Race 2 - Winning Appliances
JJ Giltinan
18ft Skiff Championship. |
| By Frank Quealey, the Australian 18 Footers League. |
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Photos by the Australian
18 Footers League
Edited by Peter Andrews. |
| Sunday, March 6, 2011. |
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| Australian 18ft Skiff champions Michael Coxon, Aaron Links and Trent Barnabas fought back strongly today on Thurlow Fisher Lawyers to score an impressive win in Race 2 of the Winning Appliances JJ Giltinan Championship on Sydney Harbour. Thurlow Fisher Lawyers took the lead from the first windward leg of the course and put on a wonderful display of light wind sailing to defeat Race 1 winner, Gotta Love It 7, by 1 minute and 23 seconds. |
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Michael Coxon, Aaron Links and Trent Barnabas on Thurlow
Fisher Lawyers,
during Race 2 of the Winning Appliances - JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship
on Sydney Harbour, Sunday March 6, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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Gotta Love It 7’s Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Scott Babbage had set a challenge to all challengers after a brilliant win yesterday, but were unable to match the light wind speed of the winners. Former Giltinan champion John Winning and his Yandoo crew of Andrew Hay and Dave Gibson were near the head of the fleet all day, and finished a further 3 minutes and 17 seconds back in third place.
Western Australia’s SLAM (Grant Rollerson) finished fourth, followed by Red Claw Wines (Matthew Searle) and TF Collect (Mark Kennedy). |
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James Francis' Pure Blonde crew have time for a drink, during Race 2 of
the Winning Appliances - JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney
Harbour, Sunday March 6, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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The race, race sponsored by Asko Appliances, was another light day with an easterly breeze that fluctuated between 5 and 12 knots. From the start, the fleet was spread across the harbor on the windward beat up to the Rose Bay mark. Positions changed regularly before Thurlow Fisher Lawyers finally took control and led by 30 seconds, as spinnakers were set for the downwind legs.
SLAM was in second place, closely followed by Yandoo, Gotta Love It 7 and Red Claw Wines. |
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Matthew Searle's Red Claw Wines, during Race 2 of the Winning Appliances
- JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour, Sunday March
6, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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Pure Blonde (James Francis) led the next group, which included Queenslander (David Witt), Panasonic (Jonathan Whitty), Rag & Famish Hotel (Jack Macartney) and TF Collect. Yesterday’s placegetters Smeg (Nick Press) and CST Composites (Howie Hamlin) were buried back in the fleet, 11th and 12th respectively.
Thurlow Fisher Lawyers held her lead downwind, then sailed a superb leg back to Rose Bay where the team held a 1 minute and 10 second lead over Gotta Love It 7. The other Thurlow Fisher boat TF Collect also sailed well and was in third place, just ahead of SLAM, Yandoo and Red Claw Wines. Smeg and CST Composites had made up four placings over the lap, but were still 7th and 8th respectively. |
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Simon Nearn's De’Longhi - Rabbitohs, during Race 2 of the Winning
Appliances - JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour, Sunday
March 6, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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On the final windward leg back to Rose Bay it was truly a two-boat race as Thurlow Fisher Lawyers and Gotta Love It 7 opened up a big break over the rest of the fleet.
After two light wind days, most crews are hoping for more breeze on Tuesday for Race 3 of the seven race championship. Early predictions are for 15 to 18 knot north east winds, which would be ideal conditions for great skiff action. |
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Brett Van Munster's The Kitchen Maker and Jeremy Wilmot's Appliancesonline under
spinnaker in light winds, during Race 2 of the Winning Appliances - JJ
Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour, Sunday March 6, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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Replays of the live tracking of each race from the 2011 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship will be available from: http://www.tractrac.com/index.php?page=eventpage&id=138.
More information and photographs can be found at www.flying18s.com and www.18footers.com.au. Video coverage can be seen also on www.18footers.com.au.
Frank Quealey, Australian 18 Footers League. |
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