October | 2012 | VX One Australia

Yorky took 12 people out for a sail from Woollahra Sailing Club on the weekend. Saturday was miserable and cold and Phil Tomkins who is buying a VX One spent a couple of hours out with Jason Neuhaus. They had some good rides when the breeze was gusting to 16 knots. Craig Young came out for half an hour or so with his 5 year old son James and enjoyed the lighter breeze. Yorky took a few pictures from the rubber duck. See the Gallery On Sunday John Hurley & Dario Valenza were first out of the blocks to enjoy the breeze that peaked at about 18 knots for the first trip. Phil Barnett brought his son Daniel along and they came out with Pete Davies. The breeze was up around 20 knots and we hit 18 knots with Daniel on the helm with a huge grin on his face. Steve McConaghy came down with Narelle and we went out with Rob Douglass. Yorky took the malfunctioning remote control off his GoPro and finally got some footage for the day. The breeze was gusting to 25 knots and we got an awesome ride with the bow lifting a metre out of the water at times. We started a couple of hundred metres off the club and doused the kite in Chowder Bay 7 minutes later. Our top speed was 19.7 knots. Check out the video.

The 2012 Heaven Can Wait One Lap Dash was sailed on Lake Macquarie in 15 to 25knots from the west with holes of less than 10 knots and gusts of over 30 knots . Most of the Kite Boards rigged big kites expecting the 17 to 19 knots that was forecast. None made it around the track. The race was started off Toronto on the western shore. Two got blown over to Belmont on the eastern shore. One of them got a mote to take him back to the club, the other caught a taxi. A third made it further around but got a rescue boat to pick him up.

Yorky, Matt Craig and his 13 year old daughter sailed Yorky’s VX One, Tachyon to a resounding win in Division 2 and were second overall behind Shane Guanaria in his 505.

“We started about halfway down the line, further than most. We saw Shane Guanaria’s505 pop out from the rest of the boats at the committee boat about 100metres above us. After about 5 minutes of sailing I looked around and was amazed to see that the rest of the fleet was over 300 metres behind! That fleet included a Farr40, Melges32, the 8m sportsboat Stealthy and many other boats much bigger than us.”

After we rounded Coal Point point and headed upwind to the first mark the bigger boat behind started to reel us in (we reach and run like a much bigger boat in breeze but upwind we are what we are, a 19 foot, 5.8metre long boat) We rounded the mark behind the moths and Shane’s 505. When we laid her over out of a gybe Stealthy got past us. They had their share of troubles too and more than half way around we overtook them briefly.

There was a decent upwind leg up past Pulbar Island around the 10 mile mark. With the wind gusting into the 30s we did a fair bit of this with the jib furled. Three 40 footers got past us here. The Melges32, Breezin sailed closer to the top of the island than us. When we cracked our sheets and cracked off we reached across their bow sailing a few knots faster. It took them another 10 miles before they caught us again.

We set a kite in 10 knots after rounding the southern most mark but only had it up for a couple of minutes as the breeze built to 25knots and we could not make it around a point.

We ran down to the mark in Crangan Bay and rounded right on the tail of Quest and gybed just inside Stealthy. The next 10 miles were a tight lead and the bigger boats opened up in front and closed in from behind with the breeze still gusting into the 30 knot range.

When we were on the breeze after the Belmont mark the Melges 32 got past us and opened up a 300 metre lead by the time we got to the Speers Point mark. In the next mile on the two sail reach to Pendlebury Park we ran them down to be just inside them at the point.

In the last little beat they got away from us but the hard reaching course certainly suited the VX One and we beat all the other sportsboats on handicap (most of them across the line too).We were second overall on handicap to Shane in his 505. Shane capsized 4 times including a pitch pole and all the sportsboats had heaps more problems than us, including broken rigs. We only laid Tachyon over once. As with our first time out in 30 plus knots the VX One came back in perfect condition. The only problem we had was a screw broke on my Windex mount.

Yorky

Check out the footage on the ‘Videos’ page

Heaven Can Wait

Full results from the One lap Dash below: RACE 1 [9/29/2012] Heaven Can Wait 2012

Division 1 Keel TOT HC results Start : 11:00
Place	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Elapsd	AHC	Cor’d T	BCH	Fin Tim	ETOrd	DidNot	Class
1	8840	Rum Bucket	Shane Guanaria	03:05:46	0.930	02:52:46	1.101	14:05:46	2		D1
2	8893	Yeah Buddy	Joel Castle	03:25:01	0.930	03:10:40	0.998	14:25:01	4		D1
3	3776	Flying Hellfish	Josh McKnight	02:11:00	1.500	03:16:30	1.562	13:11:00	1		D1
4	8001	Forty	Mark Langford	03:23:21	0.980	03:19:17	1.006	14:23:21	3		D1
5	M3000	YES	Phil King	03:45:39	0.900	03:23:05	0.907	14:45:39	9		D1
6	3535	J Walk’n	Greg/Linda Torpy/Rob	03:47:21	0.900	03:24:37	0.900	14:47:21	10		D1
7	9090	Quest	Belinda Braidwood	03:29:52	1.000	03:29:52	0.975	14:29:52	5		D1
8	14	My Kindy	Paul Sharp	03:48:11	0.940	03:34:30	0.897	14:48:11	11		D1
9	M242	Storage King Wallop	Peter Hewson	03:36:43	0.990	03:34:33	0.944	14:36:43	7		D1
10	RQ202	Stealthy	Bob Cowan	03:32:42	1.010	03:34:50	0.962	14:32:42	6		D1
11	AUS183	Breezin	Brad Sewell	03:36:51	1.000	03:36:51	0.944	14:36:51	8		D1
12	M60	Whitewash	Mark Scharfenberg	04:00:44	0.930	03:43:53	0.850	15:00:44	12		D1

Division 2 Keel TOT HC results Start : 11:00
Place	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Elapsd	AHC	Cor’d T	BCH	Fin Tim	ETOrd	DidNot	Class
1	136	Tachyon	Andrew York	03:38:27	0.805	02:55:51	0.933	14:38:27	1		D2
2	5223	Excapade	Noel Gough	03:48:33	0.780	02:58:16	0.892	14:48:33	5		D2
3	L1	Slingshot	Neil Hamilton	03:48:04	0.805	03:03:36	0.894	14:48:04	4		D2
4	YC375	Serein	Jeff Payne	04:19:57	0.725	03:08:28	0.784	15:19:57	12		D2
5	M551	Windchaser	Mark Cherrington	04:44:16	0.670	03:10:28	0.717	15:44:16	21		D2
6	4114	Imagine	Warwick Nichols	03:52:02	0.830	03:12:35	0.879	14:52:02	6		D2
7	SB777	Fly Navy Too	Greg Brown	04:56:23	0.650	03:12:39	0.688	15:56:23	26		D2
8	N381	Full Frontal	Mark Travis	04:11:20	0.780	03:16:02	0.811	15:11:20	10		D2
9	7290	Le Frog	Greg Robinson	04:07:03	0.800	03:17:38	0.825	15:07:03	8		D2
10	2444	Slightly Underrated	Evan McHugh	04:46:51	0.690	03:17:56	0.711	15:46:51	23		D2
11	50	Nervous	Matt Bonser	03:45:12	0.880	03:18:11	0.905	14:45:12	2		D2
12	223	Mitchell Sails	Justin Mitchell	03:46:41	0.880	03:19:29	0.899	14:46:41	3		D2
13	4543	Brigus	Michael McFayden	04:10:03	0.800	03:20:02	0.815	15:10:03	9		D2
14	2665	X-Rated	Graham Booker	05:08:11	0.660	03:23:24	0.662	16:08:11	27		D2
15	M8	Wild Cherry	Alan Laverick	04:25:25	0.770	03:24:22	0.768	15:25:25	15		D2
16	3909	Young N Old	Glen Picasso	04:20:09	0.790	03:25:31	0.784	15:20:09	13		D2
17	M14	Nereus	Matthew Smith	04:53:41	0.700	03:25:35	0.694	15:53:41	25		D2
18	M777	Solly	Lewis Solman	04:46:14	0.720	03:26:05	0.712	15:46:14	22		D2
19	6744	Di’sy	Danny Gresham	04:35:33	0.750	03:26:40	0.740	15:35:33	19		D2
20	7007	Zip	Michael Tarrant	04:04:56	0.850	03:28:12	0.832	15:04:56	7		D2
21	510	Its All Good	John Longworth	04:52:04	0.725	03:31:45	0.698	15:52:04	24		D2
22	5808	Forever Young	Adrian Williams	04:25:12	0.800	03:32:10	0.769	15:25:12	14		D2
23	5687	Emmenar	Mel Steiner	04:32:40	0.780	03:32:41	0.748	15:32:40	18		D2
24	B4	Quattro	Chris Bland	04:30:36	0.800	03:36:29	0.753	15:30:36	17		D2
25	6568	Sobraon	Tony Burville	05:13:35	0.710	03:42:39	0.650	16:13:35	28		D2
26	8686	Crow Bar	Bruce Thomas	04:13:20	0.880	03:42:56	0.805	15:13:20	11		D2
27	R912	Papillon	Phillip Morgan	04:25:48	0.850	03:45:56	0.767	15:25:48	16		D2
28	9930	Dora Creek	Ian Henderson	04:35:40	0.850	03:54:19	0.740	15:35:40	20		D2

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