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PRINTED BY ROTARY OFFSET PRESS Designs for Regular 2000 features THE NEW FIFTIES 40 NEWS FROM ALL PORTS 56 The new season sees a flotilla of The CYCA Youth Academy big new raceboats hitting the win Japan's prestigious local scene. We look at the latest match-racing series, plus from Farr, Welbourne and Lyons. news from Australia and the world. X 362 SPORTS TEST 50 It's well built, quick, and elegant­ Offshore sails a classic modern OFFSHORE CALENDAR 64 cruiser/racer. The major events from Australia and around the Cover Pie: The new Shockwave stretches out LAGOON 380. TEST 53 under her massive asymmetric. world. Pie - Ivor Wilkins. What happens when top racing designers and the world's most Sea Hawk (below), the latest Farr 47, bursts off a wave on her way to Kanoehe Point and succesful yacht builders com- victory in the Kenwood Cup. Story page 14. bine forces to create a cruising Pie - Sharon Green. cat? We look at the Lagoon 380. News & Views FROM THE COMMODORE 45 Our first column from the CYCA's new commodore, Hans Sommer. OPTIMISING 46 Designer Scott Jutson looks at the stability issue, and the design of a new shorthanded racer. DOWN THE RHUMBLINE 61 Peter Campbell, Offshore's associate editor, looks at the sailing scene. BMW WINTER SERIES - 48 OVERDRIVE THROUGH WINTER Peter Campbell wraps up a highly successful winter series. October/November 2000 - Offshore Yachting • 3 A hot fleet including a sensational new maxi turned up for the Hahn Hf I Premium Race Week 2000, but the 8 tradewinds stayed away. Wayne Kirkpatrick's Asylum, one of the four Sydney 38s at the regatta, ahead of the veteran Lexcen 50 Anticipation (Don St Clair Brown, NZ) in one of the breezier races. (Pie - Richard Bennett) Koomooloo is older than most of her crew but she rated low and went well in the breeze. Not quick in the fluky light air races, she was often in the right place to come home with new wind and the ''floating grand piano" finished third on IRC. (Pie - Hamilton Island Kodak Express) to dump the 180% overlap headsail she was originally rated with. Twice she finished third across the line, and she beat Brindabella and Wild Thing boat­ for-boat on several occasions. Fourth was the former Hamilton Island winner Starlight Express, now owned by Wellington's Stewart With a big high-pressure system sitting Farr 72 Starr Trail from Bermuda. But Thwaites. The Davidson 55 is almost in overhead, there was little of the island­ the indisputable star of the show was the vintage class, but with a new keel hopping courses and stiff tradewinds Neville Crichton's new 24.4m Reichel­ designed by Brett Bakewell-White, a for which Hamilton is renowned. The Pugh Shockwave. She simply destroyed carbon mast and an excellent amateur calm weather turned it into a regatta of the fleet, taking line honours easily in crew led by Roy Dickson (father of fluky windward/ leeward courses, with every race and winning six races on Chris Dickson) she was more than major shifts filtering in mid-race. Sword IRC. Despite the fact that so much of competitive. of Orion's experience in one of the the racing was sailed in light and fluky windward/ leewards was a good exam­ winds, the silver boat lead around all FARR 40S ple. "We were third at the top mark, but one mark. Even on the windiest day behind the maxis" recalled tactician she appeared to go upwind much faster Eight Farr 40s had (as usual) great rac­ Murray Walters "then we got 11th after than Wild Thing or Brindabella. ing and the closest of results. It all got going out to sea for the nor'easter- it Some of these margins can be down to the last gybe of the last race, came in, but it was just going straight attributed to the fact that Shockwave's when Marcus Blackmore's Emotional over the top of the mast." That race crew was lead by Dean Barker and Hooligan pulled out 4 seconds and a also saw big boats like Ausmaid and 2GB included many of his crewmates from single place. That gave them the points Titan Ford beaten over the line by 30 Team New Zealand, while neither Wild to take the series to a countback, which footers from the IRC fleet which had Thing nor Brindabella were at their best they won from Corinthian Doors started ten minutes later. The 82 n.m. as far as tactics, starts or crew work (Richard Perini). A single point Coral Sea Race was abandoned due to went. Still, the line "Shockwave is a dif­ behind was Stephen Ellis' Buon Giorno. adverse tide and non-existent winds ferent generation" was to be heard Victoria's Brighton Star (David Gotze) that had fas t, well sailed boats like from the Australian maxi crews. was fourth. The high standard of the Another Duchess behind the line and While Wild Thing is a maxi, she's a fleet was demonstrated by the per­ going backwards, half an hour after the small maxi and owner Grant formance of former world champion, start. It was that sort of series ... Wharington and designer Andy Dovell James Richardson of the USA. Sailing Entries were slightly down (to 151) believe that most of Shockwave's advan­ the brand-new Envy ( chartered and apparently largely as a result of the tage lies in her extra length. They plan renamed Barking Mad for the series) Olympics, which hit the sportsboat to extend Wild Thing's bow and stern to with his own sails, he could only finish class particularly heavily. Yet all classes lengthen the boat by four metres fifth. The other brand-new boat was had good competitive racing and before the Telstra Sydney to Hobart. South Australia's first Farr 40, War strong fields. A clear second in class was Warren Games.