Cordell in fine touch
BELLERIVE Yacht Club’s Jeff Cordell has won a rare collection of trophies in the weekend’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta with his Mumm 36 yacht B&G Advantage.
Cordell skippered B&G Advantage to overall first place in both the AMS and PHS categories of Racing Group Division 1, provisionally becoming inaugural Tasmanian AMS divisional champion.
He also retained the Mumm 36 World Championship, a traditional part of the Banjo’s Shoreline Crown Series Regatta for the past 10 years and more.
B&G Advantage won Rac- ing Group Division 1 AMS and PHS from another Mumm 36, Matthew Keal’s Heat Wave while War Games (Wayne Banks-Smith) recovered from a race-two OCS to win the IRC category overall.
Racing Group Division 2 saw just two points between Nathan Mills and Jay Nibb’s Young 88, Young One, John Dryden’s Mount Gay 30, Prion, and Stewart Geeves’ Young 88 Footloose in PHS results. Prion won AMS and the AMS division title, while Footloose took the IRC honours.
Elliott Noye, one of Tasmania’s most talented and versatile young yachtsmen, is the new state champion helmsman in the SB20 sports boats.
Steering Porco Rosso with owner Paul McCartney and Edward Snowball as crew, Noye finished the championship with a scorecard of 2-2-4-1-1-(9)-4, a 10-point winning margin from defending state champion Pinch (Frazer Read). Karabos (Nick Rogers) placed third.
A comeback to sailing his beloved International Dragons proved a winner for Justin Barr, helming Zane Ridgeway’s Magic, recently brought to Hobart from Metung in Victoria. Magic won by just one point from Wicked (Andre Blakney) with another two points to Ridgeway.