19 year old wins skiff race

Jacqui Bonnitcha wins at round four of the Casio Seapathfinder Sydney Harbour Sprint Series

19 year old Jacqui Bonnitcha rewrote the record books on Friday evening when she skippered Rosemount to victory in Race 1 from a handicap start then took out Race 2 on handicap for a perfect score in Round 4 of the Casio Seapathfinder Sydney Harbour Sprint Series.

In the more than 110 year history of the sport there have been few female skippers and certainly none that have recorded such a result against some of the world's best skiff sailors.

Jacqui has only been sailing in the class since October and the result is a tribute to her and crewmen Kevin Gilroy and Colin Selwood.

The Rosemount team took line honours by 23 secs in Race 1 from the very consistent Team Morrison (Peter Morrison) with Team Pomfret (Chris Pomfret) a further nine seconds back in third place.

In Race 2 Euan Mc Nicol scored his first win as skipper when he piloted Club Marine home a 17secs winner over John Winning's Yandoo Ssangyong with Omega Smeg (Daniel Phillips) another 41secs away third.

The final result in the regatta went to John Sweeny, Peter Harris and Scott Babbage on Churchills Sports Bar who finished 0n 46 points ahead of John Winning Jnr in Panasonic on 51.5 points and Rag & Famish Hotel (John Harris) on 54 points.

Results: Heat 1 - Handicap Start

Pos	Boat	Elapsed Time	Handicap Place	Series Points
1	Rosemount	37:31:00	1st	0.75
2	Team Morrison	37:54:00	2nd	2
3	Team Pomfret	38:03:00	3rd	3
4	Omega Smeg		4th	4
5	Rag & Famish Hotel		5th	5
6	Churchills Sports Bar		6th	6
7	Computer Associates		7th	7
8	Panasonic		8th	8
9	Fisher & Paykel		9th	9
10	CST Composites		10th	10
11	Yandoo Ssangyong		11th	11
12	Asko Appliances		12th	12

Results: Heat 2 - Scratch Start

	Skiff	Elapsed Time	Handicap Place	Series Points
1	Club Marine	29:03:00	3rd	98
2	Yandoo Ssangyong	29:20:00	4th	63.75
3	Omega Smeg	30:01:00	2nd	59.75
4	Rag & Famish Hotel		5th	54.0 (3rd)
5	Maytag		7th	109
6	Computer Associates		9th	84
7	Panasonic		6th	51.5 (2nd)
8	CST Composites		12th	128.5
9	Fisher & Paykel		10th	96
10	Churchills Sports Bar		11th	46.0 (1st)
11	Asko Appliances		13th	156
12	Team Morrison		8th	69
13	Rosemount		1st	146.5
14	Team Pomfret		14th	67
15	Casio Seapathfinder	Non-starter		116
16	SX Projects	Non-starter		165
17	AAPT	Non-starter		240
18	Belle Property	Non-starter		184
19	Aristocrat	Non-starter		203