SA DF95 State Championship
A fleet of nineteen boats competed in the 2024 SA DF95 State Championship at Harts Mill, Port Adelaide over the weekend of 23-24 November and including competitors from Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and the home state, South Australia.
Saturday Morning started out A rigs and light... Small sprinkle of rain and some breeze got skippers onto B rigs, stronger breeze was the feature through the middle with some rain skippers elected to stay on B rigs while thinking of Cs.
Then the later afternoon breeze softened for skippers to get on their A rigs while the rains held out in the late afternoon making for an awesome day of racing.
Conditions were such that a total of fifteen heats were sailed on day one.
Sunday started out with an hour of glass. The skippers took it apon themselves to distribute some knowledge between competitors, the stronger skippers helped tune and discuss elements with the newer skippers while the conditions were un-cooperative. Eventually the breeze filled in from the west and racing was resumed. That breeze eventually started to clock to the traditional south west, early lunch was called while the course was moved.
The southwest breeze remained for the rest of the event; giving the skippers champagne sailing with plenty to play for on the track using their A-Rigs.
2024 DF95 South Australian State champion was crowned!
Congratulations Mathew Gray (Risdon Brook RYC, TAS) 1st, Simon How 2nd (Adelaide Radio Control Yacht Racing Club, SA), Peter Turcich 3rd (Sailing@Lightsview, SA).
Regatta Medal (for hitting more marks and doing more turns than a DJ) went to Chris Ryan (Patterson Lakes RMYC, Vic)
Junior Medal Cameron White (14yo) (Sailing@Lightsview, SA) who had moments of glory running with the leaders... Bit more practice putting it all together at multi day regattas will help immensely in the future.
1st Master Mariner (over 65) Peter Newman (5th overall) (Patterson Lakes RMYC)
We must thank our volunteers who made this possible. Without them we wouldn't be able to host an event.. Graham Ingerson who did the event admin competitor drinks , registrations and scoring
Robert Cameron (Gully); Course setting and rescue Saturday
Timothy Paynter ; Course setting and rescue Sunday
Kerry White Helping with scoring.
We would like to thank the competitors as well, without you we wouldn't have an event either... Thankyou for tight competitive racing and keeping the battles on the water.
Results
| Pos | Name | Sail No. | Nett | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mat Gray | AUS 29 | 40.0 | 74.0 |
| 2 | Simon How | AUS 688 | 60.0 | 102.0 |
| 3 | Peter Turcich | AUS 48 | 84.8 | 135.8 |
| 4 | Andrew Donkin | AUS 514 | 93.0 | 150.0 |
| 5 | Peter Newman | AUS 63 | 99.0 | 161.0 |
| 6 | Erik Egglestone | AUS 385 | 101.0 | 142.0 |
| 7 | Danny James | AUS 562 | 118.0 | 198.0 |
| 8 | Chris Ryan | AUS 66 | 153.0 | 210.0 |
| 9 | Des Westlake | AUS 16 | 165.0 | 245.0 |
| 10 | Phil Downing | AUS 776 | 188.0 | 249.0 |
| 11 | Mark Stockhausen | AUS 759 | 192.0 | 251.0 |
| 12 | Steve Knights | AUS 69 | 195.0 | 253.0 |
| 13 | Bronte Flint | AUS 72 | 205.0 | 268.0 |
| 14 | Cameron White | AUS 278 | 230.0 | 310.0 |
| 15 | John Wyatt | AUS 36 | 269.0 | 349.0 |
| 16 | Chris Chatfield | AUS 183 | 272.0 | 344.0 |
| 17 | John Storer | AUS 831 | 313.0 | 393.0 |
| 18 | John Orchard | AUS 85 | 351.0 | 431.0 |
| 19 | Kym Withall | AUS 27 | 370.0 | 450.0 |