Hamilton Island Race Week Report
The first couple of days we saw beautiful 15-18kt SE tradewinds across the racetrack which led to some very close racing. However yesterday, the winds lightened making it difficult for the heavier boats. Some cruising boats had difficulty finishing.
On Tuesday night, the huge number of MHYC boats and crew got together at the pub’s function room for a social gathering and catch up with free drinks! It was a fun and great bonding event with everyone swapping stories. Several people said, “I must join this club!”. Thanks must go to past Commodore Peter Lewis and current Commodore Rob Aldis for organsing it.
There are many MHYC boats here and will do a final roundup next week. But with still 5 races to go (3 for Hamilton Island PHS Division), and the possibility of one drop, there are still many who hope to get on the final podium.
So far doing well in the IRC racing fleet is Zen (Gordon Ketelbey) in IRC 1 who is in fourth place. In IRC Div 2, S1 (Brendan McAssey) is equal 3rd with Toy Box (Ian Box) climbing up the ladder after the light race yesterday taking 5th from Popeye (Craig Douglas). Lazy Dog (Shaun Lane) is leading the Super 30 Division with Infotrack (Christian Beck) third and Law Connect (Rachel Beck) sixth.
In the Hamilton Island PHS Division, Kayimai (Peter Byford and Commodore Rob Aldis) are leading the Green Division by one point and Llama II (John Linton) is leading the Yellow Division by 3 points.
In the Purple Division Rumba (Steph Cook /Rob Carr & Kerry Burke) are seventh, but looking to do better in the latter half of the week after having a mishap in one race with a mark! Also racing in that division is Flyingfish Let Loose (Andrew Fairclough).
In the Orange Division, Ca Va (Phil Dressler with Peter Lewis onboard) just managed to finish Tuesday’s light race before the time line. Also racing are Shearwater (Guido Belgiorno-Nettis) in the Blue Division, Smitten (David Grice) in the Non Spinnaker and Flo (Andrew Pearson) who missed the first couple of days racing.
Stronger winds are expected in the latter half of the week which is good news for some.
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Julie Hodder reporting from Hamilton Island
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