A lovely sunny day with an enthusiastic breeze sometimes reaching the upper limits for racing was just too good to pass up for the penultimate race of the winter series.
The course selected for the day was our new course 8 out to Cow then through Waimate channel and around Motukopake to port then back to Cow to Port and home.
Six boats in Div B and 4 boats in Div A set off with Div B having a 15 min head start. Kilmarnock made an impressive start at the line despite only getting within the start area with only 4 mins to go. Dawn Song was slow to get going and ended up following Kilmarnock that distance behind throughout the course until a handy little local gust gave her the win on the line. Kilmarnocks skipper may need counseling. Anitra was the only yacht to throw her spinnaker up on the down wind leg and that was to prove decisive giving her the handicap win.
Maku and Trifecta had a ding dong battle at the head of the fleet with Trifecta taking line honours and bragging rights from Maku much to her skippers delight and Maku's Skippers disgust. Dec Sun had a battle with Wright One and managed to hold on to her slender lead when rounding Cow for the run to home allowing Wright One a good view of her stern all the way to the line. At he rear of the field Moon Shadow and Muritai swapped places a couple of times with Muritai eventually holding out at the line.
Only only more Race day left for the winter season on the 24th Aug so see you there.
Blue skys Rex
