HONG KONG—The Hebe Haven Yacht Club Quest Yachting Typhoon Series 2015 nine race series started with an islands race last Sunday June 7 and continues through to August 22. This popular summer series attracted 52 boats subdivided into eight divisions covered with four starts.
With a southerly wind blowing a steady 7-10knts it was comfortable sailing for most of the race which took different routes to cater for the speed of participating crafts. The race started inside Port Shelter for all boats and rounded a windward Club Mark before heading for the islands.
The majority of boats IRC-B to D, HKPN-A, Sports Boats and J80’s raced 16 nautical miles via islands Table, Steep and Bluff and taking in the Bay Mark before returning to Table before finishing off Little Palm Beach (LPB). The big boats, IRC-A division initially rounded Trio instead of Steep, and included an additional - Bluff, North Nine Pin - loop in their 22 NM race. The slower boats HKPN-B missed out the Steep section travelling a shorter 8 NM course round Table to the Bay Mark and back to Table before finishing at LPB.
IRC Divisions
The new Marcel Liedts racer “Zannekin” showed her speed from the start, heading the IRC-A fleet out of Port Shelter and continued in this position right through the race finishing the 22 NM race 4-minutes ahead of the new “Ambush” of Joachim Isler and Drew Taylor. But on corrected time “Ambush” took 1st place with “Zannekin” second. The final order of the other IRC-A boats was “Signal 8”, “Vineta”, “Straight Up” and “Surfdude”.
