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| Woman skipper wins Bruny Is Race |
 For the first time in its 110-year history, Tasmania’s historic Bruny Island Race has been won by a woman skipper, with Hobart yachtswoman Dianne Barkas sailing the Sydney 38 Asylum to provisional first place in both the IRC and PHS handicap divisions.The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s Principal Race Officer Roger Martin has confirmed Asylum as the winner of both divisions with the fleet now finishing the 89 nautical mile race by mid-morning today. All but one of the 19 starters completed the course. The Bruny Island Race, first sailed in 1898, circumnavigates Bruny Island, the elongated island south of Hobart. It is the oldest regularly conducted ocean race in Australia. The race started from Hobart’s Castray Esplanade at 9.30am Saturday, with Dr Who, skippered by Rod Jackman, taking line honours at 39 minutes past midnight last night. Asylum, which had been sharing the lead with Dr Who for most of the race, finished only 12 minutes 44 seconds astern of the bigger boat, at 00:51:44, with Creative Intention (David Rees) coming in third at 01:31:36. In the IRC division, Asylum won from six-times previous race winner Intrigue, skippered by David Calvert, third place going to Archie, skippered by Sally Rattle, the only other woman skipper in the fleet. Asylum won the PHS division from David Taylor's Pisces and Intrigue. The fleet had light to moderate south-easterly winds sailing down the ocean side of Bruny Island yesterday, with the breeze swinging to the south-west last evening to give the leaders a fast sail up the d’Entrecasteaux Channel and back in the Derwent River. Dianne Barkas and her husband Roy, with Dianne as the nominated skipper, own Asylum, which was originally based at Hamilton Island. The well-sailed boat is the first Sydney 38 owned in Tasmania, competing last month in the inaugural Launceston to Hobart Race in which it was third boat to finish and fourth on handicap. Canadian-born Dianne and American-born Roy moved from Idaho to Melbourne five years ago, retiring to Hobart three years ago. Their first yacht in Tasmania was Serano, a Robert Perry-designed Norwalk Island Sharpie, based on a traditional Chesapeake Bay fishing boat, which they had built at Kettering. "Most of the crew of Asylum are sailing friends we met at Kettering," Dianne said after race. "They are all highly experienced sailors and they played a major role in our win." In addition to Dianne and Roy, the crew included Tim Malone, Mick Burrows, Heather McCullum, Mick Souter, Josh Ey and Rod and Duncan Mennitz. "It was a great race with excellent competition," Dianne said. "We were racing all the way with Dr Who, Intrigue and Creative Intention...last evening we had a wonderful kite run all the way up the Channel and then in the river right to the finish line, although it was very shy." Finishing Times of the 82nd Bruny Island Race: 1. Dr Who – Finish time 00:39:00 2. Asylum – 00:51:44 3. Intrigue – 01:25:53 4. Creative Intention - 01:31:36 5. 42° South – 01:47:02 6. Archie – 02:01:12 7. Pisces – 02:01:56 8. X-Rated – 03:00:28 9. J-Force – 04:10:06 10. Natelle II – 06:20:37 11. Ciao Baby – 06:26:53 12. Bugbear – 07:09:08 13. Jigsaw – 08:04:40 14. Black Magic – 08:13:23 15. Wild Fire – 08:29:20 16. Miss Conduct – 08:30”48 17. Trouble – 09:03:21 18. Farr South – to finish, in river Ret: Mojo Rising |
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