Good morning sailors
A spectacular full moon race with a stunning sunset, you’ve gotta love
Hamilton island.
The first race of the coveted Bruce Finlay Sails series saw eleven highly
trained crews of extreme athletes pitting their skills against each other in
testing conditions, testing the depth at certain marks and leaving ‘marks’
during some close encounters. I believe those ‘marks’ should polish off
quite easily…
Race 1 Bruce Finlay Sails series and week 9 of the Fantasea Club
Championship
1st Xtsea
2nd Bahia +2.49mins
3rd Run a Muk +3.54
4th Adrenalin +4.19
4th Hedonism +4.19
6th Sunmaid +4.38
7th T-Bird +6.30
8th JAR +9.15
9th Cool Runnings +10.37
10th Sunsail 1 +17.49
11th Sunsail 2 +18.51
(Nb Sunmaid’s handicap had not been updated from last week and with the one
minute she moves back to 6th)
The Bill ‘W’ Rogers series concluded last week with an eventful last race
that saw the places change significantly from the previous weeks standings.
The finish had 3 boats all calling starboard on each other within 50m of the
line and 6 seconds separating the first 3 boats over the line. Cool Runnings
kept her cool to finish 5 seconds ahead of Xtsea with Adrenalin 1 second
behind her.
The results were
Race 4 Overall
1 X2sea 1st Cool Runnings15.5 points
2 Swankey 2nd Sunmaid 19
3 Sunmaid 2nd Swankey 19
4 The Lemon 4th Run a Muk 20
5 Cool Runnings 5th X2Sea 20.75
6 Run A Muk 6th Hedonism 21
7 Hedonism 6th Bahia 21
8 Bahia 8th The Lemon 22
9 Sunsail 9th Adrenalin 25
10 Adrenalin 10th Sunsail 27
We were pleased to have so many of the extended family of Bill ‘W’ fly up to
Hamilton Island to present their beautiful trophy to Cool Runnings. It is
wonderful that the family and the club keep the memory of ‘W’ alive on the
island. We look forward to having you back again and again.
Have a great week, see you on the water next Wednesday.
Keith Logan
Commodore
CYCHI
Thought for the week
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your
grandmother. — Albert Einstein
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