Australian F18 Nats 2020: Burvill & Puttman crowned Champs
Photos by taylero’d Images / F18 Australian Association, more at their fb page here–
Another Australian Title for Brett Burvill & Max Puttman riding their own creations, the Windrush Edge F18 & Nxt Gen Sails. Max reported they used a new mainsail design “.. More power and better acceleration across the board ..” he has been working hard for some seasons now pushing his new Loft, contact him at nextgensails.com/getstarted.html for more details. Always good feelings seeing the builders racing their own weapons at top level.
Second place for another local F18 platform & sails builder like Brett Goodall, sailing with Lachie White sailing a C2 / Goodall Design Sails. If I recall well one of Brett;s best results as helm.
Good warmup for the Australian teams towards coming Worlds 2020 in Italy.
Read below Final Day report sent by Brett Burvill:
“Final day of the F18 Australian nationals where 4 races were sailed and with 4 different winners for the day it showed the competitiveness across the 29 boat fleet . Some spectacular capsizes with big gusts and shifts kept the leaders mixed up with some big breakaway wins and alot of snakes and ladders across the course . Winds mainly from the north west but quite shifty and patchy once again.
Holding a handy lead going into the last day Burvill/ Puttman sailed conservatively staying close to the direct competitors and taking few risk even if it meant not going for bullets . Dunk and Clark after a great first couple of race days fell back not being able to find any luck in the tricky conditions of the final day . Goodall/ White sailed consistently to secure second from the great rookie team of White /White with the helm at just 14 years a real future threat to the titles .
Parker/ Brown win the last race to finish fourth and fifth place to MacDonald and Coe. With 7 different heat winners across the 12 race event the fleet is getting faster and racing closer . Overall a good mix of boats and sailmakers represented with 5x Edges , 4x C2’s and a Scorpion all in the top 10 with various sails from NextGen , Goodall , 1D , Alegayter and Landenberger + Hobie , Capricorn and Nacra sails performing well on various boats in the mixed conditions.
Well done to the Tasmanian F18 team for getting the event arranged and done smoothly and in a friendly environment with a small enthusiastic team of volunteers ( even if it was cold for pretty much everyone who had traveled from mainland Australia ) “
Top ten , complete results at sailingresults.net/sa/results/overall.aspx?ID=80321.1
| Pl | Name | Sai | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Tot | Net |
| 1 | Brett Burvill Maximum Puttman | Aus 537 | 1 | 2 | -18 | 1 | 1 | -9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 55 | 28 |
| 2 | Brett Goodall Lachie White | Aus 33 | 2 | -13 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | (30) DNF | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 85 | 42 |
| 3 | Beau White Tristan White | Aus 524 | -13 | 3 | 4 | 5 | -10 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 66 | 43 |
| 4 | Gavin Parker Dan Brown | Aus 532 | 7 | 9 | (30) DNF | 3 | (30) DNF | 2 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 107 | 47 |
| 5 | James McDonald Adam Coe | Aus 422 | 5 | -15 | -19 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 94 | 60 |
| 6 | David Hughes Gavin Rietman | Aus 100 | 8 | -16 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | -14 | 8 | 92 | 62 |
| 7 | Darren Flanagan Quentin Cook | Aus 509 | 3 | -21 | 6 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 7 | (30) DNF | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 114 | 63 |
| 8 | Peter Dunk Ben Clark | Aus 69 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 12 | -20 | -23 | 12 | 114 | 71 |
| 9 | Glenn Randall Billy Leonard | Aus 517 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 6 | (30) DNF | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | -19 | 142 | 93 |
| 10 | Trevor Lowder Richard Brewin | DAZ 23 | -21 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 11 | -18 | 8 | 5 | 135 | 96 |
