DF65’s
A crisp sunny day for the DF65s today with – at last – a nice A+ breeze blowing straight down the lake from the far end to welcome the excellent turnout of 15 skippers.
Commodore Dave got the racing away promptly using the usual windward / leeward course with top spreader and leeward gate, with RO duties then shared for the days racing.
Although somewhat short for the fleet size the start line seemed to work very well, with good starts possible from various positions along the line. There was the usual preference for the starboard end which looked as if it might be favoured, but positions up the first beat suggested otherwise.
John Brierley was very clearly class of the field with five wins over the mornings ten races. He did have to work hard on one or two occasions to climb up out of the pack but consistently good sailing and a slight speed edge proved decisive.
Behind John, racing was very keen, with some really excellent starts which looked like an open and with only the odd OCS. John Carlin was clearly the best of the rest with three wins and a string of consistently good results, and was followed by Mikedsp with no wins, some reasonable steady sailing, one OCS and a number of close encounters of the DF kind.
Clive and Alan were also race winners, Paul was unlucky to have a rig failure after a good string of results, Dave beat Charles on countback, and it was great to see Dave White and Phyl Fanning starting to get into the mix.
The standard of racing overall was very good, with almost everyone having at least one good result. The top end of the beat proved particularly tricky with some quick shifts and also some bends which were not consistent and tricky to spot resulting in some crowded top mark roundings and a fair bit of inadvertent minor contact.
All in all an excellent days racing with thanks as always to Dave Williams and Malcolm for the results which are shown below and thanks to Dave for the photos.
- John Brierley 11 pts 5 wins
- John Carlin 20 pts 3 wins
- Mike de St Paer 26.5 pts
- Clive Warren 33 pts 1 win
- Alan Watkinson 39.6 pts
- Neil Westbrook 41.8 pts 1 win
- Paul Little 44 pts
- Dave Williams 46.2 pts (ahead on countback)
- Charles Legg 46.2pts
- Frans King 53 pts
- Sally Collings 60.5 pts
- Don McKinnon 64.9 pts
- Dave White 80 pts
- Malcolm Harvey 101 pts
- Phyl Fanning 103 pts
DF95’s
- Alan Watkinson 9pts 2 wins
- John Carlin 10pts 2 wins
- Clive Warren 11pts 1 win
- Phyl Fanning