Race Report – Sat 20 February

Sydney Harbour presented a beautiful sunny day for Champagne sailing. However, the breeze proved tricky for setting a course and really tested the sailors’ ability to pick the shifts and come out on top. For the wind obsessed, the easterly that started the morning with a lot of north in it threatened to waft in initially from the south east at 2pm, then moved continuously left during the course of the afternoon as the day warmed and the breeze strengthened.

In the Radial fleet, we were fortunate to have representatives from the Australian Sailing Team and Australian Sailing Squad race with us. Mara Stransky, Zoe Thompson, Elyse Ainsworth, Casey Imenro, along with visiting NSWIS sailor, Paige Caldecott, and a guest reappearance from Otto Henry – all providing great competition for DBSC’s NSWIS sailors who raced on the day, Evie Saunders, Brooke Wilson, and Daniel Costandi. Zoe Thompson was first across the line in both races. Winners of the DBSC Autumn Pointscore races were Kirk Marcolina and one of our new members Rob Vann. The Standard fleet has grown recently with a few ex-Radial sailors moving over as they were getting frustrated with the lighter sailors outperforming them on the light breeze days. Winners of the races were Nick Alexander and Murray Stone.

Thanks to all the volunteers this week: Andrew Cox, David Newman, John Chesterman, James Leaver, Vic Whitby, Andrew Dixon, Shirley Roach, and Paul Adam.

Photo by Andrew Cox