| The ever-changing weather conditions had the Rolex Trophy One Design race committee busy re-laying marks and kept competitors on their toes with today’s winds a bit like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates - you never knew what you were going to get. |
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From left to right behind a South Pacific
swell are the Sydney 38's of Alan and Tom Quick's Iplex
Outlaw;
Darryl Hodgkinson's Uplift; Claton, Gordon and Foye's The
SubZero Goat; and Tony Walls' Acuity during day 2 of the
Rolex Trophy One Design Series.
Photo © Peter Andrews.
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| "Within 45 minutes we had up to four changes in wind direction in race one including one 300 degree shift," said Principal Race Office Denis Thompson this afternoon. |
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Tony
Walls' Sydney 38 Acuity during day 2 of the Rolex Trophy One
Design Series.
Photo © Peter Andrews.
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"All we needed was a sou’easter and we would have had breeze from every direction," said tactician Sean Kirkjian from today’s duel winner, the Sydney 38 Uplift.
Just two races were completed today before Thompson again brought the fleet ashore. Once the gusts climbed to 28 knots out of the north-west and the breeze continued to be unstable, the two fleets headed back to their home clubs. |
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Claton,
Gordon and Foye's Sydney 38, The SubZero
Goat during day 2 of
the Rolex Trophy One Design Series.
Photo © Peter Andrews.
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| Both the Farr 40 and Sydney 38 fleets were sent offshore for day two of the Rolex Trophy One Design Series, racing on the waters known as Macquarie Circle, an area located off the Macquarie Lighthouse on Sydney’s South Head. |
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Ivan
Wheen's Farr 40 Sputnik rounding the top mark during day 2 of
the Rolex Trophy One Design Series.
Photo © Peter Andrews.
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A wafting breeze between four and six knots from the north-east and a few big rollers, thanks to a long, slow swell, made for a challenging first race of day two.
Lisa and Martin Hill’s Farr 40 Estate Master and Guido Belgiorno Nettis’ Transfusion were both a bit too eager to start and were re-called by the race committee. |
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Brett
Neill's Farr 40 White Cloud during day 2 of the Rolex Trophy
One Design Series.
Photo © Peter Andrews.
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The Farr 40’s began their regatta yesterday, completing two races. Lang Walker’s Kokomo went into today’s third and fourth races off the back of two straight wins yesterday but they weren’t able to keep up the pace, finishing third and fourth today. They still lead the series by one point from Transfusion.
Brett Neill’s Farr 40 White Cloud scored its first win of the series in race one today. |
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Darryl
Hodgkinson's Sydney 38 Uplift rounding the top mark during day
2 of the Rolex Trophy One Design Series.
Photo © Peter Andrews.
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| Late comer Ivan Wheen's Farr 40 Sputnik, arrived on the race course for race four, its first of the series, and led the fleet around the one-lap shortened course to take the gun. |
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Claton,
Gordon and Foye's Sydney 38 The SubZero
Goat, one of the contenders
in the Rolex Sydney Hobart 2008.
Photo © Peter Andrews.
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| For the Sydney 38 division conditions were described as ‘freaky.’ As the fleet approached the top mark in race two, boats that were 200 metres apart had headsails and spinnakers up heading towards the mark and then had to reach towards the finish line. Bizarrely, those carrying kites to the top mark dropped them, reached to the mark and then continued to the finish under headsail. |
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Lisa
and Martin Hill's Farr 40 Estate Master rounding the top
mark during day 2 of the Rolex Trophy One Design Series.
Photo © Peter Andrews.
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Uplift sailed a faultless two races to beat its class mates and claim Boat of the Day and lead the provisional pointscore going into tomorrow’s second and final day of racing.
The Farr 40 Boat of the Day was Transfusion.
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