On Saturday the club held the annual 'Easter race around the harbour'. The Easter Bunny cooked up a gusty 20 - 25 knot westerly, which made conditions tricky (and fun!) for the 12 sailors who competed.

The race was a handicapped start and some enthusiastic betting was placed by the on-water team of Tim Heath, Tory Epworth, Katie McHugh, James Tudball and David Airey.

Due to the wind strength, the course was slightly condensed, but we still had two great laps beating upwind towards Garden Island, round Clark Island, a screaming reach over to the YA buoy in Taylors Bay and another screaming reach down to Shark Island as the bottom mark.

Taylors Bay proved to be the biggest challenge of the day, with the wind coming from every single direction and ranging from 2 knots to 20 knots while the “Easter Bunny” dished out chocolate. On the first lap, nearly every sailor suffered at least one capsize in the Taylors Bay trap.

With the chocolate egg supplies running low, the decision was made to shorten the course slightly and finish in Taylors Bay on the second lap.

Congratulations to Andrew Cox (who always relishes these 'chase down races') who was the overall winner of the race by just a few boat lengths, winning a bottle of fizz and a chocolate bunny. Andrew (in a radial) pipped Luke "Bunny" Parker (in a standard) by just three boat lengths. Healy Ryan was 4th over the line and first of the 4.7s.

Honourable mentions to Healy Ryan, Cormac Johnston and Jack Restuccia who sailed down from HHSC to race. Another honourable mention goes to Craig Sheers, for rocking a beautiful shiny prototype carbon boom...and for achieving the most capsizes in Taylors Bay.