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Club Yachting
Fleet 1 Report
By Chris Heraghty, Fleet Captain
CLUB RACING RESULTS THIS YEAR:
Mark Griffith’s Sydney 38 Old School represented RPAYC at the NSW IRC Championships
hosted by Corlette Point Sailing Club. Mark and his crew sailed a near perfect regatta
1st
Solutions
S Dadour
coming away with a convincing win over veterans Roger Hickman in second place Broken Bay PHS:
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Sticky
R
Harris
and Peter Sorensen in third place.
3rd
Starlight
J Noakes
RPAYC hosted the Sydney 38 Nationals in very trying conditions sailed off Palm Beach
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Byford/Hudson
this year where Old School scored a second place to Melbourne boat Phoenix. Pittwater Inshore PHS: 1st
The series was a hard fought battle right down to the last race, Phoenix nudging out
2nd
Windy Too
C Russett
Old School by one point.
3rd
XS Moment
Fran & Ray Hudson
Congratulations to Mark Griffith and the crew of Old School for these outstanding Pittwater Inshore IRC 1st
Alibi
BarryJackson
results.
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Byford/Hudson
3rd
Harlequin
Williams/Fluhrer
The MC 38s had their Australian Championships in May, also hosted by RPAYC. The
series was held over 3 days with 11 races completed. Leslie Green’s Ginger being
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Outlandish
G Moore
the most consistent boat won the Nationals on a final points tally of 23 to Marcus Lion Island PHS
2nd
Bushranger
G
Hatton
Blackmore's Hooligan in second place on 31 points and John Bacon’s Dark Star third
3rd
Bombolo
D
Boekemann
on 36 points.
1st
Old School
M Griffith
On behalf of Fleet 1 I would like to thank the numerous volunteers who donate their Lion Island IRC
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Byford/Hudson
time each week to organise and manage our racing. As always it is very much
appreciated. Fair sailing.
3rd
Outlandish
G Moore
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