OK, I've talked the talk for a while and I figured it was time to walk the walk...
SeaBre...huh? At the moment this is beta and the people responsible for this wonderment want to stay in the background. With in reason we can get this modified to be exactly how we want. So have a look, use it, make some suggestions, let us know how good/bad it is and we'll work from there. Enjoy. Comments in the forums.
Anyone that didn't do Cape Naturaliste... this is what you missed. Also, take note of lyrics as this was put together over a bottle of bourbon tonight with Remmie!! The boy did an awesome job i reckon! Enjoy......
The 2010 Foundation Youth Cup was again hosted by Royal Perth Yacht Club on the superb fleet of Foundation 36 Yachts provided by the Western Australian Yachting Foundation (Swan River Sailing). The event this year was contested by nine budding young teams from yacht clubs all across the Perth metro area including teams from RFBYC, FSC, SoPYC, RPYC, EFYC, MBSC, HYC and TCYC.
Racing was held on Sunday 21st March in a light patchy Easterly breeze all day, and the numerous shifts and pressure differences definitely tested all of the teams out there!
In a dominant performance, winning every race of the six race series was Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club’s team skippered by David Gilmour. Crew members of this winning team included Peter Nicholas, Tom Lovelady, Greta Carroll, Adam Negri, Aimee Negri & Courtney Higgins.
Finishing second and sailing a consistent series on 15 points was Tristan Brown’s team from Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. This team was unable to defend their title, but happy for the trophy to remain at RFBYC.
This year sees the biggest WA contingent of sailors competing, with three WALA sailors securing a place in the 4.7 Worlds.
Wed 31st March 2010 - Thu 8th April 2010
The three sailors competing are Caitlin Elks, Ben Walkemeyer and Mark Spearman all from Fremantle Sailing Club.
The trio have been training hard under the watchful eye of FSC Coach Arthur Brett and are looking forward to testing themselves against the worlds best in their class!
WALA wishes these sailors well and look forward to hearing about their travels and results very soon!
Just as a reminder - Just Add Water will be screening a special on Albany on Sunday March 28 at 5pm on Channel 9 in Perth and WIN regionally.
A segment on the show will be about the Mirror World Championships that will be held at the Club from 26 December 2010 to 8 January 2011.
Beijing Olympic Gold Medallist, Elise Rechichi, visited the Club on the same day and provided the Albany Mirror sailors with lots of tips about preparing for a gruelling regatta such as the Worlds.
Don't miss it for a rare promotion of Sailing on mainstream TV.
Some of you may have read reports talking about the new SK90 Dyneema filtering through the sailing media world. Well after much testing by Alinghi, Olympic Teams and Volvo boats the first production runs are on the way.
What's SK90? Well the Dyneema we alll know and love also goes by the name SK75. This is the stuff inside our spectra halyards, on our vang/outhaul/cunningham strops depending on who you talk to, legal as life lines!!! There is also SK78 but that is less common. SK75 Dyneema is fantastic stuff, high strength, light weight and as long as you keep the loads under 50% of max breaking strain, has relativly low creep. It's when you get into higher loads compared to the max breaking strain where the creep becomes either too much to keep a sail shape of the rope gets weaker. Vectran has solved some of these creep issues but it hates UV and also doesn't like chafe/knots very much.
SK90 has been aimed to solve all of these problems. It is upto 30% stronger that SK75 and also displays minimum creep behaviour. It handles UV well meaning it can be tapered easily or left bare. To give you an idea of the strength of SK90, a TP52 in Melbourne has just been spec'd with 7mm SK90 halyards covered to make 10mm overall. With a breaking strain around 8000kg that hardest part will be getting clutches to handle the load!!!
Samples should be available very soon and expect production quantities to be on available mid year.
For more info contact DSU, AKA Ben @ Boating Hardware on 9337 9900
The Tornado Nationals are currently being held on the Swan, and the fleet was hit hard in Mondays Storm. If you think being on land and trying to dodge the golf ball sized hail was hard, try sailing at 15 knots on a Tornado and doing it!
The Corona del Mar to Cabo San Lucas International Yacht Race is an invitational race for mono-hull boats for unique trophies presented by Balboa Yacht Club. The is from Newport Beach, California approximately 800 nm SSE to a finish near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Two start dates are planned with slower handicap rated boats starting on Friday, March 26, 2010 and faster handicap rated boats starting on Saturday, March 27, 2010.
After competing at the Bay of Islands Race Week in New Zealand (a week before GBRW) Limit was delivered back to Auckland where the sails went back to Evolution NZ for service and the rig was removed also for servicing by Southern Spars. Upon full service and inspection of the entire boat including winches, running gear and electronics the mast was re-fitted and the boat packed ready for the SS3 Dockwise, the ship that would transport this fully rigged Reichel-Pugh 63 from Auckland to Ensanada, Mexico ready for the 2010 West Coast USA circuit.
This Saturday 20th March from 4:30pm there will be a brand new event at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club never before seen to these waters ‘The RFBYC Champions Event’. Some of the worlds top Match Racers will be battling it out against their younger Teams Racing counterparts. It will consist of a Teams Race in the yacht clubs pristine fleet of Bakewell White 8 Meters. This format of racing will combine both the fast paced tactics required for teams racing with the skill of handling a keelboat with two other crew members.
With RFBYC housing some of the best views and racing conditions on the Swan River it will be a spectacle you will not want to miss out on. There will be Commentary by local Team Racing heroes Luc Tasker and Blair Spalding giving tack-by-tack feedback on the racing providing viewers with a clear understanding of some of the complexities of the racing.
This weekends racing saw only the fast end of town and the stayers finishing as conditions glassed out in the race to Mandurah. The Race Committee stuck it out and ended up back at MoFSC around midnight, many thanks to the efforts of Trevor Milton and his team!
Sunday saw the same no breeze situation early but then as if on cue or as ordered by the start team, the breeze filled in. Whilst not much it was enough to get the fleet home, and have those boats pulling the pin and motoring back kicking themselves as it was a great sail.
On Optimus Prime, we regualarly had the boat speed up above the windspeed and had the awesome sight of the Queen Mary 2 in Freo to return to. Not too often we think of 50 footers being small, but whilst motoring past having a look at her, we felt tiny!
