2016 Rolex Farr 40 World Championships – Day 1 Media Release

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    Media release – 16 February 2016

    Event: 2016 Rolex Farr 40 World Championship, 16-19 February hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron

    Australians perform on day one of Rolex Farr 40 Worlds

    Australian teams Edake, Kokomo and Transfusion performed strongly on day one of the 2016 Rolex Farr 40 World Championship, which took place on the Macquarie Circle at 1200hrs with the 12 boat fleet ready to embark on a four day battle for the big one.

    Sydney Open Corinthian Winner Jeff Carter (Edake) is leading Kokomo and Transfusion on joint points in fourth place, just one point behind Struntje Light and Flash Gordon.  Carter is hoping to hold onto his significant lead over the other Corinthian teams and get on the podium for this prestigious event on his home waters.   “Isn’t that awesome!  We won the start in Race 3 and held our lead the entire way.  We stripped the cover off the spinnaker and broke the topping case but the guys worked their guts out and the heavy offshore conditions of 18-20 knots suited us perfectly.”  Carter continued, “We won’t let today get to our heads, as there’s a long way to go yet.”

    Lang Walker and the Kokomo crew put in a solid performance scoring a 2-3-9 putting them in fifth place at the end of day one.  Kokomo’s hugely talented Tactician David Chapman certainly knows his way around a Farr 40 racecourse, however, he remained modestly un-waivered with today’s results. “It was a tough days yachting.  It’s early days and we are in good shape”.

    The International fleet proved their performance at the Sydney Open was indeed not a “curse” and Class favourite Plenty, owned by Alex Roepers is sitting comfortably in first place followed by Struntje Light and Flash Gordon in joint second

    Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s PRO Rob Ridley ran the first three races offshore on the Macquarie Circle, approximately 2 miles east of Macquarie Lighthouse in 16-20 knots.  “It was a challenging day.  Course 4 was set for all three races and we saw a lot of currents creating a short sharp set, which was our biggest challenge today.”

    Day 2 of the Rolex Farr 40 World Championships will commence at 1200hrs tomorrow, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 offshore and likely on Macquarie Circle again.

    RESULTS

    Bow Sail Number Yacht Name Yacht Design Owner/Skipper Race
    1    		 Race
    2    		 Race
    3    		 Total
    Farr 40
    1. 14   USA 60059 Plenty Farr 40 Alex Roepers 5 2 2 9.0
    2. 15   GER 40 Struntje light Farr 40 Wolfgang Schaefer 8 1 4 13.0
    3. 4   USA 60002 Flash Gordon 6 Farr 40 Helmut and Evan Jahn 1 7 5 13.0
    4. 7   AUS 007 Edake (Corinthian) Farr 40 Jeff Carter 4 9 1 14.0
    5. 24   AUS 8883 Kokomo Farr 40 Lang Walker 2 3 9 14.0
    6. 2   AUS 6422 Transfusion Farr 40 Guido Belgiorno-Nettis 3 4 7 14.0
    7. 23   AUS 615 Estate Master Farr 40 Martin Hill 6 5 8 19.0
    8. 6   AUS 5868 Kindergarten F40 OD Rodney Jones 7 8 6 21.0
    9. 1   AUS SM2008 Double Black (Corinthian) Farr40 Robert Pitts 12 10 3 25.0
    10. 5   AUS 8001 Forty Farr 40 Stephen Barlow 11 6 10 27.0
    11. 8   AUS 64221 ZEN (Corinthian) Farr 40 Gordon Ketelbey 9 11 12 32.0
    12. 3   AUS AUS8884 Exile (Corinthian) Farr 40 Rob Reynolds 10 12 11 33.0

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    By Jennie Hughes

    Farr 40 Class Administrator

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