Please select your home edition
Edition
Hyde Sails 2022 One Design LEADERBOARD

Perth Match Cup - Team NZ's Peter Burling leads after Day 1 in Perth

by John Roberson on 23 Jan 2017
Racing on Day 1 of the Perth Match Cup hosted by Royal Perth YC John Roberson
Double Olympic medallist Peter Burling and his team of Kiwi sailors head the leaderboard after the first day of action at the Perth Match Cup, hosted by Royal Perth Yacht Club on the Swan River.

Burling, who won gold at the recent Rio Olympics and silver at the previous games in London, has a crew stacked with talent, and it showed on a day of champagne sailing, when he only dropped one race in seven.

His on board team are Blair Tuke, who was his medal winning partner at both games, Josh Junior, another Olympian and Glenn Ashby, a multiple catamaran world champion.

Local Perth based skipper Matt Jerwood holds second place, also with only one defeat, though he has only sailed six races, so has the potential to equal Burling’s score.

Jerwood’s Redline Racing team have been strong contenders on the match racing circuit for several years, finishing fifth in the Fremantle Championship event last year, and third at the Marstrand finale of last year’s tour.

Steven Thomas, another local skipper, holds third place after a tie-breaker with Harry Price, with both teams having won four races of six sailed, though Thomas beat Price when they met. Thomas is from the host club, and has been working his way up the world match racing standings recently.

Harry Price, another Australian, comes from the other side of the country, representing the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, in Sydney. He is perhaps a bit of a surprise package at this stage of the regatta, punching above his weight.

Expected to be doing better are Perth based Torvar Mirsky and Sweden’s Mans Holmberg.

Conditions on the Swan River’s Matilda Bay were perfect today, with bright sunshine and a seabreeze that built from a sedate 8 to 10 knots in the morning, to over 20 knots by the end of the afternoon.

The three day regatta takes the form of a double round robin, followed by quarter finals, semi-finals and a final, which will be sailed on Wednesday.

Scoreboard:

1 Peter Burling NZL 6 pts
2 Matt Jerwood AUS 5 pts
3 Steven Thomas AUS 4 pts
4 Harry Price AUS 4 pts
5 Torvar Mirsky AUS 3.5 pts
6 Mans Homberg SWE 3 pts
7= Will Boulden AUS 2 pts
7= Logan Beck NZL 2 pts
9 Matt Chew AUS 1.5 pts
10 Jeremy Koo MAS 0 pts
X-Yachts X4.3Zhik 2024 March - FOOTERVaikobi 2024 FOOTER

Related Articles

Last Chance for 2024 Olympic Qualification
Starting this weekend at the Semaine Olympique Française The Last Chance Regatta, held during the 55th edition of Semaine Olympique Française (Franch Olympic Week) from 20-27 April in Hyères, France, is as it says – the last chance.
Posted today at 5:42 am
35th Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta Day 1
Easy start to an exciting week The 35th Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta got off to a slow start today with unusual calm southerly winds which prompted the race committee to shorten the Old Road course.
Posted today at 3:49 am
5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Fraglia Vela Riva Day 1
Cold start but hot racing on Lake Garda, Italy The Jean Genie (GBR 43, Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey, Ruairidh Scott) won two out of three races on the opening day of the 2024 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup, on Thursday, which is being hosted by the first time by Fraglia Vela Riva.
Posted on 18 Apr
First six OGR finishers all Whitbread veterans
Whitbread yacht Outlaw AU (08) crosses the finish line at 13:39 UTC to claim the Adelaide Cup Former Whitbread yacht Outlaw AU (08) crosses the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes finish line at 13:39 UTC, 18th April after 43 days at sea ranking 6th in line honours and IRC for Leg 4.
Posted on 18 Apr
Clipper Race fleet set to arrive in Seattle
After taking on the North Pacific Ocean Over 170 non-professional sailors, including 25 Americans, are on board a fleet of eleven Clipper Race yachts currently battling it out in a race across the world's biggest ocean and heading for the Finish Line in Seattle.
Posted on 18 Apr
Alegre leads the search for every small gain
Going into 2024 52 Super Series season The first of the two new Botin Partners designed TP52s to be built for this 52 Super Series season, Andy Soriano's Alegre, is on course to make its racing debut at 52 Super Series Palma Vela Sailing Week.
Posted on 18 Apr
Trust A+T: Best in Class
Positive feedback from this Caribbean racing season Hugh Agnew recently sailed with SY Adela under Captain Greg Perkins in the Antigua Superyacht Challenge. They went on to win the Gosnell's Trophy - a great result.
Posted on 18 Apr
10 years of growth and international success
J/70 celebrates its 10th anniversary With nearly 1,900 hulls built and National Class Associations in 25 countries, the J/70 is the largest modern sport keelboat fleet in the world.
Posted on 18 Apr
America's Cup Defender christened "Taihoro"
Cup Defender named “To move swiftly as the sea between both sky and earth.” In a stirring ceremony, Iwi Ngati Whatua Orakei gifted and blessed the name ‘Taihoro' on the boat that Emirates Team NZ will sail in their defence of the 37th America's Cup. The launch event took place at the Team's base in Auckland's Wynyard Point.
Posted on 18 Apr
New Allen Topper Race Packs
Developed in collaboration with a handful of top sailors from the class The six packs have been developed in collaboration with a handful of top sailors from the Topper class over the last few seasons and the result is a selection of high-performance, easy-to-install packs which will help elevate your boat's performance.
Posted on 18 Apr