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Farr 40 Class Honors Legendary Sailing Writer Bob Fisher |
World's foremost authority on yacht racing presented with Rolex watch
Jim Richardson Presents The Rolex To Fisher
Miami Beach, Florida, USA: The Farr 40 Class Association honored legendary British yachtsman and yachting journalist Bob Fisher for his many important contributions to the sport. The man affectionately known as "Fish" was presented a specially engraved (with the F40 logo) Rolex Submariner watch by the Class for his lifelong support and promotion of sailing around the world.
"Bob is the preeminent sailing writer in the world, a true treasure to our sport," Farr 40 class chairman Jim Richardson said in making the presentation during an owners and crews party at La Piaggia Beach Club during the Miami Beach Invitational Regatta. "Bob has probably forgotten more about sailing than any of us know. He is a walking encyclopedia of sailing history and has done so much to grow the sport through his writing."
Fisher grew up in the coastal town of Brightlingsea and won his first sailboat race at the tender age of two years and four months, when taken out on the Colne River by his father in a BS One-Design. He would later race a Truant 12-6, a Fireball and a Solent One-Design. To this day, Fisher remains proud of building himself a Hornet, a 16-foot hard chine one-design dinghy.
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Farr 40s owners host 45 young sailors in Twilight race |
Young sailors on the rails of Wired and War Games in the twilight race. Photoby Josh McDonald, FourHillsPhotography
The Farr 40 owners variously race out of the Bellerive Yacht Club, Derwent Sailing Squadron and the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, but they see the potential for future crew among the many talented young dinghy sailors at Sandy Bay Sailing Club.
The off-the-beach club on Nutgrove Beach this past season has conducted the Australian and World championships for the two-handed International Cadet class and the National championships for the International Optimist single-handed class. Young Sandy Bay club members also race 420s and Lasers.
In a fine gesture towards youth sailing and the potential of young Tasmanian sailors, all five Farr 40s owners added a ‘mini-crew’ to their normal crew for the RYCT/DSS Twilights on Thurday evening. In total, 45 young sailors joined the adult crews aboard the Farr 40s.
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Struntje Light Completes Wire-to-Wire Win in Miami Beach Invite |
German entry, skippered by Wolfgang Schaefer led at the end of all four days
 MIAMI BEACH - Most Farr 40 regattas comes down to the last leg of the last race on the last day. This one was even closer than that!
The Miami Beach Invitational was decided by two incredibly close finishes that happened just seconds apart. First, Enfant Terrible edged Plenty by a bow length in the battle for first. No sooner had those boats crossed the line than Struntje Light nipped Flash Gordon 6 by less than half a boat length in the fight for third.
Those two results made all the difference as skipper Wolfgang Schaefer and his team on Struntje Light scored a narrow one-point victory over Plenty. Had either of those two head-to-head battles gone the other way, skipper Alex Roepers and the boys aboard Plenty would have been the overall winners.
"That is exactly the way we like it. Very close, very exciting racing," said Schaefer, who earned his first Farr 40 class victory since the 2010 Sardinia Cup.
It was an impressive performance by Struntje Light, which led at the end of racing all four days of the regatta. Peter Holmberg called tactics as Schaefer steered the German entry to a pair of first place finishes and three runner-up results in the 10-race series to post a low score of 31 points.
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