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Pirates of Borneo Admit Defeat

As a result of the recent warnings from both the USA and UK regarding the safety of tourists visiting Sabah, there has been a noticeable drop in trade, following on from last year recession and H1N1 Pirates of Borneo have been force to shutdown their profitable business. tourism worldwide is in trouble even places such as Cyprus are showing a 10% reduction even though the UK has come out of recession.

Pirates of Borneo will be hosting a farewell Pig roast on Sunday 31st Jan 2010 commencing 1700 hours and all are welcome, a limited number of T-shirts and bandannas are available for sale. come and try to drink us dry for the last time as hosts Nick and Jean bid a sad farewell to Sabah.

David AKA Seadog will however still remain as the scourge of the seas around Sutera Harbour in the regular sailing events.

Borneo International Yachting Challenge 2010

Borneo International Yachting Challenge 2010

16th - 23rd July

Following the success of Last year race for the Borneo Cup, which added Kota Kinabalu to the racing schedule plan are in hand to include a stopover in Brunei This year.

IOR class 1 Yachts, cruiser/racers, cruising and Multihulls will gather in Miri Marina for two inshore races, followed by a passage race to Brunei. From Brunei there will be a short passage race to Labuan and then another passage to Kota Kinabalu, followed by two inshore races.

It is expected that there will be incentives to cover expenses, including limited accommodation, and free marina berthing during the event.

Draft Schedule of Events

Fri 16/07/10

All day Registration and measurement

1600 Skippers briefing - Everly Park Hotel

1900 Welcome dinner and reception - Everly Park Hotel

Sat 17/07/10

1000 Race 1, Harbour Race- Miri 10 miles

o/c race 1 Race 2, Harbour Race – Miri 10 miles

1900 Prize presentation and dinner – Ulumulu Restaurant

Sun 18/07/10 1000 Race 3, Passage Race Miri to Brunei 75 miles

Mon 19/07/10 1900 Prize presentation and dinner reception - Empire Hotel

Tues 20/07/10

1000 Race 4, Passage Race - Brunei to Labuan 30 miles

1900 Prize presentation and reception Labuan Sports Center

Wed 21/07/10 1400 Race 5, Passage Race - Labuan to Kota Kinabalu 65 miles

Thurs 22/07/10 Rest day. Spare day for re-sail of races 1 and 2 if required – IRC only

Fri 23/07/10

1000 Race 6, Harbour Race – KK 10 miles

o/c race 6 Race 7, Harbour Race - KK 10 miles

1900 Prize presentation and farewell dinner Sutera Harbour

More details will be publish at end of January

David Ogden
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Pirate wins NewYears Eve Twilight Race

Rain threatened the final twilight race of the year at Sutera Harbour Marina, however as it cleared away a small fleet of optimist dingies made their way to the start line outside the marina. The sausage course had been set up earlier, however with the change of wind direction, it resulted in a broad reach start.

The starting line was quite short, which made for an interesting start. he best start was made by Dawn who was quickly pursued by the Pirate and and another four boats with the rest of the fleet further behind. Dawn kept her lead round the first mark and a South African Sailor slipped through to second place with the other four boats josling for position around the mark.

No changes took place on the second leg with the first two boats pulling away, however on the third leg the leaders fell into a hole and the Pirate regained second position. the wind shifted slightly on the final leg so that it became necessary to tack to lay the finish line. The Pirate was the first to tack away losing three places as Dawn held a narrow lead with four boats in contention. trying to lay the line, eventually they realised they would need to tack, bui it was too late as the Pirate passed them all to windward to cross the line.
 

Pirates Rule in Yesterdays Twilight Sailing

Heavy rain during the afternoon nearly forced the abandonment of the fortnightly optimist racing for crew of yachts visiting Sutera Harbour Marina. However, as the rain petered out  the race officer carried out a  a quick inspection outside the marina nad there was a good land breeze building up.


11 boats made it to the start line which was set as a downwind leg of a sausage course of 3 laps. The start and first leg was interesting with the advantage often going to the following boats as the blanketed the wind from those head and there were a number of  port and starboard incidents on the run and at the first mark.


Heading back upwind the field began to sort itself out and with a slight wind shift I broke tack with the two leading boats and managed to snatch the lead at the windward mark. I maintained a healthy lead despite losing the rudder on three occasion due to a missing retaining clip on the rudder. So Once again Pirates of Borneo rule.I even tried sailing an extra lap to try and catch up and lap the tail enders but just failed.


A successful evenings sailing was rounded of with a twilight dinner at Sutera Harbour Marina Club where prizes were presented to boats which finished in 3rd, 4th and 5th places plus myself for the fastest boat. The sailing has a special handicap system where previous winners pass down the prizes to those that have not won before, which cab surprise some of the participants!


David Ogden
Yacht Watch Service

Set Back To Pirates Of Borneo , Borneo Cup Hopes

Pirates of Borneo discovered yesterday that the Yacht they were planning to sail in next week, Borneo Cup, which forms part of the Borneo International Yachting Challenge, is no Longer available. The race leaves Miri in Sarawak on 11th October to sail to Labuan, where there is a dinner on 12th October, prior to racing the the second leg to Kota Kinabalu on 13th Oct (thank God its not a Friday) Once in KK there are two short races followed by a prize giving and dinner.

The Pirates of Borneo Crew are already, but just need to have a yacht confirmed, there are two alternatives, one a Yacht which is at present having a new keel fitted, if it is ready in time. or a small pocket racer Miri Magic one of the smallest race boat to enter, quite different to sailing a 46 footer.

Changes in boat size radically alter the tactics to be used so yesterday was spent working out new tactics, equipment and route for racing a 25ft boat., which will hopefully be confirmed today.

Two of the crew will be honing up their racing tactics at the Bi Weekly, twilight sailing event at Sutera Harbour Marina, whilst the remain three crew are arranging to travel to Miri  from Tawau.

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