Aaron Goodmanson and Alister Rowlands, from the South Island of New Zealand, relish the perfect sailing conditions on day one. Image copyright Bernie Kaaks.
by David Seaman
The first race of the Flying Fifteen International 17th World Championship got off to a clean start in 8-10 knots of breeze at 175 degrees at 1400 on 10th January from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Melbourne. The wind reached 20 knots later in the afternoon, with seas building in the solid sea breeze.
The fleet split fairly evenly on the two sides of the course. First to the top mark were Australian National Champions Grant Alderson and Dean Mcaullay in No Bull. They was followed closely by Britain's Ff, Art Gekko, N/a and TBA, and New Zealand's Ffortune.
Charles Apthorp puts his foot down on Ff. Image copyright Bernie Kaaks.
Above and below: Grant Alderson and Dean Macaullay, the Australian National Champions, in No Bull. Images copyright Bernie Kaaks.
No Bull sustained their lead around the second top mark - but only by a whisker over British rivals Steve Goacher and Phil Evans in TBA. Art Gekko, Ff and Ffortune came round third, fourth and fifth respectively, with I'd Swap This For A Bundy knocking N/a down a place from the last rounding.
By the third windward mark, the Aussies in No Bull had lost their lead to the Brits in TBA - who didn't give it back, winning the first race of the 2009 World Championships by 13 seconds.
Class stalwarts Alan Bax and Bill Masterman in N/a. Image copyright Bernie Kaaks.
First race winner, TBA. Image copyright Bernie Kaaks.
No Bull chases first race winner TBA. Image copyright Bernie Kaaks.
Results of race one:
Sail Yacht Skipper Crew Nationality Class Finish Elapsed Points Place
3821 TBA Steve Goacher Phil Evans GBR O 15:32:36 92.6 1
3833 No Bull Grant Alderson Dean Mcaullay AUS O 15:32:49 92.817 2
3917 Art Gekko Mike Hart Richard Rigg GBR O 15:33:09 93.15 3
3923 Ff Charles Apthorp Alan Green GBR O 15:33:23 93.383 4
3739 Ffortune Aaron Goodmanson Alister Rowlands NZL O 15:33:40 93.667 5
3911 **** Barry Parkin Tim Hall GBR O 15:34:33 94.55 6
3881 I'd Swap This For A Bundy Adam Hawkins Ben Jones AUS O 15:34:49 94.817 7
3931 N/a Alan Bax Bill Masterman GBR O 15:35:08 95.133 8
3905 Secret Ingredient X David McKee Chris Hewkin GBR O 15:35:18 95.3 9
3823 Ffoto Finish Brett Willcock Dave Pearson NZL O 15:35:58 95.967 10
3840 Ffrenetic Murray Gilbert Jonathan Burgen NZL O 15:35:58:05 95.97 11
3909 Skandia Gavin Gourley Adam Kingston AUS, QLD O 15:36:23 96.383 12
3890 If Only..... Geoff Bayliss Martin Grady GRB O 15:36:47 96.783 13
3718 Fully Active Board Ashley Smith Stuey Hopp AUS, QLD O 15:36:55 96.917 14
3781 16 David Tucker Matt Summers NZL O 15:37:12 97.2 15
3717 Glamour Buoys Greg Leversuch Peter Barblett AUS O 15:37:14 97.233 16
3527 Just Looking Peter Milne Phillip Dubbin AUS O 15:37:25 97.417 17
3572 Relience 17 Hamish Carnachan Ray Sebo AUS,WA O 15:37:36 97.6 18
3851 Ffuk Ian Linder Kevin Sweetman GBR O 15:37:49 97.817 19
3914 Defying Gravity Adrian Tattersall Tim Smart GBR O 15:38:01 98.017 20
3796 Ffatigaos Javier Chacártegui Miguel Santa Ursula ESP O 15:38:11 98.183 21
3641 F'feckin'Eegit Andy Martin Rory Martin IRL O 15:38:35 98.583 22
3799 One Under Veronica Falat Ben Falat GBR O 15:39:04 99.067 23
3814 Comited to conffusion John Wallace Stewart Wallace AUS O 15:39:04:05 99.07 24
3910 Yes Brad Sheridan Paul Schulz AUSS O 15:39:11 99.183 25
3928 Got any lettuce? Howard Green Jonathan Bullen GBR O 15:39:22 99.367 26
3619 Affrodisiac Ron Packer Peter Mudford AUS, WA O 15:39:25 99.417 27
3662 Wings John Tracey Craig Murphy AUS, ACT O 15:39:29 99.483 28
3670 Escalator Graeme Lillingston Edmond Repsevicius AUS O 15:39:42 99.7 29
3880 Where The Bloody Hell Are You Craig Rainey I Rainey AUS O 15:39:44 99.733 30
3861 Supertoy Plays On Brian Carroll Michael Brown AUS, VIC O 15:39:48 99.8 31
3897 Kooigjug Ken Dumpleton Simon Murray IRL O 15:39:52 99.867 32
3743 Spot The Difference Greg Tonnison Steve Roberts AUS, WA O 15:39:56 99.933 33
3902 Blue Flame Peter Hogg Paul Rees GBR O 15:40:00 100.0 34
3800 Saltheart Rupert Leslie Nils Bluman AUS O 15:40:17 100.283 35
3903 Elise Ian Cleaver Greg Wells GBR O 15:40:21 100.35 36
3611 Smooth & Stoned Steve Douthawaite Paul Averley GBR O 15:40:28 100.467 37
3883 Boat John Lavery Gerry Donceavy IRL O 15:40:39 100.65 38
3774 Rollercoaster Tom Murphy Neil Kafer IRL O 15:40:49 100.817 39
3878 Ffast Lane 2 John Wilson Nick Hancock AUS, WA O 15:40:57 100.95 40
3930 Aussie Falcon Dale Collings Glenn Scheen AUS, VIC O 15:41:00 101.0 41
3525 Freodoctor Doug Cooksey Stewart Hallan AUS O 15:41:12 101.2 42
3661 Fizz Gavin Dagley Glen Gibson AUS, VIC O 15:41:12:05 101.203 43
3818 Ffizzy Gill Browning Simon Weatherill GRB O 15:41:24 101.4 44
3062 Good Thing David Meldrum Trevor William AUS, VIC S 15:41:34 101.567 45
3835 Sucking Feagulls Andy Goddard Malcolm Hartland GRB O 15:41:41 101.683 46
3879 Aussie Way Kim Peaker Neil White AUS, WA O 15:41:52 101.867 47
3259 Celtic Pride Chris Hall Gordon Williamson AUS, VIC S 15:41:58 101.967 48
3797 Changing Lanes David Swan Casper Castledine AUS, VIC O 15:41:58:05 101.97 49
3854 Relience Ffenty Ffoo William Shand David Parish AUS O 15:42:07 102.117 50
3786 Sans Culottes Christopher Harris Tracy Harris GBR O 15:42:10 102.167 51
3169 Skinffull Robert Anderson Steve Allen NZL S 15:42:14 102.233 52
3095 Fiddle-de-dee Adam Semple Lisa Greeve AUS S 15:42:18 102.3 53
3754 Business Ian Morley Graeme Robinson NZL O 15:42:24 102.4 54
3087 Iff Sally Garrett Neil Easton NZL S 15:42:28 102.467 55
3907 Foreign Affair Phil Quinn Rowena Cremer NZL O 15:42:31 102.517 56
3815 Passing Wind Athol King Trevor Bellis GBR O 15:42:34 102.567 57
3832 Blowffish Craig Coulan Adrienne Rekke NZL O 15:42:37 102.617 58
3541 Snafler Richard Guy Steve Westlake NZL O 15:42:42 102.7 59
3709 Ghost Magic ronald walker David Hows AUS O 15:42:46 102.767 60
3846 Demon 3 Alan Carson Tim Dean AUS, VIC O 15:42:50 102.833 61
3893 Ffrig It Peter Lawson Orla Lawson GRB O 15:43:11 103.183 62
3088 Ffirst Offspring Fred Price David McIntyre NZL S 15:43:16 103.267 63
3616 Ffunnily Enuff Stephen Leiceter Matt Gleeson AUS, ACT O 15:43:20 103.333 64
3063 Stress Free Zone Kevin Griffiths Peter Burtenshan AUS, WA S 15:43:32 103.533 65
3012 Sunday Session Jennifer Richardson K.Martin Arrowsmith AUS, WA S 15:43:45 103.75 66
3745 Splash Tom Ruut Glen Seeley AUS, ACT O 15:43:51 103.85 67
3761 Grumpy Old Woman John Hassen Tony Finch AUS, WA O 15:44:24 104.4 68
3722 Noisy Forefather Joseph Nelson Sam Chan HKG O 15:45:27 105.45 69
2825 Happy Days Jennifer Sims Simon Plunkett AUS, WA S 15:46:40 106.667 70
3859 Gannin Tappy Lappy Michael Clark Shane Davies AUS, VIC O 15:47:29 107.483 71
3309 Clockwork V11 Denis Buckley Andrew Melolrum AUS S 15:50:03 110.05 72
3887 Affa Robert Chaffe John Cannon AUS, VIC O DNF 0.0 74 (FPA=74) :-Finish Points Awarded.
2823 Diffino Murray Latham Tony Pugh AUS S RAF 0.0 81
3442 Lean & Mean Doug Bell Greg Gleason AUS O DNF 0.0 81
3767 Bubbles Ken Bubb Lee Bubb AUS, QLD O DNF 0.0 81
3775 Absolutely Ffabulous Philippa Packer Jonathon Simmonds AUS, WA O DNF 0.0 81
3822 Ruffians John Crosby Paul Howard AUS O DNF 0.0 81
3836 Effeffex Peter Bradford Paul Jones AUS, QLD O DNF 0.0 81
3876 Kerfuffle Carlyon Knight-Evans Lucy Sutro HKG O DNF 0.0 81
Flying Fifteen Worlds 2009
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