Race Report - Saturday 15 November 2025
Steven London
Sprint RACING
With a large number of our sailors away at Wangi (see following piece), we set a north easterly sprint course for our normal 2pm start. When we headed back to the club no sailors had rigged but as 1 pm approached they arrived one-by-one until we had eight contenders for the building wind.
In all we had six fast and furious races in a breeze that frequently climbed into the high twenty’s, some said over thirty knots. Big smiles all round and a few capsizes along the way. Jim Dounis was consistently 1st in the ILCA 6 while Diana Chen won all the ILCA 4 finishes. To be fair, they were each the only one in their fleet but did finish somewhere in the middle of the full rigs with a bit of self adjusted handicapping.
We did lengthen the course a bit as the wind eased a bit, but then the wind picked up even more and smiles started to switch to grimaces giving us the hint it was perhaps time to wrap it up.
We did get back to the club before the expected storm rolled through, which was great to watch from under cover.
Thanks to Andrew Craker as LTRAR, Pia Hattersley COTD and Richard George CoCOTD. Thanks also to Paul and Shirley for the ever popular toasties.
- Peter Collie, PRO
Unfortunately, we had our hands full with starts, weather watch and capsizes to monitor, so there aren’t many photos. Here Hadrien is making it look effortless. Photo by Peter Collie