Bright sunny skies & good wind greet racers on second day of Sailor’s Regatta
Photography by Scott Murray
The second day of the seventh annual Sailor’s Regatta, organized by the Phuket Yacht Club, saw PRO Matt McGrath run two races starting at noon. The first race saw all boats race to the top mark from the start, then back to Koh Bon keeping it to port, before heading back to the top mark and then back to the finish. The second race saw the multihulls compete in a very shifty three-lap windward-leeward, while the monohulls sailed two laps of the same windward-leeward course.
John Newnham’s Twin Sharks won both races in the two-boat multihull racing class with Andrew McDermott’s trimaran Trident coming in second in both races. When the OMR performance handicap was applied, Twin Sharks still came out top of the class in both races.
Likewise, the placings were identical in both races in the multihull class today (races three & four in the series). Wily Niels Degenkolw, and his X-Ton Phoenix, won both races today in the multihull class with Vitaly Plaskin’s Wind of Change coming in second twice, Kirill Stanshevskly’s Lastochka coming in third twice and Mark Stennett’s Madam finishing fourth twice.
The 15-ton Madam, a 70-ft sloop, designed, built and shipped from the UK, continued to draw oohs and aahs as it gracefully moved through the water.
And a big shout to Brendan Kealy for supplying the camera boat as well as Khun Jib and all her crew at the Phuket Yacht Club for keeping the sailors well-fed and refreshed.
The regatta,took place from Friday March 21st – Sunday March 23rd, in the waters of Ao Chalong, in front of the host Phuket Yacht Club and sunny skies are predicted throughout the regatta with strong enough wind that PRO McGrath was able to get everyone off on their scheduled start time.
Colin Wright kindly supplied his catamaran Swift to be the start boat for days two and three or racing, and some PYC stalwarts who weren’t racing themselves jumped on board to enjoy the racing. Matt McGrath had supplied his boat, the modified Adrenalin, for the first start.
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