Race Report - Saturday 23 March 2024

Club Championship, Races 13 & 14

Blue Skies with Marshmallow Clouds! - Another ESE breeze had our fleet on a relatively short course in The Dardanelles with the weather mark midway between Point Piper and Shark Island. There were plenty of “snakes and ladders” to be negotiated but the breeze held for the afternoon.

In Race 13, clean starts were achieved by the two fleets, and the race was completed without much angst. As expected, the wind direction fluctuated quite a bit at the weather mark, with sailors struggling to get around it cleanly. Locating and staying in the breeze was the key on the downwind legs.

In Race 14, the 4.7’s got their own start — Great to see seven starters in their fleet. Again, all fleets started cleanly and the racing was completed in record time, ready for the post-racing BBQ on the deck. Big thankyou to Paul and Shirley for putting together a feast, and thankyou to the Race team, Craig Sheers, Daryl Lawrence, John Chesterman and Jeremy Vives, and to Tim Heath and Jason Wilkins for BBQ cleanup.

Kudos to Grant Lovelady who pulled off a port start in race 14 — clear ahead of the rest of the standards fleet from the pin end!

Winners on the day were as follows:

Race 13
ILCA 4 (4.7): Miles Greenwood
ILCA 6 (Radial): Healy Ryan
ILCA 7 (Standard): Luke Parker

Race 14
ILCA 4 (4.7): Benjamin Costandi
ILCA 6 (Radial): Healy Ryan
ILCA 7 (Standard): David Newman

Photos from John Chesterman