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Glorious sailing conditions prevailed for the opening weekend of the 2010 sailing season. Moderate to fresh, mainly north-east to northerly winds prevailed, with some tricky light patches inshore.

The Platus revelled in the conditions to take out the major honours in Class1 IRC division with the first three places going to Platus. First place 103 (Emma Mathilde) sailed by Morten Jacobsen, second place 114 (Puma) sailed by Kikuchi-san and third 130 (The Fox) sailed by Nick.

In the Class1 Perfor… Continue

OMYC Cruising Programme 2010

Fellow cruisers,

The 2010 OMYC Sailing Calendar has been produced (see copy on this site). A separate class for cruising boats has been created to encourage sailors who are not particularly inclined to yacht racing, giving them an opportunity to become more involved in social activities of the club. Many of you have already taken part in the Ko Sri Chang or the Sattahip race weekends and we wish to expand on this type of participation. Please contact me if y… Continue

Our 2009 monthly racing champions were celebrated at our end of year dinner on Saturday November 14th.

The Class Winners, El Coyote in IRC1, Sansanook in IRC2, Freee Wheeler in the Multihulls and Gulf Charters 1 in the Platus received exquisite trophies in benjarong organized by Bill Gasson.

The party lasted late into the night resulting in the appearance for the subsequent day's rhum race to be rather modest.

Now get ready for 2010!!

Following a series of four major events, contested throughout 2009, Phuket resident Scott Duncanson and his Thai based team have won the prestigious Raimon Land Platu Championship against some of Asia’s best sailors in the 25 foot Platu one design class.


Based at Ocean Marina Jomtien, the championship is a best 3 of 4 event series. The name… Continue

Following the success of last year’s inaugural rally, where about 20 sailing and motor yachts participated, again this year we plan to make use of the long weekend at Chulalongkorn Day, Friday, October 23rd. As some of you may wish for a longer stay at Koh Samet, the event official start already on Thursday, October 22nd and finishes on Monday, October 26th. You may obviously join and leave the rally as is most convenient to you.

The event is open to sailing as well as motor yachts. The total d… Continue

A soft SSW greeted the sixteen boats & ninety sailors as they set sail in the Thai Raiver overnight race to Sattahip last Saturday, in what proved to be yet again another eventful weekend both on & off the water.

The weekend once again tested not only the mettle of the sailors in navigating their way to Sattahip in light conditions against a flooding tide but also their liquid amber endurance on Saturday night.

The cruiser fleet did what cruisers do best and headed south at their leisu… Continue

This year provides a sensational situation and a fitting finale to this years One Design Platu Championship of Thailand .

The 2008 Platu Series Champion and 2009 Platu Open Champion, Scott Duncanson, the 2008 National Platu Champion, Rolf Heemskerk and the 2009 Coronation Cup holder, Ray Roberts, face off against each other at the final of the Raimon Land One Design Platu Championship of Thailand in Pattaya.
With these three and other top level entrants, sparks are sure to be flying and the 'ro… Continue

The Koh Phai Cruise 30/31st August. From Andrew Watt and Gary Baguley
Saturday morning and the sky was dark and threatening and there was hardly a breath of wind. It seemed the club cruise to Koh Phai would not be sailed in ideal conditions. However, by 11.00 the skies had cleared and a gentle SW breeze began to blow. A beam reac… Continue

Computer based PHS handicapping is a great development in the sport as is evidenced by its adoption widely through the sailing community, all over the world. It was never designed to compete with or replace measured rules such as IOR, IMS or IRC. For the truly competent and competitive sailor, one design sailing is the best solution.

Performance Based Handicap Systems have been operating in club yacht racing for many years. During that time it has meant that some dedicated volunteer within the… Continue

The two keelboat divisions sailed longer passage races on Saturday and on Sunday, whilst the Platu class enjoyed the windward leeward course to themselves.
On Saturday, ‘Magic Roundabout’ (David Bell) enjoyed the steady breeze and flat conditions to sail superbly to claim line honours and handicap v… Continue

This was the third round of four which comprises the Raimon Land One Design Platu Championship 2009 .
Holidays and busy regatta schedules meant that the fleet for this third round consisted of 7 local crews without the usual influx of “foreigners”, but the lower numbers did not reflect on… Continue

Eight yachts from OMYC made the journey across the Gulf of Thailand to attend the ninth annual Hua Hin Regatta. Five keelboats and three Platus braved south westerly to west winds of up to 20 knots, arriving safely in the anchorage off the Sofitel beach. The main regatta was sailed on Friday and Sa… Continue

Hi the TOTGR 09 Photo Gallery can be directly accessed at: http://asianyachting.com/photos/photo.htm?TOTGR09 Most the competing boats, prize presentations and Ocean Marina's fantastic facilities can be found online… Continue

I came across this interesting article regarding the future reliability of the GPS Satelite system.

Looks like we should keep our old charts on the boat in future.

Go to here

Let us have your best caption!! A two minute credit in your next club race is at stake.

We need urgently a logo for OMYCsailing. Anybody with graphic creativity please send us your ideas quickly. The winner will be granted a 2 minutes credit in his next race!!!