Winter Series Race 2 report.

15 yachts turned up on a lovely sunny day with Easterly breezes forecast but very little wind at the start time in the harbour though there was more outside.

A decision was made to sail course 3 in the apparent dying breeze but we got a steadily increasing wind as the race progressed. The race committee was a bit slack with the start line but Nomad helpfully extended the width which was fortunate as 3 multihulls in the race could have been severely caused a lack of room at the start. No mishaps were observed at the start of either Division, A div starting 10 mins after Div B with the usual protagonists slowly heading the fleet Dawn Song and Kiwi Vibe slugging it out in Div B and Titanium and Maku in Div A. Titanium took Line honours from Maku with Special FX 3rd. Those 3 all managed to haul in the Div B yachts which Dawn Song won from Kiwi Vibe with Neptune2 3rd .

The dying breeze most of us had to endure heading the tide between Te Kouma and Rangipukea caused a bit of confusion with kites wrapping themselves around anything it could as the wind backed and came out of the Coro harbour.

To avoid the conflict experienced at the start of the last harbour race remember that yachts coming in hot across the wind(barging) have no rights to yachts to leeward, they are quite in their rights to hold their course and force you to either tack away, (which can be fraught with its own dangers) and miss the line , or force you over early. Similarly, coming to the line on Port tack is asking for trouble unless you are happy to pass behind the others because you think that tack is preferred. We don’t want any skin off.

As requested, the handicap workings are attached. Please note that the handicaps are a work in progress and whinging will find a deaf ear. Both the Summer and Winter Race co-ordinators are the worst suffers.
Blue skies Rex