Combined weekly racing news

Wednesday 19th October

Twilight Sprint / Moonlight flit race 3 of 3

Results

Twilight Sprint

  1. Akala
  2. Marie Grace
  3. Rynaby

Moonlight flit

  1. Vella Star
  2. Matador
  3. Antagonist

A beautiful balmy spring evening for the Twilight Sprint and the last of the Moonlight flit.

Yet again St Kilda was privy to a glorious orange sunset that glowed over the western sky.  Boat owners, eager to enter the race, rang almost up to start time.  We had a great turnout of boats in the Twilight Sprint with 30 boats entering and six boats entering the Moonlight flit to test their night-time navigation skills.   A few boats retired due to hoicking up their kite and/or sailing the wrong course with results altered accordingly.

Seeing so many people back at the Members Bar after the race was great!

 

Saturday 22nd October

W T Crosbie Trophy – combined race with Royals

Non Spinnaker Pursuit – this race only had one entrant (Vella star), so we let her race with the W T Crosbie boats

PHS: 1st Private Equity, 2nd Take 5, 3rd Tigris

ORC: 1st Rollercoaster, 2nd Laurelle, 3rd Aileron

AMS: 1st Arcadia, 2nd Rollercoaster, 3rd Take 5

Interview by Ann Rogers with John Taylor from Rollercoaster – Winner of ORC and 2nd place AMS

 

AR: Congratulations on getting 1st in ORC and 2nd AMS, so that certainly says something about the performance of your boat!

JT: Yes, it does. They’re the two measurement handicaps that we gauge our performance on, the performance handicap gets adjusted every time you do well you get knocked back further, so they’re the two key measurements for us, so we were very pleased to get those results, particularly where only two of my regular crew were available today so I gathered in others including our Training Manager, Grant Seamer!  His partner Amanda was going to join us, but she’d sprained her back.  So we were 6 up today, and the conditions were lovely.

We had a good start, it was a combined start with Royals and ourselves.  I managed to get Kookaburra (a huge 12 metre boat) away from shadowing us, which was key.  If they are on top of you, shadowing you, and giving you dirty air, that’s horrid.  So we managed to keep away from them, and we tacked very early after the start to get away from any dirty wind and get clear air and get away. So that set up the race for us, but PJ and his team on Arcadia had longer legs and just got away – it was a nice race and we managed to steer clear of the rain which bucketed down all morning!