Race Report Sunday 13 June 2026

Winter Championship / Point Score Races 16, 17 & 18

Chris Tattersall reports:

I have to admit that it didn’t look promising when dawn broke on Sunday morning. There was not a breath of wind at the club and the wind readings from the harbour were not much more encouraging. And no sun to lift spirits. However, as you do, we put the flags up, dutifully launch the Paul Adam, loaded her up with marks and the rest of the kit and motored out have a look-see.

There was a slight breeze coming from the nor’-nor’-west, so we dropped a leeward mark at the mouth of Double Bay and returned to the club and briefed our contingent of 25 Laser sailors, who launched promptly and paddled, sculled and/or flipflopped their way out of the bay.

When Jazzman arrived at the course area, we had a decision to make. The forecast was for the wind to swing to the west, but later in the day. However, there were snippets of the westerly, and the slot between Clark Island and Darling Point looked promising for a windward leg. Fortunately, as it turned out, one of our guest racers from Rose Bay relayed that there was a bit of wind coming in from the north, so we made the call to drop the weather mark just off the Naval Buoy and run a northerly course.

Race 1 got off after about 15 minutes of AP. For the 4.7’s and Radials Leg 1 was a port tack fetch, and we on the RC felt a bit silly. However, the wind veered back to the north and freshened before the first Laser rounded the top mark, and so the remainder of the race was fine. Except for shortening the course for Race 3, we left the course alone. The northerly held until the last two legs of Race 3, when it backed west and softened again (as did our leeward mark!). All in all, the racing was reasonable, we felt.

Winter Championship Results:

ILCA 4 (all 3 races):
Harper Spacey 1st, Charlie Wait 2nd, Benjamin Philips 3rd

ILCA6:
Race 16: Wakako Kajimoto 1st, Patrick McLachlan 2nd, Scott Finlayson 3rd
Race 17: Zac Howell was 1st, Wakako Kajimoto 2nd, and David Airey & Scott Finlayson 3rd
Race 18: Wakako Kajimoto was 1st, David Airey 2nd, and Zac Howell 3rd

ILCA7:
Race 16: Quentin Burns 1st, Kerryn Burns 2nd, Tim Heath 3rd
Race 17: Quentin Burns 1st, Kerryn Burns 2nd, Tim Heath 3rd
Race 18: Quentin Burns 1st, Kerryn Burns 2nd, Andrew Foote 3rd

Point Score Handicap Winners:
ILCA4: R16: Charley Wait, R17: Charlie Wait & Ben Philips, R18 Harper Spacey
ILCA6: R16: Daryl Lawrence, R17: Scott Finlayson, R18 David Airey
ILCA7: R16: Andrew Foote, R17: Peter D’Arcy-King, R18 Quentin Burns

A very unhappy leeward mark!

A big thank you to our four on-water volunteers: Geoff Kirk (PRO), yours truly (LtRAR) on Jazzman, ably assisted by Brendan Pollard (COTD) and Quinn Sloan (CoCOTD) on Paul Adam 2, plus Scott Finlayson our handicapper.

Full race-by-race outcomes, handicaps, and current standings across all ILCA fleets (ILCA 4, ILCA 6, and ILCA 7) can be found live on the club's scoring portal in the DBSC’s Sailor App under Results.