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Life Members Trophy - Sydney Harbour.
By Frank Quealey, the Australian 18 Footers League.
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Simon Nearn, Peter Nicholson and Pedro Vezone, sailing together for the first time, brought De’Longhi home an easy winner of the Life Members Trophy 18 foot Skiffs race on Sydney Harbour today. De’Longhi took the race by 1 minute and 58 seconds from Matt Searle, Archie Massey and Mike McKenzie in Red Claw, with Gotta Love It 7, Steve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Scott Babbage, a further 1 minute and 12 seconds back in third place.
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The 18 Footers Life Members Trophy on Sydney Harbour, October 17, 2010.

Photo © The Australian
18 Footers League.
The 18 Footers Life Members Trophy on Sydney Harbour, October 17, 2010. Photo copyright, The Australian 18 Footers League.
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The race got off to a false start when the original race was set for a west course, in very light winds. A lack of wind halfway up the windward leg, then a massive wind change to a north east sea breeze, saw the starter abandon the race with a reset of a north east course.

Panasonic with Jonathan Whitty, Paul Montague and Nathan Wilmot onboard grabbed the lead soon after the start, but it wasn’t long before Gotta Love It 7 was leading the fleet to the 3-buoy windward mark.
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The 18 Footers Life Members Trophy on Sydney Harbour, October 17, 2010.

Photo © The Australian
18 Footers League.
The 18 Footers Life Members Trophy on Sydney Harbour, October 17, 2010. Photo copyright, The Australian 18 Footers League.
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As spinnakers were set for the first run, De’Longhi was favoured by going to the red buoy, which allowed her to lead appliancesonline.com.au with John Winning Jr., Euan McNicol and Peter Harris onboard.

James Francis’ Pure Blonde was in third place just ahead of Jeremy Wilmot’s Boatmate, followed by Gotta Love It 7 and Michael Coxon’s Thurlow Fisher Lawyers, which had to go to the furthest white buoy.

These positions remained unchanged at the wing mark, but Boatmate dropped the pace on the spinnaker run between Shark and Clarke Islands. It was a great effort for the boys on Boatmate who only took the boat over during the week and were having their first race.
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The 18 Footers Life Members Trophy on Sydney Harbour, October 17, 2010.

Photo © The Australian
18 Footers League.
The 18 Footers Life Members Trophy on Sydney Harbour, October 17, 2010. Photo copyright, The Australian 18 Footers League.
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De’Longhi retained her lead on the second windward leg and further increased the lead over appliancesonline through the 3-buoys system. Red Claw was another to gain from the system and took over third place ahead of Gotta Love It 7, Mark Kennedy’s Thurlow Fisher Collect, with Evan Walker’s Sharks-Coldwell banker Real Estate, Pure Blonde and Thurlow Fisher Lawyers grouped together.
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The 18 Footers Life Members Trophy on Sydney Harbour, October 17, 2010.

Photo © The Australian
18 Footers League.
The 18 Footers Life Members Trophy on Sydney Harbour, October 17, 2010. Photo copyright, The Australian 18 Footers League.
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De’Longhi increased her lead to more than one minute and the end of the second lap and was totally untroubled to go on to an easy victory on the final lap of the race. Next Sunday’s race is the Mick Scully Memorial Trophy.

More information and photographs can be found at www.flying18s.com and www.18footers.com.au.

Frank Quealey
Australian 18 Footers League
www.flying18s.com.
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