Notice of Race
Fleet List
The fleet list now includes 76 entries. Handicaps and divisions will be published on Monday 22 December. This is the second year the finish is at Rye, and the line honours winner will need to better the 4 hrs 42 min 22 sec set by Stratcorp Ninety Seven.
With the fleet now finalised, the annual passage race to Rye now has 81 entries. The weather forecast is for a South-West wind, and the yachts with longer waterline should dominate this race.
2003+CoBay+Divisions+And+Handicaps.pdf
Sailing Instructions
Sked Sheets
Position Reports
Results
Race Report
In a race that started into a promising 15kt south westerly, the fleet of 77 boats were expecting a reasonably fast and comfortable trip down to the finish line at Rye. But on a day where the breezes went not only southerly but also lightened off considerably, the leaders of the race benefited from the breeze before it died and the tail enders paid the penalty.
The result was a line honours time which, even for David Gotze's Volvo 60 Indec Merit, was slow at half an hour outside the existing record and several of the slower boats and not making the cutoff time of 1930 hours.
Nigel Jones' Cadibarra took out the 1st place in the AMS division and, as a result, is the winner of the Cock of the Bay Trophy for 2003.