Nationals results so far, after 5 races. No discard yet but there will be one after the next race.
Cats 1. D. Kopp 3,3,2,5,3 2. G Maskiell 1,1,11,1,5 3. B Wilson 2,7,10,3,1 4. M Stone 4,5,12,2,2 5. T Shepperd 8,2,8,4,10 6. R Bennett 5,10,6,8,6 7. P Pearce 7,11,3,6,9 8. P Mann 6,8,13,7,7
Sloops 1. W Kemp 1,4,1,1,4 2. M Floyd 3,1,2,2,5 3. N Joiner 2,3,5,4,1 4. S Hallsworth 4,2,4,3,3 5. P Warren-Smith 5,6,6,6,6 6. N Baglioni 10,7,9,5,2
Two more races today. Light this morning (no trapezing), and just enough for the cats to trapeze this afternoon (lovely!). Much less shifty and gusty than Tuesday. There is one drop to count now, so it looks like Warwick has the sloops sewn up with no need to sail the last race.
One more race to sail and the forecast for tomorrow is windy!
Cats 1. G Maskiell 1,1,11,1,5,1,1 2. D. Kopp 3,3,2,5,3,2,9 3. B Wilson 2,7,10,3,1,4,2 4. M Stone 4,5,12,2,2,6,5 5. T Shepperd 8,2,8,4,10,3,3 6. R Bennett 5,10,6,8,6,8,6 7. P Mann 6,8,13,7,7,11,4 8. P Pearce 7,11,3,6,9,7,13
Sloops 1. W Kemp 1,4,1,1,4,1,1 2. M Floyd 3,1,2,2,5,2,3 3. N Joiner 2,3,5,4,1,3,5 4. S Hallsworth 4,2,4,3,3,4,2 5. N Baglioni 10,7,9,5,2,7,4 6. P Warren-Smith 5,6,6,6,6,6,8
The final race was won by Simon Hallsworth in the sloops and myself in the cats. Gary Maskiell finished 2nd, giving him the mk1 title overall. After all the promise of 20 knots it turned out to be another semi-trapezing race after all - in a large slop left over from the 20 knots that had been there before we launched!
Hi all, A few pics from the Portarlington Nationals, 1/all loaded up 7am 1/1/2011 for the 900km trip, 2/ Mossies in the backyard at the digs, 3/Simon and Peter Hallsworth,Peter Nickolson ,Simon Bone and Rick Verboon unloading boats for measuring, Cheers, Roy.
got back yesterday, what a great regatta . Easy for me to be happy I guess, but I was totally impressed with the big fleet and general attitude of the sailors. Very competitive, but friendly at the same time, a combination that is not found in all classes .
After winning last years Nats with out Darren and Bob attending , I was doubly keen to win this one . Just happy that new centreboards, rudders and further tuning made it possible .
Would like to thank Bob and Darren in particular for the spirit in which we raced, when wins come down to margins of 2 seconds, Port-Starboards on the finish line and OCS disqualifications after finishing races, things can get tense , but the friendliness prevailed .
Also a big thanks to Tim, Neil, Peter, Mitch and Nick. The GLYC fleet, that I have the luck to compete with every week , without the quality of competition at home and the ready sharing of information on techniques and tuning it would be far more difficult to be on the pace when it comes to competing elsewhere .
Finally thanks to every one of the 34 competitors that made the effort to participate, you made the 2010-11 Nats the success they where and the Portarlington Y.C. for being a willing host at short notice.
Anybody that didn't make the Nat's, put the Vic States in your diary now, or you will be kicking yourself again , for missing out on yet another great Mossie event. Look forward to seeing you all in Paynesville come the Labour Day Weekend, 12-14th March, hope we can make it as good as the Nats .
The articles on Sail-world.com and Australian Sailing are a joint effort by Mick Floyd and myself. Next time we will post daily updates on sail-world.com
There's a load of photos in the album now (thanks to Dennis for the sailing photos):
I guess no big surprise, as winds where generaly under 15 knots I think and I think it is fair to say that cat rigs clearly have the upper hand in 8-12 knots?
I think one of the interesting points is that there where 4 Sloops in the first 10, with 23 Cats and 11 Sloop rigs this would seem to go against the theory that bigger fleets result in a higher standard of sailing, as I would have expected less than 4 in the first 10 based on percentage of the fleet and conditions that suited Cat rigs.
Mind you I could be mischevious and say that I know 2 of the 4 Sloops have honed there skills in the Cat rigs , Mick and Neil have both been runners up in Cat rig Nats and Cat rig State champions .
. Easy for me to be happy I guess, but I was totally impressed with the big fleet and general attitude of the sailors. Very competitive, but friendly at the same time, a combination that is not found in all classes 
, I was doubly keen to win this one 
. Just happy that new centreboards, rudders and further tuning made it possible 
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, for missing out on yet another great Mossie event. Look forward to seeing you all in Paynesville come the Labour Day Weekend, 12-14th March, hope we can make it as good as the Nats 
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