ORCV Documentation.

Get on to it before 01/06/10!

New IRC Certificates are required from June 1, 2010, the ever watchful, Dennis Livingston, tells me. So get on to your renewals in time for M2V, MWS and so on, please. The Melbourne Winter Series (MWS) has been going since 1971 and has always included the flare shoot before the start of the first race on the first Sunday of July, each and every year. Last year, the new Melbourne to Geelong (M2G) was introduced to a great welcome and the fleet expanded accordingly. This year it will no doubt be even bigger again, as the word gets out about the September marvel.

OK. Going long range then - revalidated/new AMS Certificates will be required from the end of September. See. We are looking after you...

Back to the matter at hand, the NOR and SIs for the 2010 MWS will be available from HERE soon enough, but in the meantime keep July 4th and every fortnight thereafter free, for some of the Bay's greatest racing.

Similarly, you'll be watching progress of both M2V and V2M around the same time. Will Rob Date and the crew of Scarlet Runner get the kinds of weather systems they need to beat the current record. They have been using computer models of with the weather systems that have been running past over the last few weeks and the opportunity exists to smash it, actually. An Icpota moment, right there!!!

Rob may well have smile like this, if his IRC sled can strip the VO60's M2V record.

I took this at the start of last year's inaugural M2G, which is Race Seven of the MWS. Just goes to show how wonderful dear old Port Phillip can be... (and not when IT chooses, also.)

This © Steb Fisher image is from Race 5 of the 2009 ORCV MWS. Notice the then, brand new Wicked was out to play... The B First 40's certainly have a great IRC rating, so make they'd be one style of vessel keen to ensure their certificate is current and valid! Alien would be another...

Again...

By John Curnow