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Club Marine Series, Day Seven - Dare I say it?

Well here it is - It could well be Champagne Sailing on Port Phillip for the final round of the 2009/10 Club Marine Series, Saturday April 10.

The BoM has this up for review:

Forecast for Saturday

Winds: North to northeasterly 5 to 15 knots tending north to northwesterly during the morning then tending westerly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: 0.5 to 1 metres late.

Other sources seem to follow this trend, albeit that some models show up to 20 knots in the afternoon. What's more, it looks a whole lot better than Sunday. Easy to say from up here you mumble. Well...

So then, as the segue has been built, these are the crews that may well be getting the champagne out. Just quickly, the Club’s Championship in both IRC and AMS will be taken by Royals. Sandy did enough to leapforg Brighton and take second. No doubt, all will be keen to secure wins and leads on the day.

Could well be this quiet tomorrow morning...

In Division Zero, Claws, as she has begun to be known, will get the IRC glassware over Veloce and then Living Doll. In EHC, XLR8 has just two points over Cougar II and seven over Veloce, so I would expect the team in red and grey to be out there doing everything to get the clean sweep. If the morning race is a drifter, then it will make it hard to get massive breaks, so there is still some interest in the fleet.

There should be a classic tussle in Division One IRC, with Reverie, Executive Decision, Challenge and Ikon all looking get one of the three places. ED have owned the top of IRC, AMS and EHC for the whole season and have the Adams 10 wound up beautifully. The Doyen will have seen it all before, many times over in fact, so I think he will have some strategies to bring to the equation. The B45s will be doing what they do and the anticipated afternoon breeze will ensure there is something for everyone. This is a sector I will be looking at closely. Any retirements, breakages or otherwise could see JAMHU get into the mix and they will certainly want the breeze to get up.

They've sailed well all season.

Division Two has the splashed all over these pages, Surprise leading IRC with a pair of the family, Apache and Top Gun in the minor places. In the case of Apache, this is just. A one point, just, actually. Apache and Godzilla have AMS over Surprise and Apache also has EHC over Stitched Up and Godzilla. All of these boats are known to any reader of these pages.

Can't see it being like this - Pic © Steb Fisher.

Intrusion, Footloose and Double Malt should finish out Division Three IRC in that order. Rhiannon, Footloose and then Intrusion should be the AMS result. Firefox, Rhiannon and Take One are the EHC leaders, but Intrusion and Footlosse could invade that particular party.

Certainly not. Intrusion and Double Malt here.

JC's Tip of the Week - Don't try and predict anything!

By John Curnow