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2017 ABYC Inter-Club Dinghy Regatta Results

2017 ABYC Inter-Club Dinghy Regatta
2017 ABYC Inter-Club Dinghy Regatta

The ABYC Inter-Club Dinghy Regatta was sailed on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 April 2017.

We enjoyed two rewarding days of off-shore dinghy sailing as KYC, RYC and ABYC contested our Inter-clubs regatta. Both were light wind days, requiring careful tactics at the start and marks. Thankfully the wind did not fluctuate too much over the sailing periods, so Race Officer Ronnie Baer didn’t give the mark-laying slaves too much work to do. With the Ironman events also happening over this weekend, the cats could not launch from Hobie nor Kings Beaches, so we just had Senior and Junior monohull fleets competing. The Yogi Divaris/Ferdi Holm Fireball team were always way out in the lead over the Lasers, Sonnets and Fins. But it all came down to handicaps and consistency of finishing places. A big thank you to the race committee, scorers, mark-layers, safety-boat drivers and organisers for putting this event together.

Junior Fleet results:

  1. Cameron Hills, RYC – RS Tera Sport
  2. Warren Horne/Matthew Wilmot, RYC – Gypsy
  3. Carl and Natasha van Wyngaardt, ABYC – Sprog

Junior Trophy – 1st RYC, 2nd ABYC

Senior Fleet:

  1. Jordan van Zyl, ABYC – Laser Radial
  2. Yogi Divaris/Ferdi Holm, KYC – Fireball
  3. Charlie Hills, ABYC – Laser Radial

Senior Trophy – 1st ABYC, 2nd KYC, 3rd RYC

ABYC Interclub Regatta 2017 – Senior

Sailed: 6, Discards: 1, To count: 5, Ratings: PY, Entries: 12, Scoring system: Appendix A
Rank Fleet Class SailNo Club HelmName CrewName PY R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total Nett
1st Senior Laser Radial 144414 ABYC Jordan van Zyl   1136 2.0 (7.0) 4.0 4.0 2.0 2.0 21.0 14.0
2nd Senior Fireball 14910 KYC Yogi Divaris Ferdi Holm 964 6.0 1.0 3.0 1.5 4.0 (13.0 OCS) 28.5 15.5
3rd Senior Laser Radial 160058 ABYC Charlie Hills   1136 3.0 (8.0) 1.0 8.0 1.0 3.0 24.0 16.0
4th Senior Sonnet 569 RYC Sophie Hynch Lauren Hynch 1150 4.0 3.0 5.0 1.5 6.0 (8.0) 27.5 19.5
5th Senior Laser Radial 133721 ABYC Chad Bilsbury   1136 5.0 4.0 6.0 5.0 3.0 (9.0) 32.0 23.0
6th Senior Laser Radial 183456 ABYC Sigi Bailes   1136 1.0 6.0 2.0 3.0 (13.0 DNC) 13.0 DNC 38.0 25.0
7th Senior Laser Radial 1 KYC Bhekumuzi Hani   1136 (7.0) 2.0 7.0 7.0 5.0 4.0 32.0 25.0
8th Senior Laser 191056 RYC Matt v Rensburg   1095 (11.0) 5.0 8.0 9.0 7.0 6.0 46.0 35.0
9th Senior Laser 4.7 37169 KYC J P Kriel   1195 8.0 (9.0) 9.0 6.0 9.0 7.0 48.0 39.0
10th Senior Finn 304 RYC Andrew Martin   1066 9.0 (11.0) 10.0 10.0 10.0 1.0 51.0 40.0
11th Senior Finn 519 RYC William P J   1066 10.0 10.0 (11.0) 11.0 11.0 5.0 58.0 47.0
12th Senior Laser 4.7 188005 KYC Lameck Jason   1195 (13.0 DNC) 13.0 DNC 13.0 DNC 13.0 DNC 8.0 10.0 70.0 57.0

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2017 ABYC Inter Club

ABYC Inter-Club Dinghy Regatta 2017Racing will take place from 1st to 2nd April 2017, hosted from the ABYC Clubhouse, with racing taking place offshore and within the Port Elizabeth Harbour.

The regatta will be governed by the rules as defined in The Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) 2017-2020, The Equipment Rules of Sailing (ERS) 2017 – 2017, the applicable Class Rules, this Notice of Race and the Sailing Instructions.

  1. ABYC Inter-club Dinghy Regatta 2017 Entry Form
  2. ABYC Inter-club Sailing Instructions 2017
  3. ABYC Inter-club Notice of Race 2017

2016 KYC Inter-club Regatta

The KYC Interclub Regatta was very well attended by sailors from RYC, MBYC, GLYC and Zeekoeivlei YC. ABYC lacked sufficient numbers unfortunately, so strengthened the RYC burgee. These sailors are full members of both of the yacht clubs and it certainly illustrates our unity for the development of sailing in our region. The winds were light and erratic, with tides have a strong influence. The senior fleet was large and strong. Sigi Bailes reported on the success of the following ABYC sailors:

Hobie Fleet (11 Boats)
3rd – Andrew & Angela Ward – Hobie 16
5th – Andrew & Ashley Bosworth – Hobie 16

Junior Fleet (28 boats)
1st – Cameron Hills – Optimist (1st Optimist with 5 boats)
2nd – Tamryn Bailes – Tera Sport (1st Tera with 10 boats)
9th – Luke Weddell – Optimist (3rd Optimist)
18th – Emma Lukas – Optimist (4th Opimist)

Senior Fleet (42 boats)
11th – Sigi & Jenna Bailes – 420 (2nd 420 with 4 boats)
31st – Charlie Hills – Laser Radial (6th with 7 boats)

RYC Interclub 2016 – ABYC Juniors take title

After six races sailed on 23 and 24 January 2016, the ABYC Junior fleet emerged victorious to take the Junior Fleet Title.

Four races were sailed on Saturday and two on Sunday.

The Regatta also incorporated the Gypsy Africa’s.

ABYC Sailors acquitted themselves well:

  • Tammy Bailes took 2nd place in the Tera Class
  • Courtney van Wyngaardt received the Optimist Back of the Fleet Award
  • Emma Lucas took 3rd – Optimist Class
  • Cameron Hills 2nd – Optimist Class
  • Luke Weddell 1st – Optimist Class

A hattrick for ABYC in the Junior fleet.

Luke Weddell
First place in the Optimist fleet for Luke Weddell
Tammy Bailes
A second place in the Tera fleet for Tammy Bailes

Our senior sailors, in Gypsies, Lasers and Sonnets took 2nd place overall, a strong performance against the KYS and RYC teams.  All in all a fine set of results for our club, boding well for ABYC Inter-clubs in early April.  A big thank you to all the parents who helped and supported this event.

Other results:

  • 1st Gypsy – Patrick and Andrew Butler
  • 1st Laser – Trevor Kitson
  • 1st Finn – Ralf Hodgen
  • 1st Sonnett – Tim and Bridgett Jones

ABYC at TYC Interclub

The Transvaal Yacht Club hosted 12 entries for the Youth Interclub Keel boat Championship from 13 to 16 June 2015.

KZN – 2, Eastern Cape – 3, Northwest – 3, Freestate – 2, Gauteng – 1, Mpumalanga – 1.

ABYC was represented by Jordan van Zyl – Priory, Bronwyn van Wyngaardt – Collegiate Girls High School, Jenna Bailes – Collegiate Girls High School, Chad Bilsbury – Grey High School and Tamryn Bailes – Collegiate Junior School. Sigi and Tony Bailes provided coaching and chaperone.

Racing got underway on Saturday at 13h00, in very light fickle wind. Unfortunately 5 boats were late for the start (due to no wind…) of which ABYC was one of. Learnt a valuable lesson indeed, always motor the start, despite no wind.

The second race only started on Sunday in yet more light wind conditions. ABYC had a magnificent start, but lost some positions when the wind died to glassy conditions. Good mark rounding at the leeward mark resulted in them managing to pick up to 7th place. The last run down to the finish allowed ABYC to roll over another boat to obtain 6th position. Great sailing by the team!

The third race started in 3 knots which died down to zero-ish. Lovely conditions for brilliant photographs. Again, an awesome start saw ABYC leading the fleet most of the beat, only to lose it to the puff hunting skills of the Vaalies.

A complete shambles at the weather mark due to wind shifts unfortunately resulted in a number of penalties and 180’s as the boats could not lay the offset mark. The race was shortened to finish again on a run, with sagging spinnakers throughout the fleet.

The positions of the ABYC 11, 6 and 9. Currently 9th overall with 12 boats competing.

16 June UPDATE:

On 16 June after 5 races sailed in the Transvaal Yacht Club Keelboat Interclub 2015, TYC1 sailing Hakahana are in first place on 8 points, followed by BYC on Hot Salsa with 12 points and in third place is PYC on Lis ‘n J with 18 points.

The three Eastern Cape entries are placed as follows:

7. KYV on Jabberwock
8. ABYC on Phoenix Rising
9. RYC on Monkey Republic

These images are courtesy of Tony Bailes:

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