Race Report Saturday 28 March 2026

Club Championships R13 and R14 and Autumn Pointscore R9 and R10

On water race team:

PROs Martin and Gaye With LTRaR Jason Wilkins, AssistedSimon Wilkins (guest), COTD Andrew Foote and CoCOTD Samuel Slattery, both on a RIB. Safety RIB John Vasey

On Shore team:

Canteen: Shirley and Paul assisted by Michelle Power and Max Williams, Handicapper: Geoff Boscoe

After a very stormy night, Sydney harbour graced us with sun and a strong and gusty sou’westerly.  The first race was a brisk 18 knots, gusting 25 knots causing the wind to shift back and forth.  The second race eased to 13 knots but still with 25 knot gusts.  Martin, our PRO was very punctual which meant a few radials struggled to make the first start.  We appeared to have a couple of extra ILCA 4s who hadn’t signed on but they certainly worked as hard as anyone and there is a video of three 4s hiking hard on starboard.  22 sailors were signed on with 3 ILCA 4s, 8 ILCA 7s and the rest in ILCA 6s. The 4.7s called it a day after the first race, as did a few radials and one standard.  The first reach looked like a screaming speed event with a broad second reach.  Some great sailing in the conditions for which I have posted multiple videos and some photos.  There were numerous capsizes and a few “turtles”, especially at the leeward mark when arriving at the same time as a gust, (but no videos recorded, sorry).  The finishes were very close affairs with Zac and Healy winning well-deserved battles in their respective fleets in the second race.  The “lucky” award goes to Geoff Kirk who just kept his body in enough to avoid being over at a pin-end start according to the PRO.  The “cheeky” award goes to Luke Parker for his port-tack, pin-end screamer in the second start and the “grit” award goes to Kerryn Smith who kept hard at it, sailing a fullrig!  There were: no recalls, no actual rescues, no postponements, no relaying of marks but we suspect plenty of well-used muscles!  A great sailing day to finish the season.

Club Championship Race 13 results:

ILCA 4: 1st Harper Spacey 2nd Ben Phillips 3rd Zoe Allen

ILCA 6: 1st Scott Hunter 2nd Geoff Kirk 3rd Martin White

ILCA 7: 1st Luke Parker 2nd Healy Ryan 3rd Grant Lovelady

Club Championship Race 14 results:

ILCA 4: No finishers

ILCA 6: 1st Zac Howell 2nd Geoff Kirk 3rd Martin White

ILCA 7: 1st Healy Ryan 2nd Luke Parker 3rd Mike Dunne

Race 9 handicap results:

ILCA 4: 1st Harper Spacey 2nd Zoe Allen 3rd Ben Phillips

ILCA 6: 1st Scott Hunter 2nd Martin White 3rd Geoff Kirk

ILCA 7: 1st Luke Parker 2nd Geoff Boscoe 3rd Grant Lovelady

Race 10 handicap results:

ILCA 4: No finishers

ILCA 6: 1st Martin White 2nd David Airey 3rd Geoff Kirk

ILCA 7: 1st Mike Dunne 2nd Hadrien Bourely 3rd Luke Parker

Report – Jason DrWilkins