{"id":87806,"date":"2023-03-08T05:47:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T03:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/districtmailhelderberg\/royal-flush-dominates-all-comer-series-opening-20230308-2-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T06:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:41:31","slug":"royal-flush-dominates-all-comer-series-opening-20230308-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/districtmailhelderberg\/royal-flush-dominates-all-comer-series-opening-20230308-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Flush dominates All Comer Series opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since her return to competitive club racing <span>Royal Flush<\/span> has dominated competitive sailing at Gordon\u2019s Bay Yacht Club (GBYC). Under skipper Denis Cochrane she took both line honours and first place on handicap in the opening three races of the All Comers Series, followed by a similarly dominant victory in the first Medium Distance race of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Royal Flush<\/em> has emerged as the biggest challenger to Nico van Wieringen\u2019s <em>Go Dutch<\/em>, the 2021 and 2022 GBYC Champion Yacht. The Medium Distance event was the first where these two racers found themselves on the same course, and it was <em>Royal Flush <\/em>that emerged victorious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Medium Distance race was contested over a 21 nautical mile course, so the relative performance of the two yachts is yet to be seen on a shorter \u201cround-the-cans\u201d courses. The handicap difference between <em>Royal Flush <\/em>and <em>Go Dutch<\/em> is only 1% (in the latter\u2019s favour), so the racing will be close. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Royal Flush<\/em> is a once-off quarter-tonner design by the legendary Angelo Lavranos, built in 1982 to win the Lipton Cup Challenge under International Ocean Racing rules (she won Lipton in 1983 with Rick Nankin as skipper). In 1985, <em>Royal Flush<\/em> was shipped to Corsica, where she won the Quarter Tonner World Cup with Geoff Meek as skipper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The L26, of which <em>Go Dutch <\/em>is an example, is also a Lavranos design. L26s were used as the one-class design for the Lipton Challenge Cup between 1984 and 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been several other new arrivals in the GBYC marina worth noting. The masthead-rigged Stadt 34 Silver Girl, owned by Jaco Kriel and skippered by Paul Tanner, scored second place overall on the opening weekend of All Comers racing. She has since been sailed at the 2023 Mykonos Offshore race between Cape Town and Langebaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dirk and Mariette Nolte\u2019s new <em>Holiday 23 Civis Mundi<\/em> entered the opening weekend of the All Comers Series, and immediately made an impact on the mid-field, finishing fifth overall after a podium position in Race 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent addition to the harbour is the <em>Holiday 34 Bowlyon<\/em>, owned by Richard and Kim Bowes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next GBYC club season event is the Autumn Series Mini Regatta on the weekend of 1-2 April. The club is also expecting to enter boats into the Compass Rose night race in False Bay (18-19 March), as well as the Admiral\u2019s Regatta at Hout Bay Yacht Club (25-26 March).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span><span id=\"U101118737486jLB\" style=\"font-family:'Nasdings';\">V<\/span><\/span><span>For more on sailing at GBYC, send an email to Eleonore Bondesio (manager) at gbyc@gbyc.co.za.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_6b4bb96d\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/8245\/c9456959fb874d74b1125691aa8220b2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/districtmailhelderberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fbc743a7c1634ca7bdb46028c8da093a.jpg\" title=\"Time Out (in the foreground, skippered by Philippe Pringiers) won the 2022 3D Cooling GBYC Gaul Regatta, and finished second overall in last year\u2019s Club Championship. She faces stiff competition this year from fellow Lavranos-designs Go Dutch and the newly-restored Royal Flush.Photo: Elisabeth Retief\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Time Out (in the foreground, skippered by Philippe Pringiers) won the 2022 3D Cooling GBYC Gaul Regatta, and finished second overall in last year\u2019s Club Championship. She faces stiff competition this year from fellow Lavranos-designs Go Dutch and the newly-restored Royal Flush.Photo: Elisabeth Retief<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/8245\/00b338bd1ccc4e7c8e5f3b4c9260d3d2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/districtmailhelderberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6307660d6e444234b81e26638f7bd908.jpg\" title=\"Go Dutch, the 2021 and 2022 GBYC Champion Yacht, in action under the skippership of Nico van Wieringen. She didn\u2019t take part in the opening rounds of the All Comers Series, and in the first Medium Distance race, was beaten to the line by Royal Flush.Photo: Barry Ross\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Go Dutch, the 2021 and 2022 GBYC Champion Yacht, in action under the skippership of Nico van Wieringen. She didn\u2019t take part in the opening rounds of the All Comers Series, and in the first Medium Distance race, was beaten to the line by Royal Flush.Photo: Barry Ross<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since her return to competitive club racing Royal Flush has dominated competitive sailing at Gordon\u2019s Bay Yacht Club (GBYC). 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