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As I saw (and remembered) it – Saturday 21st March
After another weekend abandoned everyone was rearing to go this week. There were 5 boasts in the water before 10.15!! VC Todd and the TAG crew hit the water for the first time this year, giving us 9 boats on the race course. With Brad out of town, it was a Miller family affair with son Mitch taking the helm of NGHAM and son in law (to be) on the bow, and by all accounts it was all still happy families afterwards.
Great to see the hard stand looking like this!
And after the Skiffie Lunch on Friday there was a few sore heads and lunch bar takings were down slightly as evidenced by this shot!!
For race 1 the breeze settled in from the SE at 14-15kts with a strong outgoing tide.
Those that went right off the start prevailed with W2 having a comfortable lead at the top. Athena was having a blinder and was second around followed by a tight bunch that included Happy Hour, TAG, The Project and The Saint.
On the hoist Happy Hour lost their spinnaker halyard so headed back to the harbour to retrieve it. By the bottom W2 was gone and not to be seen for the rest of the race, Athena had a good run and held on to their second position at the bottom followed by TAG, The Project, The Saint and NGHAM. Bring up the rear were Rapscallion and Knot Easy.
On the beat those that could went right while the back markers fed of the scraps on the left. By the top Athena were narrowly holding second from TAG and NGHAM.
By the finish W2 had an easy win, NGHAM and TAG had run down Athena to take 2nd and 3rd respectively as Athena took a well-deserved 4th though Helen is still having nightmares about the one that got away!!
Race 2 started in similar conditions with the leading boats going right. Happy Hour made it back in time for the start after sending Lee aloft at the boat harbour in order to retrieve the errant spinnaker halyard. Rapscallion misjudged the pin and had to gybe out and cross behind the fleet on port.
Once again W2 had a comfortable lead at the top followed by The Saint, NGHAM, and TAG. These 4 had a decent margin over Rapscallion, The Project, Athena and Knot Easy who misjudged a port cross with Athena near the top and had to do a pirouette.
Being another year older as I write this, my memory isn’t what it was, and I don’t remember much more about the race other than W2 took another well-earned bullet. The Saint took a deserving second and Mitch, getting the hang of steering an Etchells had NGHAM finish a creditable third just piping TAG by 3 seconds.
No doubt about Boat of the Day honours – Waterloo Too.
(This author accepts no responsibilities for any inaccuracies, distortions of the truth or outright lies.)
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