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Hobart’s inaugural Combined Clubs summer season ended on a high note today for Bellerive Yacht Club members, son and father Darren and Harold Clark, when they sailed their Farr 1104 Invincible to a remarkable winning treble.
With Darren on the helm and Harold calling tactics, Invincible won all three handicap categories in the last race for the strong Group 1 to clinch the overall post-Christmas championship.
The race wins also gave them close victories over cross-river rival Intrigue, Don Calvert’s Castro 40 from the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania in the AMS, IRC and PHS handicap categories.
The racing ended the inaugural Combined Clubs season, comprising two harbour racing series over four days before and after Christmas and a long race series of six races extending over the summer.
A total of 68 yachts contested the highly successful Combined Harbour Series that this summer replaced individual club pennants.
Today’s two windward/leeward races were sailed in gusty nor’nor’westerly winds varying in strength from 12 to 20 knots, with gusts over 35 knots.
The fleet had ample time to prepare for the breeze, sheltering in the lee of Bellerive Bluff as Bellerive Yacht Club race officers delayed the start as a 40 knot front swept down the river.
In Group 1 AMS category, Invincible won by five points from Intrigue, with third place overall going to the Archambault 35 Archie (Sally Rattle) from the Derwent Sailing Squadron. Invincible took out the IRC pointscore by two points from Intrigue, with Archie again third.
The margin in Group 1 PHS was just one point in favour of Invincible from Intrigue, third overall going to Mark Ballard’s 42 South.
The Farr 40s dominated results in the first race for Group 1, with Wired (Stephen Boyes) winning outright from War Games (Wayne Banks-Smith) and Tilford Auto Group (Hughie Lewis). In the second race, the lower rated boats came to the fore on corrected times, with Invincible and Intrigue first and second.
Bellerive Yacht Club members ended up winning four of the Group pointscores for the post-Christmas harbour series, with Clark Wyatt’s Silicon Ship winning Group 2