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Puddleduck Sailing – RG/DF65s
5th November, 2024
Well, what a cracker of a day that greeted fifteen skippers to contest another DF/RG sailing day at “The Duck”.
Shorts, hats, sunscreen, sunglasses were the order of the day and all we hoped for was a nice steady breeze ….. ha ha ha … reality hit with the gentle breeze of 0-3knts swirling around mostly from the northwest but sometimes from the west and south which made sailing challenging. There were also plenty of lulls that saw boats becalmed, with others sailing past.
A quick change of course 15sec before button press in R1 saw us head off to buoy 2, buoy 3, buoy 4, two laps. We kept this course for the ten races and with ten minutes to spare at the end we had a invitational scratch race which saw Stuart dominate the race with his RG65. My apologies I can’t recall the minor places however I believe Nick was well and truly up there at the pointy end, enough to bring him back again in a fortnight.
Generally racing was reasonably clean with the exception of some boats starting on Port tack failing to keep clear, and the usual buoy roundings with a few raft ups from lack of buoy room given. Just a hint, at the start I commence on starboard and go wide at buoy roundings and miss most of the mayhem, it works in most cases 😊.
Sue was kept on her toes with many a close finish, thank you and well done Sue for your meticulous paperwork (& of course Bonnie the ferocious guard dog 😊)
Ten races were completed today with seven different line honours winners with the combined fleet winner being Stuart (RG65) on 22pts, second was Jammy (DF65) on 27pts, and third place was Trout (DF65) on 40pts, well sailed chaps 😊.
In the DF65 only class, Jammy was the clear winner on 21pts, despite sailing a red boat instead of his orange boat in R6, Specsavers moment Jammy 😊. Trout came in second on 34pts, and I snuck in for third place on 36pts. (Fab, I swapped our results around on R9, so you came 3rd, and I 4th, don’t think it made a lot of difference).
Overall, most skippers enjoyed a podium place during the day, with some hotly contested enjoyable sailing. We did miss Gadget today who was out and about enjoying Melbourne Cup Day, so apologies there aren’t any hat videos to review.
The chat over PDV coffee, Lattes, hot chocolates, Chai Latte (what is going on here Martin 😊) was again very enjoyable,
See you all again next time at The Duck
Bodge
Coming up …
Next Week – DF95s (Tuesday 12/11/24)
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