Fun Yacht Racing

In an effort to build the class in South Australia Fun2 has moved to the Port rvier club "Port Adelaide Sailing Club".

The aim is to build a fleet of over 10 J24’s in 18 months based at this new marina facility. The committee is progressive and are promoting a variety of sailing that will enable the club to bloom.

With several High Schools basing their programs at the club it offers the opportunity to have juniors in out program as well as bringing new people and boats into the class. Peter Stevens has bought his second J24 "Haywire" and this will also be based at Port Adelaide.

The Fun2 team welcome Laura and Bogdan to the team, with the team in full training for the up coming Nationals. We are currently training 2 to 3 times a week in the Port river experiencing lots of shifting breezes, huge variances in pressure and large tides. It is hoped this will sharpen our skills and awareness to changing gears.

WANT TO JOIN THE FUN YACHT RACING TEAM – RING ALYN 0400227562  mnfs@adam.com.au

Fun2 came 5th in the Asia – Pacific Championships, We started the Regatta with a couple of disappointing 9ths. This was mainly due to the skipper running the event and having no sleep the night before.

Day 2 – with plenty of sleep overnight we had a great start and were 2nd around the first mark and finally finished in third place. On Race 4 we were between 3rd and 6th most of the race but gear failure dropped up to 6th . This was a rare for our team to have gear failure and more was to come.

The U bracket for the Jib Halyard broke and when during rigged created many problems with the kite. We started race with an excellent start and were 4th around the first mark but lost 6 spots downwind due to spinnaker problems. this was the pattern of the race make time uphill to lose downhill finally finishing 9th.

Race day 3 Heat 6 saw us have another excellent start and were in 5th spot for the whole race. This was sensational considering we were only 345 kgs and sailing in 25kts.

Heat 7  Well we were infringed by another boat but it was greed that led to a disastrous start. I bailed out and ducked boats and went right and when we tacked back we were in mid fleet when the rain squall came.35 – 45 kts and we were out of there.

With no visibility and knowing there may be hail to come (which did) we retired and headed back with the  race was abandoned.

The full dvd which is highly recommended can be purchased  from Harken or North Sails

Fun Yacht Racing - FUN2 prepare for J24 Asian Championships

Team Fun have been hard at work preparing the boat for the up coming Asia / Pacific Championship. with a superb field of competitors the competition will be tough.  HI and  Fun 2 will hit the water next week and do some speed testing and then compete in the follwing weeks Winter Races.

The Championships will be held 6th – 8th June at the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia www.cycsa.com.au/ANC/index.html 

Fun 2 – 2009 Season

Alyn Stevenson and his team sailed an arduous season competing in over 70 Races, which included the Nationals , States and 3 Regattas. The Team was made up of Stuart Kilner – trimmer , Ben Steele – Pit, Kathryn Reeves – Mast , Garlene Kilner – Mast , Chris Rivett – Bow and Alyn Stevenson – Skipper / Tactician.

2009 was a great effort following on from a great 2008 and the team went on to win their 3rd straight South Australian State Championship and second CYCSA club championship in a row.

The Australian Nationals 4th placing was followed with a domination of the South Australia State Championship winning 7 out 8 races. The June long weekend in June saw the teram come 5th in the first Asia – Pacific Championship

Results for 2008 /2009 Season