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Postby benn » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:28 pm


l'hydroptere, 60' hydrofoil trimaran, clocked at 39kts. Look like the sort of thing Klingons would sail.
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Waterskiing, anyone?
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Postby atefooterz » Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:39 pm


great post thanks Benn - sorry i did not see this flagged earlier..
Tri action - yummm :D
"now 4 sumthing completely different ............ "
autumn light filters onto the skiffs nearing the end of the season :D
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Postby atefooterz » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:41 pm


There was movement at the station...
well a series of Americas Cup "Acts"
in Sweden about to take place :D
http://www.americascup.com/en/


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Postby atefooterz » Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:29 am


From
http://www.skiff.org.au/

Yabba Dabba Takes Out Round 1 of the Garde Series.
1st : Yabba Dabba - Nick Press & Brad Yabsley
2nd : Garde - Brett Hobson & Alex Johnson
3rd : Gemmell Sails - Murray Press & Ben Gemmell

If you are not convinced that the 12 footer is Australia's most spectacular skiff, then you were not part of the 1st Garde Skiff Series show on Sunday. You didn't see the amazing rides, the skiff's jumping clean out of the water and the spectacular crashes that were all part of Round 1. If you were a sailor and you have not raced a 12 on a day like Garde Round 1, you just haven't sailed.

Sydney Harbour provided a thrilling setting for the first races of the series. A fierce Westerly gusted over thirty knots and the usually busy section of water South of Bradley's Head emptied for the show.

The spectators on the ferry were treated to tight racing on the short course, boats often charging past the floating grandstand in packs of three and four, hulls clean out of the water.

And for the sailors, it was an unbelievable feeling, on the edge of control or completely out of it, for three of the hardest short course races you could imagine. In one of the most concise speeches ever heard, Billy Olsen described the day as "Fun and scary, both at the same time".

The first race was won by heavy air guru Michael Bochner in the Gizmo. Boc and crew Cameron McDonald had to fight hard to beat Brett Hobson and Alex Johnson in the Garde, and Interdominion Champ Nick Press and Brad Yabsley in Yabba Dabba.

Minutes after the last boat finished the first race, the second race began. During the work to the top mark, the wind kicked again. Murray Press and Ben Gemmell in Gemmell Sails survived long enough to cross the line as the first legal boat to claim the gun. Michael Bochner did cross the line in Gizmo first but unfortunately left his crew behind. Jonathan Temple and Richard Jones in O beat Yabba Dabba for second place as McDonald was returned to the Gizmo by a rescue boat.

The third race saw Interdomion Champ Nick Press take the race and the round. Bocco scored a second but his DNF in race two saw him finish behind Garde and Gemmell Sails in the overall.

Huge thanks to Gary and Christine Hobson and all those who helped put the Garde series on the water. Thanks to the sponsors for there support and those who got along to see it, also to David and Lease Speck on the start boat, Paul for his commentary and Chuck and Ed Blackman in the rescue boat.

Your next chance is Round 2 of the series on the 30th October at the Sydney Flying Squadron. Ferry departs about 1.45pm.

Ben Faulkner

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Postby atefooterz » Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:39 pm


Another Week another event - this time a new replica 18 foot Skiff is welcomed into the fleet with the help of Hon Sandra Nori MP, NSW State Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation & The Monkhouse Family and friends.
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Postby atefooterz » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:42 pm


"That time of the year is back .. (Sept) soo to kick off the Season
some 1991 ate foot skiff retro June near Tamworth ....
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Postby atefooterz » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:09 pm


from http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MATES
Newport, Rhode Island, Monday, September 26th, 1983 at 17:20…The moment
when the United States lost the America’s Cup. Today marks the 23rd
anniversary of Australia II’s legendary victory. “All I can say is
‘Mate’. That is the very finest Australian saying. And all the summer
it’s been ‘check’ to the New York Yacht Club, to the British, to Dennis,
or whatever it was. We were playing chess with them. ‘Check, Check,
Check, Check’. And today we say ‘Mate’!”

Twenty-three years later, it is difficult to imagine a better summary of
the 25th America’s Cup than the words spoken by Warren Jones, the
executive director of the Australian syndicate, on Monday evening,
September 26th, 1983 at Newport, just moments after Australia II KA-6,
had beaten Liberty US-40, to secure the America’s Cup for Australia.
After three attempts, Alan Bond had just put an end to 132-years of
American supremacy. For the Australians, it was a culmination of over
one decade of attempts at the Cup, resulting in a dream team of highly
motivated sailors, led by skipper John Bertrand and sailing a
brilliantly innovative Ben Lexcen designed 12-metre. -- America’s Cup
website, to read the rest of the story of that dramatic AC series:
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Postby atefooterz » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:07 am


The Mistake - shy and airbourne .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5QkZbGfO24

Australia - after being rammed by some crazy plastic boat yachtties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibh6cERKTc

The Moths 2006 World Champs Heat 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cDE_KM17VM


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Postby atefooterz » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:27 pm


Seppos Rub it In ..20 Years Later

"Twenty years ago tonight, Dennis Conner and his crew began a magical and momentous America's Cup finals sweep of the Aussies Boating
By Bill Center
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
January 30, 2007

Throughout the race, the skipper, as was his practice, had said little.

But after taking a glance up the mainsail upon rounding the final mark, Dennis Conner looked forward and told his crew to look sharp.



Advertisement “Guys,” said Conner, “This is the last leg of the America's Cup.”
The date was Feb. 4, 1987 – actually Feb. 3 back in the United States – and the place was a treacherous patch of water off Fremantle, Western Australia, called the Gates Roads.

The event was one of the greatest achievements ever by a team representing San Diego, the climax of Stars & Stripes' four-race sweep of Australian defender Kookaburra III in the America's Cup.

The finals actually started 20 years ago this evening in a race that capped Conner's long climb back from the most ignominious defeat in the history of competitive sailing in the United States.

In the fall of 1983, Conner became the first American skipper to lose the America's Cup, in a seven-race battle with the technically advanced and faster wing-keeled challenger Australia II.

Rebuffed by New York Yacht Club in his attempt to reclaim the Auld Mug for the organization that had owned the America's Cup for 132 years, native San Diegan Conner decided to launch his own challenge out of San Diego Yacht Club.

“We started from scratch and built a champion,” Conner would say years later.

“Nothing before or since compares with the magic of that time,” Bill Trenkle said recently while reflecting upon the Stars & Stripes victory in Australia.

“It's hard to imagine the America's Cup will ever be that big again. All the elements came together.”

The America's Cup of 1986-87 was a watershed event.

“When you consider the circumstances, the personalities involved, the sailing conditions and the exposure ... it would be all but impossible to duplicate the scenario,” continued Trenkle, who was one of the dozen Stars & Stripes crewmen.

Before Australia II's stunning victory off Newport, R.I., in 1983, the America's Cup was basically an event followed by sailing purists. Conner received little attention from the mainstream media for trouncing Australia with Freedom in the 1980 defense.

But in 1987, the eyes of the United States focused on Western Australia. So did, for the first time, television cameras, including those placed on the competitors themselves.

Not only was the U.S. going to Australia to reclaim its Cup, so were viewers from around the world.

And if that alone weren't enough, the weather conditions – near-gale-force winds whipping, steep seas that seemed to roll unchecked over thousands of miles of the Indian Ocean – turned sailing one of the venerable 12-meter sloops into an extreme sport.

Plus, the participants were at each other's throats throughout the preliminaries. The top Aussie defense rivals, Alan Bond and Kevin Parry, hated one another. And things weren't much more amicable on the challenger side.

Conner charged New Zealand's one-of-a-kind fiberglass 12 meter to be in violation of the international class rules. And one half of the challenger semifinals was a heated showdown between American arch-rivals Conner and Tom Blackaller of San Francisco.

Great theater.

Overnight ratings soared on ESPN. And we mean overnight. The races started at 8:30 p.m. in San Diego and after the nightly news on the East Coast.

“We'd get letters from farmers in Iowa who were watching us in the early hours of the morning,” recalled Trenkle. “It was stunning.”

So were Stars & Stripes' results.

After a slow start in October's preliminary trials, Conner's boat and crew gained momentum as the trials ground on in November and December and peaked just as the semifinals began after Christmas.

Stars & Stripes was designed to be at its best in the heavier conditions of the late Australian summer – and it delivered.

After eliminating the Kiwis in five races in the best-of-seven semifinals, Conner's crew was matched against Parry's Kookaburra III, a sloop designed and skippered by Iain Murray.

One of my favorite memories of Fremantle was the look on Bruce Nelson's face as the Stars & Stripes co-designer returned to Conner's compound from the unveiling of the Aussie defender.

Nelson headed straight for his computer and found a design with lines almost identical to those of Kookaburra. It had been a design that the Stars & Stripes team considered – and rejected.

“Either this is very good news or very bad news,” said Nelson.

It was great news.

Neither the Aussie boat nor its crew was a match for Conner's entry.

Over a five-day span, Stars & Stripes won four straight races by margins ranging from 70 seconds to a second shy of two minutes in the finale.

Conner and his crew flew home as national heroes. After being saluted in San Diego, the team headed en masse to a White House meeting with President Reagan before heading to New York for a ticker-tape parade.

Later this week, members of Conner's championship team will meet at SDYC for a reunion that will include members of the support staff as well as the “Mushrooms” from the backup crew.

In addition to Conner, the crew consisted of tactician Tom Whidden, navigator Peter Isler, mainsheet trimmer Jon Wright, tailers Trenkle and Adam Ostenfeld, bowman Scott Vogel, pitman Jay Brown, mastman John Barnitt and grinders Kyle Smith, Jim Kavle and Henry Childers.

Yes, there is an America's Cup this year. Switzerland will be defending in Spain against a fleet that includes one American entry (Oracle-BMW).

But it's no longer the event it was in Australia 20 years ago.

It never will be again. "

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Postby atefooterz » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:25 pm


2 new replica skiffs hit the water last week ready for the Centennary Of 18 Ft Skiff Racing Series next Sat Thursday 4pm & Final the Sat after.
SPECIAL $10 Ferry Tickets mean the cheapest 2hour Harbour Cruise!!

www.sydneyflyingsquadron.com.au

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