Howdy Gang.

What a day we had last Sunday eh? Quite a crowd ventured out for the penultimate Club Championship day, 32 boats in all. That’s about the best fleet we’ve had all year. And with every division represented the slightly soggy conditions early on made for some confusion on the start line with multiple flags up that were hanging in a bit of a wet clump. Rob F and the Sharpie gang (not a seventies glam rock band) both took off on the wrong start and had to double back. Rob still managed to “smoke the Cobras” even after giving them a decent head start (their words not mine). Sally Wemyss in her Sabre and Nathan Anderson joined in for a lap or two to get the feel of racing and I’m sure they’ll be back for more.
 

Being a Club Championship day meant different courses for the two races and that seemed to confuse some bods a bit. I’ll use Div 2 for an example. Fiona M forgot that course one is ‘2’ triangles and course two is ‘2’ sausages. The easy way to remember that is that ‘one’ is an odd number and triangles have an odd number of sides, whereas ‘two’ is an even number and sausages have an even number of sides. That sausages have 2 sides, the bottom and the top, is often demonstrated at Bunnings where the onion goes on the bottom and the sauce goes on the top. Then in race two ( remember the sausages) she headed back for a third lap, letting some undeserving character past for first place. So to recap; course one, odd, triangles, course two, even, sausages, Div 2, two laps. Simples! Other Divisions can work out their own system, it shouldn’t be too hard. As for me going through the start line instead of the finish line? Well, no excuse, that was just plain stoopid!
 

Apart from those and a few other ‘incidents’, it was a very pleasant day on the water. The rain held off and the wind, although light, stayed in and had just enough shifts to make it interesting. With Deirdre away, on a girls gambling trip apparently, Drew M filled in as assistant RO with Geoff back in the RO chair. Simon H crewed in Woodsy with the honorable John Wemyss (like dreams) and Katrina M roped in son Charlie to help her on Sutherland. Thanks all and Alister M, who did the launch and retrieve of the boats despite having a bung foot.
 

From all reports, the SBSC contingent at Lake Boga made up nearly a quarter of the fleet and had great success all round, even on the water! Listening in to the conversations in the yard made me regret not going again. Ah well, next year for sure.
 

One snippet, from a completely unreliable source, led me to put two and two together and come up with a perfectly believable conspiracy theory in regards to Gingerbread Bill M’s mast coming down in Sunday’s first race. Apparently the stays on a Tasar are exactly the same as the stays on an Impulse and it seems Bill left his laying on the ground near the lake only to have them disappear. It then turns out that a certain Tasar sailing person with a fierce rivalry with another Tasar sailor (maybe related, maybe not) had scooped them up and given them to a third party to return to the supposed ‘owner’. This third party (maybe a mafia hitman, maybe not) then returned them to the aforementioned Tasar sailor at a secret drop site without either vehicle coming to a complete stop. Not suspicious at all so far. Eventually the well travelled stays found their way back to the rightful owner via a circuitous route , whereupon they failed in spectacular fashion as Bill was leading the pack for certain victory. Was this an unfortunate accident? Or was Bill the victim of mistaken identity in a much more sinister plot? We may never know!
 

Cheers for now, see you all this Sunday. Only a few sails left so don’t miss out!

Pete Chippy

As we near the end of our summer season of sailing, it is now time to discuss our intentions for a potential winter series. Please meet at the flagpole this Sunday at 12.30pm to hear more from the racing committee and have your say in this open discussion.

1st

Whiskers

Terry Jones

 

1st PHS	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
1st AMS	Vamonos	Fiona Jones
1st ORC	Vincitore	Peter Russell

 

Full Weekend Results here

 

Thanks to all our tower and start boat crews for volunteering their time over the weekend; Friday night's RO Ross Martin, assisted by Amanda, Jann, Tim, and Sunday's RO Judy Champion, Geoff and Drew on the Start Boat, and the RHIB volunteers for laying marks.

Sunday 14 April - Sunday Summer Series Race 9
First Warning Signal: 09:55H Tower Start

Please note the meeting date has been brought forward to Sunday 21 April 2024, 10am at the Club, prior to the 1.00pm Club Champ race.

 

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