Posted by | Posted in Guest Ranter | Posted on 03-09-2008
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LSD buddy Scotty is in Sardinia and racing in the Maxi Worlds. He promises to keep us updated!
John William’s RANGER and the 143ft Wally ESENCE, the wally J – photo by Scotty
With the Hamilton Island race week over the sailing world turns its eyes onto another stunning Island venue, Sardinia in Italy for the Rolex Maxi Worlds. This regatta held off Porto Cervo will be all about match ups and getting even from last year Rolex Maxi Worlds. In the STP 65 class you have the well sailed and last year winner of the Hobart Race Rosebud against the new Moneypenny. The big boats in maxi class sees the ever consistent Rambler versus the very fast Alfa Romeo 2. The hottest and newest boat in the fleet the new Alfa Romeo 3, this R/P 68 with sailors from the Erisson Volvo team gets to see how fast they are against the American Dan Meyers and his R/P 68 Numbers. All these six boats will all be vying for first in IRC in the maxi class. The titans of the regatta’s are the two J class yachts the John Williams owned s Ranger and Ronald de Waals Velsheda. With Ranger clearly being the fastest of the two over the last year, Velsheda come into this regatta with a new mast, boom and carbon rigging dropping almost 2 tons from aloft. Will this be enough to stay ahead of the ever consistent Ranger.
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Original post by OG and software by Elliott Back
Posted by | Posted in Guest Ranter | Posted on 27-11-2007
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Graham Bauer’s first hand experience…
I was helping deliver a standard plastic 39 from Brisbane to Mackay some weeks back and with the wind on the nose we were motor sailing through the night under flat, close-hauled main on a centered traveler. You know the drill. No headsail, 18-20-or-so degrees off the breeze, 2500 rpm and [...]
Original post by OG and software by Elliott Back
Posted by | Posted in Guest Ranter | Posted on 25-11-2007
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Alan’s video shot at Lake samsonvale a few years ago (when there was water).
OG & Johnsee
The question I pose – Compare lake sailing to bay sailing. Is it a better feeling to be sailing fast on smooth water or getting knocked about by harsh bay chop? Does the often variable wind that you tend to [...]
Original post by OG and software by Elliott Back
Posted by | Posted in Guest Ranter, Regattas | Posted on 08-08-2007
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Belinda Zanesco and I (Jesse Dobie) sailed in the Hobie 16 European Women’s on the weekend at ’s-Gravenzande, Holland. We faced tough competition(previous ISAF champion from Austria), and our close friends from Italy, Lara and Silvia Sicouri, but managed to come home on top.
We were racing amongst the hot shots in the masters fleet [...]
Original post by OG and software by Elliott Back
Posted by | Posted in Guest Ranter | Posted on 25-07-2007
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Update from Cameron Miles.
Last night I had a nightmare. As the photos show I was not in a warm comfortable place, I was “all at sea” doing over 30 knots down steep mountains!!!!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!
Then I woke up, and the first thing I noticed apart from the bedraggled shape of my doona was the awesome sunrise [...]
Original post by OG and software by Elliott Back
Posted by Havermeyer | Posted in Guest Ranter | Posted on 10-07-2007
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7.7.07 may have brought some unforeseen luck for some sailors but anyone of the 15 windsurfers and kiters who finished this years SF Classic and UN Challenge had been training hard all season for the premier long distance race in the US Windsurfing National Ranking Tour.
Original post by OG and software by Elliott Back
