The Extra Class Association of South Africa » Photos http://extrasailing.com Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:30:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Port Owen River Race 2011 http://extrasailing.com/2011/01/port-owen-river-race-2011/ http://extrasailing.com/2011/01/port-owen-river-race-2011/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:57:15 +0000 Geoffrey http://extrasailing.com/?p=130 A number of Extras travelled to Port Owen at the weekend for the Port Owen River Race – great hospitality, interesting sailing on Sunday in the current & a blast on Saturday in the breeze!

Extra Class Results:
1st: Stephen du Toit
2nd: Markus Progli
3rd: Ian MacRobert
4th: Kevin Webb
5th: Alan Everett
6th: Keith Coleman
Wakeboarding: Steve Rogers…

The event was actually an interclub team event with the results worked out on a handicap system. The top 3 finishers per club were taken into account & in the end it was ZVYC, with 3 Extras (Stephen, Markus & Alan), beating VYC with 2 Extras & a Sonnet (Ian, Kevin, Jac van Ryswyk & Laurel Bramley), by 4 points.

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On the fourth Saturday of January we finally had some Extra sailing in Durban. Unfortunately due to numerous other commitments it wants only the third time this summer that we have managed to get the majority of our fleet out. Three of our four boats were on water.

We had four sailors though with Jof out from the UK for a bit of sun so we did a bit of boat swapping. As you can see from the pictures it was a scintillating day on the water with about 4 to 6 knots of wind and about 32° of temperature not to mention the humidity! Some new innovations we tested, most notably Andrew Tarboton’s new ‘Tarbofoils’ (patent pending). It is not clear to us if the foils are new or just a new colour, but it is clear that they are orange! It is also clear that although they are not necessarily any faster through the water they will ensure that the rescue boat sees and gets to you quickly, which leads us wonder what it is that Tarboton is worried about?

For the third and final race of the day Tarboton lent his boat to one of our Laser sailors with a view to converting him. The end result was a gybe mark tangle between the potential convert and other Laser resulting in a reasonably large hole in the side of Tarboton’s boat. The ‘Tarbofoils’ were however undamaged. Apparently the hole will be fixed by next Saturday when we hope to have more on the water action.

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Below are a couple of photos from the day, you can also see some by Craig Leslie here.

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Excellent organisation by the likes of Stephen du Toit and Ian MacRobert saw almost every local boat on the water, along with a number from Durban – resulting in an impressive 32 entries for the three day regatta shared with the 420 class.

Strong winds on day one gave way to a light wind regatta characterised by competitive, close races throughout the fleet with the leaderboard changing often, heavily contested mark roundings and no less than six different race winners. Consistency helped Gareth Blackenburg to win an impressive first position, while Ryann Collins beat Dave Rae to second by just one point. Just behind them were Stephen du Toit, Andrea Giovannini and Rick Nankin.

During the class AGM a commitment was made not to allow a return to the recent period of inactivity; the new committee is organising winter sailing in Simonstown and will be promoting specific regattas over the next year to build momentum for the next nationals. Cape sailors also plan to travel to Durban for a regatta there should their numbers grow as hoped.

Further information about these plans can be found on the new class website – www.extrasailing.com – and the committee can be contacted for help in getting involved in the class.

Download results.

This report was written for Sailing magazine.

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