Sailing News
Princess Royal Sailing Club
Novice Skipper Has First Victory
Racing Saturday 25 January
Div2 skipper, Karen Timmins, sailed her best race since acquiring Grey Moose to win her first ever harbour course event, taking handicap honours. Timmins had as a crew member previous owner Ian Howard, and no doubt this was very helpful in her quest for victory. Following up on her third placing of the previous week, Timmins continues to impress as a skipper and the future looks good.
Stephen Brown was the standout skipper as he lead the fleet with Mary Maitland for the majority of the journey to record fastest time and second on handicap. Josh Hughes and Chris Oldham in Joker pushed Brown throughout and, considering there was only the two on board, did extremely well to take third place. Bob Giles didn't begin well with Footloose but battled on manfully to finish well up. Neil Worrell had a better day out than the previous week on Zuri and is keen to improve his position.
Div1 saw Murray Howson in Sitting Bull leading throughout in a masterful display, knowing he needed to be well in front for any chance of a win. Harold Keay had a larger than usual crew on Shagabull and he was able to stay within reach of Howson with some slick spinnaker work. Keay was also able to keep well ahead of arch rival, Murray Deere, who wasn't having the best of days with Wild One. In the end, Keay had done well on handicap to score a decent win with Shagabull. Howson took second place and recorded another fastest time in a great show.
Flying Fifteens continued their rivalry with Aileen Lucas in Crazy experimenting by adding some extra kilograms of weight to the boat. It seemed to work early in the harbour course race but Simon Lucas was doing his own thing with FForever Young and, after chasing for much of the time, finished 10 seconds in front. However, it was all to no avail, as Crazy won on handicap in another close encounter.
Picture: (Above) Karen Timmins takes Grey Moose to her first victory in Saturday's race.
Race Day Photos
To see more of Des' photos, including some contributions by others, see the link below.
Rumble in the Reach
The Rumble in the Reach Sportsboat Challenge was held at East Fremantle Yacht Club on 18 January. PRSC had good representation with 4 of the 18 boats at the Rumble.
Peter Howson placed second overall and Geoff Oliver was seventh overall.
📷 of Excitabull courtesy EFYC. See gallery here.
Best placings:
Aus 281 Bruce Mattison: 8th
Aus 215 Chris O'Keeffe: 8th
Aus 217 Peter Howson: 1st
Aus 218 Micheal Cameron: DNF
PR 7000 Excitabull: 3rd
Full results are available below.
From the Sailing Director
PRSC members are invited to attend the next Community Forum for the Oyster Harbour reef restoration project on Thursday, 6 February, 5.30-7pm at the UWA Albany Campus.
Some of our members may occasionally sail near either of these reefs and may want to know where they are and how they are progressing as a new habitat for oysters.
If you'd like to attend, RSVP is required via alex.hams@TNC.ORG by 4 February.
Neil Worrell, Sailing Director
Walpole in the Trees Regatta 2020
The Walpole Yacht Club is again looking forward to hosting the Walpole in the Trees Regatta on the Labour Day long weekend, Saturday 29 February and Sunday 1 March, 2020.
The Regatta program includes five races over two days and is open to the following:
- All off-the-beach dinghies, Trailer Sailers (JAM only) and Catamarans
- Any shallow draft keelboats, eg: Red Witch, Flying Fifteen
- Any veteran off the beach yachts
The regatta is a safe, family-focused event to be enjoyed by all, and an ideal way to experience the beauty of the Walpole and Nornalup Inlet Marine Park.
The Notice of Race is available here and nominations open 1 January 2020 via www.walpoleyachtclub.com.au.