Tassie’s talent turns it on
THE weekend’s Banjo’s Shoreline Crown Series Bellerive Regatta has again underlined the depth of sailing talent in Tasmania’s most popular junior and youth off-the-beach classes.
Just two points separated the top two boats in the highperformance 29er skiffs and in the International Cadets.
Promising talent was to be seen in Sabots and Optimists.
In the 29ers, William Wallis and Fynn Sprott, sailing Westwind, clinched victory with two wins and a third on Sunday to take first place on a net nine points. Fellow Sandy Bay Sailing Club members Thomas Nikitaras and Silas Hamilton finished second on 11 points, yesterday placing 2-3-1, while third place went to Skiffy (Charlie Zeeman and Ethan Galbraith) on 13 points.
In the International Cadets Jacob McConaghy and Sam Hooper, sailing Hurricane, continued their consistency of day one with a 3-2-2 result to finish with nine points. They just held out a determined lastday effort by Hugo Allison and Grace Hooper, who won three consecutive races in Shmokin.
Third place went to Comrade ( Amy Potter and Annabelle Lumsden-Steel) who won race two and had three seconds.
In the Sabots, Daniel Maree steered Another Cannon to six wins out of seven races to win comfortably from Another White Boat (Edward Hillcoat) and The Fang (N. Whitton).
The Optimist junior singlehanded class drew a fleet of a dozen boats with Edward Broadby sailing Winded to six wins and a second. Adelaide O’Donoghue in Twiga won the other race and finished second overall.
Abbey Calvert, from the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, sailing Attack Peguin, took home the Laser 4.7 trophy from Hannel (Matilda O’Donoghue) and Free (Finn Potter).
In the Laser Radials Jack Allison scored five wins and two seconds. Dott Time (Tony Tate) finished second overall, with Don’t Be Salty (Adele Auchterlonie) third.
In the adult single-handed centreboarder, the Sabre, Clive Evans from Lindisfarne Yacht Club sailed Crossroads to seven straight wins.
The Sharpies made a welcome return to the regatta with some newcomers sailing against former Australian champion Drew Latham, who remained unbeaten in One Hump or Two. Second place went to the young crew of Oli Burnell, Issi Declerk and Josh Brown sailing Bonfires.