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Your Name: Email Address: Password: ( Needed to edit or delete this message.) Message Title: Text of Message: Add an Image: An image can also be attached to this listing. Click "Browse" to select the image file on your PC. It can be a JPEG or a GIF file. The file will be uploaded to the server, scaled to fit, and will appear beside the entry. Replying to: Big names on display @ Tumby Bay Been a bit light on for reading here so thought I'd post the report on the 125 racing from today that I write for the local paper. There are some names (of boats and people) I'm sure some will be familiar with. Large fleet for Tumby sailing A fleet of eight 125 boats took to the water for three races on Sunday. Sailors travelled from Whyalla and Port Lincoln to take on the Tumby Bay fleet that included recently crowned State 125 champions, Peter Henderson and Roy Gossink, sailing Carnivore. Amongst the visitors were Ryan Kelly and James Flint who have purchased Mk2 which was the boat that won the National Championships that were sailed recently at Henley Beach. This set up a showdown between the current state champions in Carnivore and the Australian Champion boat. The first race was held in very gusty conditions. Jeff Schramm sailing with Millie Nankivell in Clueless showed all his guile and experience to hold a prominent position early in the tough conditions in his timber boat but eventually the stiffer fiberglass hulls of Carnivore and Mk2 wore him down. The top windward mark was set just in front of the clubhouse in shallow water and it proved challenging for many of the crews. Spectators on the shore heard some interesting commentary from skippers trying to negotiate the tricky rounding. Carnivore steadily worked her way into the lead and sailed away to take victory from Mk2 followed by Clueless. A steady south-easterly set in for the second race making lives a little easier with the windward mark now out to sea. Mk2 showed they are fast learners reversing the result from the first race to take the win ahead of Carnivore. Chris and Caleb Trenberth in Smorstok were the big improvers moving up from second to last in the first race to fourth in the second race. Last place was also closely fought out with the Whyalla crew of Mick Casey and Rhys Sudholz in Smoke beating home Andrew Stanley and Alysha Gossink in Rubidium by a mere five seconds. In the final race Carnivore had the better of Mk2 early but Mk2 worked their way to the front on the final windward leg and sailed away to victory. Carnivore has been a super consistent performer which makes the efforts of Ryan Kelly and James Flint all the better in their first hitout in Mk2. The Eyre Peninsula now looks set to have two of the leading 125 crews in Australia. It was a fantastic day of sailing with no more than seven minutes separating the fleet in any of the races. There was also a celebrity guest driving the resuce/start boat with three time state 125 champion crew Haydn Trenorden taking charge on his first visit to Tumby Bay after making the trip over in the Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht race.