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2016 Rolex Farr 40 World Championship at Sydney - Day 1

by Bob Ross 16 Feb 2016 11:36 GMT 16-19 February 2016

The top six boats on the scoreboard are within five points after three close races and mixed fortunes in a fresh southerly off the Sydney coastline in the opening day of the Rolex Farr 40 world championship, hosted by Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.

Clear leader is Plenty (Alex Roepers, USA) with nine points from 5-2-2 placings followed by two boats on 13 points: Struntje Light (Wolfgang Schaeffer, Germany) 8-1-4 and Flash Gordon 6 (Helmut and Evan Jahn, USA) 1-7-5.

Then come three on 14 points: Edake (Jeff Carter, Australia), 4-9-1; Kokomo (Lang Walker, Australia), 2-3-9 and Transfusion (Guido Belgiorno-Nettis, Australia), 3-4-7.

The courses over four windward-return legs of 1.4 to 1.8n miles were laid southeast of Hornby Light off the Sydney coastline. The southerly freshened from 16 knots in race one with slight seas to 18-22 knots with big waves race three that had the 40s surfing spectacularly downwind at speeds of up to 18 knots.

Plenty, winner of last week's warm-up Sydney Open regatta again showed good speed in the fresh breeze, upwind and down, although owner/skipper Alex Roepers is kicking himself for twice losing control in round-ups downwind in the first race of the day.

"The other two races, we had not a great start, but distinguished upwind legs and coming around the first mark fifth or eighth or so but downwind we were flying, picking up places to finish second in each."

Struntje Light's Wolfgang Schaeffer was pleased to be in second place overall. "After an eighth in race one, we had a good start in race two to lead around all marks but we lost three boats downwind in the last race."

Edake's owner/skipper Jeff Carter was overjoyed with the race three win. As a Corinthian division entry, he is restricted to two professionals instead of four in his crew in the open division and tighter restrictions on adding new sails to his wardrobe.

"We've got some good heavy weather sails. We've got the boat going well and it's always been a good boat in a strong breeze," he said.

"We got off the line about three boats up from the pin and so we were able to go for that first left hand shift on that side of the course. We got that first shift that put us across the fleet when we tacked over. We had a good first race, for fourth. The second race was not so good. We were buried in a bad start, picked up three boats on the downwind legs to finish ninth and in the last race we led from start to finish."

The Farr 40 Class Association thanks Rolex, Race Day Sponsors: Quantum Sails and John Calvert-Jones along with staunch supporters Commodore Richard Chapman, Lang Walker, Neville Crichton and Syd Fischer.

Results after Day 1:

PosSail NoBoat NameSkipperR1R2R3Pts
1  USA 60059PlentyAlex Roepers5229
2  GER 40Struntje lightWolfgang Schaefer81413
3  USA 60002Flash Gordon 6Helmut and Evan Jahn17513
4  AUS 007Edake (Corinthian)Jeff Carter49114
5  AUS 8883KokomoLang Walker23914
6  AUS 6422TransfusionGuido Belgiorno‑Nettis34714
7  AUS 615Estate MasterMartin Hill65819
8  AUS 5868KindergartenRodney Jones78621
9  AUS SM2008Double Black (Corinthian)Robert Pitts1210325
10  AUS 8001FortyStephen Barlow1161027
11  AUS 64221ZEN (Corinthian)Gordon Ketelbey9111232
12  AUS 8884Exile (Corinthian)Rob Reynolds10121133

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