Australian get together regatta

well I'm some where over the Indian Ocean.. So wont be there drinking rum..
Just wanted to wish the guys & girls all the best.. Hope there is a good turnout with good winds and seas..
Im told there are boats/crews from at least 3 states (WA, SA, Vic, ( not sure about NSW, Qld and ACT???).. Which if I recall the Au sailing requirements is the minimum for an official "National" class status!!

Sitting here at st lenords drinking rum 2 Qld boats already here. 3 rd one nearly hear I hope.

Yeah I think I'll be in trouble for that one... My crew has to drop his wife off to the airport tomorrow morning.... will be there by mid morning tomorrow... with wind... hopefully.

We'll be leaving adelaide bright and early tomorrow morning (then again not too sure how bright we'll be). Hope to get there early afternoon.

Anyone got any weather forecasts for the weekend?

Antony and Emile Barrett are half way there from Adelaide at 10am (Thursday) this morning with a cat rigged Blade each. So that's two more.

Wish I could go - too much happening here at the moment.

If the boat from WA shows then it will be boats from 4 states.

3 Cat rigged Aussie Blades

2 Cat Rigged AHPC Vipers

3 Sloop rig AHPC Vipers

Should be a good series.

18 - 20 knots today........should favor the sloop rig boats

Nice! Thanks for the updates Marcus.

5 knots or 20 knots; I hope you guys and gals have a great time !

Wouter

15 - 18 knots...

Aido came out with two wins and Pim Haganar with two seconds. I sailed like a turkey (i'm sure the others will fill in the gaps) and got a 3rd and something else.

Tony Barret leaded the uni rigs closely followed by Don Dull.

Tomorrow looks like similar conditions and we still have 8 races on the cards.

Will get pics up soon.

results here

pictures here

just about to start race three after a short postponment due to lack of wind.

have about 5-8 knots now.

Thanks. Great photos! I noticed that Blade 403 has the aft end of the snuffer on the tramp. What is the thinking behind that? Also curious about the impact of the carbon mast - in a couple of shots it appeared to have less bend than the superwings. Is that correct? Any other effects on sailing behavior?

It would be interesting to get finish times, a la sailwave so we can see better how close the fleet was.

Nice to see a couple of Herons in frame! My Dad's first boat was a Heron, but very few left in NZ.

Carbon mast MUCH stiffer than the Al ones, but his mainsail is still cut for the bend of the Al mast ie to much luff round, (no time to have a new sail cut for the carbon mast) so it was expected that he would suffer a bit particularly to windward. the "snuffer" extends onto the tramp to accomodate primarily a spinnaker that has only two retrieval points (instead of the usual three)

Race 3 - Cat rigged blade first.
Race 4 - Sloop rig vipe 1st.

They are mixing it up!

Lastest updates and photos

This F16 sailor should look up the upper left hand corner if he wants to spot something out of the ordinary !

Notice the T-foils on that Aussie Blade F16 ?

(Plus a nice pic of two F16's being sailed 1-up (right to left : Aussie Blade F16 and a Viper F16)

Wouter

I noticed the WOLF in sheeps clothing...

Apparently there is also a Capricorn F18 on the course, trailing an Aussie Blade F16

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.

Mark, that's my nephew Finn. His Dad completely neglects his kid's catamaran training (playing around with kite boards instead). Fortunately they love going fast on the Blade.

And Day 3 photos are here.

Close racing, great stuff!!

Sure was!

This was about 200m from the finish of race 8. Tony with the green spi managed to go to the layline and come into the finish on starboard and pass the other Blade(emile) and Viper(adrian) right on the finish. 5 seconds separated the first three boats.

Congrats to Adrian fawcett and Jesse Dobie.

Nice tight racing for the title with 1st place team at 8 points and second place skipper at 12 points.

I guess the picture of boats being really close together (in the earlier posting) truly says it all.

Wouter