ADVERTISE

Evason Phuket Raceweek - Race Report 4 - 31/07/05

Evason Phuket Raceweek - Race Report 3 - 30/07/05

Evason Phuket Raceweek - Race Report 2 - 29/07/05

Evason Phuket Raceweek - Race Report 1 - 28/07/05

Post Tsunami, Low-Season and Mid SW Monsoon blues... Report from Asian Yachting - 37/07/05

King's Cup Regatta Supports Evason Phuket Raceweek 2005 - 24/07/05

Quantum Naga Cup 2005 - Race Report 2 Summary - 24/07/05

Quantum Naga Cup 2005 - Race Report 1 - 23/07/05

4th Koh Samui International Regatta 2005 - Race Report 5 & Summary: 28/05/05

4th Koh Samui International Regatta 2005 - Race Report 4: 27/05/05

[more]

The 3rd Koh Samui International Regatta
Race Report 5

Date: 29 April 2004

Sometimes you win, Sometimes you loose!
As a event unfolds it is normally possible to predict a winner but after 5 days of racing this years Koh Samui Int. Regatta came down to the final race showdown in most classes. The vagaries of the weather caused early winners to experience late setbacks and others staged a comeback in the dying stages to put themselves in with a chance. Stranger things have happened but one thing is certain that eventually only one winner will emerge in each class.

Despite winning todays final race Troy Yaw's Ulumulu had yesterdays Racing Class 1A provisional Race 5 win overturned by the International Jury in favour of Sam Chan's Ffreefire. This decision handed the Russ Parker skippered ULDB sled a narrow victory over Ulumulu skippered by Ray Roberts and left Gerry Daughton's Outrageous trailing in 3rd spot overall.

Racing Class 1B is clearer cut as Marcel Liedts well sailed Hocux Pocux 2 scored 4 wins and two seconds to convincingly take the honours over Peter Churchhouse's Moonblue 2 and Dr Ian Nicolson's Intrigue of Stornaway.

Veerasit Puangnak's Naval Academy 2 four early wins kept their nose in front of a fast finishing Magic Roundabout skippered by Thailand's Saranya Makinson who won both yesterday and today's final race. Her late run of wins has displaced Rachit Sanphakaew Naval Academy 1 to third place overall.

In the Sportsboat Class Jonathon Mahony's Mum 30 Happy Endings scored 4 wins to convincingly take the title from David Bell's Pink Pussycat and Mark Horwards Image Asia Attitude 8 consistency finished up in 3rd spot.

Except for the first race Khun Radab's Farrier 9 Cedar Swan almost preformed a clean sweep of wins in the Multihull Class over Kirati Assakul's 13m catamaran Sonic from Ocean Marina in Pattaya. Francesco Brancaccio's Farrier 24 Vivace finished with 18 points and a strangle hold on 3rd place.

As the Koh Samui Regatta is the final 5 star AY Grand Prix event for the 2003/04 Season a 3 way tie between Peter Ahern, Ray Ordovesa and Ray Roberts for Asia's champion skipper has been settled on count back. Peter Ahern's 2 wins at the Asean Regatta and the BMW Royal Langkawi Regatta earns him the title for the 2nd year in succession. Ffreefire's win here at Koh Samui places her firmly at the top of the yacht rankings to become this seasons champion yacht. Had her owner Sam Chan skippered her here he would have convincingly won both the yacht and skipper championships. More on this will appear in the July News and Views and the final AY Grand Prix results can be found at http://asianyachting.com/news/Rankings0304.htm.

Results and more news are available on http://www.samuiregatta.com.

Race report by Capt. Marty Rijkuris of Asian Yachting.