ORCV Melbourne to King Island

If not one, then the other...

Well. We know they don't get to do a lot more than the Winter Series due to their OTB commitments, so it was good to see them split the field and send some to King Island and the others to Geelong.

Of course, we talk about our original Love Boat, Nutcracker. I got to talk with our favourite, nearly-the-oldest-bowman-on-the-Bay and Broker extraordinaire, Chris Furey, regarding the long weekend that just passed. "While his mum (Kathryn Furey) was making her way ever so slowly to King Island aboard Nutcracker, our son Jack (age 11) was racing in the International Cadet States at RGYC, where he and skipper Patrick Chipp eventually finished in eleventh place", said Chris.

Magoo II (Patrick Chipp and Jack Furey) from Sandringham Yacht Club at the International Cadet Victorian Championships 2011, which were held at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club at the same time as the King Island race. Image courtesy of and © to our good friend, Teri Dodds.

Nutcracker's Skipper, Rob Davis, was also represented with his daughter Matilda racing in the Cadets, as well. She finished in ninth place with her Skipper, Jacob Freeman. The 2011 Victorian State Championship was won by 2010 Cadet Worlds runners-up, Anton and Julian Sasson, the sons of yet another Nutcracker crewman, David Sasson.

Nutcracker sure had some skill onboard for their jaunt down, which is probably why they punched well above their weight. Kathryn is in the front and Rob is in the black sleeves at the back...

We'll find something...

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	Councillor Island on the left, as seen from the plane... Remember the currents!!!!