2016 MTYC Four Points Race - Yachting Victoria Traveller Series

3 Explorer 16's make it home in a challenging race.

The weather conditions on Saturday 30th April made it a very challenging race for 3 Explorer 16's that successfully completed the race and were placed 2nd ( Fiz IV), 3rd (Old Salt) and 4th (Edna-May) in Division 4 of the 2016 MTYC Four Points Race.

Northerly winds between 15-25 knots with gusts to 30-35 took its toll on the 48 boats in the mixed fleet. A capsize, a broken mast and equipment failures on some of the larger fleet saw only 36 boats make it to the finish line. The 3 little Explorer 16's stood up well in the conditions and were well placed in their Division.

Edna May - 2016 MTYC Four Points Race ( 4th in Division 4)

Edna May - 2016 MTYC Four Points Race

Old Salt - 2016 MTYC Four Points Race ( 3rd in Division 4)

Old Salt - 2016 MTYC Four Points Race

    

2016 Explorer 16 State Championship RESULTS

Explorer 16's at the Williamstown Sailing Club Jetty preparing to race.

 Our 2016 State Championships were held on the waters of Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip hosted by the Williamstown Sailing Club and sailed over 2-days SAT23 & SUN24 January.
Both days gave us good air to sail, SAT arrived with southerly winds between 10-15 knts for our first 2 heats in the afternoon. SUN had lighter southerly air in the morning at 8-10 knts for heat 3 and the southerly increased to 10-15 knts for heats 4 & 5 in the afternoon to finish off the series.

FINAL LINE PLACINGS were:

1st Place: "DELTA"  Michael & Ron Short.

2nd Place: "SWALLOW" Sue Burke & Russell Bates.

3rd Place: "SALLY" Jonathon Wilson & Peter Mart.

FINAL HANDICAP PLACINGS were:

1st Place: "KALANG"  George Giuliani & Charles Lee (SAT) / Peter Doris (SUN).

2nd Place: "OLD SALT" Ray Clinch & Max Hopkins.

Of special note was the results for one of our newest members, Jonathan Wilson, who together with Peter Mart, showed that his new boat "SALLY" could match it with the best of them! 

Jonathan & Peter setting up "SALLY"

Matt & Crew setting up "PIED PIPER"

WSC Explorer 16 Day Sailer joined us for the first race.

The jetty was full of Explorer 16's.

Clouds started to build on the horizon prior to racing.

Sailing out to the Start Line.

Clouds rolling over the City Skyline

Explorer 16 - Winner of MTYC Four Points Race - Division 4

The Explorer 16 Association Inc. was well represented in the MTYC Four Points Race held on Saturday 02 May 2015 on Port Phillip Bay.

We had 4 association member boats compete in the race with "Swallow", skippered by Sue Burke and expertly coached and crewed by Russell Bates, taking out first place in Division 4. in Elap time of 3:12:24s.

"SWALLOW"

"Meander", (Peter Mart & crew Ray Clinch), came in 25:25s behind Swallow but only 45 seconds ahead of "Emily" (Frank Strickland & crew Max Hopkins) after a closely fought battle over the 14 NM course which ended in a dueling battle at the finish line.
"Edna May" (Michael Lambiris & crew Tracy Ham) put in a good performance especially considering that Michael has just recently moved from sailing a Brolga to an Explorer 16 and is still in the process of race tuning his newly acquired boat..

The Explorer 16 Association congratulates the members that entered the race and is proud that Sue has taken a " Botterill Explorer 16" into first place in Division 4 of the MTYC Race which was the last race of the YV Victorian Trailable Yacht Travellers Series.

Michael and his crew Tracy preparing "Edna May"