ORCV Melbourne Winter Series (MWS)

 

Stanley Kubrick.

This one is all not entirely about Clockwork, but a good feature of them, none the less.

We start with the Love Boat, however...

Nutcracker and Alibi with the kites up. Mille Sabords on the left of image? Chris - your thoughts?

Well that's a good one - Rob Davis (owner/driver) is going to love this image.

Ritchie Benaud - "Marvellous stuff, that!"

And Chris - Even I worked out that this is a finishing shot.

Clockwork in front of Audacious.

Audacious come around to join them on Starboard.

Audacious now slotted in behind Clockwork and that's Schuss to windward.

All three now visible.

Going up to ward off all challenges.

And that means Audacious is much lower...

Getting onto it now...

Is that how they managed to sneak around? (trick photography - this image is from the next rounding)

Hush, who certainly were quiet on the day and just got on with it...

Marissa did everything forward of the cockpit, my sources tell me.

Which is bound to keep you busy.

Nutcracker in the distance.

That's a handy lead over the boat still going into the top mark.

Well done - three up would have been difficult, but warm!!!

INSX playing with Alibi.

Close and competitive racing. if you have not got your boat out of the pen, you can join in, any time you wish. Just go HERE.

Still Alibi in behind them, but different driver... Well. It is not. It is just an illusion. This is how Dennis Hambleton put it, "The Law of Equity applies on Alibi, or, expressed another way, he who pay the bills is he who gets to drive!" Ah yes. The Golden Rule... Glad you are getting something from the site Dennis and thanks for your email.

Rob Sill driving.

Yes. It does look cold.

Now, just a reminder, all those vessels coming down on them are in Div1, which has the head start from beginning their racing ahead of INSX, who are in Div2...

Looks great!

Now you might think they are being just a little casual about it all, but as you can see from the tables, they may well be entitled to look any which way they want, as they lead the two categories they're entered into... QED

Series Results [IRC] for Division 2 up to Race 3 (Drops = 0)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		SM5985	INSX	Robert Sill	SYC	4.0	1.0	2.0	1.0
2		SM5508	HUSH	P Chalkley M Mcmanus	SYC	8.0	3.0	3.0	2.0
3		SM178	ALIBI	Dennis Hambleton	SYC	9.0	2.0	1.0	6.0

And PHS, as well.

Series Results [PHS] for Division 2 up to Race 3 (Drops = 0)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		SM5985	INSX	Robert Sill	SYC	6.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
2		B5903	SPIRIT OF FREYA	Joanne Harpur	RBYC	11.0	4.0	5.0	2.0
3		SM178	ALIBI	Dennis Hambleton	SYC	12.0	2.0	1.0	9.0

Keep it up team and no. I am not taking any responsibility for any results from this point on. I am not superstitious, OK.

 

And we still have more Race Three joy on the way...

 

The full MWS results to date are HERE.

You can still enter individual MWS races HERE and the M2G is HERE - remember that Cruising Divisions will be offered for the latter event.

 

 

By John Curnow

Thank you to David Judge and Tony Dawson from Hoobo's for ensuring Steb had a ride and we, therefore, had imagery.
The Colts (Sydney 38s) are having their own fight within the battle - many thanks to Ullman Sails for providing the prize.