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It was a lovely Tassie sunny day and sixteen DF95 skippers gathered at Puddleduck Vineyard for racing. Initially there was not much wind in the offering and I think that most of us expected a frustrating morning of drifting but as the morning proceeded a North Easterly settled in and we had some excellent racing.
Peter Germaine has recently returned from his Queensland winter hide-a-way but unfortunately brought his DF65 today. Unfortunate for him – but fortunate for the rest of us he decided to stay on and assist with PRO duties. Thanks for your work today Peter, welcome back, and we hope that you enjoy your sailing at Puddleduck.
There was a little bit of weed around today. I am thinking that as we don’t often get this wind direction loose flotsam that is usually collected on the leeward shore suddenly finds itself on the windward shore and gets cast adrift on the dam’s surface.
David Poon launched a brand new vivid orange hull today and was very quick to show us what it was capable of by finishing in a nice second place in the first up scratch race.
I did not bring my computer today and so could only do a quick provisional adding of the scores by hand. Although we were able to applaud Trout as winner- (Congratulations Trout!) such was the closeness of results today I did not account correctly for other the other place getters. I had discounted myself as a possibility after a couple of disastrous races early in the program but in fact managed third overall by consistently sailing the remainder of the program. Peter Ross finished second overall taking the spot on count-back. (We both had the same number of 1st, 2nd and 3rd places but Peter had a 4th as well.) Well done Peter and it is great to have you back in the fleet again. We hope that you will be able to make it regularly now.
Skippers please note that next week will be a ‘stay-for-lunch-if-you-want-to’ week. I can almost taste those delicious pies in my head already!
Shorty
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