Get a Ship Ready to Sail Again
Prepare. Ready. Sail.
by John Curnow, Editor, Sail-Earth AUS xiv Mar 05:00 HKT
Anybody gets involved as Maritimo eleven sets sail for the 2021 Sydney Hobart Race © Maritimo
On the back of a good run, it is ofttimes the time to go and take a cleft at some of the events withal left on the list. You could even argue that the timing only doesn't get better. The iron'due south hot and all that... Of course there is always the curve brawl to consider, and it took a not-so-benevolent dictator, with a way besides itchy trigger finger, to put the kibosh on a masterly plan.
When yous're a 100-footer, you tin can't exactly become round the cans on a Wednesday afternoon, and lining upwards for Saturday's windward/leeward would be like a dart event to meet how much gear you could harm, in how piffling time. No. There are marquee events, and you get a few hit outs a year to strop your craft, learn, adjust, improvise, and hopefully win.
Blackness Jack'south skipper, Mark Bradford commented, "We were always planning to do a Maxi Worlds, and this would take been a good year for a tilt at that. To be in the chase internationally, you take to be doing well locally. We feel we are there at present. The package is working well, and it is sad not have the power now, due to problematic travel and logistics. The unknowns, as information technology were."
Scan the memory a bit, and you'll remember that Blackness Jack went all the fashion to Europe and back without existence used in the Covid era. Doh! Yous get the sense that it is non so much a sore betoken as it is a really poignant aide-mémoire, and I don't think information technology took too much soul searching to throw Plan A in the bin, then open the drawer and pull Plan B out.
"Nosotros have four hundreds hither (in Australia), so we are slap-up to keep at the domestic programme. The Pittwater to Coffs Harbour race is a step to get at that place (North), and in that location is the potential for a race record, given information technology is a adequately depression average pace presently. Law Connect is in that race too, and it is ever nice to take some other striking out with them", said the Due north Sails Australia supremo.
"You ever learn when you lot accept a go, and can amend any weaknesses. You can get your combinations to gel better. Call back of the last Hobart. We had Alex Nolan on Nav and Kevin Costin on Strategy. As time racing the supermaxis is somewhat exceptional, every take chances has to exist grabbed."
At present there are 31 entries so far for the 74th edition of Easter'due south Brisbane to Gladstone race. "This is where it all started; the pet upshot; the name'due south on the trophy plenty of times with the R/P66, then the optimised Volvo Bounding main seventy, and of form with this boat as well. One more victory will take usa into Jack Rooklyn territory, and that will be special."
As for the rest of the calendar, well the boat will head dorsum south in time for Sydney to Southport, and so in that location's Brisbane to Hamilton Isle, and and so Hamilton Island Race Week itself. "It is sold out with loads of big boats", said Bradford, highlighting the level of excitement and expectation at all the same some other important one of those hit outs.
"We'll exist there for the Maxi Nationals at the stop of the year, and then information technology is all about Hobart once more than. Glad to exist back out at it again, and what a super twelvemonth it will be. Any opportunity to sail a boat like that is amazing, and we go to do it once more all year. No wonder so many others are also geed up for the whole spectrum of regattas."
Oh BTW, which 1'southward Pink?
Up until Blackness Jack'southward arrival on the trip the light fantastic card, Stefan Racing, the Botin 80 that started life equally Beau Geste, would have had the eyes lowered to the finish line. Skipper, Grant Wharington said, "Yes. There is definitely more contest now for Brisbane to Gladstone, only that is good news. Pray for plenty of breeze, hopefully at fourscore TWA, and we'll drive the gunkhole difficult!"
"Nosotros are also looking good for Sydney to Southport, Brisbane to Hamilton Island, and then Race Week itself. Afterwards that lot we'll clean the gunkhole upwardly, cheque the rig, and become ready for Cabbage Tree Island race."
There are now just two partners in the syndicate, which will go far all a lot easier to run. "The boat took the Hobart really well. Cooksons (the builders) did a great task equally usual. We got there in one piece, and information technology was a good upshot for the sponsor. A new mainsail is part of the plan, and nosotros are looking at some optimisation in readiness for Hobart."
At present there are currently iv of the 100-footers in Australia, which is a fair old proportion of them. Black Jack, her near and slightly younger sister ship Wild Oats Eleven, Scallywag, and and so Law Connect. Now you never know, just by the time the big race comes around once again, nosotros may five in the Country of Oz once more...
50, twoscore, and thirty-Somethings
Leading this bracket are Botin 52 Ichi Ban from the hamlet immediately adjacent to the village of TeePees, and Line Honours winner from the 2021 B2G, Maritimo 11. The Schumacher 54 has been well and truly IRC optimised, and Michael Spies e'er has a talented crew on board, and they are always motivated. In that location is also the venerable Wellbourn 50 Yeah Infant in this group.
The R/P 42 Black Diamond is the onetime baby Blackness Jack. Not a Diamond is the Hudson Hakes 42 penned by the renowned Judel/Vrolijk house of brilliance. Mayfair is the Rogers 46 that can get a real wiggle on in a broad accomplish.
Ignition and Hip-Nautic are Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300s, and I bet they are going to exist really well prepared, and then that there can be no problems around gear failure. The concluding Hobart certainly highlighted just how well the new gen of short-handed boats can exercise with just 10m or thereabouts to play with. 308nm is like half a Hobart to go after, and then if the breeze is kind, two days and one no sleep is all they'll need. Practiced luck. I'll exist watching avidly.
Hot Seat, the Pogo 12.fifty, and Kerazy and Kerisma the Ker 11.3s will ensure there is plenty to look at on the tracker the deeper you go into the fleet.
At any charge per unit, what information technology all says is that at that place is definitely a level of gusto for all the events on the calendar, no doubt propped up by latent demand after a couple of years on the sidelines. That'southward proficient for sailors, events, locales, and of course, anyone with a screen and a link to a tracker.
So let's go for a yacht. Indeed!!! Meanwhile, stay prophylactic, and cheers for tuning into Sail-World.com
John Curnow
Editor, Sail-World AUS
Source: https://www.sail-world.com/news/247031/Ready-Set-Sail
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