Annual Report 2011-2012.pdf - Lane Cove 12ft Sailing Skiff Club

Lane Cove 12ft Sailing Skiff ClubCLASS REPORTS12 foot SkiffsThe number of registered boats slightly reduced to15 for the season, although unfortunately thenumber of boats that actually competed at somestage was a total of 12. The average number ofcompetitors was six, and ranged from as few asthree and up to nine. Once more the adage that tohave a chance at accumulating enough points towin the pointscore you need to compete in all theraces, which was again proven as Vantage RealEstate (Jack Winning and Brett Phillips)competed in all races that counted and so won theHandicap Pointscore for the David “Big Kite”Stephens Memorial Trophy.Although no one could complain that it is gettingboring, again the Club Championship was takenout by Gemmell Sails (Murray Press and BenGemmell). This was achieved via three wins(although due to a dancing related injury toMurray – now known as ‘twinkle toes’, the finalheat win required the contribution from son Nick).Second was Lincoln Crowne (Jonathan Templeand Richard Jones) who were quite consistent inWill Oxby and Ian Goodman on PennyLisstheir results and third was Skӧll (Peter Polec andJamie McCrudden) who had some variableresults, ranging from two non-finishes to a wininvolving being the only boat to finish within therace time limit. Unfortunately there were half theregistered boats that didn’t compete in enoughraces to qualify for the Club Championship finalplacings. The Fastest Time Pointscore for theHindsight II Trophy was also again won byGemmell Sails, with Skӧll placed second some33 points behind and third was Vantage RealEstate.The Interdominion Silasec Trophy series returnedto Auckland this season, after the great successof our hosting of it in 2011. Unfortunately due tounavailability of some crews, contributed to by theevent commencing rather early on 30 December,only four boats were sent from Australia. The twoboats that attended from Lane Cove involvedsome different crew combinations, beingWinners of the Dave “Big Kite” Stephens Memorial Trophy for the12ft Skiff Handicap Pointscore Jack Winning and Brett Phillips inVantage Real EstateSkoll sailed by Peter Polec and Jamie McCrudden third overall inthe Club Championship.www.LC12ftSSC.org.au Page 11