Sunday March 20th, 2016

Hi Everyone, sorry about last week, but if you read my Facebook posts you would know I broke my glasses so I had trouble seeing the words on the monitor, so I thought it best to wait until this week .

Firstly, just a reminder that we will not be open over Easter, but if any members want to use their boats just give me a call I can organise with our caretaker to open up and turn the alarm off .

8.30am Sunday Juniors

Last Sunday was much better weather compared to the week previous which had a few squalls come through, nothing over serious just wet . Numbers were down a bit due to the weather that week, but everyone still had a great sail. Even Hado had his first go at steering a Laser and did well, we could tell because of the giant smile on his face thanks Dallas !!!

Last Sunday it was back to big numbers with winds around 7/10 knots helping the experienced and not so experienced sailors get around the tacking course . It was great to see people like Sydney , Ronin , Rowan , Tilly and our other budding sailors cruising around out there with smiles on their faces .

10.30am Sunday Juniors

With the rough and wet weather the week before, we had to pull the crew out of the water a couple of times as the squalls were getting nastier, but last Sunday was just perfect with winds around twelve knots which made it perfect for some off the beach practice racing . Competition was strong especially with Daniel , Cody and Spencer each taking wins over the 5 practice races. Thanks to Kyle in the rescue boat for keeping most of the traffic away so that everyone could enjoy their racing , again lots of smiling faces .

Sunday Juniors volunteers : Dallas , Pat , Sienna , Casey , Dan , Charlie , Tianna, Kyle and Andrew thanks everyone for your efforts !

Open Bic Racing

With conditions now reaching over 20 knots, we sent Dan back to shore as he needs more strong weather experience. So, only Jonah raced, as Charlie had lost a large part of his big toe ( skateboard I think ? ) so he was on rescue boat duties . I have to take my hat of to Jonah as he sailed way above his weight literally as wind speeds reached well over twenty knots and the wave heights reached 3/4 of a metre , he had the odd swim ( so did a lot of adults ! ) but still managed to finish race one but by then he was a spent force so no race two for him .

Adult Racing

We were a bit low on numbers for the open race which included a round of the Laser States, but everyone who raced certainly had a big task ahead of them with a gated windward leeward course and two races in up to twenty five knots and big waves . Race one was a battle between Will , Peter , Maurie , Tom , Macca and Tim, with Will slowly edging ahead to take race one . We were busy in Rescue One with boats capsized and winds so strong that each time they got them up they went over again . Several pulled out from exhaustion as it was tough going, even I had to jump in at one stage to help Simone get her boat up . Race two with Macca nursing a sore head was cut down to three laps as it was just too rough out there, but this time Will skipped away and they just couldn't catch him . I believe Tianna has some great photos which she is emailing to the club, can't wait, should be spectacular !!!

Oh, how did the 4.7s go, well Casey won with the boys a long way back, and again I take my hat off to them all as it was certainly testing conditions for everyone including the crew of rescue One. Oh yeah nearly forgot a house boat ran into Sarah Cooper while she was anchored , yep you guessed it it was a hire boat and now he didn't know how to drive ?

Volunteers : We had a new volunteer on the start boat, Peter Board, who is going to come along and help with racing in the future, then there was Tianna Aidan and Charlie out there, and we were all drowned rats by the end .

Additional Notes

Camps ; Thu/Fri 31st and 1st of April, only one camp which is filling fast so if you are keen to learn more let me know at the club so I can save a spot for you !!!

CU after Easter John M