Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.richmondriver.yachting.org.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 Enquiries: email: [email protected] or phone a committee member Commodore Phil Robbins Wild wind, Capsizes and incoming tide!! 0466668541 Vice Commodore Trailable Report 050217 Jonathan Horsley 0412798505 What a day!! With fresh conditions almost every boat in every Division had a story to tell. Rear Commodore Rick & Roland & crews had a busy day, & “eX” with RDO Frostie as crew, also had Chris Hallett 0414866998 to retire to assist in one recovery. The BOM forecast was for 15knots, hitting up to 20 at sea, so we were all there Secretary for a fresh day. On the Start Boat, we could hear Rick radioing in for wind Jacqueline Heap 0423230840 strengths, & those listening were hoping for no cancellation, as gusts on the Start Line were getting up there. Treasurer Norm Hunt 8 boats were there ready for the action - 3 Spiders, “Ex”, Just a Touch, Aeolian, HH 66291366 Rabbit & new addition Waller 540 “Djinn”. Small run-in tide, hot & sunny, & NNE wind that steadied around 20 with 25k gusts top half of the course, but Class Reps Gennekers – Duncan Dey varied between 12 to 25 gusts for the Club half of the course, & this varying Catamarans – David Bowler caused some grief. Trailers – Graeme Fleming Monos – Maurice Reynaud Rabbit was first to the Top Mark, & saw that it was good, in fact she reely liked it, & in fact became quite attached to it. As other boats approached & also Rowing Officer wanted to round, Rabbit wasn’t finished playing with it & caused some concern as Mel Nixon Kelli Coleman sailors wrestled with the problem of .. well we should really go round the Mark HHUU but .. I’m not going anywhere that boat spinning out of control in these winds. Webmaster Jonathon tried, but almost lost that extra 2 feet, .. when Rabbit finally shook Colin Hinwood free it’s toy, & took off like a startled ..yeah well.. anyway Bad Blood hooked it’s Training team loose rope a few laps later as well, [caused also by Rabbit calling Starboard on a Graeme Turner Maurice Raynaud tight rounding…. Geez..!!] Back at the sailing .. the course didn’t quite allow for a true works, as the leg ALL EMAIL could be done in one, if you protected height all the way. Most elected to free a CORRESPONDENCE TO: [email protected] bit & one tack. Downwind was no gybe for the asso boats, & the gusts could put them anywhere .. the big down took them. Todd & Andrew had issues with the placement of that big sandy point being placed in the middle of the racetrack, & visited the beach a couple of times on round ups, trying to shave the Point. Bad Blood & Reg were in close combat until Blood lost it on a downwind, letting Bill & Gunter escape into free air. Aeolian was seen with only the back bit of the hull actually in the water, as the Hartley went for a new speed record. These boats love a fresh down wind, & 1 have a big, strong rudder. Maybe foils next? Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.richmondriver.yachting.org.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 Enquiries: email: [email protected] or phone a committee member And of course, the orange Waller, well .. hands up who hasn’t been there .. arse over, ingloriously towed back to beach full of water ...been there … No damage tho & owner Graham is planning the modifications that will correct the boat’s bad manners. The bigger Rabbit eventually worked its way back thru the fleet, to just get the gun, but it was Spider Reg with Gunter & Bill – a combo that goes waaay back - to win the day. Monos, Gennekers and Cats As your Newsletter writer was layed up with some nasty virus the report will be largely made up apart from some odd snippets of information gleaned from the odd Cat sailor. So, as per the trailer report conditions were a little hairy and it seems the Mono fleet all survived except for the McKeowns who did not finish. This was obviously the ideal conditions for Millsy with his new fit self. Graham Hams has been providing Cameron with plenty of good advice on survival techniques and all finished well. Lucky those monos are easy to get back up and going. The Genneker numbers were up with 5 ready for the fast and furious conditions. These speedy machines were almost flying on the day with Maurice and crew trying out his Cherub and Liam Channer and crew unable to finish due to breakages. The older Genneker sailors proved to be able to finish the race with Mike and Crew ( was it Laura??) making the grade and keeping the Bradfords well behind, most likely due to some surprise capsizes. Vince was second over the line and was seriously missing Duncan. The cat Sailors were looking confident in the morning but as the wind increased there were some other decisions to be made. Nola decided the day was not for her and after Phil tried for a one up session decided to go back and pick Chris up for crew. Geoff and Norm teamed up for a brilliant race and Norm enjoying his freedom on the trapeze. He described it as “ a screamer”. I am sure he was not screaming. Jonathan and Drew flew around the course in no time at all. Col loves those erratic crazy adventures which can only add to his repertoire of stories and enjoyed second over the line. Tony had many capsizes and has found that the little taipan can be a very tipsy customer in those conditions. Looks like Phil and John Mac did not finish. Well, I think Phil did but he did stop off and pick up a crew. No-one there for John to double up with. He usually sticks with it. I wonder what went wrong this time. This weekend is Cat week at Southport and many of the Nacra sailors will be participating. Good luck guys. Hope the jellyfish and the stink boats are kind to you. 2 Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club website: www.richmondriver.yachting.org.au P.O. Box 963 Ballina 2478 Enquiries: email: [email protected] or phone a committee member CLUB Announcements Required::NEW Canteen officer- duties are to maintain the drink supply, nibbles, loo paper and other general supplies and ensure the fridges are clean. New Secretary- Keeping the minutes, collecting mail assisting with other duties, writing Notices and emails. New Newsletter writer- writing the newsletter weekly if possible. 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