hunn. His crew for the US of the best match racing helmsmen in racing completed on the Saturday but series will be Leigh Brehens and this State but Gietz showed the benefit a further eight round-robin races were Richard Bolt. of his experience by winning the completed on the Sunday in a souther­ The concept of the Seawanhaka series. ly of about 10 knots, dying out later in International Challenge Cup was to This talented and versatile helms­ the afternoon. As daylight also ran out, encourage international match racing man has been match racing in Perth's race officials decided to cancel the between amateur crews in yachts con­ Lexcen Challenge regatta since 1992, semi-finals with the winner being siderably smaller than the huge including winning the Lexcen Shield, decided on the nine races completed. schooners and cutters then contesting and is now looking to build up the Gary Gietz and his Middle Harbour the New York Yacht Club's America's competition in Sydney. Yacht Club crew won the series with Cup, boats owned by multi-million­ The successful sailmaker' s long­ seven wins out of nine races. Three aires with largely professional crews. time tactician is Michael Heenan, an crews finished with six wins, with the The RYCT has already received chal­ architect and designer of the Sydney minor placings being decided on a lenges from the Seawanhaka Corinthi­ Olympic 2000 yachting venue for countback. Neville Wittey, represent­ an Yacht Club, keen to win back the SOCOG who is now working on a new ing the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, historic trophy in its centenary year, master plan for Georges Head, includ­ placed second with Toby Whitfield and from the Royal St Lawrence Yacht ing Chowder Bay and Middle Head. (CYCA) third. Club (Canada), the Royal Northern The efforts of Gietz, founder and One of the most encouraging and Clyde Yacht Club (Scotland), Roy­ president of the NMA NSW Match aspects of the series was the fine per­ al Hong Kong Yacht Club, Royal Racing Association, and sponsors Ian formance by the young CYCA Youth Thames Yacht Club (England) and the and Andrea Treleaven, saw the series Academy team skippered by Matt Day. Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. attract a talented flee t including 18- They also won six races, but had to be content with fourth place. Touch between opposing Farr 36s in pre-start action in Musto/Line 7 match-racing seri es saw both crews hoist a protest flag. Prdtests were handled by efficient on-the-water umpires. (Pie - Ian Mainsb ridge). Final placings were: 1, Gary Gietz (MHYC) 7 wins; 2, Nev Wittey (RSYS) 6; 3, Toby Whitfield (CYCA) 6; 4, Scott Lawson/Matt Day (CYCA Youth Academy) 6; 5, Sean Kirkjian (RPEYC) 5; 6, Jan Scholten (MHYC) 5; 7, Chris Nicholson (Lake Macquarie YC) 4; 8, Murray Walters/ Andrew Cutler (Woollahra SC) 9, Darren Nicholson (LMYC); 10, David Witt (Sydney Flying Squadron).

Red Jacket's Win in Coveted Siska Trophy Ron Lally and his Graham Radford­ designed 40-footer, Red Jacket, have scooped the pool in Western Aus­ tralia's summer offshore racing, win­ ning the WA Yachting Association's coveted Siska Trophy for the top ocean racing yacht of 1996 season. CD August • September 1996 This was Red Jacket 's first full sum­ mer of racing and the first time her home club, the fledgling Hilarys Yacht Club, had produced a champion. The Siska Trophy was a fitting cli­ max for Red Jacket after the yacht's sen­ sational win in the Fremantle to Albany race in which Lally had a three day duel with Rob Baker's Fremantle Doctor. During the season, Red Jacket won both Class A IMS and YAH handicap sections in the bluewater series which included the long distance races, fin­ ished third in both handicap classes for the spring series, and third in IMS and fourth YAH in the summer series. Magic 25's in action in one of the Australian regattas already held this year. The Magics will be at Fremantle to Hamilton Island in late August as well as competing in a series of regattas. (Pie - David Everdell) Lombok Race in '97 ning, encouraging excellent racing, Strait and provide all the traditional Fremantle Sailing Club Commodore family participation and good racing. after-race hospitality and facilities. Kevin Owens has announced that the A fleet will be racing in August at club's international bluewater race, the Stanley's small harbour, nestled at Hamilton Island Race week. 1460 nautical mile Fremantle to Lom­ the foot of a towering rocky outcrop An international circuit is also in called "The Nut", can easily accommo­ bok Classic will again be conducted in place with Magic 25s racing in The date a big fleet, according to the May, 1997. Corum Cup in Hong Kong, The Kings The race will have a colourful start ORCV's administration manager, Cup in Thailand, Cowes Week in Eng­ David Spriggs. on Saturday, May 4, from Fremantle land and in the Magic 25 North Amer­ Harbour to celebrated the 100th ican championship. anniversary of the first ship sailing Wooden Boat into the harbour in 1897. Bass Strait Race To Festival in Hoban in The 1997 Fremantle-Lombok Clas­ Finish at Stanley November sic will be the sixth in the Indonesian In an expected move, the Ocean Rac­ Hobart's biennial Australian Wooden series conducted by the club since 1980 ing Club of Victoria has bowed to pres­ Boat Festival is on again this year, from and the only international race from a sure from yacht owners and changed November 15-17, celebrating and pro­ WA port. the finish of this year's November race moting the rich maritime traditions The first four races finished at Bali across Bass Strait to the small fishing and skills of the wooden boat culture, and the last one, in 1993, at Lombok port of Stanley on Tasmania's north­ both past and present. Island. west coast. Held for the first time in 1994, the Further information from Freman­ Since 1992, the ORCV, in conjunc­ inaugural festival held in and around tie Sailing Club, ph: 09 335 8800 or fax: tion with the City of Burnie and local Hobart's famous Constitution Dock 09 430 5396. community sport and service groups, attracted 200 wooden boats and thou­ had conducted a successful race from sands of visitors. According to organis­ Magic 25 Chosen as Queenscliff to Burnie to coincide with er, Cathy Hawkins, Tasmanian and Sailboat of the year a local dockside food and fun festival. interstate interest in this year's festival The Iain Murray-designed Magic 25 The second race attracted 74 entries should see more than 300 wooden high-performance racing day sailer but a year ago the limited mooring boats. has sailed away with Australia's most facilities for small boats at Burnie was Entries will range from superbly prestigious yachting industry award, filled in as part of harbour improve­ built and restored steam-driven ves­ the Australian Sailboat of the Year. ments for container ships. sels, to fishing boats, classic yachts, The award comes after nine months In the south-easterly gale which dinghies and canoes. Ms Hawkins said of hard work and worldwide success lashed the harbour soon after the fin­ a boost for interstate entries has come by the builders Bashford Boats of ish of last year's race, more than 45 from a new sponsorship arrangement Nowra on the NSW South Coast with yachts hanging off the wharf on light this year with Coastal Express Line Magic 25s exported to seven different weight anchors took the full force of which has offered transport to the countries in the Americas, Europe and the short, sharp seas and strong winds. island State from mainland ports. South-East Asia. Subsequently, the Circular Head The 1996 Wooden Boat Festival is Australia itself now has close to 40 Cruising Yacht Club has agreed to fin­ again being organised by Cathy boats with a regatta circuit up and run- ish the November race across Bass Hawkins, her husband Ian Johnston August• September 1996 and local enthusiast Andy Gamlin. Race to Noumea among Australian yacht owners. With While the diversity of wooden boats revived for his enthusiastic promotion races were will again be the major attraction, the held every second year, except in 1985, festival spirit will continue with events September 1997 through to 1993, attracting yachts from such as the Sikaflex Quick n' Dirty The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia various Australian states and New Boat Building Challenge, shipwright has revived its longest ocean race, 1034 Zealand. and nautical demonstrations, tradi­ nautical miles across the South Pacific For further information and to enter tional nautical music and other enter­ from Sydney to Noumea, capital of your name on a newsletter mailing list, tainment, and the best of Tasmania's New Caledonia, for September, 1997. A contact the CYCA sailing office, phone fine fare. second fleet will also race from Bris­ (02) 9363 9731 or fax (02) 9363 9745. bane, a distance of 823 miles. Sydney's Bid for Race director Peter Rysdyk, who has Conde Third in 1996 World youth Sailing been involved in promoting and organ­ ising the Noumea race since 1977, has Etchells Worlds in 2000 gained sponsorship from Westpac, the Queensland yachtsman Peter Conde Sydney will make a bid to stage the major sponsor when the race was last has finished third overall in the 1996 popular International Yacht Racing held, in 1993. Etchells keelboat world championship Union's World Youth Sailing Champi­ Rysdyk is confident of up to 40 rac­ sailed from on The Solent from Cowes, onships on the Sydney Harbour ing yachts heading across the South­ off the South Coast of England. Olympic courses in January 2000 - nine West Pacific with a two-handed divi­ Conde sailed a consistent series months before the Olympics. sion being included for the first time. with placings of 4-3-12-12-5-5 for 51.7 If Sydney wins the bid, the City and The race was last planned for Sep­ points in the 64-boat fleet but was well Harbour will play host to some 280 tember, 1995, but was cancelled behind the first two placegetters on because of public concern points, Britain's Adam Gosling and at the resumption of Jud Smith from USA who finished one ''Rysdyk is confident of French nuclear testing in point apart at the end of the six race up to 40 racing yachts the Pacific. "We have series. Gosling's placings were 8-5-2-2- heading across the already had considerable 2-2 for 22 points while Smith finished interest from yacht owners on 23 points from placings of 10-1-1-5- South-West Pacific with a and enthusiastic support 7-1. two-handed division from the Queensland Despite winning two of the six Cruising Yacht Club, the races, Victorian Noel Drennan had to being included for the Short Handed Sailing be content with sixth overall as he fin­ first time" Association of Australia ished on 45th in the first race and was and, of course, our host disqualified from the second. He fol­ club in Noumea, the Cercle lowed these disasters with placings of teenage sailors from 40 nations, plus Nautique Caledonien, "Rysdyk said. 4-1-1-6. their team coaches, managers and sup­ "While we haven't quite finalised Sydney's Jamie McPhail finished porters, in total more than 320 visitors. the starting day from Sydney in Sep­ seventh on 73 points from placings of The bid bases the Youth Worlds at tember 1997, the fleet from here will 7-9-9-10-19-8. Other Australian plac­ Manly Cove, with teams being accom­ start a day ahead of the Brisbane fleet ings were: Bruce Anson 16th, Ron modated at the former St Patrick's because of the longer distance to sail," Packer 18th, Wayne Keavey 19th, Ian Seminary, now a Swiss hotel manage­ he added. "We will have the notice of Johnston 20th, Brad Palmer 23rd, Bill ment college. The sailing will be race available from the CYCA in Octo­ Steele 38th, Harry Topple 42nd, Paul organised by the Yachting Association ber this year." Smith 20th and Andrew Perkins 57th. of NSW and major Harbour sailing Rysdyk said he was confident the World champion Colin Beashel clubs. French Navy would again provide an from Sydney did not compete because Prominent Sydney yachtsman Chris escort vessel for the fleet, as it had done of his Olympic commitments in the Harper, supported by Australian in the past. Star class. - Peter Campbell. Youth Team manager Jacqueline Ellis The CYCA's race to Noumea goes and coach Craig Ferris, made a presen­ back to 1953 when it was organised as tation on behalf of Sydney to the part of the celebration of 100 years of Boost for Etchells coaches and managers of the 40 French administration in New Caledo­ in New Zealand nations competing in the 1996 IYRU nia. Another race was held in 1957 and Some potent magic was at work in Youth World Sailing Championships at again in 197 4, as part of the 200th Auckland when a dream line-up of Newport, Rhode Island, in July. Their anniversary of the discovery of the skippers assembled to bless the inau­ presentation has been supported by island by Captain James Cook. guration of New Zealand's first New South Wales Special Events and However, it was not until Peter Rys­ Etchells fleet. In a fleet of only six the Department of Sport and Recre­ dyk became race director in 1977 that boats, the company could hardly have ation. the race created widespread interest been more distinguished.

August• September 1996 For a start, there were three win­ Women's Keel Sandringham wins ning America's Cup skippers, Dennis Connor, Buddy Melges and Russell Boat Regatta Association Cup Coutts. There might have been four, Anna Gaudion, sailing the quarter­ Sandringham Yacht Club has regained but Australian John Bertrand had to tonner Full-Tilt-Boogie from Royal Mel­ the prestigious Association Cup it lost cancel at the last minute to be substi­ bourne Yacht Squadron, has won the to the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria last tuted by Rod Davis, a three-times sixth annual Women's Keel Boat year. The Sandringham team of Chal­ America's cup skipper. Regatta in Melbourne. lenge Again (Lou Abrahams), Local Hero Add to that reigning Etchells world Hosted by the Royal Melbourne ( Kevin Wood) and Shenandoah 11 (Ron champion Colin Beashel, who was Yacht Squadron, the event was run White) finished the three race event aboard the winning Australia II in under the VYC Handicap system and with a total of 29.75 points with Royal 1983 and skippered Australia III in the held over the long weekend in June. Yacht Club of Victoria second on 52.5 1987 campaign, and current American Nineteen crews entered. points and the Royal Geelong YC team champion Bruce Nelson who, in addi­ In the light conditions only five of third with 82 points. tion to designing a winning America's the six scheduled races were run. The racing was again frustrating for Cup yacht (Stars & Stripes in 1987) has However, with handicaps adjusted the competitors with very light winds a string of sailing titles to his credit. after each race there was a different delaying starts on both days and forc­ When the megastars of the game winner for each one. ing the race committee to shorten the gather around, the flame that attracts Anna Gaudion finished with 32.5 courses. Events for Performance them tends to be dollars or sponsor­ points with Prudence Kay in Knot-a Handicap and JOG were also held over ship commitments. But, in this Clew (HBYC), 38 points, second and the same weekend. However, there instance, reputations for hard-nosed Catherine Rumberg, Rage (RYCV) was some unhappiness when the class­ commercialism were sacrificed on the third on 41.5 points. es were restricted to only two races by alter of altruism and Corinthian senti­ At the same time the Squadron con­ the VYC organising committee instead ment. ducted the Coast Action Big Boat race of the three races run for the IMS divi­ Two days of close competition over with 11 of Victoria's top ocean racers sion. windward/ leeward courses saw the taking part. The Cup was first raced for in 1907 final result come down to the last race. The six-race event was held over a by classic metre boats. It lapsed during When the points were totalled Colin windward and return course with the War years and was resurrected in Beashel justified his world champion handicaps also adjusted at the end of 1972. Since then Sandringham YC has status by winning overall. Less than a each race to reflect each yachts back­ dominated the event, winning it 12 point separated the next four skippers calculated handicap. This also saw a times. with Bruce Nelson second, Buddy different winner for each race. Melges third, Russell Coutts fourth, Overall winner was Turong sailed New format for vyc Dennis Conner fifth and Rod Davis, by Ian Powrie, (SYC) 40 points with sixth. Through the six races, everyone Addiction, D&M Guest (RMYS), sec­ keel boat regatta with the exception of Davis had a taste ond, 44 points and G-Wiz, John Waw­ The Victorian Yachting Council's steer­ of victory and everyone, with the ley (SYC) 44.5 points, third. ing committee for the annual January exception of Melges, had a taste of coming last. Racing in the Qantas Etchells Regatta in Auckland ... Colin Beashel, Dennis Co nner and Russell Coutts. (Pie - Ivor Wilkin s) Victorian Keel Boat Championships I, The popular Becks/Range series, which has been sailed in Melbourne for the past eight years will next year be known as the Victorian Keel Boat Championships. Victorian Yachting Council presi­ dent, Harry Leggatt, said that Becks Beer will sponsor the six-race series for the championships. The series, which this year attracted more than 150 entries, is made-up of races conducted by the major clubs at the top-end of the Bay. Events will be run for IMS Racer, IMS Cruiser and VYC Handicap Divi­ sions. Local Hero one of the winning Sandringham team members. (Pie· Kevan Wolfe) keel boat regatta, formerly the Nissan The final race was abandoned when the following day and on the Monday, Regatta, has decided to continue with a storm with winds around 70 knots races will be the same as for the first the week-long event despite not hav­ hit the fleet minutes before the start, day. ing a sponsor for next year. tearing the anchor chain out of the The new format sees lay days on the After representations from many of start boat and setting it adrift. Tuesday and Wednesday with Hob­ the regular competitors and consulta­ As an alternative to the Blairgowrie sons Bay Yacht Club holding a medi­ tions with the commodores of the race, the Royal Geelong Yacht Club um 15nm race for Division One and a clubs involved, the committee has offered to host the final races of the modified course for Division Two on decided to name the event the Port regatta at Geelong Harbour. Thursday. Phillip Regatta, and mod.ify the races The club already conducts Aus­ The passage race to Blairgowrie on sailed on the top end of the Bay to tralia's largest keel-boat regatta over the Friday will be started by Royal short course windward and return the Australia Day events. There will also be two lay days holiday weekend ''The final race was abandoned when a during the week. After much debate it with some 400 boats was also decided to keep the long pas­ taking part and storm with winds around 70 knots hit sage race to Blairgowrie and to hold Club Commodore, the fleet minutes before the start, the final race in the series at the bottom Kym Murphy is tearing the anchor chain out of the end of the bay. keen to see the start boat and setting it adrift" Many of the serious competitors event become even consider the final race a lottery, given bigger. But this was the strong tidal effects and changeable ruled out by the Regatta Committee. Melbourne Yacht Squadron and San­ weather conditions normally associat­ Under the new format, the first race dringham Yacht Club, as they have ed with it. Most of the bigger boat will be held on Saturday 11 January done in previous regattas, and the final owners are also reluctant to return to 1997 with the Royal Yacht Club of Vic­ race at Blairgowrie will be run by the Blairgowrie until there are safe moor­ toria hosting a short windward and Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron and Sor­ ing facilities available. return downwind finish for VYC Divi­ rento Sailing Club. This year, for the second year in a sion One yachts and Royal Brighton The VYC has also organised special row, yachts were driven ashore and a Yacht Club hosting a separate triangu­ race management courses for the clubs number damaged when strong lar upwind course for yachts sailing involved to ensure that the regatta is northerly winds hit the unprotected under VYC Division Two Handicap. conducted to the standard expected of fleet anchored off Blairgowrie and Sandringham Yacht Club will con­ the high-profile event. )j Portsea. duct similar courses for both divisions by Kevan Wolfe

CI» August• September 1996 increasing in its unwholesomeness and new type of rating rule altogether. In the quest that this attitude soon had the most The 'Length and Sail Area Rule' for Speed disastrous reaction upon British yacht­ was a happy inspiration of Dixon s Charles Darwin's Theory of ing as a whole. Kemp. It was a simple rule and, Natural Selection gives sub­ Each year new yachts were built to a although it had loopholes, it was a suc­ stance to changes in man, so more extreme design than those of the cessful rule by encouraging much that too shall IMS and Offshore yacht rac­ previous season. The newer yachts was desirable in healthy yacht form ing cast off bad traits. were heavier, narrower and deeper, and it urged a swift return to normality. Never had British first-class yacht­ but, by reason of the growing clever­ The sudden and astonishing change ing touched such a low ebb of fortune ness of their designers, rated lower from slow to fast was best born in Bri­ as that reached in the summer of 1892. than their predecessors and therefore tannia. With her advent the old slow Even to the expert onlooker its stood an infinitely greater chance of type died and the new fast type was plight seemed to be desperate. It was a victory. born. The Britannia and her contempo­ common cry wrote Dixon Kemp in his Each year new yachts carried all raries were 'built to skim over the yacht racing calendar, 'That no more before them for a season or until a new­ waves and waters and not plough large racing yachts would be built'. er and more extreme type replaced through them'. George Watson, the When the Britannia was built in 1893 them at the head of their class. designer of Britannia, was one of the the end of the Victorian era was Even a winning yacht was hopeless­ first to combine lightness with approaching. The world and indeed ly outclassed in a very short space of strength. yachts moved at a slow pace. time and owners, losing heart and One hundred years on, with the Before Britannia was built the British patience, ceased to build new craft. demise of the I.O.R. the I.M.S. sparked idea of a racing yacht was the 'plank on Some owners remaining faithful to new fire in the bellies of offshore edge'. sail turned their attention to the small yachtspeople. In a short time the joys Coming about through the then racing classes. Others transferred their of those early days of fast yachts being Builders Measurement rule which allegiance to steam yachting and were built is reminiscent of the past halcyon taxed beam but not draft It taxed keel thus lost to first-class racing for ever. days. Between 1893 and 1935 Britannia length but not waterline length. Gone were the halcyon days, destroyed raced, cruised and raced again modern­ Thus .the science of 'tonnage cheat­ by the monsters the Frankenstein mea­ ised and optimised her 'time' came ing' was the norm. Racing yachts were surement rules had created. over. A rule fostering optimisation of the thinnest of shavings. Men raced At length, in 1888 after a dismal sea­ seakindly fast yachts was the key to and raced hard, in them, but that does son the RYA made a determined effort the past. Let us strive for the same in not alter the fact that the type was to retrieve the situation by instituting a the future. ij

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August• September 1996 The past decade has seen many - remarkable advances in the design and construction of sa il s, and in the 5 manufacture and material of the

o enable yacht owners and their crew to evaluate some of those Tlatest trends, Offshore Yachting of the ~sos asked leading sailmakers and manu­ facturers of sail cloth to briefly outline sailcloth itself, for both racing and cruising what they believe are the particular yachts, super skiffs and even junior dinghies. benefits of their sails and/ or sailcloth. The viewpoints of those who accepted Much of those developments have been an Offshore's offer are published in alpha­ onflow of work ach ieved at the top end of yacht betical order: racing, the America's Cup, to the benefit Bainbridge/ of al l yacht owners. Aqua batten Bainbridge/ Aquabatten is Australia's flexing of the load-bearing fibres and sailcloth in your sails, call Paul West­ largest supplier of sailcloth and sail­ films reduce the sailcloth's perfor­ lake at Bainbridge / Aquabatten (Aust) makers hardware. The Bainbridge Sail­ mance and therefore its ability to sup­ on 02 9938 1788 or 1800 25 1149. cloth product range is specifically engi­ port the loads in a sail membrane. neered to meet the individual require­ Bainbridge Sailcloth is in the final ments of sail construction, from tradi­ stages of developing a unique treat­ tional 'gaffers' "Bermuda Cream" ment which provides protection for through to America's Cup "PL Diax". the fibres from UV radiation. This Over the past couple of years the exciting process will permit the devel­ HOOD focus of sailcloth development has opment of a new range of "High Mod­ become more weight conscious with ulus": fibres for the use in sailcloth the acceptance of "film on film" con­ without the concerns regarding UV structions such as "PL Diax" for both degradation, dramatically increasing a Hood Sails on the inshore and offshore applications. Cus­ sail's performance life. tomising this concept further for off­ Our unique attitude to working Leading Edge shore mainsails has seen the inclusion together with the world's best sail At Hood we know cloth. We pioneered of a "Certran Diax: grid which ensures designers and sailmakers is directing the use of Dacron, Kelvar and Mylar the ultimate in stability and structural our R&D towards a revolutionary laminates and Spectra in sailcloth. Our integrity given the potential for abuse process. The principal of Genesis and careful attention to cloth development in reefing situations. Our current 3DL, coupled with our laminating and during our forty year history has developments push further into the fibre expertise, will produce a new advanced both sailcloth technology most important area of long term per­ standard in performance and durabili- and sail making. But we haven't formance and durability. ty. stopped there. UV degradation and the continual If you would like to know about the SPECTRA SAILCLOTH ® Since 1985 Hood Sailmakers in Aus­ tralia have been manufacturing racing •♦~,AINBRIDGE/AQUABATTEN sails from materials utilising Spectra® ~~ SAILCLOTH&HARDWARE fibre. The distinctive blue colour of this material can be seen on race courses all e:,- August• September 1996 This is how sails are made!

over Australia. Why Spectra ® ? Hood Sailmakers has always believed that to build the highest performing sail, you must start with the best performing fabric. The result? Spectra ® . Spectra® fibre has the greatest strength to weight radio than any other fibre, as well as high resistance to abrasion and repeated flex. In addition to using Spectra ® in racing sails, Hood have also developed a heavy weight cruising cloth using Spectra ® . For offshore cruisers, sail strength is critical, sails are required to hold up and perform over thousands of miles in varying wind conditions. Ultra Spec­ tra ® is the combination of Spectra ® fibre and the proven and durable Dacron, and when combined the result is lightweight and durable sailcloth. We are continuing to search for new fibres for the ideal sail designs. We are in the process of developing new films and perfecting laminating techniques to keep our sail mak­ ing technology on the leading edge. If we are on the lead­ ing edge, your sails will be too. We have been one of the premier sailmakers for four decades and are looking for­ ward to continuing as leading authority on sail making in the future. For further information contact Tim Messenger at Hood orth 3DL- the world's most successful Grand Sailmakers, Sydney, on 02 9905 0800. N Prix sails are now suited to club and local offshore race yachts. Using an equally sophisticated but less expensive manufacturing technique these new "regatta 3DL" 0 FRASERSAILS sails available in Aramid and Polyester fibres have all the winning attributes of their Grand Prix FraserSails FS Plus cousins - lighter, stronger and considerably more "Nothing is as good or as bad as it first may seem" is an durable that the already proven panelled sails we adage that may be applied to all developments in sailmak­ ing. The advent of 3DL following from Airframe, Tape Dri- make for the same job. . ve and Genesis has provided a huge impetus for develop­ There's no alternative to North 3DL. They've won ment, but like all new products there are positives and neg­ the America's Cup, Nissan Regatta, Kenwood Cup, atives. St Francis Big Boat Series, Hamilton Island Race The positives include a lack of conventional sewn seams Week, Melbourne Wmter Series, Mumm 36 and that can move under normal sailing loads. The negatives ILC 40 world championships. include the inability to achieve the same weight/perfor­ Now North 3DL can make you a winner. mance as modem scrim fabrics due to the extra adhesive required for the low pressure lamination system that must GO FAST. GO NORTH 3DL. be used with the mould. A significant broadening of the range of Kevlar and Polyester scrim fabrics from suppliers such as Bain­ bridge/ Aquabatten and Dimension/Polyant has clearly 3DLA lifted the performance of panelled sails to a new level in terms of weight/performance that cannot be matched by 1"HW""P'""""'"" ~ @ 3DL. The Dimension/Polyant Ultra-Bond system for glued Sydney - Phone (02) 9997 5966 Fax: (02) 9997 4805 seams produces vastly superior shape holding over con- Melbourne - Phone (03) 9534 0363 Fax: (03) 9525 3095 August • September 1996 Gt ventional sewn seams. Tensile testing Sails contact Brad Stephens on 02 9361 include the America's Cup, Admiral's of these glued seams results in the fail­ 4836. Cup, Mumm 36 and ILC40 Worlds, ure of the material or inter laminate Hamilton Island Race Week, Nissan bonds of the sail cloth at loads far Nonh Sails Regatta, Sydney-Hobart (line and exceeding those seen in a sail and at handicap), Southern Cross Cup, Bruce normal loads exhibit none of the seam Patented & Walsh Regatta, Air New Zealand slippage that can be associated with 3DL Regatta, etc etc. conventional sewn seams. Process \ ES I This is what winning yachtsmen The Fraser Sails FS Plus sail making North Sails Patented ~ have to say about North 3DL: system, together with a centralised 3DL process sees sails laminated over Syd Fischer (Ragamuffin): "The design system utilising proprietary a three dimensional full scale mould same 3DL sails we used for last sum­ programs represents the highest level that replicates the desired flying shape mer season, including the Southern of sail making. of the sail. Made in Aramid and Poly­ Cross Cup, Hobart and Mooloolaba In the near future expect to see the ester fibres for grand prix, regatta and races will be used - untouched - for the development of sails that utilise both club racing, they are considered the Kenwood Cup. If these had been pan­ the benefits of conventional sailcloth greatest advancement in sailmaking elled sails I would have needed to manufacture and yarn array systems since the introduction of Kevlar. replace them for the Kenwood series." such as 3DL and Genesis. 3DL is proven by an unprecedented Russell Coutts (America's Cup win­ For further information from Fraser domination of yacht racing. Wins ning skipper): "Straight out of the bag, Bluestreak - Sail battens.for would-be weightlifters.

Putting a set of Bluestreak battens in your sails can see you embark on a weightlifting course. All those heavy trophies, those endless celebratory drinks; you may even be required to pick up the occasional member of the opposite sex. Whatever is the load of your choice, you'll sta nd a better chance of lifting it when you use Bluestreak battens. Designed to outlast and out-perform, Bluestreaks are precision-crafted, computer ground battens made from the finest quality materials. Tough, yet surprisingly light weight, Bluestreak have worked hard to achieve the best possible mix of lightness, strength and flexibility. Race and cruise tested in all kinds of conditions, Bluestreak battens are genuine performance items for sailing craft of all classes. Ta lk to your nearest stockist soon about the heavy subject of Bluestreak superior fibreglass battens

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ca August• September 1996 High technology and simplicity make the Magic 25 thrilling to sa il and race. ~ Already in its first season, Magic 25 regattas are attractin g big fleets and many top names.

The Mag ic was recently awarded " 1996 sai lboat ~ of the year" confirming magic sa iling is just that.

~ Ca ll Andrew or Kate at Bashford Boatbuilder, for an information kit and regatta list. Phone 044 233 153 Fax 044 233 017 Internet: http://www. ima .com.au/magic/ ema il : [email protected] SAIL NOUMEA '97 across the South West the sails were fast, and they had an incredibly wide wind range." Pacific with the John Flower (Foundation 36 owner, Perth): "Our Poly­ ester 3DL headsails are absolutely outstanding. The guys I CYCA pass think the same thing!" Iain Murray (World Champion sailor): "The America's September 1997 - starts from Cup proved that to be competitive you had to have 3DL." Sydney and Brisbane Mike Perjanik (J35 owner, Sydney): "North 3DL deliver everything promised, including durability. You can see and feel the difference in performance." Notice of race available, October 1996 Dean Wilson (Sydney-Hobart winner): "Comparing weight with durability and performance, you cannot afford Interested? not to have 3DL." North 3DL is another reason why North Sails are world leaders in sailmaking. Then leave your name and details at Further information from Grant Simmer, North Sails, CYCA Sailing Office to be placed on the Sydney - phone: 02 9997 5966. jj mailing list - phone: (02) 9363 9731 or fax: (02) 9863 974S Editor's note: The opinions expressed above the those of the sailmakers concerned and not those of Offshore Yachting. August• September 1996 a, HASRH YACHTS NSW 0 FRASERSAILS INTRODUCING THE NEW MASRM 950 The Ultimate in Racing New and used MASRM 920's and Cruising Sails for information or a sailing demonstration For information on our Sails, Services & Products, please write to: 6 NIELD AVE. , RUSHCUTTERS BAY, 2011 PH: (02) 9361 4836. FAX: (02) 9332 3271 Phone (02) 9879 7454 or Fax (02) 9816 1959 BISBANE (07) 3252 5161 MELBOURNE (03) 9328 3260 HOBART (002) 345 422 WHITSUNDAYS (079) 461125 PERTH (09) 430 5366

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C, August• September 1996 The combination of Hood Sails designs and Spectra Sailcloth has once again proved too much for the competition to handle. SAILMAKERS RESULTS ARE WHAT BLUE RIBBON HOOD BLUE RIBBON SAILS ARE ALL ABOUT. SAILS

KINGS CROSS - Ray Stone Sydney-Mooloolaba IMS Div 2 ...... 1st Telstra NBD Regatta IMS ...... 1st BWPS IMS ...... 1st SOPS PHS ...... 1st SOPS IMS ...... 1st Gillawa Shield ...... 1st

YENDYS - Geoff Ross Telstra NBD Regatta Cruiser ...... 1st Sydney-Mooloolaba IMS Div 3 ...... 3rd

INFINITY III - Martin James BWPS PHS ...... 1st BWPS IMS ...... 3rd SOPS PHS ...... - ...... 2nd SOPS IMS Div 2 ...... 3rd Telstra NBD Regatta Cruiser ...... 2nd

SASKIA -Graham Thompson SOPS PHS Div 2 ...... 1st · SOPS IMS Div 2 ...... 2nd SO IF IT IS BLUE RIBBON RESULTS YOU WANT CALL YOUR LOCAL HOOD LOFT NO\V!

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