And I believe these are pics of the top 3 sailors at this time :

1st Adrian Fawcett and Jesse Dobbs
2nd Pim Hagenaar and Marlene Buizer
3rd Anthony Barrett

Please correct me if I'm wrong !

Wouter

Close. After today's racing the top three Boats are

1st Adrian fawcett and Jesse Dobie
2nd Anthony Barrett
3rd Emile Barrett

I'll provide a more elaborate desciption after this bottle of red wine has worn off tomorrow.

Since when did not letting the booze do the talking have a negative affect.....hic....

Great shot:

Thats called "sending it" and surviving!

More updates at http://aus-f16.blogspot.com/

Currently sailing race 7 in about 5-8 knots and large chop.

Managed to upload race reports for final three races and full regatta results before battery in laptop died.

Go to www.aus-f16.blogspot.com for updates. More photos to follow when I can plug the laptop in.

Thanks Simon! Thanks for including all the sailwave results.

Unfortunately the right-hand side of the final results table got chopped off somewhere in your posting process. In case anyone is busting to see these without trawling through the individual race results, I've hacked the page and reposted it on the CRAW server - http://crawsailing.org/ausf16/

Congrats to Adrian and Jesse and nice work by the 1-up Blades!

Thanks mark. I managed to upload it using a mcdonalds free wifi before the battery in my laptop died. Wasn't about to edit it with my iPhone though. Stay tuned more to come.

Looking at two of the above picts. of the two sloop rigged boats, can someone -in the know- explain the difference between the white, Goodall sails and the dark Goodall sails?

I don't think it's just the sun angle making one appear dark, they appear to be of different material. Is one set a "new" set? Which set is the "new" set? Thanks.

Timbo. There exactly the same sail... same cloth, same characteristic just different color.

From the picture I'm guessing one is white pentex the other one is smoked pentex. Exact same material, just different color.

White pentex is fairly recent I believe as I've never seen a white pentex sail before mine was delivered (515)

Thanks Brett, I thought I'd missed a new material or something.

Hey Simon, hope you don't mind me poking around, but I've got to say that this is a totally awesome photo.

Little nephew has white knuckle fever........

Hi all,

well done to Tony first one up F16. I knew he would do well after the speed he showed last year, good to see he stayed away from the Occy straps this year.

What happened to Simon?

Who was it that had the carbon mast and Tfoils one up? Would have liked those extras when I was racing F16.

Gary,
I'm told that Simon hit something in the water. It ended his series rather dramatically.
Emile had the black stick but as Darryl pointed out earlier in this thread Emile didn't have time to get his sail cut for the new stiffer mast.
I'm sure Simon and Emile could give you more details.

Regards,
Phill

I hope Simon didn't do too much damage to his boat, my highlight of last year was chasing him for 12km with him solo on the wire with spin in about 17kts. Its a shame we were only supposed to go 10km to the mark and we over ran it by 2km

So it was viper, blade, blade, viper

Congrats to all..

Yep my series was ended when i broke a centreboard, cartwheeled and did some damage inside the hull. I didn't want to break the boat further so sat the rest of the series on the beach.

And Jeff the thing about our stuff up in the earthmovers race last year was that the ride downwind was so much fun I didn't really care that we sailed so far off course.