On The Water With Whitsunday Sailing Club

An 8-knot northerly breeze was the order of the day on Wednesday as the fleet of 16 gathered for the Whitsunday Sailing Club twilight race on Pioneer Bay.  

Division two saw Smooth Criminal (Leo Rodriguez) win the Doyle Sails best start prize, together with line honours and second on corrected time.  

QMS Ponyo (John Galloway) kept them honest, but were still 2 minutes behind at the finish, while Bobby’s Girl worked back to third across the line, but to no avail. Corrected time winner was Twister (Kevin Fogarty).

Division three saw a clean start to finish win by Wobbly Boot (Craig Piccinelli), who made the most of the conditions, leading home Shiraz (John Cable) and Aquatarius (Tom Parker).

Division 1 saw the usual race between Back in Black (Michael Van Der Zwaard) and G’nome (Terry Archer), this time the honours all around going to the Extreme 40, Back in Black.

Last weekend saw four boats from the North Queensland Cruising Yacht Club in Airlie Beach for the return bout of the Tackle World Bowen Interclub Challenge.  

For G’nome (Terry Archer) it was a quick race, the downwind legs particularly suiting the trimaran, while some of the others struggled back against the strong tidal flow.  

Reignition crossed the finishing line in second, with Air Apparent (Steve Wright) third.

Sunday saw the fleet re-group for two bay races.

Reignition (Charles Wallis) took line honors in the second race of the series, with Air Apparent second and G’nome third, while in the final race, Reignition again led the fleet around the course, with G’nome second and Wobbly Boot third.

Overall results, based on corrected times, gave the win to Reignition on 5 points from Wobbly Boot on 8 points and Capricorn Dancer (Geoff Ingram) third on 11 points.

Eventual Winner, Reignition

Contributed with thanks to Ross Chisholm

Bobby’s Girl and QMS Ponyo

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