RM Southern Tasmanian Championship

A very cool start at the dam today, with thermals, gloves and beanies the order of the day. 

Seven skippers turned up for todays event - with thehelp of Richard Fisher as a late entry with Lisa generously loaning her Skalpel as well as NSW visitor, John Wyatt, who sailed Kyle's first Indie build. Thanks to both for joining in for the day's event. It was really appreciated and hope you both really enjoyed the day.

The wind gods listened to us and we were greeted with a nice 12-14 knot northerly - although coming down from the higlands - had a real chill to it.

We carried the first four races with B rigs, unlit the wind abated, and then it was the swing rigs for the remainder of the day, with the wind dropping to near nothing by the time we called an end to the sailing just prior to 3.30pm.

Ray dominated early, with seven wins from the first seven races, with Kyle not far behind with five seconds at the same time, with Lisa pushing them both, just behind the front two in third.

The racing was really close, and sailed in very good spirits, with many of the race results having 4 yachts within a few boat lengths of each other - ften just the lead or 2nd boat breaking out and the rest of the field sailing some very close quarters tactics.

After the lunch break, some teaking to Kyle's swing setup reaped some real rewards with three wins in a row, before Richard Fisher closed out the day with three wins on the trot as well.

Throughout the day, every skipper made the podium on at least two races, so although there was a bit of a points difference in the end, the sailing was quite close overall.

By the end of the 13th race, Kyle was able to just hold out with a win on 25 points.

Coming in second, just two behind, was Ray on 27.

Third place today was Lisa, on 34 points.

A big thanks to Les for his PRO work today. Nice quick turnarounds between races gave us those 13 races.

Coming up

Wednesday is IOM Mid Week Handicap, button press at 11am

Next Sunday is our AGM at MBYC at 1030, followed straight after with IOM Scratch at the dam. We will sail 3 hrs from the first button press to give the same time as a notmal scratch day

Kyle