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PRE-WORLDS TRAINING CLINIC

The Int. 49er Class is sponsoring a Pre-Worlds training clinic to be held Dec. 30-31 at the Worlds venue in the Grand Bahamas. The clinic is free and is geared for new-to-49er teams and is open to the first 5 (or so) teams that respond. Teams interested should e-mail Rory Fitzpatrick at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Following is the schedule for the 2 days which is provisional and weather dependent.

	Pre-Worlds Training clinic
	Wed 30th Dec	Thurs 31st Dec
Focus	Start & Pre Start	Post Start Lanes
	1st Beat Strategy	Lay Line Lanes
0930 hrs		Brief & Plan
1000 hrs	Meet & Brief	Training
1100 hrs	Training	Training
1230 hrs	Lunch	Lunch
1400 hrs	Training	Training
1630 hrs	Video Feedback	Video Feedback

OUTTERIDGE AND JENSEN WIN AUS NATIONALS

Greece’s Stelios Noutsos and Joe de Kock battle it out around the top mark with Robbie Gibbs and Jamie Woods on the final

Mayhem prevailed around the marks on the final day of racing for the Zhik 49er Australian Championship. Gusty conditions provided plenty of thrills and spills as crews battled tight racing in building conditions, which eventually forced cancellation of the last race of the day. Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen secured their first place with three wins, New Zealand’s Peter Buling and Blair Tuke maintaining their challenge in second place, while Ireland’s Ryan Seaton and Matt McGovern overtook Western Australia’s Will and Sam Phillips to take third place by two points.
At the close of the regatta teams will head to the international Grande 2 event Sail Sydney, and then on to Sail Melbourne, the last Grade 1 event before the next world title in the Bahamas in January.

Full results here

2010 WORLDS REGISTRATION

The late fee for the 2010 Worlds kicks in November 30. Please make sure to register for the Worlds on www.49erworlds.org before the deadline.

PERSONAL SAIL NUMBERS - AVAILABLE NOV 1

The 49er Class has approved the use of personal sail numbers. Now you can apply for your unique number, which will be issued each calendar year (Jan 1-Dec 31) based on first-come/first-served basis. Once a number has been issued, it will remain with the sailor as long as he continues to renew the number annually through the Class office. Sailors who do not want a personal number will use their hull number as outlined in the Class Rules, section A 11.1

Those who request and are granted a PSN will need to bring their own country code & personal number to the Bahamas for installation as the country flag will replace where the numbers currently are.

More information can be found on the technical section of the 49er website.

49er in 119nm HSBC COASTAL CLASSIC

Sail-World spoke to the Olympic 49er crew, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, who paralleled the HSBC Coastal Classic fleet, in the 119nm dash to the Bay of Islands.

After taking 9.5 hours for the trip, the pair were a little sore, their legs ached, and they were strugging to be able to walk, but were otherwise fine.

The trio was eventful with two pitchpolings and four capsizes. However even so the 49er was able to lead all the 50fters to Cape Brett, at the entrance to the Bay of Islands, before turning left and sailing hard on the wind into the finish line off Russell. The finished just behind the top two 50fters, Wired and Georgia Racing. They were cheered across the finish line by the crew of Alfa Romeo, who three hours before had set a new race record.

Top speed for the 49er, which Burling and Tuke have beens sailing for just 12 months, was 20.8kts.

A forecast of 25kts easing during the race was sufficent to get the crew committed to starting with the fleet, a second 49er also started, but withdrew. -- Richard Gladwell, full article on these wonderful lunatics here