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Passage race to Geelong around laid and/or fixed navigational marks on Port Phillip.

Race Start: 0830hrs on Saturday 7th September 2013 in the vicinity of R2.

Safety Category: 5

As well as being the last race of the Helly Hansen Winter Series, the Melbourne to Geelong race is a race in its own right.

Different courses ensure that the fleet arrives in a timely fashion for the wonderful hospitality offered by Royal Geelong Yacht Club.

Entry is open for racing and cruising divisions.Entry to the Winter Series is inclusive of this race fee. However, you will need to update your entry with your crew list.

ORCV Melbourne Winter Series (MWS)

Voiles et Voiliers.

Sailing and Yachts... Hhhmmmm. Well, we're all sucked in by them in some way, shape or form. Stephane Howarth has been sailing in Melbourne for quite a few years now, primarily on Sydney 38's. So what do you do next? Buy one, of course!

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I got a chance to speak with her recently, after I had spotted the new name appearing in the MWS entrants list. "Mille Sabords is not a new yacht, she was manufactured in 2000. We have just picked her up from the CYCA in Sydney. She has a good track record racing in NSW and has been well maintained by previous owners", Stephane enthused.

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"Funny little problems we found on the way..... Sydney birds are quite ferocious, they ate the VHF antenna and the steaming light wires", said Stephane.
"Now in answer to your question, yes, I am a Tintin fan. A huge enthusiast, in fact - I have the complete collection of Tintin cartoons, which I have read many times. Mille Sabords is Capitaine Haddock's favorite curse. It stands for 'one thousand gun ports', literally meaning 'I will scuttle you with my thousand canons', as the verb saborder means to scuttle. As you pretty much surmised, I am French and so are quite a few of our crew members. Like you, I have no idea how 'Mille Sabords' got translated as 'blistering barnacles' in the English Tintin books. Go figure huh?"

"Attached are a couple of pictures of the yacht. In this episode, we learn that if you let go of the main halyard at sea, it goes all the way up the mast and back down inside the mast (shackle and all)... Then you have to free climb up the forestay to the top of the mast and drop a mouse line down to hoist it all back up. Needless to say, we exhausted all of Capitaine Haddock's wonderful vocabulary on this one!!!"
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"If all goes well, you should see Milles Sabords on the water quite often. We are planning to do all the major inshore and offshore races, as well as the One Design events", ( for which the Colts have another installment arriving soon).

All I can really add then for the other vessels out there, is don't get lined up for a broadside!

If you have all your paperwork in place, then you can still enter the MWS and see how you match up to the Bay's battle hardened crews, of which there are now 36 of them (as of 30/06/10), just by getting the NOR and complete the online entry for the 2010 MWS, right HERE. Come on. What else are you going to do? Stay warm, sit in front of the fire and drink red? BTW, the M2G is HERE and remember that Cruising Divisions will be offered for this particular event.

By John Curnow

ORCV Melbourne Winter Series (MWS)

Schwarzie.

I'll be back - and just like Big Arnie, they are. Our 2009 Lord Warden Trophy winners, INSX, that is...

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You may remember they had a marvellous set of results last year and were thoroughly deserving winners. You can get a quick refresher course, HERE.

Also back, thus far, are the likes of:

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Jazz Player, pictured here as they came home to win the 2009 M2HW.

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Schuss (they made their mark on the MWS, HERE) Pic © Steb Fisher.

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Also back for the 2010 MWS, are the likes of Ninety Seven, Chutzpah, Extasea, Hush, Nutcracker, Audacious and our pals from Beyond Outrageous... (Thanks to Chris Furey for the pic of them).

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And yes, Wicked, whom we know best for He who wears the loud shorts...

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We couldn't forget one Lisa Hammond-Batson, with Mitch and gee I hope they're working opposite ends of the boat, on Horizon Sprint... (Pic © Steb Fisher).

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... but after all that, I could not help wondering where the likes of,

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Can Can (which you can buy and bring out as your very own boat, just by contacting Sundance at SYC)
Ikon
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Reverie
Reckless
Veloce and
Under Capricorn, have got to????

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So then... Come out, come out, wherever you are... (Pic © Steb Fisher)

To enter the MWS and see how you match up to the Bay's battle hardened crews, of which there are 34 of them, thus far, just by get the NOR and complete the online entry for the 2010 MWS, right HERE. Come on. What else are you going to do? Stay warm, sit in front of the fire and drink red? BTW, the M2G is HERE and remember that Cruising Divisions will be offered for this particular event.

By John Curnow

ORCV Melbourne Winter Series (MWS)

Halcyon Days.

It was around 12 months ago that a then brand-new Wicked came out to play in the 2009 MWS.

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Now we have Halcyon, also a brand new Beneteau First 40, coming out to play for the 2010 MWS - cool huh.

Chris Tucker is her Skipper and he had this to say, "Yes, Halcyon is a new First 40, launched in late May, so very new. We are also a very new crew, so we don't have any short term expectations of being close to Wicked, who have been sailing very well. Mike Welsh from Wicked has been very helpful with advice. We sail out of RYCV and the crew is made up of friends and people I've met through RYCV. Thanks for your welcome and your interest." Our pleasure, Chris. It will be good to see you out there. May you have some very memorable times in the Melbourne Winter Series.

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Want to enter the MWS and see how you match up to the Bay's battle hardened crews? There are 33 of them, thus far. You can still be a part of it, just by getting the NOR and completing the online entry for the 2010 MWS, right HERE. Come on. What else are you going to do? Stay warm, sit in front of the fire and drink red? BTW, the M2G is HERE and remember that Cruising Divisions will be offered for this particular event.

By John Curnow

ORCV Melbourne Winter Series (MWS)

Kung Fu Panda.

Tigris has entered the 2010 MWS, which is great. Thank you. She is a Flying Tiger 10, which is how I got from Tigris to that other really famous, Angelina Jolie voiced character, Tigress, from the animated feature of virtual cult status.

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The word itself is Persian and means fast or arrow-like and of course, is a river that flows from Turkey, through Syria and on to Iraq. There it joins the Euphrates for its last 170kms, before it spills into the Persian Gulf. Naturally, a river that flows through areas known as Mesopotamia, Armenia and Persia at various points in history, has seen a lot of action.

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Our Tigris has been busy too, most recently in the AWKR, which is where our pic comes from. We hope you are indeed arrow-like and scoop the pool, in there with your fellow 30footers!

Want to enter the MWS? You can do so, just by getting the NOR and completing the online entry for the 2010 MWS, right HERE. Come on. What else are you going to do? Stay warm, sit in front of the fire and drink red? BTW, the M2G is HERE and remember that Cruising Divisions will be offered for this event.

By John Curnow

ORCV Melbourne Winter Series (MWS)

21 Today!

Truth be known, I have no idea who was the 21st, because a whole bombora of entries came in over the long weekend (argh, argh, argh).

BOAT NAME	SAIL NO	SKIPPER	FROM	DESIGN	STATE	DivNo	OK
ALLEGRESSE	B350	Kathryn De Garis	RBYC	Beneteau First 35s5	VIC	tba	Y
AUDACIOUS	B331	Greg Clinnick	RBYC	Sydney 38	VIC	tba
BOMBORA	R22	Greg Tobin	RYCV	Lyons 40	VIC	tba	Y
CALM	SM5252	Jason Van Der Slot	SYC	Farr Tp52	VIC	tba	Y
CHALLENGE	SM2	Rowan Simpson	SYC	Sydney 38 One Design	VIC	tba	Y
CHIKARA OUTLAW	S770	Joanne Norbury	RMYS	Sayer 44	VIC	tba
CHUTZPAH38	R6418	Bruce Taylor	RYCV	Sydney38	VIC	tba	Y
CLOUD IX	B6511	Alan Breidahl	RBYC	Beneteau First 36.9	VIC	tba
FADE 2 GREY	SM3107	Jason Close	SM	Beneteau First 31.7	VIC	tba	Y
GODZILLA	R111	Tom Fowler	RYCV	Hick 31	VIC	tba	Y
GOLDFINGER	8880	Kate Mitchell	SYC	Farr 52	Vic	tba	Y
JAZZ PLAYER	S390	Andrew Lawrence	RMYS	Bakewell-White Z39	VIC	tba	Y
NOUANNIE	R141	Tanya Stanford	RYCV	Scampi 30	VIC	tba	Y
NUTCRACKER	SM3500	Rob Davis	SYC	X-35	VIC	tba	Y
ROGUE TRADER	B347	Greg Rayner	RBYC	Beneteau First 34.7	VIC	tba
SCHUSS	B63	Denis McConnell	RBYC	Beneteau First 45	VIC	tba	Y
SPIRIT OF FREYA	B5903	Joanne Harpur	RBYC	Jeanneau Sunfast 36	VIC	tba	Y
STAMPEDE	SM6	Christopher Gendala	SYC	Elliott 15.50	VIC	tba	Y
WICKED	SM4	Mark Welsh	SYC	Beneteau First 40	VIC	tba	Y
XLR8	SM460	Ray Shaw	SYC	Reichel Pugh 46	VIC	tba	Y
YOUNG ONES	SM5558	Ian Miller	SYC	Young 11	VIC	tba	Y

Anyway, the title came from the fact that we had 10 and subsequently, Legs Eleven for M2V originally and thenjust recently, Sweet Sixteen for the MWS. Accordingly, I think it is only appropriate that we say a really big thank you to all 21 crews who have entered thus far... Cheers.

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Which then reminded me of this image (© Steb Fisher) and it's original caption - Come out, come out, wherever you are? And yes, you're right! It is a not-so-coded message for the rest of you who are just dying to enter the MWS, which you can do by getting the NOR and online entry for the 2010 MWS, right HERE. BTW, the M2G is HERE and remember that Cruising Divisions will be offered for this event.

By John Curnow

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