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CLIVE PEETERS 2008 LAUNCESTON TO HOBART YACHT RACE

"How about New Year’s Eve in Hobart, watching the fireworks dockside with a glass of champagne, having passed most of the Sydney boats coming up the Derwent." This is the picture Rob Remilton is painting to entice as many Multihulls as possible to join him in this years Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race. It is now in its second year and the committee would like to lift the profile and entries in the multihull division. Sounds like a good proposition, especially as SOMR is likely to move to later in the year so there is one less excuse not to....Start is 14h00 on 27th December outside the Tamar...

HYC Winter Series Race 1 results

The Winter Series got off to a good start with a race to Sandy Point and back. I think the race committee and the mono fleet all went to the same party the night before because it took 2 general recalls to get their race started. We had the gun Sydney 36 "Wild Goats" starting with us but despite Frassld's best attempts to park on the start line we all got away unscathed. The beat down to Sandy Point was competitive, but as the faster tris approached the turning mark the wind came in stronger from the South West for 20 minutes. Quickskips was purely by luck on the right side of the course and able to take advantage of the shift. They were keen we show the attached photo with them flying to the finish line and their main competitor still beating downwind..... The broad reach back home was fast and meant we were all first at the BBQ after the race. Well done 'Skips and a we look forward to the next race this Saturday. (sorry either our commodore has left his server switched off or blogger is busy.... the pic will come later)

Hastings Winter series

The Hastings Yacht Club winter series starts this comming Saturday 14th June. The 1st start is at 11am for those challenged with 1 hull....we luckier ones start 5 minutes later all going well! The yacht club is holding a BBQ after each race (bring your own drinks as they are not licensed) and we are particularly keen that all competing multihulls try and make it to the BBQ... Tim and Rod on Quickskips are preparing to go north and uphold the honour of the club at the nationals in a few months time. Not wanting to peak too soon (Tim is recovering from his broken leg in a boating incident!), they plan to take a relaxed approach to the winter series... until of course George gets ahead of them when I suspect the red mist will reappear. At a recent informal meeting on Shuttle, they did express concern that Frassld was improving far too quickly.... Rumour has it that there are 2 new Multi's about to join us and a 3rd likely in 6 months time... this is great news. The first is recently arrived in Hastings after a quick trip down from Queensland and looking good on her new swing mooring... we look forward to finding out more about her... Mr Sin (Mark Stafford) has purchased a boat similar to Redshift to help keep George honest and I believe a well known couple have taken a Quantum leap forward which will deliver their new baby in 6 months time.... See you on Saturday...