Autumn Point Score Races 3 & 4

PRO David Newman reports:

As we prepared for a sweltering Sunday, we were met with a mostly overcast day with a northeast breeze that was forecast to build. I it didn't disappoint, albeit a little puffy and oscillating both left and right, making for a tricky day on the water for the sailors. We had a strong contingent of visitors from around the harbour, which added to our slightly depleted club fleet, with some still enjoying their summer breaks.

Race 3 of the Autumn Point Score got started on time on a very efficient and well-set course from our COTD Dean Kurz and CoCOTD Johan Hedberg on the RIB. With a pin bias and an always-aggressive ILCA 6/4 fleet, we just got away with a clean start. The ILCA 7's were more spread across the line but again got off cleanly. For Race 4 the ILCA 6/4's were not quite as well behaved with a couple of visitors OCS. The breeze continued to build throughout the day, and the Point Piper shore mostly worked for the leaders.

With a tight tussle at the front of the ILCA 6 amongst mostly visitors, Cormac Johnston took the win on handicap with a strong Race 3 and Mike Dunne took the win in Race 4. Rod Barnes showed a clean pair of heels in both races on line honours but it was Thomas Beregi who continued his picket fence run with 4 wins from 4 races in the series on handicap!

Huge thanks to the team in the canteen as always, plus Richard Holstein for providing fantastic support on the Jazzman as LTRaR plus Dean and Johan on the RIB.