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Yachtyakka Club Profile

Our Club hosts various annual events such as the “Around Waiheke Yacht Race”, our annual Three Day Fishing Competition which is held in April each year. And our very popular annual Friday Fishing Competitions held over a number of weeks plus our Reel Girls Fishing Competition in February

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This issue of yactyakka is collected from

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East and Bays Courier

BYM News & Magazine

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Speedboat is entered!

Revised NOR for Royal Bermuda YC Anniversary Regatta posted

Early entry closes June 11 at 1700hrs. Late fee applies until 1200hrs June 25th.

Hamilton Bermuda June 8, 2008: A revised Notice of Race for the Royal Bermuda Yacht

Club Anniversary Regatta is now posted on http://www.rbyc.bm/Default.aspx?tabid=449

The two-race regatta is scheduled for June 27th with sailing in Bermuda’s Great Sound,

the Granaway Deep, Port Royal Bay and Hamilton Harbour. This is the largest offshore

race of the year in Bermuda.

The main changes from version 1 are that the rules for the race are the RRS with

Bermuda Sailing Association prescriptions rather than US and that only a standard IRC

Certificate is needed. An endorsed rating certificate is still required for entries in the

Onion Patch Series. Onion Patch entries must enter all three events and the series. They

must race all three events of the series with the same rating.

Individual yachts over 25 feet LWL are invited to enter the Bermuda regatta whether they

are in the Onion Patch Series or not. All local and visiting boats are invited to enter. Early

entry closes June 11 at 1700hrs. A late fee applies until 1200hrs June 25th. Individual

entries for the RBYC Anniversary Regatta shall be made on either the RBYC

(www.rbyc.bm) or the New York Yacht Club (www.nyyc.org) websites or on Entry

Forms available at the RBYC Duty Desk / Sailing Office after the race from Newport.

Close to 140 boats in the Newport Bermuda Race are eligible to race under both ORR and

IRC for the new North Rock Beacon Trophy awarded for first place on corrected time in the

combined St. David’s and Gibbs Hill Divisions under IRC. To date about 40 of those will be

in the Onion Patch Series. Those boats that are not in the Onion Patch Series and qualify are

encouraged to enter the Anniversary Regatta and enjoy some fine Bermuda sailing, too.

The final stage of the Onion Patch Series moved to Bermuda in 1994 when the club

celebrated its sesquicentennial with the first Anniversary Regatta. Since 2000 the Onion

Patch series has averaged 38 entries with a high of 48 in 2006. This year the yacht club

hopes to focus on the Anniversary Regatta, drawing from all of the boats sailing in from

Newport and all local boats holding valid IRC certificates to expand the entries.

Entry is available now through June 25th. Go to the Anniversary Regatta web site to

you decide to enter the Anniversary Regatta at the last minute, you may fill out a form

available at the Newport Bermuda Duty Desk at the RBYC by Wednesday June 25th.

For more information, go to www.rbyc.bm

Direct all Media and Press inquiries to Talbot Wilson • Talbot Wilson & Associates, Inc.

US Cel: +1 (850)217-7138 email: talbot@bermudarace.com

Bermuda Cel (June 21-30) +1 441 777 SAIL (7245)

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Yachtyakka Young Sailor Profile

Andrew the optimist

“I lost my grip and fell over the front of the boat and got my foot caught up in the propeller,”

(OOOOOO that got a hurt!!!)

By Melanie Verran

This time last year Andrew McKenzie was in a wheelchair, recovering from a horrific accident in which he was millimetres away from losing his foot. Now the 12-year-old sailor is back on his feet and looking forward to competing in Turkey as part of the New Zealand optimist team at the world sailing championships in July. Andrew was selected for the team last year but had to give up his place after an accident at the end of the summer in which he fell out of an inflatable boat. “I lost my grip and fell over the front of the boat and got my foot caught up in the propeller,” he says. “I thought I was going to drown.” His brother Sam, 14, jumped in to help him. Andrew says his foot looked like “raw meat”. The propeller had sliced it open from one side to the other, severing tendons and breaking the five main bones leading to his toes. “The end of his foot was literally left dangling,” mum Carolyn says. What followed was two weeks in Starship and Middlemore hospitals, six weeks in a wheelchair and another six on crutches. Andrew was off school for most of term two. Five operations later, he has regained almost all movement in his left foot. After missing out on the world champs in Sardinia, the Sacred Heart College student was determined to reclaim his spot in this year’s optimist team and was back on the water in no time. He was invited to compete in the Bermuda junior world cup in October, fully funded by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. Within two weeks of returning home he was off again to Noumea for the New Caledonia national championships. In March, Andrew won the Auckland optimist championships and over Easter, placed third at the national championships in Christchurch, earning him a place in the world champs team. Despite losing three months to habilitation, Andrew improved his national placing from fifth last year. He is the youngest sailor in the team of five. Mrs McKenzie says he made a remarkable recovery. “He was so lucky he didn’t lose his foot,” she says. “He really, really wanted to get back into the world team.” Sailing is a large part of the Kohimarama family’s life, with Sam now racing 420s and younger sister Olivia, 9, also learning to sail. Now the McKenzies and Andrew’s teammates are fundraising for the three week trip to Turkey.

Funds raised will also help the optimist team competing at the North American championships in Curacao.

For more information email Carolyn at the.mckenzies@paradise.net.nz.

Photos and story courtesy East and Bays Courier

Lead sponsor for the NZ World Optimist Team is NZ Yachting Trust

Go hard young man, we will follow the team with interest.

Opps

Keep Smiling Larry, there is still a bigger cup out there

audi med cup round two goes to larry ellison

CONSOLATION CUP

Marseille offered fabulous race conditions to the 14 TP5’s that participated in the second round of the Audi MedCup. Strong winds, sunshine and a unique setting pointed to success and challenging shifts around the race course produced great tactical racing, while the coastal race to picturesque Cassis, was set against one of the most stunning, rocky backdrops in the Mediterranean. It all made for an exciting and challenging regatta, with three boats being eliminated from racing due to collision damage at the first mark of Thursday’s coastal race, which resulted in two being subsequently disqualified.
After Saturday racing was abandoned, due to high winds, USA-17 was declared the winner. The brand new boat, owned and sometimes helmed by Larry Ellison, gave the billionaire a trophy to hold in the air, even if it wasn’t the one he really covets. USA-17 will now be retired to allow the BMW Oracle sailors to focus on the America’s Cup Deed of Gift match.

The sheer size of them must, surely, make it difficult anyway?

JS. Yes, it will and it’s going to be difficult to cross someone once you’re on the same tack. You have to get so far forward, because the tack wasn’t so great, or the gybe wasn’t and that’s why you don’t want to get into a dial up.

So what are we going to see, in terms of the differences in tactics?

JS. Well, for one I think you aren’t going to see the bow on stern racing that we’re used to seeing in the monohulls. You won’t see that, but what you are going to see is boats going extremely fast and a lot of separation. Boats may be coming together, but they’ll want to accelerate away quickly, maybe coming back together, but I think people simply won’t be used to seeing the amount of separation that we’ll see with these things.

Won’t that make it boring for the spectators?

JS. Potentially it could mean two things. It could mean that it’ll be exciting just watching a boat sail, because it’s so fast. From a racing point of view, for the people that have really been into the racing and enjoyed the tactical side; yes, it won’t be the same as what they’re used to.

You mentioned that they would be slow to gybe, as well as tack, but a lot of people seem to think these things are going to gybe very fast?

More here

Jezz, hardly a skiff in sight.

10 June

Earthrace has successfully completed her emergency repairs and sea trials in Singapore. She left ONEo15 Marina at 8.30pm local, still 1,500nm ahead of the current world record, despite the three day stop over. Her ETA in Cochin, India, is Friday 13th June. Huge thanks from all the crew for the fantastic support shown here and online. A small miracle occurred indeed!

EARTHRACE NEWSROOM

Daily updates on the world record attempt are posted to the Earthrace Newsroom and to the Captain's blog

Find out in real time exactly where Earthrace is on the planet live with our global tracker.

Auckland - Fiji Fleet Approach Halfway

With the leaders heading into light winds its time for the caravans to make a charge,

de dump de da.

More here

Basic Flying Rules:

Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the

edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of

ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more

difficult to fly there.

Racing Division - Startes 1200hrs Saturday 31 May 2008

1 Systems Thunder 334 89.6 7.5 86.6 498.4 26 12s 176 25e

2 Pussy Galore 326 86.5 7.2 76.9 511.0 26 18s 175 32e

3 Ran Tan II 348 84.1 7.0 83.5 511.7 26 19s 175 34e

4 Wired 355 81.3 6.8 81.3 511.9 26 20s 175 39e

5 Lion New Zealand 334 80.4 6.7 76.7 525.4 26 36s 175 55e

6 Carrera 333 92.1 7.7 88.3 525.8 26 39s 176 19e

7 V5 339 69.5 5.8 65.6 527.5 26 29s 175 02e

8 Revs 348 88.1 7.3 87.9 533.8 26 45s 175 59e

9 O'Sinnerman 345 84.0 7.0 83.8 534.0 26 48s 176 29e

10 Lightspeed 344 97.0 8.1 96.7 536.4 26 51s 176 38e

11 Go 350 84.3 7.0 84.3 539.3 26 54s 176 40e

12 Bullrush 346 88.0 7.3 87.7 540.9 26 53s 176 07e

13 Satellite Spy 14 102.8 8.6 93.3 541.6 26 57s 176 56e

14 Bird On The Wing 340 89.4 7.5 87.8 544.8 26 57s 176 07e

15 Elysium 347 96.1 8.0 95.9 551.8 27 05s 176 17e

16 Bodacious 356 81.4 6.8 80.7 575.9 27 31s 176 47e

17 Young At Heart 348 59.1 4.9 59.0 632.7 28 25s 176 03e

18 Fulmar 333 84.0 7.0 79.6 646.4 28 37s 175 46e

19 Super Severance 340 88.4 7.4 86.0 656.5 28 45s 175 28e

20 Cellini 343 87.0 7.3 86.3 656.8 28 49s 176 00e

21 Skiddy Too 343 82.1 6.8 81.2 665.5 28 57s 175 53e

22 Ph Plus Nothing heard from vessel (but still you can view on tracplus)

You’ve have Beeeeeeeeen

Thunder Struck

I hope Brian can see what we can see

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