The Port Macquarie Sailing Club held race seven of the summer series with a handicap start on Sunday under mostly sunny skies in a lightish southerly, starting in the last of the run-out tide which then turned and ran in for the rest of the race.
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In the catamaran division, Frank O’Rourke on Dino made up the 20 minute head start given to Dave Winter on Spica to still finish nearly two minutes ahead on handicap.
Of course, Dino was well ahead of Spica once the yardsticks were applied.
Paul Robertson and Warren Sykes in Flembouyant also made up a 20 minute head start to take the monohull handicap win ahead of a tight battle for second.
Steve Bohlsen and Ed Molony in Splash Dance finished one second behind the length of their fixed spinnaker pole, ahead of a fast closing Simon Gandy and Steve Couch in Voyager.
These were followed by Terry Howard in Ratz, Stuart Symons and Sharon Carney in Big Bang and Elsa Gandy and Isla Smith in Flying Fish.
Phil Lillehagen and Jane Cooper followed in Elmo, Tony Walker in Deep Purple, Andrew Hurrell in Jupiter, and finally, after a capsize and a broken tiller extension, Peter Nyberg in Britannia.
Applying the yardsticks in this division shook things up a lot more except for Flembuoyant still winning by a long way.
Ratz was second followed by Voyager, Flying Fish, Big Bang, Splash Dance only 28 seconds ahead of Elmo, Deep Purple, Jupiter, and Britannia.
Next weekend is race nine of the summer series starting at 2pm. Paul Robertson is rostered on duty.
