Racing & PHRF National Championships

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

Entries

Remember, get your entries in before the end of January and save $50!

Regatta Polo Shirts

Regatta Polo Shirts are available!! Grey cotton polo shirt, in sizes ranging from XS to 2XL.

• Polo Shirt with Regatta logo = $35
• Polo Shirt with Regatta logo and boat name = $40**

Orders for Polo Shirts available by pre-order (online) or on Thursday night during registration.

**Note: Polo Shirts with boat names added are only available by pre-order by 3 February. Delivery on Friday night - please collect from the end of the bar.

Click here to order.

Prohibition Party

The Regatta party on Saturday night kicks of with Happy Hour at 5pm. The theme is Prohibition, with prizes for best costume and best dressed crew up for grabs. So get your costumes sorted now! Think 1920's, gangsters, rumrunners and bootlegging. Think Al Capone and Bugsy Malone.

A little about the Prohibition and Rumrunning...

Prohibition of alcohol is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.

Rum-running is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where Prohibition laws are in force. The term 'rum-running' was often applied to those smuggling alcohol over water. One of the most famous periods of rumrunning began in the US began on January 16 1920, when the 18th Amendment came into effect. The prohibition period lasted until December 1933 when the 18th Amendment was repealed.

During the Prohibition in the US, ships smuggled Carribbean rum from the Bahamas to Speakeasies in Florida. What is a Speakeasy? An establishment that would sell alcoholic beverages illegally.

The Prohibition period also saw an increase in organised crime in the US. Gansters such as Al Capone, and Lucky Luciano made fortunes by supplying the speakeasies throughout the country with illegal alcohol. Successful gangsters could often be identified by their guns, silk suits and expensive jewellery.

Saucy Sausage Wins 2011 Port Nicholson Regatta

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."

Champagne Sailing

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