CYAA Queensland members

On May 5/6 Wynnum/Manly Yacht Clubconducted their Timber and Traditional BoatRegatta. The event, organised by ourBrisbane member Greg Doolan was an open

event. CYAA members featured big time in the results. Clickon the link for full event results and photo galleries.

The perpetual trophy for this regatta, the 1935 Vic LucasForster Cup trophy was awarded to CYAA Member, ScottBishop with Casurina, his Kim Holman designed Twister,an enlarged version of the Holman designed Stella class.

While the regatta is more about the boats and companyrather than the podium placing, sea and wind conditions overthe two days provided all entrants the opportunity to givetheir classics a stirring workout. This years event recalledconditions similar to those experienced by Vic Lucas in1935 on Port Phillip. The venue where the Tassie grip on theForster Cup was broken.

The Vic Lucas Forster Cup Trophy.

This special trophy, on permanent loan from the MaritimeMuseum of Brisbane, recalls the time in November 1935when Vic Lucas on Gywlan took on the best 21 footerskippers in the nation. It was Melbourne’s centenarycelebrations that attracted the restricted 21 Ft. Class yachts toHobson’s Bay for the 1935 Forster Cup That year, VictorLucas, the winner of many championships, State and inter-State, in the 16-footer skiff class, entered yacht class racing as skipper of Gwylan, with his hard-boiledseasoned crew. Queensland's twelve years' quest for cup honours was, at last, to end in victory. To meet withdefeat after defeat, year after year, in every State of the Commonwealth, called for uncommon determinationin continuing the task. Heavy gales and flat calms—Melbourne weather, every sailing man knows itsvagaries—were the order. Vic Lucas won two of the three heats and finished second in the other, and thusbrought the honours. Today the CYAA conducts their annual Cup Regatta in November on the same watersand in the same condition as those experienced in 1935.

CYAA Member activity May 16

Scott Bishop holds the Vic Lucas Trophy with his mates Quentin Palmer andand Alisdair Torrie

CYAA Flag on hand at the WMYC Insert Vic Lucas trophy

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Casurina showing off her Vic Lucas Trophy form

An example of the stiff Regatta conditions as sailmakerJimmy Chilman has his restored H28 Genesta going flatchat for the start line in company with Casurina. Plentymore Regatta sights in the photo gallery

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Race 2 Notes

Click on the links to look over the Race 2 Results, Fleet and Tumlaren Series Aggregate and MarieLouise III Consistency Aggregate status after Race 2. Let’s not jinx ourselves by even thinking we havetwo out of two races for the Winter Series completed.

Before the start

Once again a 19 strong classic fleet was on hand for Race 2, conducted by RMYS. On the sail over fromRYCV, the Tumlaren Zephyr at 1020 hours was becalmed some 500 metres from the start. Smart kite workon the fore deck caught the light northerly to bring her to the line in time for a brilliant start. Once again theRMYS race director, Alistair Hart, gave the fleet a good first leg beating course. With a radio based startcount down from the RMYS tower there was no on course start trouble.

After the start

A pre start wind up some 100 metres from the line, put Kingurra on the line for her usual on the moneystart. Action between S&S 42 Cyan, built by Wilson’s of Cygnet,Tasmania, and the Jack Savage designedand built 8 metre cruiser/racer Marie Louise III saw Cyan never look back after gaining a windwardadvantage. After a slow start, Frances began her task to wear down Kingurra’s lead over the fleet. Startsby Zephyr, particularly Zephyr, and the Joe Tuck propelled Couta boat Loama put them in good fleetposition for the first leg. A two up Dingo was a player in the leading group of the Race 2 classic fleet.Richard Macrae with David McKenzie as his top crew of the day put the Couta boat Claire in a clean airposition to begin the ultimately successful challenge to chase down Loama. The Classic fleet further backwas hit with a wind shift that caused a frustrating line crossing delay. Tumlarens Snow Goose and Ettrickwere light wind victims here. Avian, the leading Tumlaren of the race, with her non stop working and

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CYAA 2018 Winter Series Race 2 May 6 at RMYS May 8

Race 2 Classic Fleet after a light wind start as seen by the RMYS Race Committee. Photo Al Hart

RMYS G

RMYS C

RMYS A

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Start/Finish

Course for Race 2 St. Kilda wind conditions for Race 2

chattering crew was going so well in the light wind, she made up ground to pass Marie Louise III. Siena,the International Dragon made her way behind the start line fleet to be windward of the fleet. Her chasedown of the fleet leaders saw her eat up most of the fleet on the beat to the first mark. Greg Phelan,considering the light wind circumstances had Norman Dalimore designed cutter rigged Windward IImoving well to not fall off the wind line. Manu-Ka-rere, the John Guzwell Trekka class. Corio Vertue aVertue class by Laurent Giles and the historic Charles G MacGregor designed Akuna all reported, lightwind dam and blasts as they crossed the start line.

Bungoona, designed by David Philp, with her two crew of first timers to Classic yacht racing Dan Carpenterand Sandra Regina de Oliveira Campos kept company with S&S Half Tonner Martini and sloop rigged H28Jedda helmed by Dave Baskett. Again, the light wind conditions didn’t do any favours to this group of theClassic fleet.

Up to the Top Mark

Wind flaws were a feature of the first beat. Depending on when these wind flaws appeared, before or after atack, determined if they were good or hopeless were challenges for the fleet on the first beat to the RMYS GMark. Double hopeless for Marie Louise III. Kingurra came out on top with more than a handy lead overthe fleet.

Zephyr maintained her fleet position on this leg while Cyan extended her lead over Marie Louise III whoin turn regained her lead over Avian. Dingo continued with her well sailed two up.

The first run.

Kites in shy conditions with no problems at the first gybe mark. Usual calls for post zone Mark roundingroom were heard. Again no problems for the fleet until the next beat up to the RMYS G Mark.

Second beat to RMYS G Mark

Once again shifting wind directions called for full on concentration. This was the beat where Siena put herfoot down. Great sight to watch, a classic Dragon turning heads she used to in her days of trialing on thesame waters for the 1960 Olympics.

The second run to the finish.

This is where the opportunity to implement how it shouldhave been done the first time around. This was the run thatgave Frances the sail of the day. More of this is mentionedin the sail of the day comment.

Another action packed moment was watching Cyan take outher fourth on corrected time placing. Picking the right sideof all those wind flaws was a feature of her Race 2performance.

Race 2 Corrected time and line honours.

Congratulations to Peter Johns and his crew for bringing theErnie Digby designed International 8 metre, Frances. homefor her corrected time win over the line honours winner thePeter Joubert designed Black Swan, Kingurra, helmed byIan Macfarlane.

Tied corrected time result

Result calculations using two decimal points show a tied result for 4th and 5th. Zephyr and Cyan. Using theFormula One system of calculating result to three decimal points is just maybe not a requirement for classicyacht racing

Cyan sorts out their RMYS D Mark Gybe

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Series and Tumlaren aggregate

After Race 2 the series aggregate point score status is tight with Zephyr leading Avian by 0.5 of a point andthe next three, Frances, Kingurra and Dingo all sitting on 10 points. In the Tumlaren aggregate Avian isheading off Zephyr by one point

Consistency Trophy

The Marie Louise III consistency trophy has Ettrick leading Dingo by 6.7 points. Changes to theConsistency Trophy deed of gift are being considered. The tight corrected times across the fleet are causingproblems to the intent of this trophy. That is, recognising the boat whose Back Calculated Handicap isconsistently the closest to its allocated handicap.

Sail of the day goes to Frances.

Watching Frances, under a excellently flown kite, chase down and halve Kingurra’s lead during the run toRMYS Mark C, after the second rounding of RMYS Mark G and then keep her kite drawing well after thelast mark gybe to close within 18 seconds of Kingurra at the finish line, was no doubt the sail of the day.Kingurra who dropped their kite before the RMJYS Mark D gybe saw Frances was all set to pass themunder kite, before the finish line. Lot’s of fast kite re-hoisting on Kingurra saved their line honoursreputation.

An honourable mention goes to the full on concentration sail by Siena for her third over the line placing.Almost 5 minutes ahead of the Tumlaren Avian.

A video based study in concentration.

From the boom of the boat that was turning heads during Race 2 watch some of pre start and on courseaction take a look at the race action as seen from the end of the Siena boom. Some great Classic Yacht Race2 pre start scenes are also featured

Gun crews on Classics

A special note must be made about the gun crew on Claire. Apart from attending to her latest squeezeLoama, Claire gave David McKenzie, who crews on Mercedes III, the chance to put to good use hisrecently acquired Dragon sailing skills. Result, a Joe Tuck to handicapper discussion.

Marius Fenger, Guest from Hobart

Marie Louise III also featured a special Race 2 crew. Marius Fenger, a long time admirer of lines and looksof Marie Louise III was on board to see what makes her tick over so well. As owner and restorer of the E ODigby designed tugboat Victory that featured in the recent CYAA magazine, Marius was in town to findmore documentation in the work and life of E O Digby, he and Nicole Shrimpton owner of the Digbydesigned and built Int. 8 Metre Defiance. The most recent find was a copy of the drawing of Frances thatshowed her original stern before it was cut off and later put back on.

Mercedes III Ready to return to Classic racing

Fresh from her Sydney Admirals Cup 50th Anniversary Regatta and Veterans Cup Regatta campaigningMercedes III will be once again resume her battle mode with the Port Phillip Classic Fleet.

The Ernie Digby story continues to grow

A big announcement for our latest CYAA member. After meeting up with our members Nicole Shrimptonover several years and then Marius Fenger at the recent Sydney Wooden Boat festival, Ann Crisp, daughterof Ernies Digby’s son Ken, has joined up with the classics. This is a big moment for the Association. Therich knowledge of Ernies Digby’s contribution to Australian Maritime history through the work of ourmember Peter Digby assisting Nicole Shrimpton and Marius Fenger will now be enhanced by the knowledgeof another direct Digby family member , Ann Crisp. Three cheers to Peter Digby and Ann Crisp.

Project Mistral

Another Southwinds in the making.

With Ian Pemberton’s 61Ft. Ketch being listed on the Classic register we have been informed of anotherSydney based contender for the CYAA Register, Mistral. She’s currently moored east of the GladesvilleBridge in Sydney

Project complete

A recent mail from Iain Valentine of the CYANZ reports the mission to restore the Logan Brothers 1905built Ariki. More details of this restoration will be sent from NZ when available.

Paynesville Maritime Museum book review

Peter Stokes, member of the PMM, is publishing a new book that may be of interest to you -

Regatta, the Pioneers of Yachting on the Gippsland Lakes 1860 – 1894.Rob Cook, Secretary of the Paynesville Maritime Museum hasnotified the CYAA of the publication of a history Gippsland LakesYachting. Rob and Col Anderson were yacht racing mates from longago. Recently Col provided Rob with an example of traditionalsailmaking used by the long ago Gippsland Lakes fishing fleet. OurAssociation is a member of the Paynesville Maritime Museum andour CYAA membership from the Gippsland Lakes is headed up byTerry Grundy. More will be seen of Terry Grundy his Dragon fleetand the Metung Yacht Club in the short future.

A short story on how the book came about can be seen here

Book Excerpt Chapter 17 At Last can be seen here.

The retail price of the book is $45. As the book weighs  just under a kilo thecost to post it is  $10.

If you would like to purchase a copy please contact Peter at:regattapioneers@gmail.com

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Next time your racing at RMYS and trying to find the pin end of the startline. Put on your peepers and check out Port Melbourne Beach. How aboutthat?

Good one!!

2018 Cup Regatta organising

Our Cup Regatta steering committee has been working on the challenge of not fixing something that’s notbroken. Let’s see how they doing in a short while.

Geelong Festival of Sails

The organising committee has been in touch with the Association. They want to increase the ClassicDivision numbers. To help this matter along the Association has been asked for suggestions that will helpswell the numbers. One idea suggested by the FoS is to consider the Portarlington race format used for Cat 7Classics. Sunday racing inside the inner harbour and a reduction in entry fee have been others.

Running out of page space. Next Classic race May 27 at Hobsons Bay. Pencil sharpening time will be thenext task for that person you know and love. No more. Best regards to all.

Peter Costolloe CYAA (Vic) Handicaper