Melbourne Winter Series (MWS)
Oh Lord!
No. It is not a Mercedes-Benz. It's the Lord Warden Trophy. Eh? Well, we don't have a Benz on offer (or a Porsches for your friends for that matter), but it's the kind of focus pictured above, that has got 'INSX' the Lord Warden Trophy for the 2009 MWS (lowest point score from all Divisions). Well done team!
Now we met the super-focussed mastman in the pic above, one Stephen 'Jamboy' Hill, in an earlier piece (which is HERE). Rob Sill bought the NSX38 in 2006 at the behest of his sons, who are also onboard. Rob wanted to buy a cruising boat after a 10 year absence from the sport, but they had other ideas. Way back when, Rob had boats like 'Black Magic', but a hip operation this year has seen him wearing the smoking jacket and slippers down at the nav desk, while his sons and the crew continued to ply their craft. They won their division in the 2008 MWS, however this year, a second was their worst result, so six points (their six Firsts and the drop was the Second) was well and truly going to be hard to beat and had them a few points clear and truly in front of the next boat.
The crew have been together for two and a half years and been very consistent, just like their boat speed, which has poured over onto the results table.
Now speaking of crew, Marcus Sill has been organising the crew and doing the Office, Tony Tanner has been on the Main, Tim Smith and Ross Thompson have trimmed, while James 'Cyclone' Bacon has been driving this year. The have have some real multi-skilled and multi-tasking people at the stick and forward, with Stephen, whom we already know of, the other brother, Julian Sill, and right up the pointy end is a soul simply referred to as 'Jungle'. Hhmmm. Not sure how much we want to unravel there... so I won't!
"The stronger breezes this year have really suited us (Editor - that has to be an understatement of glorious proportions and developed from the bar afterwards, not out on the water at the time. Talk it up, huh??? Oh yeah - that's my job... Sorry). We had a great series really and it's a big 'thank you' to the ORCV for putting on the series and changing the M2F to the M2G. What a great precedent!!! It was terrific to end the MWS in Geelong and of course, the Lamby's", Marcus said to me today. (Editor - Aw Schucks. Thanks.)
Seems they were not on their own on a deserted beach talking to 'Wilson' about the M2G! Thank you for all your calls, comments and emails about that one. Your Committee have been advised of such. 'INSX' will be doing an M2HE and the whole Melbourne Offshore Championship this Summer. We'll be watching and remember, M2S is but around the corner...
Here are the links to the full results then:
Division One:
Click HERE for IRC results
Click HERE for AMS results
Click HERE for PHC results
Division Two:
Click HERE for IRC results
Click HERE for AMS results
Click HERE for PHC results
Some more pictures of our Lord Warden Trophy winner for the ORCV's 2009 Melbourne Winter Series.
Other Boats to have done well in Division Two: -
'Beyond Outrageous' and our Commodore's 'The Secretary' in PHC
'Can Can' and 'Godzilla' in AMS
Now as mentioned previously, Division One had these guys featuring all over the scoreboard during this latest MWS: -
'Just A Minor Hick Up 2' and 'Audi Centre Melbourne' top row (the latter has kept Adam 'Hugo' Manders smiling - or was it the rum??? Did not see Robbie Buchanan - were you there or had the leave pass run out?), with 'Wicked' pictured below.
If you would like to go back and see what has been said, photographed and occurred over the entire MWS, then you can start your journey HERE and work your way down. Good luck.
By John Curnow
