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Sunday Sailors Winter Series 2019 Race 4 (16 Jun 2019) of 6

Still a Hint of Summer Weather

Sunday Sailors Winter Series 2019 Race 4

Mild winter weather welcomed Sunday Sailors to race 4 of the series. A fleet of 24

yachts contested a race that had plenty of sunshine and a light northerly breeze that

averaged about 8 knots with gusts up to 11 knots at Fawkner Beacon. The breeze

tended to ease as the race progressed. What started as 6 leg 9.9 nautical mile race

around course 26 was shortened to a 5 leg race finishing at SYC 1.

ALEGRIA (Simon May) was one of three winners of the start in race 3 but became

the outright winner of Start of the Day for this race. XPRESSO (Ari Abrahams)

claimed her second podium finish of the series when she was first across the finish

line. DELL ERA (Mike Coulter) recorded her 3rd podium finish of the series by

finishing 2nd. KAOS (Dawn Cleaver) finished third recording her first podium finish of

the series. With the help of a spinnaker DEBONNAIRE (Phil Gomez) sailed the

course in the fastest time.

There’s just over a third of the series complete and ALEGRIA is at the top of the

aggregate equal on 7 points with DELL ERA. With a total of 16 points XPRESSO is

third.

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XPRESSO started the race from 20th place 14

seconds late for her 43 minute handicap. However,

she sailed the course in 1:52:40, the second fastest

time of the race, and was first across the finish line

at 12:05:40. XPRESSO started the race 7 seconds

ahead of LEBROK (Theo Korbel), who had the same

43 minute handicap, but sailed the course 15

minutes 50 seconds faster to finish 13 places ahead.

This was the second podium finish for XPRESSO

following on from her 2nd place in race 1. The win

helped her from 5th to 3rd in the aggregate.

DELL ERA continued her good start to the series

following up 2 successive 3rd places in races 2

and 3 with a 2nd place in this race. She started the

race from 2nd place 91 seconds late for her 7

minute handicap. She sailed the course in 2:28:45

and crossed the finish line at 12:05:45 only 5

seconds behind XPRESSO. DELL ERA had

started the race 8 minutes 58 seconds behind

ANTARES (G Stewart D Pearce), the first yacht to

start, but finished 14 minutes 51 seconds ahead.

DELL ERA remains in 2nd place in the aggregate

for the 2nd successive week.

KAOS sailed 8 races in the summer series but

this was her first race this winter series. She was

one of three yachts with a ten minute handicap

and started from 5th place 37 seconds late. KAOS

sailed the course in 2:25:50 and crossed the

finish line at 12:05:50. She had beaten the two

other yachts with 10 minute handicaps, AMICUSII

and ALEGRIA by 15 seconds and 2 minutes 16

seconds respectively. KAOS sailed as a visitor so

is not included in the series aggregate.


The median start time for the race was 24.5

seconds. Only the Start of the Day winner,

ALEGRIA, started within 10 seconds of her

handicap whilst 3 yachts started more than

60 seconds too late for theirs.

Four of the first five

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to finish. XPRESSO was

the “stand out” yacht of

the day improving her

position by 19 places.

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Sunday Sailors Winter Series 2019 Race 4 Position at Start & Finish

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The median elapsed time was 2:22:38

with a difference of 66 minutes 2

seconds between the fastest and

slowest. It is the 3rd time in 4 races that

DEBONNAIRE has recorded the fastest

elapsed time – on this occasion 4

minutes 6 seconds faster than her

closest rival.

YOUNG ONES (below) & SKULLDUGGERY (right)

were 2 yachts that made their best start of the

series.

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DEBONNAIRE

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VALIANT

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(Left) LA MER started from 17th

place & finished 11th.

(Right) SKULLDUGGERY started

11th & finished 18th.

(Below) DILII GAFF finished 1

minute 36 seconds ahead of

ANTARES.

(Below left) CAFE RACER

finished 3 places ahead of PHOENIX.

(Below right) The light breeze didn’t favour HI JAC.

VALIANT (left) &

AMICUS ll (right)

recorded their best

result of the series.


FOGGY DEW (left) LA

BELLE VIE (above) &

CHINOOK are

currently 11th, 6th &

13th in the aggregate.

The Beneteau 351, FIRAST

PASSION (right) won this

week’s tussle with the Beneteau

367 UPBEAT.

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