John dominates in the light winds.

John sailed without fault to record two wins from 2 races, hounded by Glen on his Lechner.

John with his new Severne RB9.5/Equipe2

Last Saturday was a pleasant enough day, though with a rather murky sky, which probably stopped the wind developing into anything more than a wafting breeze. Quite a few sailors had a warm-up sail, testing gear and settings, and probably had the best of the light east to nor’easterly.

At 1.45 Glen conducted the briefing for the willing 17 sailors present. Nick set a course and he and Ian conducted a line start using the ducky – from the line across near the southern shore up to the north east jetty cardinal, on port, down to a central buoy, on starboard, reaching to a buoy closer to the club, on port, then back to the start buoy, on port; 2 laps for the first heat and one lap for the second.

It was a bit of a shock to discover the water level was down almost half a metre from last week, bringing us closer to the slimy weed on the bottom. On the leg to the top mark it was hard to keep the centreboard down because of the shallow water and weed. It was definitely not a day to be using Formula boards. Nevertheless, everyone worked very hard and there was some very close racing, as usual. We thought Glen and Ben would easily succeed on their Lechners, but John’s skill and fitness got him to the front in both races. The wind was light and abating, with some knocks just to make it tricky. Glen’s results are below. Thanks to Trish for recording and to Ange for taking photos for us.

A Demol wins again

This time it was Peter Demol winning the two races with some consistent sailing in the flukey SE wind.

A New Reflex 2 11m

Anibal and Rachel tie for the win in SPR2

 Two fantastic club races held in moderate NE winds with formula boards and raceboards going head to head. Well done to returning champ Anibal carving out a win with his new Tushingham XR 9.5 sail and an excellent result to Rachel sailing on her new F2 World Cup Race raceboard.

Also making its racing debut was Al McM's Exocet Elite 380 complete with a 9.5m XO sail, John's Mistral Equipe II raceboard, and Ben's 9.7m Severne ReflexII sail and Darren's XO 9.5m sail.

The first race was a scratch race with handicaps added to elapsed times to determine corrected times. The second race was a beach start with handicaps calculated from the first race.

Reigning champion, John, stamps his mark with a win.

On a day with some great westerly winds John chose a raceboard with a 9m sail while others were on slalom boards with 6.5m sails to record a dominate win in the first club championship of the year.

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