Top Of The Gulf Regatta

[JimSiam]

This years TOG is now into Day 3, the first day saw light airs and the race being shortened for some of the fleet as the wind died out around 4pm.

Day 2 in contrast saw 15 knot winds which saw some yachts blowing out head sails and one trimaran breaking a shroud and loosing its mast over the side.

Day 3 is shaping up to be similar to Day 1 with light airs.

[JimSiam]

With Day 4, the last day now over, it was again a good day out on the course with a variable wind of around 8-15 knots, the top mark again proved most troublesome for most crews with the tide and a wind shift at the mark seeing many having to tack a few times to clear the mark.

Now its time for the party, then Koh Samui regatta in June and hopefully get to the kings cup this year as well.

[JimSiam]

The Final Race BBQ was great with loads of food put on by Raimon Land who have been sponsors of the regatta since its inception.

Highlight was meeting Scott Duncanson who helped design and build one of my yachts "Dictator"

[bertlamar]

The Final Race BBQ was great with loads of food put on by Raimon Land who have been sponsors of the regatta since its inception.

Highlight was meeting Scott Duncanson who helped design and build one of my yachts "Dictator"

sweet! Is that SCott Duncanson the guy who designed the Phuket 8?

Did you see a friend's boat, it is small, red and (according to him) fast?

[JimSiam]

The Final Race BBQ was great with loads of food put on by Raimon Land who have been sponsors of the regatta since its inception.

Highlight was meeting Scott Duncanson who helped design and build one of my yachts "Dictator"

sweet! Is that SCott Duncanson the guy who designed the Phuket 8?

Did you see a friend's boat, it is small, red and (according to him) fast?

Yes it is the same, I did see two Phuket 8's there, 1010 sq feet of spinnaker, thats the same as a Farr 40' and they are only 900 kg!

Fast? they really fly once the wind picks up and look around twice the speed of a Platu downhill, which only has around 30% of the sail area of the 8.

[JimSiam]

Phuket 8's

The sail area is also something to take note of with measurements consisting of:

Main - 25.6 sqm

Jib - 16.0 sqm

Spinnaker - 94.0 sqm.

Boat specs are:

Length - 7.9m

Beam Max - 3.03m

Displacement - 850kg

Draft Max - 2.45m

Draft Min - 0.6m.

[bertlamar]

no, this guy races against the P8s, but his boat is much much smaller, I think only 6m or maybe 7m at the most.

Bright red and some sort of pornography? porno? some name something like that.

Would be nice to know he went ok, has had all sorts of problems dealing with some builder or something the last year.

[JimSiam]

That would be pornstar? IRC1 yacht they did ok http://www.topofthegulfregatta.com/results_irc1_2009.htm

[bertlamar]

That would be pornstar? IRC1 yacht they did ok http://www.topofthegulfregatta.com/results_irc1_2009.htm

yes, that's the one. called him last night, apparently they were wiped out at the start on day 2, so couldn't race, broken mast or something that they repaired overnight. As a result.....didn't do too good.

It is a class called a Shaw 650, so a lot smaller than the boats they race with apparently, the smallest boat in the regatta actually other than the beach boats.

[bertlamar]

I even have a picture, I think he is the one on the right, so that's the P8 on the left. Anyway, looks like fun should try it sometime. For now, will stick to windsurf and building the sodding things.