Race Calendar updated
NINE, 2 Race Saturdays which equates to 37% of Saturdays
raced, or 46% of the Saturday Race total will be the shorter race 1 hour
approx duration.
WARM SHOWERS,
were there going to be any during the
Perisher series? YES THEY
WERE for the 1st 4 Sundays!!
Laser Perisher Series
Races 7&8 were to be held in 20+
knots of wind, this never materialised so we just had upto 15 knots to
sail in an very warm. 1st race of the day Barnie should have been Gate
boat but due to problems with rigging the elastic never made it to the
start line so Joe did the gate boat. Not good as at the windward mark
way down the fleet, Richard and Duncan led the way with Tommy in hot
pursuit with Mike Atkinson. The beats were very shifty and bands of wind
with lots of place changes happening. In the end it was Duncan, Richard
and Donald just from Andrew Hartley on his first trip out this year.
The 2nd race had far more place changes, at the windward mark Col was
1st with Duncan on his tail with Barnie and Joe. The reaches not too
much excitement then another shifty beat followed by an exciting run
with nearly the whole fleet trying to get around the leeward mark
together, in the middle of it Barnie capsized and caused all sorts of
chaos. Up one of the beats Andrew Hartley capsized (force 3) not sure if
2 Pizza anymore and found mud on top of his mast when ashore. At race
finish it was Duncan, Joe and Donald from Mike by a few inches.
more......