Cruising Yacht Club of Hamilton Island

Good morning sailors

A spectacular full moon race with a stunning sunset, you’ve gotta love
Hamilton island.
The first race of the coveted Bruce Finlay Sails series  saw eleven highly
trained crews of extreme athletes pitting their skills against each other in
testing conditions, testing the depth at certain marks and leaving ‘marks’
during some close encounters. I believe those ‘marks’ should polish off
quite easily…

Race 1 Bruce Finlay Sails series and week 9 of the Fantasea Club
Championship
1st   Xtsea
2nd  Bahia  +2.49mins
3rd   Run a Muk +3.54
4th   Adrenalin +4.19
4th   Hedonism +4.19
6th   Sunmaid +4.38
7th   T-Bird        +6.30
8th   JAR           +9.15
9th   Cool Runnings +10.37
10th Sunsail 1      +17.49
11th Sunsail 2      +18.51
(Nb Sunmaid’s handicap had not been updated from last week and with the one
minute she moves back to 6th)

The Bill ‘W’ Rogers series concluded last week with an eventful last race
that saw the places change significantly from the previous weeks standings.
The finish had 3 boats all calling starboard on each other within 50m of the
line and 6 seconds separating the first 3 boats over the line. Cool Runnings
kept her cool to finish 5 seconds ahead of Xtsea with Adrenalin 1 second
behind her.
The results were
Race 4                                      Overall
1 X2sea                                  1st Cool Runnings15.5 points
2 Swankey                              2nd Sunmaid 19
3 Sunmaid                               2nd Swankey 19
4 The Lemon                           4th Run a Muk 20
5 Cool Runnings                     5th X2Sea  20.75
6 Run A Muk                           6th Hedonism 21
7 Hedonism                             6th Bahia  21
8 Bahia                                   8th The Lemon 22
9 Sunsail                                 9th Adrenalin 25
10 Adrenalin                            10th Sunsail 27

We were pleased to have so many of the extended family of Bill ‘W’ fly up to
Hamilton Island to present their beautiful trophy to Cool Runnings. It is
wonderful that the family and the club keep the memory of ‘W’ alive on the
island. We look forward to having you back again and again.

Have a great week, see you on the water next Wednesday.

Keith Logan
Commodore
CYCHI

Thought for the week
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your
grandmother. — Albert Einstein

Dear skippers and crews

Following some anomalies found in the recorded times from this weeks race
the corrected results are as follows

1st     Sunmaid
2nd     Bahai           +0.17
3rd     Xtsea           +1.1
4th     Swankey     +1.50
5th     Adrenalin     +2.18
6th     The Lemon  +4.26
7th     Hedonism    +5.54
8th     Run A Muk   +6.24
9th Cool Runnings +7.04
10th Sunsail            +Broken halyard

Overall for the Bill ‘W’ Rogers Series after 3 races
1st Cool Runnings   10.5
2nd Bahai                 13
3rd Hedonism           14
3rd Run A Muk           14
5th Adrenalin              15
6th Sunmaid               16
7th Swankey               17
8th The Lemon           18
9th Xtsea                    20
10th Sunsail               26

Apologies to all, and Bahai and Xtsea can collect their prizes next week.

Regards

Keith Logan
Commodore
CYCHI

Dear fellow sailors,

Greeted with a 20-22 kts of ESE the 10 boat fleet got away to a fast down
wind run to Henning with the tide, and turned into wind and tide on the way
home.
Grace Hindmarsh and Sailor Harvey from the Island’s school sailing program
joined the race aboard Hedonism and Adrenalin, with 10 year old Grace
steering Adrenalin down to Henning Island.

Hedonism had a good dice with Xtsea and Swanky all the way around the
course, but David Stielow’s local knowledge and around 17 tacks on the work
home, gave Hedonism first place on corrected time.

The post race bbq just gets bigger and bigger with crews and friends joining
in a very relaxed evening. Our chef’s of the night from Sunmaid did a great
job serving over 70 steaks.
Music this week was supplied by Cool Runnings Georgina on the new sound
system kindly donated by HI Weddings. Each week a different crew is asked to
bring their iPods and supplied some ‘appropriate’ music. Next week Adrenalin
(you’ll love Mario Lanza…) followed by Bahai.

Our thanks to Laurelle for giving Georgina a night off from behind the bar,
Pete for organising a gas bottle at short notice and the Sunmaid crew for
volunteering to cook.

Fantasea Cruises Club Championships and Bill ‘W’ Rogers Series.

Race 2 14/10                                       Race 3 21/10
1st Cool Runnings                           1st Hedonism
2nd Hedonism +2.42                       2nd Adrenalin +1.24
3rd Run A Muk +5.25                      3rd Sunmaid +4.06
4th Adrenalin +5.55                        4th Bahai +4.23
5th Sunmaid +8.55                        5th Run A Muk 4.30
6th Swanky +10.12                        6th Xtsea +5.16
7th Bahai +lots                              7th Swankey +5.56
8th The Lemon+8.32
9th Cool Runnings+11.10

Bill ‘W’ Rogers After 3 races
1st Hedonism            7.75
2nd Cool Runnings   10.5
3rd Run A Muk           11
4th Adrenalin              12
5th Bahai                    15
6th Sunmaid               18
7th Swankey               20
7th The Lemon           20
9th Xtsea                   23
10th Sunsail               26

Next week is the final week of the Bill ‘W’ Rogers series and the Rogers
family will be flying up to Hammo to present the trophy, so a big turnout of
boats and friends would be good.

I look forward to seeing you on the water.

Keith Logan
Commodore
CYCHI

Thought for the week
‘Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without
forgetting.’

Good morning fellow sailors,

The Fantasea Cruises club championship race 5 and Bill ‘W’ Rogers series
race 1 got underway with a light Nor’easter testing the fleet as they fought
their way towards Henning island. Some great duels occurred with Cool
Runnings and The Lemon crossing tacks whilst Hedonism and Adrenalin put the
squeeze on each other.
The Lasers where out on the track for the first time and the four boats
enjoyed some close racing on their own course around Plum Pudding and a Dent
Island mark. Two races, two winners.
The combined start with the smaller boats starting at 5.15 and the larger
boats at 5.25 was voted as the preferred starting method so will continue
for October. The Lasers will start their first race at 5.20.

Bill ‘W’ Rogers Race 1
1st Cool Runnings
2nd The Lemon
3rd Run A Muk
4th Bahai
5th Hedonism
6th Adrenalin
7th Swanky
8th Protocol
9th Sunsail 1
10th Sunsail 2

The Lasers saw Chris Wallington win race 1 and Stuart Green win race 2 with
Johanna and Andie Saville winning both races in the 2 up division.

Post race saw another great turnout with around 50 sailors and friends
enjoying a steak, a beer and a laugh. Trevor Hewitt not only performed on
the water in The Lemon but performed brilliantly on the BBQ, rumour has it
he has been asked to expand his business to ‘Buggy and Bistro’…

It was great to see so many staff out enjoying the Wednesday evening
twilight sailing.

A reminder that on Monday night the CYCHI is hosting crews from Whitsunday,
Abel Point and Mackay sailing clubs prior to their start in Dent Passage on
Tuesday morning for the WORC series. We will run a BBQ and the bar from
around 6.30, it would be great to have our members join with them over a
quiet little drink.

I will be away sailing in Sydney next week, so have a good race next week
and I will update you in two weeks time.

Yours in sailing

Keith Logan
Commodore
CYCHI

Thought for the week
‘In order to be smart you have to allow for the possibility that you don’t
know everything.’