Hi all,

Another Regatta at Lake Bullen Merri was held over Easter, we had 6 Mosquito's (were was Rob Lott?), great camping, great company, good wine and a good time was had by all who attended.

with nearly 100 boats competing some of the mark groundings were interesting at times.

Division 1 was made up of Taipans & A class, while division 2 had the Mozzies and Dolphins, there were also 14 Cobras sailing their State Tiles so they had there own start for all but the 1st race.

Race 1,We had 25 boats starting in our division, just as the start gun went the wind shifted and it was a struggle to cross the line on Starboard a few of us tacked early and made a sprint for the 1st mark, unfortunately Phillip Warren- Smith, Andrew Neeson and Gordon Hyde, missed the flags and were late starters.
The wind was up and down with some trapeze work and some hopping for a little more breeze(a trend for the weekend).
Results were 1st home Ross Bennett on No turbulence, 2nd Jon Guymer on Prestissimo and John Buzzo on Courageous came in 3rd.

Race 2:Ross, Andrew and Gorden started at the pin end on port Jon and Phillip went boat end on Starboard, with 2 legs to go Ross, Andrew and Jon were close together, Gorden came around the Mark tacked went to the corner and tacked again and made up about 1/2 a leg at had hit the lead to round the last mark to the finish area, Andrew was next around the Mark closely followed by Ross and Jon, on the final leg both Gorden and Andrew let Ross through to go on to a another win, Gorden second, Andrew 3rd with Jon in 4th.

Race 3: the wind dropped out and the race abandoned.

Race 4:A predicted wind change did not happen and the start was a port start and a reach to the 1st mark,Ross lead all the way to win with Gorden second sailing Andrew Neesons boat with his own sail, Jon was pushed back to 3rd in a photo finish.

Race 5: Again a wind shift seconds from the start caused an early tack to Port, Jon and Ross managed to get away with Jon rounding the A mark first closely followed by Ross these 2 boats sailed the next leg side by side passing a few Taipans who were heading for the wrong mark, Ross then sailed away from Jon and was never headed, Gorden was 2nd home followed by Phillip(I think.)

The last Race was a Sternchaser which ran out of wind almost before it started but to Phillip's and John Buzzos credit they sailed well to 1st and 2nd Mossie's home which gave Phillip the trophy for the leading mosquito in that race, donated by Gary Lane who injured his elbow a few days before the event and could not sail.

It was interesting to note that although the Cobras have a similar yardstick to the Mosquito and they started 10 minutes in front. we passed most of them (read all for one of the mozzies)in nearly every race!

Not enough water depth?

Thanks for the report Ross. Why was Gordon on Andrew's boat?

Thanks Tim,

Should prof read before posting (lucky I'm in finance not a reporter). The lake is 200ft. deep so grounding was not a problem although rounding was occasional.

Gorden was on Andrews boat because Andrew hurt his knee (Ask him how ) and took the race off, as Gorden is the King of borrowing things I guess he just could not resist.

I (rob lott) was at home doing home work, and studying for an upcoming exam. would of loved to be there but i cant do every thing, on my pay rate. good to see all that went had a good time.

looks like i will miss the drought buster as well.

Bugger.

And the wind-strength looks like a re-run of last year.

Rob, I am glad you had a good excuse for not bring there at Easter.

I cannot make the drought buster either, I have to go to 40th wedding anniversary

Well done to all the Mozzies at Bullen Merri. Great to see the Mozzies catching the Cobra's. The light conditions obviously didn't suit them at all.

Somers Y.C. had a total of 11 club Mozzies compete in their own Easter Regatta against Tornados, Hobies and A Class cats. The Mozzies took 3 1st places from the 5 race series. Results are here. Somers Y.C. Easter Regatta Results

Regards,

Peter

Hi Peter did you win the series or only the first race, only the first race results came up.
good to see you out in front see you on the water.

lol its funny that peter did that last year well done peter

Hi Rob,

I only won the first race however the Somers Y.C. website has all the other race results.

After the 1st race (very light winds) I returned to my rightful position in the pecking order. There was no series result; it was just race by race with trophies and penants presented in the clubhouse at the end of each day.

Regards,

Peter

p.s. I certainly feel for you missing racing over Easter. I recall being loaded up with assignments and projects for the Easter break.

Peter,

Very nice to see you showing your transoms to the fleet. Congratulations!

I managed to hold off a depleted fleet of of only 3 PT's to bring home the bacon for our Easter Trophy.

Still some sting in the old ply girls yet!

Cheers,

Simon,

Great to see you win the McCrae Easter Trophy. If we can't win with boat speed then we have to win with cunning. It either goes terribly well or goes terribly wrong.

Luck also had a big part in my win with James Pearse caught in a log jam of 470's and Malcolm Kemp performing and accidental gybe and jamming his tiller extension.

Regards,

Peter