Newsletter 15 March 2021
This is a historical record from the club's archive, kept at its original address. Details may no longer be current.
Reports Race 20 of the 2020-21 season, Race 4 of the Autumn point score, sailed Saturday 13 March 2021 with seven historic 18 footers. Yendys, skippered by P. Barnett, crossed first from Britannia, Tangalooma, Aberdare, Top Weight and Scot, while Australia IV retired after a soggy gybe at the Shark Island mark.
PHOTOS ARE THANKS TO CHUCK AND PHIL FRANKLIN
Yendys crossed the line in first place followed by Britannia, then Tangalooma, Aberdare, Top Weight and Scot. Australia IV's race came to a soggy end during the infamous "gybe around the Shark island mark".
Results for Sat 13th March 2021.
With thanks to our on-water support team of Barley, Suzie, Chuck, Glen and Stu, along with COVID Marshalls Tomoko and Suzie; Team Britannia on the Bar-B-Q, specifically Nathan and Katherine, raffle tickets by Marion. With mark rounding details and on-water observations provided by Peter Notley.
Also to Tomoko for her efforts with the merchandising and as guest operator of Phil’s camera.
Extra thanks to Michael Van Stom for his excellent commentary on the ferry!
The full race report is provided by Bob Chapman and is available on the SFS website here: SFS Results
The 12s were back on Sunday for the ongoing sprint series. Race results can be found here: SailingResults.com
The race officials on Sunday - Chuck braving the weather on the yellow rib, and Wolfie on his own boat
THANKS CHUCK AND WOLFIE!!!
They're out there somewhere...
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This text was read from the scanned original below by optical character recognition. It has not yet been checked by a person, so it may carry mistakes, and any results tables in the original are not reproduced here. The scan is the authority.