Pine-Pacific's Premier Performance: King's Cup 2013

Two X-55s "match race" in Phuket
Xena (blue kite) and Pine-Pacific battle it out at King's Cup, 2012.
Note the different spinnaker set-ups: us with pole, Pine with bowsprit.

This year, Xena didn't make the trip down to Phuket, so we didn't get the chance to tussle again with our sister ship, Pine-Pacific, the "other" X-55 in Asia, as we did at last year's King's Cup.
Pine cleaned up in the Premier IRC Division, taking all six races, some by as much as 30 minutes corrected.  Their only competition was the lovely grey Swan 75, Silandra V, but Pine beat her handily, including on the water in Race 4.
As Phuket Wan news says:

In Premier class, Pine-Pacific has dominated their class all week, and took two more victories again today. The team have been in a ''class of their own'' all week, and finished well ahead of nearest rival Silandra V.

So well done to Ithinai Yingsiri and his crew!
Also in the Division, another old sparring partner, the First 53f5 Baby Tonga, now owned by our neighbour Garry Smith, under charter to an Aussie crew, as Sailing Adventures and they too made it to the podium in Race 5; well done lads and ladies.

Baby Tonga crew pick up their second place silverware.  Our mate and
neighbour, Garry Smith in the middle.  Sorry don't know the others...

In other Div's news, of boats we know:
IRC 0: the big boys.... Neil Pryde racing again in his much-campaigned Wellboune 52 Custom, Hifi, came in third to two TP52s, just pipping another Hong Kong sailor, Frank Pong on his RP Custom 75, Jelik into fourth.
IRC 1: Long-time Xena cremate, Stevo, was racing on the Patrick Pender & Jamie McWilliam's Ker40, Signal 8 picking up a podium-finish third, in the hotly contested IRC1 Division.
IRC 2: Pete ("Sorro") Sorensen in his newly-bought Beneteau First 44.7 Fujin (Matt Allen's ex Ichi Ban), scored a second overall in their division IRC2.  Sailing mate Rob's Sailplane, a First 47.7, was chartered to Russian Kirili Sakhartsev -- whose folks had looked after us so well on our Russia trip in May this year -- and finished a creditable 4th in the division.
IRC 3: Hong Kong boat, the A35 Red Kite II owned -- and raced so well -- by Anthony Root and crew, won handily, tussling along the way with Matt Allen's new Ichi Ban an Adams 10.
LATER:

Baby Tonga, 2nd place, R5, on the King's Birthday....
Owner Garry gets his just desserts, from Dagmar..