Race Report 02 April 2022
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Our LTRAR volunteer, John Chesterman, has provided the following report from racing on Saturday.
Multiple opinions were considered whilst setting up a relatively unusual, for DBSC, WSW course which appeared to exhibit a slight southward directional shift toward the top end and was more westerly at the start boat end near the Shark Island bottom mark. The experience of the PRO won out and once final adjustments were made the racing got underway on time. A strong outgoing tide, estimated at 2 knots, assisted clean starts to both races by keeping all boats a safe distance back from the start line.
The Etchells were mostly uninterested in our DBSC triangle and there were only a couple of vague intruding yachts thinking it might be a good idea to mix it with a racing laser fleet rounding the bottom mark whilst themselves on a downwind setting.
A relatively steady 12-15 Knot breeze, with little chop, kept both fleets tight and some great racing was observed from the Jazzman with position changes continuing right up to the finish line.
One important LTRaR lesson was learned which all club members can benefit from for the future - remember blue flag to replace orange on the Jazzman as the boats are finishing!!
PRO Matt Wenke and John Chesterman on the Jazzman were skilfully assisted on the water by COTD David Huber and last minute stand-in CoCOTD (a role which included swimming) David Airey. Special Guest Pavlina, mother and #1 fan of visiting Adela from the 4.7 Czech National team, was on the finishing horn and otherwise there to enjoy what our harbour has to offer. On the sandwich presses with Shirley and Paul were David Murphy and Julian van Aalst.
For the club championship heats, Daniel Costandi won both races in the standard rigs, while James Tudball won both races in the radial rigs.
In the autumn pointscore, Craig Sheers and Geoff Boscoe each had a win in the standard rigs, while Finn Kirk and Andrew Cox each won a race in the radial rigs.