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Rupert Henry och hans franska co-skipper, Corentin Douguet, har det ändå ganska mysigt 😀 Spikade doublehandedklassen och IRC Div 4.
Dec 29, 2009 @ 09:43
Trevligt att vakna upp till bilder på både SVT1 och webbtv. Man kan inget annat än att längta tills vi får i våra egna båtar igen.
Men både webbtv och SVT säger att Alfa Romeo är vinnaren. Det känns som detta har diskuterats innan om medias syn på seglingen och problematiken med förståelsen hos vanliga Svenssons kring mätreglerna…eller? ;-)
För det är väl inte så att Alfa Romeo tog LH samt totalen…? Inte ens jag har koll ;-)
// Stefan Blom
Dec 29, 2009 @ 10:00
Totalen på IRC, ORCi och PHS är fortfarande öppen. Just nu ser 40-fotarna (en First 40 och en X-41) hetast ut men mycket beror på vädret som fortsätter att vara nyckfullt…
Eller som man säger från officiellt håll:
Dec 29, 2009 @ 14:38
Just in – Niklas Zennströms RAN tog IRC grupp 1 i Sydney Hobart! Det går bra nu..
Dec 29, 2009 @ 19:39
Det verkar vara klart nu. Ran tog det! Grattis till Niklas med besättning
Dec 29, 2009 @ 23:41
RAN ligger enligt resultaten 4:a ännu i IRC klassen.
Det är några före som dock inte har gått i mål än men gör dom det på den tiden man tror så slår dom ran.
Checka länken http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/standings_ext.asp?submitted=true&key=524&RaceID=91&standingsTime=current&frmYr=91&frmDay=0&frmHour=0&frmMinute=0&frmClass=380&frmDivision=&ordering=normal&Send.x=46&Send.y=2
Dec 30, 2009 @ 00:05
Två 40.7:or och en X41:a?! Dags att införa banbegränsning?
Dec 30, 2009 @ 00:20
Det ser ut til at First 40 har tatt de to første plassene i IRC uansett divisjon. I Div 4 er det tre First 40 på topp.
Dec 30, 2009 @ 00:54
Hmmm, litt raskt å trekke konklusjon rundt midnatt skandinavisk tid, 40-41-foterne har noen mil igjen.
Dec 30, 2009 @ 08:24
TATTERSALL’s CUP STILL IN DOUBT
December 30, 2009
The smaller boats at the back of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, after surviving frustrating light air and calms off the southeastern coast of New South Wales, are blowing home fast today.
A light but steady nor’easter in Hobart this morning, has been giving the yachts finishing a comfortable one-leg day over the last 11 nautical miles of the course up the Derwent River.
The Bureau of Meteorology forecast for the lower east coast of Tasmania has a light east-northeast breeze this morning tending northeast-north during the morning and increasing to reach 20-30 knots by this evening.
But the winner of the race’s most prized trophy, the Tattersall’s Cup for the first boat on IRC overall corrected, may still be in doubt after the finish.
At 1200, Andrew Saies’ Beneteau First 40 Too True, from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, was leading the IRC corrected time calculations from another First 40, Wicked (Mike Welsh) from Sandringham YC.
Seventh was the British Judel/Vrolijk 72 Ran (Niklas Zennstrom), moored since finishing yesterday, at the Kings Pier Marina.
Two True was 7.6nm from the finish doing 7 knots, looking set to cross over two hours inside the time needed to win.
But, after finishing she still has to survive a protest lodged against her by the Inglis 39 She’s the Culprit (Todd Leary) over an incident soon after the start in Sydney Harbour. She’s the Culprit, holed in a collision had to retire immediately.
The weather pattern, with its heavy mix of calms and light air before the northerly flow bringing the small boats home fast, has not suited the 50-72 footers that were most fancied in pre-race predictions.
Aboard one of smaller boats in this group, the Corby 49 Audi Centre Melbourne (formerly Flirt), was Roger Hickman who has sailed in 33 Hobart races, twice aboard Tattersall’s Cup winners.
Hickman described how the mid-fleet boats were finally slowed by the southerly change, the final nail in the coffin for their overall handicap chances. “We were off Schouten Island, (102nm) from the finish, when it went hard south with a good 28-30 knots of breeze for four or five hours. Then it lightened up, but it got very bumpy off Maria Island.
“It was a tough night, cold but within the realms of acceptability. It went straight south so we had to tack into Maria, tack out, and back into Eaglehawk Neck and chipped our way up to Tasman.
“Half an hour before we got to Tasman the wind went a bit left. We just got to Tasman and then it was just soft, five knots, six knots, and then halfway across Storm Bay this little north-easterly came in, which I guess was the saving grace because we could well still be out there for another couple of hours.”
The after-race beers with crew mates on the dock this morning evoked sad memories for Hickman … of his partner and crewmate Sally Gordon who, along with the yacht’s skipper Andrew Short, died in the wreck of Short’s Shockwave on Flinders Islet during a Cruising Yacht Club of Australia overnight coastal race in October.
“This is my 33rd Sydney Hobart; the first one in 15 years without my mate Sal,” he said. “And it’s a piss-off because you get so used to relying on people. It’s all about the camaraderie. It’s not which Hobart you do; it’s whom you do it with. And you make some wonderful, wonderful friends.”
With 35 yachts finished, and five yachts retired, there are 60 yachts still racing to the finish in Hobart.
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has entries representing the USA, UK, New Zealand, Spain, the Netherlands, and New Caledonia as well as every Australian state.
Dec 30, 2009 @ 08:55
HANDICAP WINNER STILL IN BALANCE
December 30, 2009
The smallest boat in the fleet, Zephyr Hamilton Elevators, was as of this evening, still well in the running to win the IRC overall handicap division of the 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.
Zephyr is a Sea Nymph 33 co-owned by James Connell and Alex Braddon from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. She won division E in the 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.
The Sea Nymph 33 design is extremely fast downwind and is well-suited to the strong northerly wind prevailing on the lower Tasmanian east coast, forecast to reach 20-30 knots by evening.
The final 40 nautical miles of the 628nm course, with the northerly forecast to blow at 15-25 knots with gusts to 30 knots, which will put Zephyr on the wind, and will certainly slow and may end her chances of winning the Tattersall’s Cup for IRC overall handicap.
At 1550, Zephyr had 46 miles to go, and was doing 9.7 knots for an estimated finish at 2311, well inside the time she needed to take first place (0131 on Dec 31).
Second and third on corrected time standings were two of Beneteau’s new First 40s, which have already finished: Two True (Andrew Saies) from the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia and Wicked (Mike Welsh) from Sandringham Yacht Club.
The Farr-designed First 40 is a replacement for the successful Beneteau 40.7. A Beneteau 40.7, First National Real Estate skippered by Michael Spies, was the overall handicap winner of the 2003 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.
Two True, in second spot, still has to face a protest by the Tasmanian Inglis 39, She’s the Culprit (Todd Leary), which was badly damaged after the race start in a jam of boats converging on the first rounding mark at Sydney Heads and had to retire.
With some of the boats named in the protest documents still racing, the International Jury has deferred the protest until tomorrow morning (Dec 31).
Zephyr has also signaled by radio to the race committee that she will lodge protests against three boats, without specifying who they are, after finishing. That protest could also arise from the crush of boats in the 100-boat fleet converging to leave Sydney Harbour.
Two True and Wicked finished fast under spinnakers before a moderate southeasterly sea breeze early this afternoon, with Two True crossing 22 minutes ahead of Wicked.
Saies said: “It was a very difficult and frustrating race. Having had a couple of light patches on the way down, we thought we were through it and then we got a third one, 25 miles from Tasman Light last night; around 3:00am we were flapping around for three hours.”
Tactician Brett Young said Two True had followed a strategy of always being well east of the rhumbline and had received a favourable push from the current in two major eddies.
“Our routing was always east of the rhumbline,” said Young. “It’s the first time I’ve ever done that. And we had really good competition from Wicked. They sailed hard, but we got through them. We really stuck to our game plan, even with the weather not being anything like what it was originally forecast. We only came into Tasmania when we could lay Tasman Island.”
Young said the First 40 had performed well in the bumpy seaway following the southerly front. “Last night was a tough night, but that’s when this boat comes into its own. In a seaway, it just goes faster.”
Mark Welsh, boat manager and tactician on Wicked for his owner-skipper father Mike Welsh, said: “We chose the design after a lot of searching around the world for one that would be very competitive in IRC racing and it looks like we might have chosen successfully.”
A third new First 40 was racing, Paca (Philippe Mengual) from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. “So our race really depended on watching the other two boats, said Mark. “All credit to Two True, they sailed an absolutely sensational race.
“On the second night out, even though we were with them off Gabo Island, we couldn’t hold them. They sailed very, very well that night, got through us and from there we were just playing catch-up and we couldn’t catch them. They did a great job.”
The only IRC division decided, with all boats finished, is Division 0 for canting-keeled boats. The line honours winner Alfa Romeo (Neville Crichton), a Reichel Pugh100, won from the Cookson 50 Evolution Racing (Ray Roberts), with the modified Jones Volvo 70 Ichi Ban (Matt Allen) third.
With 48 yachts finished, and five yachts retired, there are 47 yachts still racing to the finish in Hobart.
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has entries representing the USA, UK, New Zealand, Spain, the Netherlands, and New Caledonia as well as every Australian state.
Dec 30, 2009 @ 11:50
Sluttspillet kan bli mer spennende enn hva Zephyr setter pris på. Rett før middagstid norsk tid ligger de 26 nmil fra mål, men det ser ut til at vinden er nordvest (som er kursen mot mål, sånn omtrent). Og det er åpenbart er stillebelte før mål, båtene foran gjør nesten ikke fart. Seks timer igjen til de må være i mål, antar de ser på klokka rimelig ofte, og regner på gjennomsnittsfarten de må holde for resten av distansen for å rekke i mål innen tiden går ut for å vinne. Man føler med dem!
Dec 30, 2009 @ 12:22
Får förtydliga gällande Ran :) IRC div 1 När det gäller den här typen av segling så brukar ju gummibandet med bleke o vind, med o mot, osv göra det mycket chansartat. Det är ju en del av tjusningen.
Dec 30, 2009 @ 15:10
Att utse en totalvinnare på en sån här segling är väl mer en kul grej, men lite synd att alla arrangörer faller för den frestelsen. RAN vann klassen och följde upp sin vinst i Fastnet, imponerande liksom att 3 båtar i topp 5 är Judel/Vrolijk konstruktioner :-)
Dec 31, 2009 @ 09:12
Nu skall protesterna vara klara…
IRC
1 Two True, First 40, 1.085
2 Wicked, First 40, 1.088 (ej ORCi)
3 Next, Sydney 38, 1.099 (ej ORCi)
4 Swish, Sydney 38, 1.104
5 Patrice Six, X-41, 1.119
6 Ran, J/V 72, 1.560 (ej ORCi)
7 Zephyr Hamilton Elevators, Farr 1020, 0.958 (ej ORCi)
8 Charisma, S&S 57, 1.118
9 Imagination, First 47.7, 1.123 (ej ORCi)
10 Tow Truck, Ker 11.3, 1.150 (ej ORCi)
Och så klart blev det mycket rättvisare i ORCi :-)
1 Two True, Firts 40, 1.0469
2 Swish, Sydney 38, 1.0478
3 Patrice Six, X-41, 1.0688
4 AFR Midnight Rambler, Farr 40, 1.1065
5 Pinta – M, S&S 41, 0.8881
6 Charisma, S&S 57, 1.0795
Dec 31, 2009 @ 11:02
Trivelig med to First 40 på toppen, vi får håpe lillebror 35 har samme potensiale :-)
Noen som vet hvordan de håndterer klasseinndeling i denne seilasen? De samme båtene går igjen både i IRC og ORCi.
Dec 31, 2009 @ 13:11
lillebror 35 har minst det samme potensialet, det bare opp til deg og mannskapet ditt – seierspallen er reservert !