Just a short report on Lake Bonney.
9 Mosquitos took to the water at Lake Bonney to be faced with very, very light shifty winds for both Saturday and Sunday,causing problems to even get over the start line at times with some wind shifts in excess of 180 degrees and only staying in that direction for a short time.
The seasoned lake sailors, Garry Johnstone and Tim Kennedy showed the experienced sea sailor Darren Kopp how it was done in the first 2 races,then Darren decided to use cassette tape as his wind indicator and took the honors in the next 2 races with Tim and Garry in hot pursuit, until approx 30 metres from the finish line Tim got caught in a "black hole" and let half the fleet over the line in front of him. The race crew so determined to get all 5 heats sailed shortened the course even more than it had been and sent us out again, with Tim getting the jump on the rest of the fleet and revenge for the previous races problems was first over the line in front of Garry and Darren. Brenton Delaine showed he was familiar with the shifty winds and sailed to the head of the fleet overtaking son Beau at times during the weekends races.
Even with the light winds everyone had a good time and enjoyed the Lake Bonney hospitality
Final results were; Garry Johnstone 1st, Tim Kennedy 2nd, Darren Kopp 3rd.