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BMW Royal Langkawi International Regatta 2005 Asian Yachting Race Report 1 - 1st March Full steam ahead... A total of 47 yachts have entered in 8 classes that have been grouped together to contest the Prime Ministers Challenge trophy, the Commodores Cup, Sportsboat and Multihull trophies. Defending champion Peter Ahern's YO! has returned to do battle with Troy Yaw's Ulumulu, a DK Farr 36 SonnenKoenig owned by Armin Schmid and Mike Downard's Switchblade. Peter Ahern's YO! continued on their winning ways by taking 2 firsts in the 2 opening races on day 1 from Armin Schmid's SonnenKoenig and Troy Yaw's all Malaysian crew on Ulumulu. Similarly in the Premier Cruising Class David Lindahl's La Samudra scored two wins over Nick Band's Emerald Blue and Reinhard Haiber's well traveled Pytheas Aura all down from Phuket on this occasion. In IRC 1 the wins were shared between Kevin Gillow's Minx and Greg Coops Abraxas from Singapore with Keith Garry's Beaux Esprits and Kazuo Kuramochi's Japanese team on Princess Isabella taking the other podium places. The Sportsboat Class sees Scott Duncanson's Phuket 8 Securicor Somtam Express taking on two Royal Malaysian Navy teams on Platu 25's, KDP I and KDP II. In race 1 KDP II got the better of Scott Duncanson who retaliated by turning the tables on them in race 2. The Racing Multihulls saw Bob Mott's Chameleon pick up two wins from Tunku Nazim's fast finishing F31 As the breeze died off in the second race Frank Cusack's Chakra 3, Brent Mc Innes's No Fixed Address and Tim Milner's Charro all had a share of the podium places. In the Cruising Multihulls Christopher Sieber's Kilo won the first race from Bill Eby's Lighten Up who made amends scoring first in the second race with Joan Foo Mahony's Sedna scoring a 3rd and a 2nd to keep in touch with the leaders. In Club Class Jim Ellis's well sailed Remington scored 2 wins from Ayahudin Abd Rahman's Chantique and Paul Scholten's Pinocchio exchanging 2nd and 3rd places in race 2. With 12 boats entered the Liveaboard Class has the most boats competing. Regolarita 2 entered by Seadrift Ltd. and a former winner here Jay Jarvis's Blue Jay shared the winnings on day 1 and William Crump's Fistral finished a consistent third. The Classic Class saw David Kimpton's Lady M and the Royal Malaysian Navy entry Musytari share the winnings on day 1 with Des Kearms well prepared Isobar scoring a second and third to keep the leaders honest. As two races were completed today the series is on in earnest and many of the crews were seen tweaking the rig and conducting tuning up exercises at the marina during the afternoon in preparation for tomorrows racing. To view the web edition with photos click on: http://asianyachting.com/news/RLIR05.htm. Full results can be found at: http://www.langkawiregatta.com/Results-2005-day-1.html.
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