From the following article on Sail-World submitted by Guy Nowell
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?Nid=117228&refre=y&ntid=0&rid=1
The Phuket High Season weather turned on the taps at last night’s Opening Party, but made up for the deluge with a clear, calm and altogether sparkling morning today. By 0800 most boats were clear of Kata Bay and heading towards their respective race areas – Course Seraph for the various Cruising and Classic classes, Course Marie G for the Racing classes.
Maybe it was Monday-morning-itis. Maybe it was just a shake-down time. Maybe it was the idyllic weather – sunshine, flat water and 12kts from the north east. But one way or another starts on both course areas were substantially delayed by shifty breeze and some errant buoyage and ground tackle.
When proceedings got under way on Course Marie G, PRO Ross Chisholm was able to fire off two back-to-back windward-leeward courses for IRC classes 0-3, the Fireflies, Sportsboats and Racing Multihulls. Settling in at around 040?, the breeze gradually died until at 1430h the decision was made not to attempt any more racing today.
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Showing posts with label Phuket King's Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phuket King's Cup. Show all posts
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Monday, 2 December 2013
Phuket Kings Cup 2013, competitive multihull contingent set to compete
From the following article on Sail-World submitted by Guy Nowell
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?Nid=117201&refre=y&ntid=0&rid=1
Fast forward to the Opening Ceremony, and all the right people made speeches and the 27th Phuket King’s Cup is now happening. This regatta manages to attract participants from all over – tonight we had a little drinky with Jo Aleh (Gold medallist Weymouth 2012, and ISAF/Rolex Sailor of the Year, who is sailing on Neil Pryde’s HiFi) but maybe even more importantly used to race P-Class against Jono Rankine, way back when. Dig out the family photos, chaps).
Tomorrow is another day – it’s the opening day of the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta. See you on the beach at 00 my lor’ it’s early. First start 0900. Watch this space.
read more here
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?Nid=117201&refre=y&ntid=0&rid=1
Fast forward to the Opening Ceremony, and all the right people made speeches and the 27th Phuket King’s Cup is now happening. This regatta manages to attract participants from all over – tonight we had a little drinky with Jo Aleh (Gold medallist Weymouth 2012, and ISAF/Rolex Sailor of the Year, who is sailing on Neil Pryde’s HiFi) but maybe even more importantly used to race P-Class against Jono Rankine, way back when. Dig out the family photos, chaps).
Tomorrow is another day – it’s the opening day of the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta. See you on the beach at 00 my lor’ it’s early. First start 0900. Watch this space.
read more here
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Phuket King's Cup 2012, the final news for 2012
From the following Sail-World article
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Phuket-Kings-Cup-2012:-the-Glittering-Prizes/104615
Once again, it’s all over bar the shouting. The fat lady has sung and sat down again, the trophies have been distributed, and the photographs taken. 75 boat crews (not forgetting the dinghy sailors and windsurfers) have partied their way from the Kata Beach Resort to the Kata Thani, the Phuket Orchid, Centara Resort, the Boathouse and back to Kata. A couple of multihulls got parked on the beach (not too serious) and one monohull (rather more serious). One rig came down.
The weather co-operated all week – there were a number of ‘AP-ed’ starts, but nothing yawningly long, the sun shone almost relentlessly (pass the sunscreen please, again) and the breeze blew around the 10-12kt mark with occasional enthusiastic bursts of more. 28 protests from 95 starts gave the Jury something to do, but there was only one DSQ and a number of protests were disallowed either on grounds of out-of-time or improperly lodged. Two threatened 69s resulted in an apology and a warning. Interested parties can check out all the action in The Room here: http://www.kingscup.com/showfile.cfm?id=1331
read more here
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Phuket-Kings-Cup-2012:-the-Glittering-Prizes/104615
Once again, it’s all over bar the shouting. The fat lady has sung and sat down again, the trophies have been distributed, and the photographs taken. 75 boat crews (not forgetting the dinghy sailors and windsurfers) have partied their way from the Kata Beach Resort to the Kata Thani, the Phuket Orchid, Centara Resort, the Boathouse and back to Kata. A couple of multihulls got parked on the beach (not too serious) and one monohull (rather more serious). One rig came down.
The weather co-operated all week – there were a number of ‘AP-ed’ starts, but nothing yawningly long, the sun shone almost relentlessly (pass the sunscreen please, again) and the breeze blew around the 10-12kt mark with occasional enthusiastic bursts of more. 28 protests from 95 starts gave the Jury something to do, but there was only one DSQ and a number of protests were disallowed either on grounds of out-of-time or improperly lodged. Two threatened 69s resulted in an apology and a warning. Interested parties can check out all the action in The Room here: http://www.kingscup.com/showfile.cfm?id=1331
read more here
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Phuket King's Cup 2012, final results available
Final results available on the King's Cup website for multihull and firefly 850 class. The Geforce 1500 "Mojo" of Peter Wilcox came in first with Peter Stransky's home constructed and designed catamaran "Fantasia" in second and Mark Thornborrow came in third on the Seacart 26 "sweet chariot".
In the Firefly 850 class it was "Voodoo" coming in first followed by "Dire Straits" in second and "Twin Sharks" in third.
results 2012
In the Firefly 850 class it was "Voodoo" coming in first followed by "Dire Straits" in second and "Twin Sharks" in third.
results 2012
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Phuket King's Cup, Strong winds shake up the leaderboard
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Phuket King's Cup, The results so far
The King's Cup event runs till the 8th of December
The event website is here
http://www.kingscup.com/
For the Firefly 850 class
http://www.sailingscoreboard.com/results/index.php/results/pointscore/352
Series Results for Firefly 850 Sports Class
and for the mixed multihull division (OMR)
http://www.sailingscoreboard.com/results/index.php/results/pointscore/353
The event website is here
http://www.kingscup.com/
For the Firefly 850 class
http://www.sailingscoreboard.com/results/index.php/results/pointscore/352
Series Results for Firefly 850 Sports Class
| Place | Sail No | Boat | Name | Country | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | Total Points | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FF777 | Voodoo | Hans Rahmann | THA | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | |||
| 2 | FF888 | Dyer Straits | Peter Dyer | THA | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 14 | |||
| 3 | FF298 | Twin Sharks | John Newnham | GBR | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 19 | |||
| 4 | FF | Advanced | Advanced Racing Team | CHN | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | DNF | 5 | 5 | 28 | 20 | |||
| 5 | FF222 | Moto Inzi | Roger Kingdon | GBR | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | DNF | 4 | 1 | 33 | 25 | |||
| 6 | FF959 | Bluenoze | George Eddings | THA | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | OCS | 43 | 35 | |||
| 7 | FF559 | Mamba | John Spencer | AUS | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 45 | 38 |
and for the mixed multihull division (OMR)
http://www.sailingscoreboard.com/results/index.php/results/pointscore/353
Series Results for Multihull Class
| Place | Sail No | Boat | Name | Country | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | Total Points | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M165 | Mojo | Peter Wilcox | THA | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | ||
| 2 | 641 | Fantasia | Andrew Stransky | AUS | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 9 | ||
| 3 | THA888 | Sweet Chariot | Mark Thornborrow | THA | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 17 | ||
| 4 | 02 | Sidewinder of Darwin | John Punch | AUS | 5 | 5 | 4 | DNF | DNF | 4 | 4 | 38 | 30 | ||
| 5 | 204 | Shanghai Baby | Robin Young | AUS | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 36 | 30 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Asia Catamarans Hurricane | Alan Carwadine | THA | 3 | 4 | 3 | DNF | DNC | DNC | DNC | 42 | 34 | ||
| 7 | n/a | Nipper | Timothy Robins | SIN | DNS | DNS | DNC | DNF | DNS | DNF | DNF | 56 | 48 |
Monday, 3 December 2012
Phuket King's Cup event just about to commence
The Phuket King's Cup has for many years now integrated a multihull division and also the one design Mark Pescott catamarans built to the "Firefly 850" design which provide thier crews with close and exciting racing.
Sail-World article by Guy Nowell
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Phuket-Kings-Cup-Hall-of-Fame/104301
After 25 years there is still no outright winner when it come to bragging rights for winning the Phuket Kings Cup. This year’s entry list is lacking some of the usual faces, possibly leaving the field open to a new name.
In the early years of the event it was Henry Kaye, Bill Gasson and Jeffrey Lowe whose names kept repeating on the leader board, and then Ray Roberts, and Neil Pryde as well. Gasson, Pryde and Roberts all have four wins apiece, but none of them are competing this year. How about a ‘Masters’ division next year?
read more here
Sail-World article by Guy Nowell
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Phuket-Kings-Cup-Hall-of-Fame/104301
After 25 years there is still no outright winner when it come to bragging rights for winning the Phuket Kings Cup. This year’s entry list is lacking some of the usual faces, possibly leaving the field open to a new name.
In the early years of the event it was Henry Kaye, Bill Gasson and Jeffrey Lowe whose names kept repeating on the leader board, and then Ray Roberts, and Neil Pryde as well. Gasson, Pryde and Roberts all have four wins apiece, but none of them are competing this year. How about a ‘Masters’ division next year?
read more here
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