Event: Kingham Trophy & Sanders Cup
Dates: 10th, 11th & 12th March
Host: Bay of Island Yacht Club
This weekend the Javelin Skiff North Island Traveller Series continued with the Summer Regatta in Napier. It started with the Race Committee announcing that with a forecast of 40 knots for Sunday, they were expecting to race on Saturday only. The Javelins sailed on the inner course, close enough to the Napier Sailing Club that leaving the beach 20 minutes before the warning signal was soon enough.
In brilliant sunshine the first race started with a moderate breeze, although there was always somewhat more pressure near the windward mark. It was noticed that the Optimists and Starlings were not used to skiffs sailing around them, as they were right in our start area with one minute to go – at a distance from the line that would have been ‘far away’ for them, but not for a Javelin. Trailblazer took the lead early closely followed by the Riders on the Storm. Hot Gossip managed to hang in third place and only put distance on Black Bart when the boat from Tauranga fell over. The order did not change until the finish, with the ladies crew having a grand finish launching themselves across the line off the wake of a trailer yacht.
In the second race, the wind had picked up considerably, and the two Shankses were doing honour to their boat’s name but getting to the first mark first. Trailblazer was just about to run them down on the gennaker ride, when the rudder of the blue boat failed and ended the day for the crew from Palmerston North. That helped Hot Gossip into second place, with Black Bart finishing third.
By the start of race three, it was blowing hard enough for everyone to be overpowered. Colin and Ross sailed away ahead, while Annika and Antje did a bit of swimming. Black Bart went to inspect the rocks to leeward of the track and had to be towed in.
The last race saw even the Riders on the Storm capsize, and they were surprised to see that Hot Gossip had closed the gap a bit by the time they were getting on the way again. They still finished well ahead because the lightweights did a bit of trawling with their kite on the way to the finish, which ended in another immersion episode.
On Sunday morning, everyone got together at the clubrooms to watch the rugby, and by half time the Race Committee abandoned racing for the day due to breeze above 40 knots.
Congratulations to Ross and Colin on their win!
The preliminary standings for the North Islands are as follows
Rotoiti Napier Total
Rotoiti | Napier | Total | |
Riders on the Storm | 4 | 2 | 6 |
Trailblazer | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Phlipnhel | 1 | DNC (6) | 7 |
Thumper | 2 | DNC (6) | 8 |
Black Bart | DNC (6) | 4 | 10 |
Now this should be exciting…(especially if we get big ground swell)
Hosting Club: New Plymouth Yacht Club (map)
Dates: 4th to 6th February 2017
article by: Antje Muller on sail-world.com
A happy bunch of Javelin sailors got together this weekend for some fun and racing at the wonderful Rotoiti Bach venue.
True to form, Race Officer Peter Millar from the Gisborne Sailing Club organized not only a good set of sailing instructions but also a RIB for mark laying and safety courtesy of the Poverty Bay Rescue Craft Charitable Trust. In addition, him and his son Jake supplied the equipment and expertise to show the sailors how to roast marshmallows over an open fire.
Due to logistical challenges and unfinished winter maintenance, there were more enthusiastic sailors around than could be fitted on the four boats, so some crew swapping took place.
The event began true to form on Friday evening with competitors arriving from all over the North Island and continued with stories and drinks deep into the night. The overseas guests this year were Jeff and Aurelia, who wanted to find out how much fun exactly it is to sail a Javelin.
Saturday morning greeted the team with fresh Southerlies, so the start was postponed until the temperatures exceeded 10 degrees Celsius. As this was the first event for most of the sailors, the boat owners resolved to combine resources and send out only three teams for races one and two. Riders on the Storm with Antje and Colin on board won the first race ahead of Hamish and Wade’s Thumper with David and Phil on Phlipnhel trailing after a capsize on their first gybe. With their communication issues sorted out, the two skippers went on to win the second race in front of Riders on the Storm and Thumper. Hamish and Wade gave Geoff a ride home, his first sail! To round it off, they included a capsize.
Coming back to base, the sailors were blown away by the amazing shore crew of Erica and Kosha who had created fresh scones and homemade soup for lunch!
Trailblazer hit the water as well after lunch, and she proceeded to win the third race with David on the helm and Antje crewing. Phil had Alex on the trapeze and this new combination made second place. Thumper came next ahead of Annika and Colin who were doing a bit of swimming. Wade and Hamish won the following race ahead of Riders on the Storm and Phlipnhel. Trailblazer did not finish as the trapeze wire came off the mast when she fell over, but they made up for it by a win in the fifth race ahead of Phlipnhel.
Afterwards, Phil took Aurelia for a ride and enjoyed finally having enough horsepower. Jeff had a go on Trailblazer and successfully managed his first trapezing as well as a gybe – both with the gennaker up! The Riders took their Storm around the next island and practiced the teabagging mainsheed handover.
Apart from Hamish and Wade, who had sailed through winter, the competitors were sighing about aches and pains after racing and took themselves to the hot springs for a relaxing soak in the sunshine. For dinner, the barbecue was fired up by head chef Erica who served up another superb meal. The evening petered out with drinks and marshmallows around Peter’s fireplace accompanied by sailing talk.
Sunday morning was sunny with light winds, but by the time everyone was on the water, the breeze had picked up again. The offshore conditions were very testing, and there were several capsizes. Colin took the helm to give Tim his first ever sail on anything smaller than the Cook Straight Ferry. Some of that turned into swimming lessons, but the laps they did complete, they were not last! Phil crewed for Annika who took Phlipnhel to another two wins in the remaining five races. Wade and Hamish achieved the same average, an impressive result against the South Pacific Champion for this new combination! The only win that Trailblazer could score was when they got a gust down the middle of the last downwind that Phlipnhel missed.
Results
Sail Number | Boat | Skipper | Crew | Total | Net | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Race 4 | Race 5 | Race 6 | Race 7 | Race 8 | Race 9 | Race 10 |
378 | Phlipnhel | Phil | Annika/Alex/David | 21 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
523 | Thumper | Wade | Hamish | 23 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
524 | Trailblazer | David | Antje | 27 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
380 | Riders on the Storm | Colin | Tiim/Antje/Annika | 34 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
DNF = 3 DNS = 5 | DNF = 4 | DNS = 5 | DNF = 4 | DNF = 4 | DNF = 4 | DNS = 5 |
The Bach Regatta fully lived up to its fame again, thanks to the great support team and organisers!
The Napier Summer Regatta on 26/27 November is the next installment of the North Island Championship Traveller Series for the Javelin Skiffs.
The series is scored as if it was a regatta with and each final place in one of the five regattas scored as one race.
There will be five events and 2 discards.
DNS etc is total number of boats that competed in any of the five events of the series plus one.
Decision at AGM was to have them at Tauranga but it clashes with Nationals, and fall back was Taupo MRP but it clashes with Sanders Cup so it was resolved to have the Traveller Series as the North Island Champs.
Dates: 10th & 11th September (Sat & Sun)
Saturday, 12 noon: Meet at the Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club (map) and going for a sail on Ben’s yacht
Saturday, evening: Dinner and a Javelin Pre-Seaon Meeting to finalise dates for our summer.
Sunday: A round of 9 holes of golf. Anyone who has clubs please bring them. Alternative programme: Walking up or around Mount Maunganui.
We need numbers to organise a venue for the dinner, and it would be great to get an indication who would like to do the sailing, golf, or alternative programme.
Please RSVP as soon as possible to Antje (by Thursday night , 1st September at the latest) – +64 21 1089307 or am.sailing@gmail.com
The following are a set of notes on jib trim. They have been pulled together with the help of Phil McNeill. It’s based on what I’ve seen on “Thumper” but should apply just the same to any other Javelin and in general to any boat with a jib and mail sail.
Woollies – The tell-tales on a sail.
Steering Woollies – The forward/front lower tell-tales used to steer the boat by.