ORCV Melbourne to Apollo Bay (not)

More Sailing Vids.

Well, they polled really well last time and here is another. Overexposed for sure, but doing 16 knots downhill in a 39 footer looks good, no matter what.

At any rate, many thanks to Team BO for getting the material to us.

Go HERE to watch it.

Go HERE for the overall M2AB (not) results.

Go HERE for the 2010/11 Offshore Championship results.

You race, make the material and we'll post it...

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Below is Tony Bull's shot from  onboard eXtasea during the  2010 event.
	Not a place to go into  in an Easterly or if you  draw too much. Plenty of souls around to ask  about that and there's also  the bombora out the front. Supertramp above looks bad,  but had storm boards in etc. Port was closed thereafter,  though... Don't even attempt to go in  with an Easterly blowing,  however...

ORCV Melbourne to Apollo Bay (not)

He's Smoking...

In his jacket.

Well, by all accounts, it was a great night at the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron on Friday. ORCV Committee Member and He of the Countdown Timer, Jeremy Walton, presented the Gill OS1 Ocean Jacket to Bruce Hawken, who was the Naviguesser aboard, Beyond Outrageous, which won the Performance Division in the (not) Apollo Bay race. Immediate Past Commodore George Shaw and Robyn Brooke, who formed the Race Management team for the event, were also in attendance.

“It was great to see the whole of Team BO, who had all turned up for the presentation", said Jeremy.

“Bruce had actually bought along his old jacket along for the occasion and it was evident that it had seen a lot of miles, some of which included some truly wet journeys, just like last weekend's (not) Apollo Bay race, as the jacket was obviously quite wet still and perhaps just a touch salty”, Jeremy discovered.

Before...	After... Much Better and the strips!!!

Following the photos, Jeremy and Bruce had the opportunity to chat about the whole Naviguessing caper and how it had changed over the years. "Bruce told me about doing his first Hobart some 20 years ago and navigating by dead reckoning. True, GPS had been invented, but it was being used by the military and had not made its way on to yachts as yet. We had a good discussion about how important it still is to be able to use paper charts and look at all the possible areas of danger along your course, long before you leave the marina, as well as plotting your position as you go. Both of us could easily remember being in situations where the chart plotter was convinced we were on the yellow bits of the chart!! As we all know, you sail on the White Bits, park on the Blue Bits and drink, not sail, on the Yellow Bits......"

Now after some coaxing, we managed to get Bruce out of his old jacket and actually into his brand new Gill one. “With this great Gill jacket I've just won, they might make me leave the pipe at the Nav station and come up on deck when it’s a bit wet”, said Bruce. “Please pass on my thanks to Gill and the ORCV for putting up the prize for a Navigator; it is not often we get recognised for the efforts we put in, which actually get the boat to the finish line”, he went to say.

So next time you are out racing and see a flash of yellow poking out of the companionway from aboard Team BO, give Bruce a wave. Ed. Also, many thanks to Bruce for being a real sport about it all. Cheers, pal. It is appreciated.

Love your work Team BO. Winning style - pic by Rebecca Clancy.

Go HERE for the overall M2AB (not) results.

You race - we find the material to post.

© John Curnow, ORCV Media

Please contact me for re-issue rights.

Below is Tony Bull's shot from  onboard eXtasea during the  2010 event.
	Not a place to go into  in an Easterly or if you  draw too much. Plenty of souls around to ask  about that and there's also  the bombora out the front. Supertramp above looks bad,  but had storm boards in etc. Port was closed thereafter,  though... Don't even attempt to go in  with an Easterly blowing,  however...

ORCV Melbourne to Apollo Bay (not)

Bless 'em - Part III

Now these are some people of whom we are truly blessed to be so good to us. The Coast Guard always run the starts for us and apart of December 27 and the aforementioned Latitude race, they are out there for us at some heinous hours, in the dark and more often than not, the cold and freezing breeze.

Cheers Pal! Gary Tomlins has been helping get the start line arranged (very accurately too) for a long time. He also goes out to have the CG boat stand off the turning mark at Shortland Bluff every year for the annual Tassie Trio of races to Launceston and both courses to Hobart.

Rick Lasslett is fairly new to the game, but is clearly loving it!!!

So then, whilst everyone was heading out of Queenscliff Harbour, Gary and Rick were taking Race Management out (a bit of a rarity in itself) and creating the start line. Hayley Thomas from Second to None sent us some pics of what the departure looked like. "We have Bill Westerbeek on the wheel taking us out and it certainly looks a lot calmer than it did when we arrived in on Friday evening/Saturday morning - very early!"

 From right under the Jumbos, in the new floating quay part of the marina.

Almost out the channel and there's a bit of procession making their way out.

Go HERE for the overall M2AB (not) results.

It takes a big team to get us out racing - well done to all.

© John Curnow, ORCV Media

Please contact me for re-issue rights.

Below is Tony Bull's shot from  onboard eXtasea during the  2010 event.
	Not a place to go into  in an Easterly or if you  draw too much. Plenty of souls around to ask  about that and there's also  the bombora out the front. Supertramp above looks bad,  but had storm boards in etc. Port was closed thereafter,  though... Don't even attempt to go in  with an Easterly blowing,  however...

ORCV Melbourne to Apollo Bay (M2AB (not))

Sailing Vids!

They're ever so popular the world over and we have some video footage from onboard eXtasea as she barrels back up the Bay under the big blue kite, which is the one they subsequently lost. And yes, they are kind of looking at it with the expression of "Is she gonna blow!?!?"

The footage was taken by Stu Addison.

Video One.

Video Two. 

Go HERE for the overall M2AB (not) results.

16 knots SOG and loving it.

© John Curnow, ORCV Media

Please contact me for re-issue rights.

Below is Tony Bull's shot from  onboard eXtasea during the  2010 event.
	Not a place to go into  in an Easterly or if you  draw too much. Plenty of souls around to ask  about that and there's also  the bombora out the front. Supertramp above looks bad,  but had storm boards in etc. Port was closed thereafter,  though... Don't even attempt to go in  with an Easterly blowing,  however...