Our PRO on Sunday, David Newman, reports:

With a relatively warmer morning, the cold westerly breeze was lacking and there was some scepticism we'd get racing away (including ourselves). However, we managed to get in three races of three laps with a westerly breeze isolating between 4 and 10 knots throughout the morning. Under mostly blue skies, it was yet another glorious morning on the harbour. After a quick delay towing boats out of Double Bay, racing got underway.

In the radials, Sylvie Stannage showed a clean set of heels for races 1 & 2, but after being OCS in race 3 had some work to do to chase down Quentin Burns who had a great first work, eventually just holding out the fast-charging Sylvie for the win. Ian Alexander was always in the mix with a strong performance for a 2nd in race 1 and 3rd in race 2, and Cote showed her light airs prowess with a 3rd in race 1 and 2nd in race 2. Andrew Cox rounded out the podiums with a 3rd in race 3

In the standards, Daniel Costandi was in a class of his own winning all three races by a convincing margin. Geoff Kirk was always in the mix taking a 2nd in race 1 and 3rd in race 3, and Geoff Boscoe continued with his improving form for a 3, 2, 3 scorecard for the day. Yves Stening finished the day strong with a 2nd in race 3.

Thanks to the race management team of Dave Murphy, Mark Gray & Dave Evenden for providing tremendous on and off-water operations, making my job a breeze!