Race Results
Oceanburo SB 3 Queensland States 2009 Overall Results
1 Kai Timm (23)
2 Lauren Calder (36) countback
3 Troy Forrest (36)
4 Phil Gray (45)
5 Mike McLean (64)
6 Vic Devonshire (67)
7 Max Roberts (72)
Oceanburo SB 3 States Oct/Nov09 Part 2 part of Sail Brisbane 2009
1 AUS3389 Phillip Gray 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 (5)
2 A4 Kai Timm 3.00 4.00 2.00 2.00 3.00 (14)
3 AUS3356 Troy Forrest 2.00 5.00 3.00 4.00 2.00 (16)
4 AUS3353 Lauren Calder 4.00 3.00 4.00 3.00 4.00 (18)
5 Q5 Michael McLean 7.00F 2.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 (24)
6 AUS3352 Mark Prince 7.00F 6.00 6.00 7.00F 6.00 (32)
Oceanburo Mini Regatta Mooloolaba Oct/Nov09 Part 1 Qld SB 3 States
1 A4 Oceanburo TT Kai Timm 1/1/1/1/1/1/2/1 (9)
2 AUS3308 ASG Lauren Calder 2/2/3/2/3/3/1/2 (18)
3 AUS3356 Black Rat Troy Forrest 3/3/2/3/2/2/3/2 (20)
4 AUS3381 A6 Vic Devonshire 4/4/4/4/4/4/4/4 (32)
OCEANBURO SB 3 Mini Regatta Mooloolaba October 09
1 A4 Oceanburo TT Kai Timm 1/1/1/5/3/1/4 (16)
2 AUS 3387 Dulon Phil Gray 2/4/2/1/2/6/1 (18)
3 AUS 3381 Oceanburo A6 David Bigger 4/3/4/3/1/2/3 (20)
4 AUS 3380 Audi Sunshine Girls Lauren Calder 3/2/3/2/5/3/2 (20)
5 AUS 3384 SB Tree Mark Wolfenden 5/6/6/4/4/4/5 (34)
6 AUS 3356 Black Rat Troy Forrest 6/5/5/DNF/DNS/DNS/DNS (40)
OCEANBURO SB 3 Mini Regatta Mooloolaba July 09
1 Oceanburo A4 TT SB3 Kai Timm 7
2 AUS3384 Charter 1 SB3 Dean Joel 17
3 AUS3380 Audi Sunshine Girls SB3 Morgan Stanton 19
4 AUS3381 Wagop SB3 Michael McLean 29
5 AUS3383 Black Rat Troy Forrest 37
OCEANBURO SB 3 Mini Regatta Mooloolaba May 09
1 AUS3389 Dulon SB3 Phil Gray 6
2 AUS3357 WAGOP SB3 Michael McLean 12
3 AUS3384 A6 SB3 Geoff Wilson 15
4 AUS3380 Audi Sunshine Girls SB3 Lauren Calder 18
5 AUS3352 Dart Vader SB3 Mark Prince 23
6 AUS3383 Oceanburo SB3 Kai Timm 26
7 AUS3381 Oxy1 SB3 Gary White 28
8 AUS3364 Tasqua Youth SB3 Joel McAllansmith 37
OCEANBURO SB 3 Mini Regatta Mooloolaba March 09
OCEANBURO
SB3 Mini Regatta Mooloolaba March 09
The morning after the 505 Nationals presentation night, I had a red eye flight to Queensland’s Sunshine Coast for a bit of business and some more sailing. Whilst up there, I crashed at Phil Gray’s place. Phil is a guy I have raced against a bit in 5oh’s and had a lot of laughs with. Phil’s idea of fixing a hangover is to make rum punch’s. As a result, there were some interesting conversations that night, especially when he said he had just brought an SB3 and there was a regatta in a few weeks.
“Do you want to do it”? “Yep”! “Who else should we get”? “Fritz”! “Lets do it”! A quick phone call to Fritz (Rob Duessen, the bloke I spend most of my time sailing with), a quick phone call to our sponsors, the Commonwealth Bank for some airfares and we were on.
The week before the regatta, I am on the phone to Michael Quirk (Quirkles) about the San Francisco 505 Worlds and I am scanning the internet for SB3 info as we are chatting, (I didn’t know anything about how to sail them) turns out Quirkles had just won a regatta in Sydney in SB3’s.
“Hey Quirkles, looks like you are the man in SB3’s here in Oz”! “Oh yea, hey they were fun”. “You know me and Fritz are off to Ugly Phils place to do a regatta in them, grab a boat and come up”. “Cool”!
So we rock up to the Sunshine Coast, (the home of SB3’s in Oz, Oceanburo is based there) and it’s gray and rainy, but it’s wind on. We got there on the Friday and went for a practice in about 15kn and some big swell. Managed to trawl the kite on each set, but had some hooting rides. We loved it. They are simple little boats, 650kg all up, 350kg in the bulb. Everything is laid out right and it mostly works, There are a few cleats I would like to change and the jib sets up funny, (the leech hangs well open, so you need to keep them up the wire), but they are great to sail. Uphill, they feel a little like an Etchell, but with a rudder that works and is light and downhill, they feel like a big stable dinghy. There is plenty of kite, a lot for this size boat, so when the pressure is on, if you are not balanced and quick on the trim and helm, you will broach.
Day 1 was four races in 20k+kn with some big swells. There were some good teams out. Quirkles and his boys, Mike and Loch McLean, and a couple of boats who had been campaigning for a while including Kai Timm and his team, and the Sunshine Coast Girls who had added big Sam Heritage to their foursome (Sam was placed second at the 505 Nat’s).
We had been told you didn’t use traveller much on these as the sheet was quicker to respond. We decided to setup with a low drag shape and keep it simple and just play traveller and backstay. We pulled the jib cars out a little and went up the wire with the jib util we got a shape we were happy with, without too much blow back on the main. Off the start, we seemed ok, the chicks were on it, as was Quirkles and Kai Timms team. There was bugger all in it uphill and it became all about shifts and positioning. We laid in just in front of the chicks at the top mark, nailed the hoist, (I had worked out the process to prevent trawling by now) and shot off at full plane with spray going everywhere. We had a blast. We zoomed back uphill and downhill again to the finish for the win, holding out the chicks (who sailed the crap out of their boat) and Kai.
The second race, we tried sailing like we were told to and came fourth. Quirkles smoked it taking the win, as did the chicks with another second. The third race, we went back to the setip we thought worked and had another win in front of the chicks, (again). The final race, Quirkles was flying. We threw plenty at him, but couldn’t get him. At the end of the day, we lead with 9 points, from Quirkles and the chicks on 11 points and Kai with 12 points.
Day 2 was windier20-25kn+, but it looked like 50kn on the water. A ship had dropped a lot of fuel oil in the water the week before and the whole coast was being cleaned up from the contamination. So with the wind, we were getting lots of trails of oily spume on the water, like you get when the wind goes over 50kn. So they set us closer to shore, in flatter water, but still with plenty of swell.
Race 5 we had a nice plan, get right early. We stuffed our start and with everyone having the same plan as us, we were pretty quickly the left most boat. We took a big knock, rolled onto port and it stayed left. We crossed the fleet and kept going. Kai was next boat left and came second from the chicks. Quirkles executed our plan perfectly and ended fourth.
The next race the chicks took the lead with a great start and great tactics and we were second till the last set on the run, when we broached. Kai got in front of us, but we went back over the top of him and gybed off. Coming into the line, he hooked a monster swell and slid over the top of us for second.
The final race, we had another poor start. Quikles lead and we rounded fourth or fifth or sixth??? We gybed early into a line and pushed it hard downhill. Coming into the bottom mark, we got inside position on Quirkles and rounded into the lead. It was close, it was messy. There were half packed kites and boats everywhere. We cleaned up and cleared out and looked back to see Quirkles and the boys wrapped in the committee boats anchor line, with Kai and his team wedged up between him and the committee boat, with Kai’s still extended bowsprit swinging through Quirkles cockpit taking people out. Disaster. From there it was a cruise to the finish.
By then the committee had, had enough and we were done. We had an absolute ball, hanging with mates, some good sailing and plenty of stories. They may not be the fastest sport boat around, but being one design, the racing is close and exciting and the size of the kite keeps you on your toes in the pressure. It’s hard to make gains on these things, so the starts are crucial as is crew work. A good kite set can make you 100m. I will be back.
A big thanks to the boys at Dulon Polish for providing the boat and the Commonwealth bank for making it happen.
Jfunk
Final results
1st AUS 3387 Dulon Gray/Deussen/Spencer 13pts
2nd AUS3384 Audi Sunshine Girls Calder/Hacker/Heritage/Stanton 17pts
3rd AUS3383 Oceanburo Timm/Bird/Annear 19 pts
4th AUS 3357 Wagop Quirk/Mclean/Mclean 24 pts
5th AUS 3381 Dulon B Wilson/Dunshea/Muyt
6th AUS TT Audi TT / McAllansmith/Black/McAllansmith
7th AUS 3380 White/Calder/Young
Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta 2009
1 Q5 WAGOP Michael Quirk
2 3358 NEWCASTLE YACHTING Stephen Mackay
3 TT OCEANBURO Kai Timm
4 A3 Tom Rosoman
5 3102 MARINE TECH ELECTRON Mark Long
6 3382 AUS 3382 Gavin Chappell
7 A5 AUDI SUNSHINE GIRLS Lauren Calder
8 3352 DART VADER Mark Prince
9 3354 WHISTLING KITE Greg James
Skandia Geelong Week 2009
1 AUS3384 HOME TEAM Brendan Garner
2 AUS3393 TBA Tom Rosoman MSC
3 AUS3383 OCEANBURO Kai Timm MDSC/NYRC
4 AUS3386 TBA Murray Howson PRSC
5 GBR3356 JIMINY CRICKET Tim Mike Harrison ISC
6 AUS3380 AUDI SUNSHINE GIRLS Lauren Calder MDSC
7 AUS3381 WAGOP Michael McLean SYC
8 AUS3352 DART VADER Mark Prince NCYC
9 AUS3358 NEWCASTLE YACHTING Stephen Mackay NCYC
10 AUS3354 WHISTLING KITE Greg James MYC
11 AUS3390 CLAAKA Graham Eaton SYC
Sail Brisbane 2008- SB3 Queensland Championships
Final Placing:
- AUS 3383 Sarah Palin Safaris Warwick Heath 15pts
- AUS 3383 Oceanburo Kai Timm 22pts
- AUS 3352 Claaka Joe Akacich 24pts
- AUS 3364 Tasqua Youth Levi Curtis 28pts
- AUS 3391 Audi Centre Sunshine Coast Sean O'Rourke 31pts
- AUS 3380 Sunshine Coast Audi Girls Lauren Calder 39pts
- AUS 3391 Audi Centre Sunshine Coast Rod Jones 50pts
2008 AUDI CENTRE SUNSHINE COAST QUEENSLAND MATCH CHAMPIONSHIPS
MOOLOOLABA 2008
FINAL PLACINGS FOR PLACINGS
- OCEANBURO Sean O’Rourke
- WOT CHICKS Katie Spithill
- ALLYACHT SPARS Luke Johnson
- TEAM EDAKE David Chapman
- JEANNEAU Phil Gray
- TEAM NOOSA Kai Timm
- TASQUA YOUTH Ryan Palk
- RQ YOUTH Curtiss Skinner
- TEAM MORIARTY Nick Moriarty
- WAGOP Lachlan McLean
- TEAM RQ Suellen Hurling
- SHAKE N BAKE Jack Sweep
- MEXICAN BANANAS Callum Burns
- AUDI SUNSHINE GIRLS Lauren Calder
FINAL PLACINGS FOR YOUTH DIVISION
- OCEANBURO
- TASQUA YOUTH
- RQ YOUTH
- TEAM MORIARTY
- SHAKE N BAKE
FINAL PLACINGS FOR WOMEN’S DIVISION
- WOT CHICKS
- AUDI SUNSHINE GIRLS