PAINKILLER FUTURE RACING PROGRAM

The PAINKILLER racing program for the next four months will include Thursday Twilight Racing out of the SYC (next race is 19 Jan 2012), the Bosun's Locker Offshore Series (next race is on Sunday 5 Feb 2012), The Julian Rocks Race 11 Feb 2012  and the Sail Paradise Regatta on 21-25 March 2012 at SYC Southport. If you are interested in any or all of these races please give me a call.

Twilight Sailing

Twilight Race Series
PAINKILLER will commence racing in the SYC Twilight Series from Thursday 13 Oct.
Coordination Details:

1.  Confirm day prior (if possible) that you can make it.
2.  Meet NLT 45 minutes prior scheduled start time.
3.  First one at the boat start rigging process.

4.  Bring some snacks if you wish and own drinks.

5.  If wet, bring wet weather gear.
6.  Recommend sailing gloves.

7.  More than welcome to bring friends etc.

SCHEDULE OF RACES & START TIMES

16.1 The schedule of races is outlined in the SYC Sailing Calendar

Thursday Twilight Series Races from 3:00pm Exact start time will be posted 24hrs prior

Wednesday J.A.M. Series Races from 1630hrs

WEDNESDAY J.A.M. SERIES COURSES

START IN SOUTHERLY DIRECTION, CRAB WEST CARDINAL,

SPECIAL MARK SOVEREIGN, FINISH

(ALL CARDINAL MARKS TO BE OBEYED AND CRAB ISLAND LEFT TO PORT)

START IN NORTHERLY DIRECTION, SPECIAL MARK SOVEREIGN,

CRAB WEST CARDINAL, FINISH

(ALL CARDINAL MARKS TO BE OBEYED AND CRAB ISLAND LEFT TO STBD.)

THURSDAY KEEL BOAT TWILIGHTS

Course 1:
1.Start between Red & Green Cardinal Marks

north of Wavebreak Island.

2.Round Starboard Lateral Mark (opposite John

Elks) to Starboard.

3.Pass east Cardinal (Seaway) to Starboard.

4.Finish off D arm of SYC Marina.

Course 2:

1. Start off SYC end of D arm

2. East Cardinal (Seaway) to Port

3. Round Starboard Lateral (opposite John Elks) to

Starboard.

4. East Cardinal (Seaway) to Starboard

5. Finish off SYC end of D arm

Course 3:

1. Start of SYC end of D arm

2. East Cardinal (Seaway) to Port

3. Port lateral (Lat 27.54.54S,Long 153.24.97E) to

Starboard.

4. East Cardinal (Seaway) to Starboard.

5. Finish between Yellow Special Marker and Port

lateral at Southern end of Wavebreak.

All competitors must comply with RRS and Prevention Collision at

Sea Regulations at all times while racing and every caution should
be made to minimise congestion in channels within the racing area.

Re-Delivery Hammo - Southport

Well, the scurvey delivery crew finally made it into Hammo and off we went 24 hours ahead of shedule due to a good weather forecast - wrong!!! Headed out on a good NE but it died to nothing as the evening came....then slammed from the south. Pulled into Brampton Is for some rum and a sleep. Good plan! Next morning up early and off to the Percy Islands. Crap day, motored most of it (we would get used to that). finally got into Middle Percy at 1900h. Good meal and off to the rack! 0300h all hell breaks loose, we are caught inside a washing machine. Absolutely slammed about until dawn then as soon as we could see we was outofthere! Only consolation was seeing our old friend in the Catalina 35 limping in after being caught short of Percy Is when they were hit by the southerly. They looked shagged. Off we sailed (motor sailed) to Pearl Bay inside SWBTA. Except for running aground had a pleasant night playing Nautical Trivia! Wed 31 Sep motor sailed to Yeppoon. DONT believe this is a harbour! We arrived and got immediately stuck 20 feet short of the fuel wharf in NO WATER! Fortunately Evan knew a guy (COL Fora) who took us out to dinner. Next morning I left the boat in the capable hands of Evan and headed back to Brisbane for a gig as the guest of honour at the RQYS Sailing Season Opener. Good for me but the boys kept getting slammed by strong SEs. After some fun at Pancake Creek including a MEDEVAC of Chris to the Town of 1770 due to a dislocated shoulder, they finally limped into Bundy on the 5th of Sep. After I fed them up and put them to bed we headed out to sea early next morning bound for Kingfisher Resort on Fraser Island. Another tough day at the office but pulled into Kingfisher for a pleasant evening. I am getting used to Chris's M/Teas of great Coffee and fresh muffins each day!!! Next day motored through the Great Sandy Straits (only bottomed out a couple of times) and then straight on through the bar at Wide Bay and on down the coast to Evans home on Russell Island Morton Bay. Chris and I had the best of the sailing that night. Great night had at Evan's RSL on Russell then next day finally parked the good ship PAINKILLER at her berth at SYC JUST ahead of a wind change, finally from the north - but of course blowing at 40 bags!!!! I hate you huey!!!!! MANY thanks to Evan Johnson, Chris McDonald and Rob Fussell for making the journey a delight. Great crewmen all. You are welcome ANY time back on PAINKILLER. Don't forget the reunion on the 16th!

Hamilton Island Race Week

Team Painkiller,

Diane and I sailed PAINKILLER up to Hamilton Island During the period 1 to 16 August. We had a fantastic couple of weeks just the two of us although I will say we had some challenging days. Saw dolphins aplenty, whales, made some new friends etc. Boat sailed like a dream. We sailed up to Manly in Brisbane through the inland waterway, only grounding once! Pretty good!!! Nicole sailed with us up to Manly and stayed with us for dinner that evening at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron while we were joined by some friends. We then set off on our journey stopping at Mooloolaba, (had dinner with Wayne and Liz Fleming), Great Sandy Straits, Bundaberg(of course), Pancake Creek, Yepoon, Port Clinton, Island Head Creek, Percy Islands (one of the few people who live on this small island 30 miles off the coast from Shoalwater Bay floored me by saying "you're not Brigadier Rod West are you!) Curlew Islands, Goldsmith Island, Shaw Island then finally Cid Harbour. All in all a good delivery. We are now involved in Race Week. First ever race for Painkiller resulted in an 11th place, next race 8th. Today we decided NOT to race as there was a strong wind warning current and a straw poll of the crew was a resounding - I don't think so! Having just witnessed the first boat back with a broken mast I think it was a good decision! The next day was a beauty! Plenty of wind and finally we had our act together. Thanks to some great sailing shit by Brian we came in 2nd - a podium finish - yeah! Next day out was wild and wooly broke both ends off the spinnaker and still managed to come in fourth. Not too shabby. Rushed to repair the pole BUT final days racing was cancelled due to NO WIND. That Huey, God of wind has a sense of humour! All in all Hamilton was great. Vaought up with a bunch of friends, Shorty played great music, Chef boy cooked up a storm (including a Tepanyaki night to die for and the Purser kept everyone honest. We will be back!

New Long Sleeved Shirts

Crew,
Check the latest pain.killer fashions. They are a miserly $40 each. Let me know your sizes and quantities.

Rod

CREW SHIRTS

Hey Crew. Check out the cool new pain.killer shirts. Shirts are $40 each. They come in small (ladies), mdm, lge and e/lge. For sizing purposes I (Rod) am between a mdm and a large. Di and Nick are small. Doug is a mdm.

Gennaker Handling Video from North Sails

Team pain.killer.

Check out this video from North Sails which will give you a pretty good idea of flying our Gennaker. Foredeckies have never had it so good!

http://www.au.northsails.com/SailProducts/CruisingSails/Gennakers/GennakerHandlingVideo/tabid/12100/language/en-US/Default.aspx