Champagne sailing conditions greeted partic- ipants for the sixth annual Sailor’s Regatta, organized by the Phuket Yacht Club. The

regatta took place from Friday March 24th – Sunday March 26th with six boats competing in the multihull class & three in the monohull class. Hans Rahmann’s Voodoo win the cov- eted six-boat multihull class and Niels Degenkolw’s Phoenixwin the three-boat monohull class.

On the final day, PRO Matt McGrath repeated the racing sequence of the first day sailing two windward-lee- wards for both classes - starts five minutes apart - on course two, heading out from the middle of Chalong Bay in the direction of Ao Yon and the Cape Panwa channel marker.

Voodoo, skippered by Ian Coulson with Jojo Tayong (tactician & bow), John Santos (mast) and Jed Jennings (trimmer) and Twin Sharks usually duke it out with Twin Sharks prevailing in the local regattas, but not this time around as it was all Voodoo as they sailed spectacularly win- ning three of the five races in the series.

Dirk Wieblen’s No Fear took third overall (line hon- ours in round-the-island race on day two) in the six-boat multihull class. Andrew McDermott’s Trident placed fourth (they won race three), Bill Kane’s The Sting placed fifth with Dao Fidock’s Saffron rounded out the class.

Trident certainly turned heads on day two. Andrew McDermott, if you recall, used to sail a primarily female team on his old boat Jessandra II and he brought three of those crewmates along (his wife Mook, Lies Sol and Katie Bimson) on his new Corsair. They bonded quite well and