CYCA member Richard Perini was today named the winner of the Hamilton Island Farr 40 Australian Championship and the Australian Farr 40 Circuit for 2004-2005. 

Racing for the 23 boat fleet in the Hamilton Island Farr 40 Australian Championship was held in the harbour from Manly to Watson’s Bay in a 10 knot southerly breeze. 

Dodging USA naval ships, cargo ships and Manly ferries, the fleet worked the course with precision making mark roundings very eventful.  Vincenzo Onorato steering Mascalzone lead the fleet around the three lap course for race six and took the gun from father and son team, Steve and Fred Howe, on Warpath.  Jim Richardson held off Italian team Nerone steered by Mark Heeley for this weekend, to take third.

Neville Crichton’s Team Shockwave had a great start at the boat end of the line for race seven to lead the fleet to the top mark and around the course.  In hot pursuit was Barking Mad with Richard Perini’s Evolution and David Gotze’s Brighton Star fighting it out for the top places.  At the finish Barking Mad and Evolution’s dogfight allowed Brighton Star to slip through into second over the line with Barking Mad just holding out Evolution for third.  

Crichton repeated his race seven performance and led the fleet around the course continually extending his lead.  Warpath with Paul Cayard onboard slotted into the second place and Lang Walker’s Kokomo held onto third place from the top mark to the finish line.

Perini has won all pointscore regattas bar one, which was a drop, with Marcus Blackmore taking second place in the pointscore and Matt Allen finishing third.  ‘It was a great regatta that had a bit of everything in conditions and results’ said Perini.  ‘It’s great to take the double and we hope we can continue to maintain these results’.

Jim Richardson’s Barking Mad took out the Hamilton Island Farr 40 regatta title with Nerone finishing third overall.  ‘We always enjoy racing in Sydney and we are looking forward to the next two regattas,’ commented Richardson.  

Hamilton Island Farr 40 Regatta Final Results: 

1st Barking Mad J.Richardson USA                    32

2nd Nerone M.Mezzaroma/A.sodo Migiori ITA     42.5

3rd Evolution R. Perini AUS                               49

4th TWT M.Rodolfi ITA                                      52

5th War Path S &F Howe USA                            58

6th Team Shockwave N. Crichton AUS               63

7th Mascalzone Latino V.Onorato ITA                 73

8th Emotional Hooligan M.Blackmore AUS           81

9th Morning Glory H.Plattner                              86

10th Kokomo L.Walker AUS                               88

11th Ichi Ban M. Allen AUS                                88

12th Pegasus P.Kahn USA                                 107

13th Southern Star J.Calvert-Jones AUS             108

14th Sputnik I.Wheen AUS                                108

15th Brighton Star D.Gotze AUS                         114

16th ITAPanther S.O’Rourke AUS                       115.5

17th Fiamma A.Barnaba                                    116

18th Venom B. Neill NZL                                    119

19th Bobby’s Girl J.Melville NZL                           125

20th War Games D.Urry AUS                               127

21st Belle Property C.Meehan AUS                       131

22nd Solution J.Thompson USA                            152

23rd Short Shipped M.Short AUS                          164

Results available at https://www.cyca.com.au/sysfile/downloads/hif40_ps.htm