Race 5 Spring Series 2019/20 - Race Report and Results

It was a lovely day on Sydney Harbour with a gentle breeze around 10 knots that lightened further as the afternoon progressed.  Unfortunately our starter was late to take up position so our start time was delayed until 1345hrs which may have given some advantage to the boats starting earlier.  The other surprise was that there weren’t more boats on the Harbour.  G-whizz had to negotiate through a fleet of racing Farr 40’s, but the 18-footers were fortunately away from our track as we headed to the finish line.

In the predominantly easterly breeze, with some NE and some SE, spinnakers and code zeroes were seen relatively briefly on some boats for the trek up and down on the Manly course.

Megisti started on scratch; last yacht to start was Martela on a handicap of 43 mins.  There were no nail-biting duels along the way, with the finishing order reflecting the starting order, except Martela came in ahead of G-Whizz.  A separation of 43 minutes across five starters became a separation of only about 20 minutes from first to last at the finish, with three of the boats finishing within about 5 minutes of each other.  All reported a lovely day on the water.

Our next race is the annual Ladies Day Race on Sunday 3 November 2019.  This is one of our pointscore races.

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