South Australian Radio Yacht Association

2014 Racing Reports

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RM Interclub1  RM Interclub2  RM Interclub3 RM Interclub4 A State  Gunwale   Whitrod IOM Classic   KM IOM Challenge   IOM State Championship  10R State Title  RM State Championship  Bournville Cup  Laser Aus Championship
 

IOM State Championship

 

An excellent event with variable winds to 12 knots produced great, close racing.  Greg and his helpers did an excellent job organising the 2 fleet racing for the two days.

     

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Whitrod Classic

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KM IOM Challenge

      

A shot of the excellent rigging area and open waters of the sailing venue at Hart's Mill Pt Adelaide.

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RM State Championship

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A great fleet and steady winds saw a great event .  Thanks to ARCYRC for running the racing so effectively.
The SA Championship was contested over the two days with racing on the Sunday separated out for the Bournville Trophy.
A fleet of 17 waited for the wind to develop to commence the first day’s racing.  The wind gradually strengthened throughout the day with the majority of the fleet changing to their B rigs for the afternoon.  Sunday’s racing started with light breezes and the fleet held on with A rigs for the day.
Six interstate visitors bolstered the numbers to seventeen which augers well for the forthcoming National Championships to be conducted March 2015.
Lincoln McDowell established an early lead which he maintained for the two days.  Scott Mitchell and Lisa Blackwood were second and third place getters with a comfortable gap to the remainder of the fleet.  By the good nature that prevailed throughout the series (only a couple of instances where voices were raised) and skippers taking the responsibility to perform penalties without appeal from those that were infringed all enjoyed the weekend’s events.
Thanks to the Adelaide Radio Control Yacht Racing Club for hosting the event and a special mention to those that officiated.  PRO Johno Johnson with Greg Peake skippering the rescue/buoy positioning boat and the volunteer scorers.  

Bournville Cup

For more images of both events look at this link produced by ARCYRC.

 

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RM Interclub Challenge 1 - Patawalonga

The event had to move to the Tiranna Way venue as the Patawlonga was flowing too fast with large quantities of floating rubbish and was unusable.  Jonno and Graham did a great job getting to grips with the computer scoring.

The weather was brilliant with a steady wind fading in the last couple of races.

Individually Paul and Phillip were most successful with the rest fairly close. 

Adelaide Radio Control Yacht Racing Club  7-Jul-2014 (Race 1 in M Interclub M Challenge)
Place	Names	Sail No	Club	Score	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	LITTLEDYKE  Paul	01	ARCYRC	57	3	14	2	2	3	13	2	2	9	7
2	LEVI  Phillip	70	SMYRC	61	12	10	1	1	8	2	6	7	13	1
3	MORRIS  Ben	68	SMYRC	67	1	13	3	4	9	8	8	12	4	5
4	MITCHELL  Scott	83	ARCYRC	71	2	11	13	3	5	11	5	1	6	14
5	COCKSHELL  Malcom	73	SMYRC	71	5	12	4	14	2	6	4	13	1	10
6	DOWSETT  Ian	42	SARYC	72	9	5	13	13	4	7	1	3	14	3
7	INVERARITY  John	151	SARYC	72	8	9	6	6	6	5	9	6	5	12
8	GOLD  Alan	26	SARYC	73	7	8	5	5	11	3	13	10	2	9
9	PARKER  Ron	51	ARCYRC	74	6	7	7	10	14	1	7	11	3	8
10	GERRARD  Jeff	47	SMYRC	77	13	2	9	11	1	13	3	14	7	4
11	PEAKE  Greg	97	ARCYRC	85	4	3	12	12	13	4	14	9	8	6
12	PURVIS  Brian	97	SARYC	88	11	4	10	9	10	10	12	8	12	2
13	OSBORN  Brett	79	ARCYRC	89	14	1	8	7	12	9	10	5	10	13
14	LUCAS  Steve	63	SARYC	91	10	6	11	8	7	12	11	4	11	11
Score for dns, dnf etc ~ 15
Pos	CLUB	Pts
1	SMYRC	20
2	ARCYRC	25
3	SARYC	33

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RM Interclub Challenge 2 - Stirling

A quiet but enjoyable day at Woorabinda allowed the 9 sailors and three helpers to compete in the second Interclub challenge.  Thanks to the SARYA sailors for participating and for the three helpers Terry, Rod and Bob who managed handicapping system.  Stirling won the day but it was quite close really with just a few changes in positions needed to reverse the result.

Stirling Marblehead Yacht Racing Club  14-Sep-2014 (Race 2 in M Interclub M Challenge)
Place	Names	Club	Sail No	Score	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	van den BOK  Adrian	SMYRC	64	21	3	7	1	4	1	5
2	LEVI  Phillip	SMYRC	191	26	4	6	5	1	6	4
3	WATSON  Jeff	SAYRC	50	27	2	9	3	2	8	3
4	MORRIS  Ben	SMYRC	68	28	1	8	2	6	2	9
5	DOWSETT  Ian	SAYRC	42	31	9	2	4	3	5	8
6	COCKSHELL  Malcom	SMYRC	73	31	6	4	6	9	4	2
7	GOLD  Alan	SAYRC	26	32	7	3	7	7	7	1
8	SMALLACOMBE  Ian	SMYRC	74	33	5	5	8	5	3	7
9	INVERARITY  John	SAYRC	151	41	8	1	9	8	9	6
	Position	Club	Posn	Scores
	1	SMYRC	13	106
	2	SARYC	24	131

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RM Interclub Challenge 3 Paris Creek

Not held in 2013

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RM Interclub Challenge 4 West Lakes

What a great day at West Lakes with winds ranging from 5-10 knots and not too hot and no glare to worry about.  The racing was close and the handicap system ensured the final points were tight.  Stirling won the day thanks most probably to the unfortunate loss of the keel bulb from Jeff W's yacht.  Jeff G seemed to relish the conditions and was clearly the winner on the day but the next 5 places were only separated by 3 points indicating how important it was to pick up that next position.  I'm sure Jeff W would have been in the same range then it would have been anyone's day.  Thanks to the SARYC for running the event and for all sailors for maintaining a high standard of sailing and enjoying the day.
Stirling has won all three events this year and retains the Transom Trophy for 2014.

	SARYC TRANSOM TROPHY  23 Nov 2014
Place	Names	Sail No	Class	Score	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10
1	GERRARD Jeff	47	SMYRC	37	5	6	3	2	1	3	4	6	5	2
2	PURVIS Brian	97	SARYC	47	3	10	2	1	11	10	1	1	1	7
3	INVERARITY John	151	SARYC	48	4	7	4	3	3	5	7	5	6	4
4	MARSHALL Rod	67	SMYRC	49	10	1	1	10	2	1	5	11	7	1
5	MORRIS Ben	68	SMYRC	49	1	9	6	6	5	4	2	3	8	5
6	SMALLACOMBE Ian	74	SMYRC	51	7	5	5	7	4	8	6	2	4	3
7	WATSON Jeff	50	SARYC	66	2	8	8	4	6	2	3	11	11	11
8	DONELLAN Sid	89	SARYC	67	9	2	11	8	8	6	8	7	2	6
9	BAMPTON Daryl	11	SARYC	70	8	4	7	9	9	9	9	4	3	8
10	BOWDEN Kevin	21	SARYC	81	6	3	9	5	7	7	11	11	11	11

 

Pos	Clubs	Total Score
1	SMYRC	16
2	SARYC	20

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A Class State Titles
He certainly smiled on SEHMYC for the 2014 A Class Championship. What more could you ask for? We had a beautiful blue sky, reasonably consistent light to medium winds, a picturesque location and a comfortable maximum 22 degrees. Not too shabby at all.
We had eight entries but Ben Morris was forced to cancel at the last moment. Next year I hope, Ben.
The breeze favoured Rob Guyatt and he got away for a flyer in the first race. It also helped that he hit the line at speed 0.001 second before the gun. Way to go to put your impression on a series.
Rob immediately followed this up with a DNF and a DNS caused by ................... electronics problems! It wasn’t Rob’s fault, it was caused by some new-fangled batteries. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
This gave Philip Scapens a chance to step up and make his play for the Cup had Alan Gold not kicked into gear to take the third race with his virtually new and not yet race tuned Venom.
Rob returned with a vengeance in Race 4 and ran together a string of firsts with only 1 second place in Race 5. Well done Rob.
Well done also to Philip who hung in there and prayed for another battery failure. It wasn’t to be.
Bob Tuohy had an interesting tussle for third place with Alan Gold. Bob was sailing “Shamrock”, the same Foo Fighter that Ben Morris sailed to State Championship some years back. Alan, as mentioned, was sailing a new Venom that has not yet had the chance to be fully race tuned. Don’t discount the older boats. This can also be seen with Ross Eldridge's boat that went into the water for a trial run last week after collecting dust for about 9 years. Ross got off for a very respectable third and second after which he took over my normal duties as groundsman and started sweeping up all of the reeds floating around the course.
Brian and David provided the “Safety Boat” services.
I thank all of the SEHMYC members for making this such a successful day. Thank you also to Rob, Alan and Ross for getting our numbers up to make it a ranking event.
Next year is the 10^th year for SEHMYC and I look forward to the next A Class Championship being a special day for the Club and the Class.

SAIL	COMPETITOR	STATE	POSITION	POINTS	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10
NUM
23	ROB GUYATT	SA	1	9	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	1	1	1
15	PHILIP SCAPENS	SA	2	15	2	1	2	3	1	0	0	2	2	2
349	BOB TUOHY	SA	3	28	5	3	3	4	0	0	4	3	3	3
27	ALAN GOLD	SA	4	29	0	5	1	5	3	4	2	5	0	4
85	ROSS ELDRIDGE	SA	5	36	3	2	6	0	6	2	6	4	7	0
9	DAVID MARTIN	SA	6	39	6	6	4	2	4	6	0	0	5	6
84	BRIAN PENNIFOLD	SA	7	39	4	4	5	6	0	0	5	6	4	5
				DNS, DNF etc				0

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Gunwale Interclub all boats

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10R State Title

Congratulations to all who sailed on the day.

While the day started with very iffy winds causing a couple of delays it eventually settled down to a very pleasant day with a SW wind which held up all day. Despite a couple of contestants having difficulties towards the end (Ian Backler with a strained back) the rest maintained.  There were good battles throughout the day with the 'Old Salt' Brian Purvis coming out the winner. As usual Ben Morris sailed his usual consistent races and came second.  Ian Dowsett with his new dual rated RM (just launched last week) surprised many of the 10R skippers with his speed and he scored a 3rd place just pipping Alan Gold by 2.5 points.   Thank you to David Walters who sailed with us while on a holiday from his home in Victoria. Nice to meet you and your wife and look forward to seeing you again in 2015.
Thanks to Trevor and SARYC for a very pleasant and smooth program.

South Australian Radio Yacht Club  6-Oct-2014 (Race 1 in 10R State Title)
Place	Names	Sail No	State	Points	Dis - cards	Score	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	PURVIS  Brian	87	SA	18	6	12	1	1	1	1	2	3	1	2	3	1	1	1
2	MORRIS  Ben	157	SA	31	8	23	4	2	3	4	1	2	2	1	4	4	2	2
3	DOWSETT  Ian	67	SA	40	14	26	2	6	4	2	4	1	3	3	1	2	dnf	4
4	GOLD  Alan	51	SA	42.5	12	30.5	3	3	2	3	5	7	4	4	2	3	3.5	3
5	WALTERS  David	91	VIC	65	15	50	5	4	7	7	dns	6	5	5	5	5	3	5
6	BACKLER  Ian	41	SA	79	16	63	dnf	5	6	5	3	4	dnf	dns	dns	dns	dns	dns
7	THACKER  Arthur	176	SA	79	16	63	6	7	5	6	dnf	5	6	6	6	dnf	dns	dns
Underlined values are discards.  Score for dns, dnf etc ~ 8
Redress values in dark green.

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RC Laser Australian Championship

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