Port Macquarie Sailing Club’s double header on Sunday consisted of its seventh Spring series race in the morning, a barbecue lunch and the second club championship race in the afternoon.
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The strong south-wester with a moderate run in tide made for a lot of fast sailing and a few spills, injuries, and damage.
The seventh Spring Series race in the morning saw a lot of fast sailing where Frank O’Rourke on Dino took the yardstick win in the multihulls.
He was followed by Jack Corthals on Harpic, Tony Kuhn on Stella, and Rob Barwick on Drift.
Harpic won on handicap ahead of Dino, Stella, and Drift.
Scott Witchard in Devocean finished ahead of Stuart Symons and Gary King in Jupiter on both yardstick and handicap, even after a few capsizes.
After the heavy sailing in the morning race, no multihulls contested the afternoon’s first club championship race due to injuries, previous engagements, and just worn out.
The Monohull’s second club championship race was contested by more boats.
Paul Robertson and Warren Sykes on Slam Dunc sailed a very fast, clean race to win on yardstick ahead of Devocean and Stuart Symons with Zac Jeffries as crew on Jupiter this time.
Steve and Caleb Bohlsen on Splash Dance were going well despite a capsize until a spectacular broken mast with the spinnaker up ended their race.
Next Sunday is race eight of the Spring series starting at 2pm.
Jeff Walsh is rostered on duty.
