Flying Fifteen International

Only one race sailed on the second day due to fickle winds and several false starts. The one race brought the discard into play which reshuffled all the places. The Rainey brothers salad consistently to take out the title. Craig Conn & Michael McCartney won the Silver trophy and Tim Cobb & Andrew Smith the Classic Trophy. Final Results.

After Day 1 (4 Races) of the Victorian State Championship at Cairn Curran SC The Flying Flamingo has a 3 point lead over Aussie Falcon.The Series will complete today so should be exciting racing.   Latest Results. For some reason you need to open the post to access the Results link.

Fred Jensen passed away recently in Tasmania. Fred was a Life Member of FFIV and did two stints as secretary of FFIA - 1984-86 & 1990-92.

The second term was when FFIA was trying to persuade BIFFA to accept tighter tolerances on our hull measurements, the changes eventuated some years later and produced the one-design we now enjoy.

Fred sailed at Davey's Bay and was a stalwart of his home club, when he fully retired he and Mitchie moved to Tasmania.

Our thoughts are the Mitchie and daughters Vivienne and Karen.

At the recent National Championship in Adelaide President Les Kearney announced that the FFIA committee had nominated Peter Rooke becomes a Life Member of FFIA, the announcement was met with alacrity.

As we all know Peter is currently Commodore of FFI, he was President of FFIA for 5 years so he has put the hard yards in. He started sailing at SoPYC as a young man in VJ's, Skates, Fireballs etc.