Good Day For FRT

Freshie racing team has had a good start to the 2012 Warren Jones Match Racing regatta in our home town of Perth. The day started off with very heavy winds and teams sailing with reefed mainsails and jibs. The breeze proved challenging for most competitors with winds slowly dying throughout the day but we managed to keep the boat going finishing the day on 3 wins and 2 losses.

The Team is feeling confident in their boat handling and tactics and are looking forward to racing tomorrow where we will be up against David Chapman first who after day 1 has had no losses.

Keep posted to see how we go.

The Freshie Racing team would like to thank the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, Zhik , the Ron Tough Yachting Foundation and Peter Chappell.

FRT Just misses out on semis

 It was a tough day for Freshie Racing on day 3 of the Asian Match Racing Championships narrowly missing out on a spot in the semi finals. The day started with us against fellow Perth skipper David Gilmour, in the first round robin we manage to beat Dave but unfortuantly not the second time round. After lunch the breeze picked up and we were at the point were we had to beat Maximilian and the Zoke Team skippered by Seah Chin Yew. We managed to beat Maximilian but when we came up to verse the Zoke team a few costly mistakes lead to us losing and also losing a spot in the semis. The team in very disappointed but as Peter said in the media conference "we'll be back next year. Its not the end". 

Freshie Racing Team has just completed day 2 of the Asian Match Racing Championships.

It was another hot humid day with interesting sailing here in Kuala Terengganu but the team is confident in their ability to close the gap tomorrow on one of the semi finals positions as we come to the end of the second round robin. Keep posted to see how we go!

Freshie Racing would like to thank Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, Zhik, The Ron Tough Foundation and Peter Chappell for their support

Solid start for Freshie Racing at Asian Match Racing Champs.

Freshie Racing Team has arrived in Kuala Terengganu Malaysia for the 2011 Asian Match Racing Championships. Today was the first day of racing for the event and breeze was stronger and more consistent than any day during event last year. The team was off for the first race which gave us some good time to analyse the course. Our first race was against Reuben Corbett (AON RACING). This was a close race until the bottom gate rounding where the team chose tactically to go to the opposite mark to Reuben’s team. Our team lost out but manage to get the ground back by the top mark narrowly missing out at the end. After our first race the team had some great close races (with quite a few penalty’s) with teams such as David Gilmours team and Singapore’s Maximilian Soh (Team Send It Sideways). At the end of race day 1 Freshie Racing Team is at the top of the leader board sharing it with Will Tiller (Full Metal Jacket Racing) both on 4 wins 1 loss each. Freshie Racing and Full Metal Jacket will race off tomorrow morning for the last race of the first round Robin with the winner becoming top of the first Round Robin. The Team is confident and is looking forward to see what tomorrow brings keep posted to see how we go tomorrow.   

Freshie Racing takes out WA Match Racing Champs

Extreme weather conditions in Perth this weekend saw the format of the state match racing champs cut short on the final day with wind gusts up to 35knots. Freshie racing went undefeated in the 1st round robin to take the win.

Freshie Racing would like to thank Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, Zhik, The Ron Tough Foundation and Peter Chappell for their support

disappointment for FRT at OM Match Race

Freshie Racing has had a disappointing regatta in Ledro for the OM Match race. The Grade 2 event had many top ranked skippers such as Reuben Corbett and Will Tiller from New Zealand. The team felt confident going into our first race of day 2 against Will Tiller, we managed to catch Tiller out at the top mark stopping him from bearing away and allowed us to gain the lead but just as the first day small complications led to leads being lost.
After the first race the team did not gain enough wins to qualify for semi's and ended in 11th place.

The team has now ended their 2011 Europe Tour winning 2 of our 4 regattas and begin training and planing for next year. Thanks for following the team and keep posted for future news on local events and our next season.  

Tough first day at OM Match Race