Another enjoyable day of ‘boat swapping’ with 12 competitors only sailing their own boat once, thereafter sailing every other boat in the fleet for one race. We were very pleased to welcome 4 visitors from Austin Lakes, Wanderers and Albany clubs and hope this trend continues.

The weather played havoc with racing for the first hour, with the PRO (Bruce Quail) having to run a number of 1 lap races due to very light conditions, in an attempt to fit in all 12 races. The wind filled in somewhat later on, thus a full compliment of 1 lap and 2 lap races was completed by 4pm. Unfortunately weed was present which distorted the results somewhat but an enjoyable day nonetheless.

A large contingent of volunteers were on duty to assist with the change-over, being the most time wasting in an event like this and special thanks go to David King who was cook for the day producing the regular sausage sizzle and June Odlum for preparing some great salads. Special mention to David Odlum for producing some unique engraved flasks to the prize winners.

In an amazing coincidence both best skipper and best boat were the same as last year, Bruce Robins as Best Skipper, followed by Kim Klaka and Rodney Moss, then Peter Greeve with Best Boat (#94). Full results and photographs appear below :

             Best Skipper - Bruce Robins                             2nd Best Skipper - Rodney Moss                           3rd Best Skipper - Kim Klaka

         Best Boat - Peter Greeve                                                  Best Skipper                                                     Best Boat