Race 5 - 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. |
| Thursday, March 10, 2011. |
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| Defending champion Seve Jarvin and his Gotta Love It 7 team of Sam Newton and Scott Babbage dominated Race 5 of the Winning Appliances JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, sailed in light winds on Sydney Harbour today. Gotta Love It 7 defeated Michael Coxon’s Thurlow Fisher Lawyers with Aaron Links and Trent Barnabas, by 2 minutes and 18 seconds. This places Jarvin trailing Coxon and his team by just one point after each discarding their worst performances to date. |
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Race 5 winner of the Winning Appliances - JJ
Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour, Gotta
Love It 7, Thursday March 10, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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Third placing today went to Western Australia’s SLAM team of Grant Rollerson, Anthony Young and Peter Nicholson, who finished a further minute and 6 seconds behind Thurlow Fisher Lawyers. On the overall point score after discards, US champion Howie Hamlin and his CST Composites team of Fritz Lanzinger and Paul Allen are equal third with SLAM, both on 16 points.
There is a group of four boats on 23 points, including John Winning’s Yandoo, Matthew Searle’s Red Claw Wines, Nick Press’ Smeg and Andy Budgen’s Hyde Sails. |
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Series leader Thurlow Fisher Lawyers, during Race
5 of the Winning Appliances - JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship
on Sydney Harbour, Thursday March 10, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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Another light north-east breeze greeted the fleet today, but the performance of Gotta Love It 7 was vastly different to yesterday. Along with David Witt’s Queenslander, Gotta Love It 7 won the critical start and was soon clearly ahead on the first beat to the windward Beashel Buoy.
Mark Kennedy’s TF Collect, Jack Macartney’s Rag & Famish Hotel and Red Claw Wines followed Gotta Love It 7 along the northern shore, while Thurlow Fisher Lawyers stood further into the mid harbor and led SLAM.
When the both groups met, Gotta Love It 7 easily crossed ahead of Thurlow Fisher Lawyers, while Rag & Famish Hotel was in third place ahead of SLAM and TF Collect. |
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A spinnaker run down to Clark Island during Race 5 of the
Winning Appliances - JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship
on Sydney Harbour, Thursday March 10, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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At the Beashel Buoy, Gotta Love It 7 led by 23 seconds from Thurlow Fisher Lawyers, SLAM, Rag & Famish Hotel and Smeg.
The next group was led by Red Claw Wines, TF Collect, Jonathan Whitty’s Panasonic and Jeremy Wilmot’s appliancesonline.com.au.
Gotta Love It 7 gybed immediately after rounding the top mark, then gybed back at Clifton Gardens for the spinnaker run to the Rose Bay wing mark. By now, Gotta Love It 7’s lead had edged out to 30 seconds over Thurlow Fisher Lawyers, Rag & Famish Hotel and SLAM. |
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A trans-Tasman challenge between Australian and New Zealand
teams, during Race 5 of the Winning Appliances - JJ Giltinan
18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour, Thursday March
10, 2011.
Photo © Australian 18 Footers League.
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There was a big gap back to the next group, which was led by New Zealand’s Yamaha, skippered by David McDiarmid; ahead of Marcus Ashley-Jones’ Asko Appliances, James Francis’ Pure Blonde, Hyde Sails, CST Composites and appliancesonline.com.au.
Gotta Love It 7 continued to increase her lead throughout the race, while Thurlow Fisher Lawyers remained entrenched in second place. SLAM got the better of Rag & Famish Hotel to finish third, while there was a long gap back to the remainder of the fleet.
It’s been a hard grind for competitors with a series of light and fluctuating breezes so hopes are for more of the 20-knots north-east wind seen on Race 3. Today’s race was sponsored by Fisher & Paykel. |
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It was a tight start in light wind for Race 5 of
the Winning Appliances - JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship
on Sydney Harbour, Thursday March 10, 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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Australian 18 Footers Leaguea © 2011 |
