Race results for the 2012 Port Nicholson Regatta:
Friday 10 February 2012
Saturday 11 February 2012
Sunday 12 February 2012
Series Results
Three notices to competitors have been issued:
The Club's Port Nic Café will be open from 0700 each morning of the regatta for breakfasts and coffee, and open during the day for anyone not racing that wants to come down to the club.
A menu includes but is not limited to: A Sailors Breakfast: Bacon, eggs, tomato, mushrooms, hash browns and toast; Homemade Muesli and Poached Fruit, served with Greek yoghurt; also, scones, slices,cakes, ... YUM! Full menu available at the Club.
A light meal will be available each night purchasable from the bar. Happy hour will also run each night with cheap Heinekens, wine and rum.
PROHIBITION PARTY Saturday 11 Feb
Don’t forget your feather boa, fedora, spats, tommy guns and wing tip shoes to dress up for the Prohibition Party on Saturday night.
Rum runners, flappers and bootleggers all welcome at the Royal Speakeasy from 5pm.
Prizes will be awarded for Best Costume and Best Dressed crew
A sports massage therapist will be available after racing on Sunday, set up at the far end of the Wardroom.
For $1 a minute you can ease those aching muscles to be ready to head back to work on Monday.
Chris Coad will be out taking photos of the racing on Friday and Saturday of the regatta.
These photos can be seen online at http://yachtshots.photoshelter.com
Downloads of files can be purchased from Chris's website.
Not long now until the Port Nicholson Regatta 2012 gets underway!
The PHRF Nationals will be sailed as part of the Port Nicholson Regatta 2012, with the intention to have two divisions. This year John and Linda Parrish will again be running some fantastic racing in Wellington Harbour. Having increased the number of races we intend to sail to nine, 2012 looks like it will be a fun and challenging event
Saucy Sausage (Herve le Goff) has been named the 2011 Port Nicholson Regatta Champion. Saucy Sausage won division C on both general handicap and PHRF and was considered by the race committee to be the best performer during the regatta.
Saucy Sausage has become the inaugural winner of the Ross Telford Memorial Trophy.
Regatta MC Paul Davies said: "My strongest memory of Ross was that he was always out on the water, no matter what the event, no matter what the weather. The winner of this trophy, as well as performing – and winning consistently throughout this weekend – does just as Doughy did – they are out sailing no matter what the race – no matter what the conditions – and giving it their all."
It was champagne sailing over three days on Wellington Harbour for the 2011 Port Nicholson Regatta. Sailors were treated to a combintaion of windward leeward racing and harbour courses in winds ranging from 10 to 20 knots.
In the A division the battle of the sports boats against the longer water line displacement keelboats was intriguing with the gains made by the keelbats upwind wiped out by the sports boats when they came to go downwind. Meanwhile racing was tight in the B division with less than a minute seperating the fleet at the bottom mark in many of the windward leeward courses. Then came the ultra competitive C Division which provided the eventual overall winner of the regatta - Saucy Sauasage.
After seven races places at the top of each fleet were very close with the following yachts taking out the podium in each division
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Division A General 1st Badonkadonk 2nd Magic Trick 3rd The Guarantee |
Division B General 1st CU 2nd Montego Bay III 3rd Cosmic Thing |
Division C General 1st Saucy Sausage 2nd Titus Canby 3rd After Midnight |
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Division A PRHF 1st The Guarantee 2nd Jive Talkin 3rd Nedax Racing |
Division B PHRF 1st Prime Mover 2nd Flying Fish 3rd Flying Machine |
Division C PHRF 1st Saucy Sausage 2nd After Midnight 3rd Porta Fortuna |
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Division B IRC 1st Prime Mover 2nd Flying Fish 3rd Blackfun |