My Favorite Boat Shed

One day they will all be gone. This is my favourite boat shed because you can find everything you need.

Manly Junior Nationals Gemma Rasdall and Hannah Lanz best all girl crew !

The manly junior national championships this year were held at Nedlands yacht club in Perth.

The regatta began in light conditions. Five minutes into the 1st race we were all wondering where the wind was.
The breeze finally kicked in for race three Gemma and Hannah led the whole race but got narrowly beaten across the line earning a second place on scratch and handicap.
Will Coxon and Oliver Bell had some fantastic beats, leading the fleet for part of two races and achieving an amazing 6th place in race three.
The last race was a great way to finish the regatta with a consistent westerly breeze and some really fast spinnaker runs. Will and Oliver gave the rescue boats a bit of a shock sailing past with one up and Will in the water 50 metres behind. Will managed to swim all the way back to the boat with heaps of brown jellyfish around him!
This earned them the minor’s helmet at presentation night and Gemma and Hannah were awarded best all girl crew.
The regatta was also a great social event with members from all the clubs socializing and having lots of fun!!
Two other Pittwater boats competed in the regatta, Brie Whitton and Josh Dawson in Hot Briez finished 13th and Vincent and Lucia Langen in Vincent Van Go won the regatta and are the 2006-2007 national champions. Congratulations to all the Pittwater boats.
All up it was a wonderful regatta and the long distance trip was definitely worth it.
RESULTS
Bullet, Gemma Rasdall and Hannah Lanz – 18, 10, 2, 10, 14, 12, 10 – Overall 9th on scratch, 8th on handicap
Wilspeed, Will Coxon and Oliver Bell – 12, 16, 6, 23, 8, 8, 25, dnf – Overall 14th on scratch, 10th on handicap

Sailing 2007

HI all,

Welcome to sailing season 2007. I hope you all had a safe and happy holiday.

Jan 26 Australia day regatta is on the horizon. Keep all your submissions coming and don't be afraid to submit some good stories or ideas.

We have changed our login so send me and email and I will let you know how to log in.

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Regards

Mat

Avalon Sailing Camp 2006

Sailing camp 2007 .

A special thanks to Kingsley Forbes-Smith for his work taking all the photos - in the Jibsheet this month.
he's a new club member(with family)

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2006/7 NSW Manly Junior State Championships

2006/7 NSW Manly Junior State Championships

Manly Junior sailors and spectators enjoyed the hospitality, excellent organisation and sensational sailing conditions when Middle Harbour 16’ Skiff Club and Cunningham Properties hosted round two of the NSW Championships last weekend.
After six heats Robert and Kasha Wojcik (Rad Rat) retained their place at the top of the leader’s board despite winning only one race. Their consistency will allow them to discard a sixth place as their lowest score going into the final round, giving them a slender three-point lead.
Natalie Greentree and Matthew Dubery (Dog Eat Dog) kept their title hopes alive with a win in Heat 4, closely followed by the very consistent crew of Gemma Rasdall and Hannah Lanz (Bullet) in second place.
Not to be outdone, Angela Bates and Ashley Atkins (Two Chances) ensured that they’ll be contenders going into the final round by winning Heat 5 after holding off a determined challenge from last year’s Junior State Champion, Zac Duryea (Dynamic Lifter).
Vincent and Lucia Langen (Vincent Van Go) showed their competitive spirit to overcome the disappointment of an OCS disqualification in Heat 5 and completely dominated Heat 6 for a convincing win, followed by the top performing junior crew of Paul Darmanin and Lucy Copeland (Roaring Forties) in second.
With several crews demonstrating their ability to race at the front the series will still be very much alive at the final round at Belmont in February.
Robert and Kasha Wojcik can expect to come under extreme pressure from Natalie Greentree (Dog Eat Dog) and Angela Bates (Two Chances) who are only three and five points behind respectively.
It was a treat for everyone at Sunday’s presentation to hear Ralph Tobias explain how he came to design the Manly Junior, forty-seven years ago. There was no other junior trainer with main, jib and spinnaker available then, and with carefully considered upgrades over the years MJs continue to be the premier junior trainer providing young sailors with a complete sailing experience.
Ralph Tobias was justifiably proud that many thousand sailing careers began in MJs and that so many of Australia’s sailing champions have their first taste of success in the little sailing boat he designed.
2705 Rad Rat (Wojcik/Wojcik) (20) 2,2,1,5,6,4
2690 Dog Eat Dog (Greentree/Dubery) (23) 1,1,4,1,3,13
2722 Two Chances (Bates/Atkins) (25) 6,3,2,3,1,10
2755 Bullet (Rasdall/Lanz) (47) 3,14,9,2,5,14
2740 Roaring Forties (Darmanin/Copeland) (50) 8,11,15,4,10,2
2716 Dynamic Lifter (Duryea/Walters) (56) 9,27,3,10,2,5
2739 Tis Magic (Doyle/Giles) (57) 15,8,8,6,8,12
2733 Hot Briez (Whitton/Dawson) (61) 14,4,16,9,9,9
2737 Vincent Van Go (Langen/Langen) (62) 5,5,6,7,38,1
2752 Surge (Bate/Costanzo) (67) 16,9,5,8,22,7
Full results: www.manlyjunior.asn.au

Manly Juniors Tear up Pittwater

Results from Avalon club boats are;

Currently - Open Division
7th - Gemma Radall/Hannah Lanz - Bullet 2755 (3rd place Race 1) 10th - Harry Bate/Clare Costanzo - Surge 2752 (5th place Race 3) 15th - Zac Duryea/Harley Walters - Dynamic Lifter 2716 (3rd place Race 3)

Novice Division
1st - Michael Koerner/Sam Nesbitt - Full Throttle 2746 (1st place Race 1&2, 2nd place Race 3)

Best Boat

I've finally found time to look at the ASC Blogg. Well done Mat we should be able to drum up some dialogue here.

Lets be contentious. I would like to ask for opinion on which boat sails best? A Young 88 or an Etchells. I don't mean by that which goes fastest but I suppose that is part of the equation, just simply which is the best sailing boat. I know which is the most pretty boat.

So lets start some dialogue here. Its true to say that the front end of any ASC race is dominated by the Young 88's and the Etchells'. Lets hear your bias based on experience or just from the sidelines.

There is no doubt that the boats attract quite different indivduals. The Etchells owners and crew are, on the whole in love with the looks of their craft, low to the water they feel at one with nature. Under sail the boat looks effortless and the crew reflect the calm exuded by the boat. They can be quite quick, although easy prey for a Halvorsen cruiser.

The Young on the other hand looks fast even when its on its mooring. But unlike the Etchells crew those charged with making the Young perform always look busy, they always look worried about something. Its as if they have a job to do and the boss is watching. The Young 88 is like a hot car all action and go, eager to be first away from the lights while the Etchells is a much more relaxed proposition and is likely to glide past through the lights while the opposition is doing a wheely.

Both great boats...but which is best?

BILGOLA