Foggy conditions at Fitzroy Falls for sailing gave way to bushfire smoke which has surrounded the Highlands for many days.
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The SE wind was a steady 3-8 knots and there was some close racing even though visibility in finding the marks was down to less than 100 metres at times as the mist and smoke combined to roll over the course.
The poor visibility meant the course was not long enough to enable the Catamarans to break away as the OOD needed to be able to see the fleet from the Clubhouse for safety.
The twice deferred Pointscore Round was sailed within the Commodore's Cup races to complete the Spring Pointscore series.
Commodore's Cup Results Round 6 Race 1.
1st Patrick Largier Laser Standard Olympic dinghy, 2nd Geoff Sweeney Laser Radial Olympic dinghy, 3rd Greg Naylor Laser Radial Olympic dinghy
Race 2.
1st Owen Muyt Melges 14 Gold dinghy, 2nd Chris Guy Laser Std Olympic dinghy, 3rd Greg Naylor Laser Radial Olympic dinghy
Quite unusually Greg Yalg sailing his Hydra 16 cat was involved in 2 one second corrected time results - one going in his favour and the other against.
In Race 1 Richard Hastings' corrected time was 39 m 59 sec and Greg's 40 m 00 sec. In Race 2 Greg's corrected time was 62 m 47 sec and he beat Michael Brindley 62 m 48 sec.
Richard and Michael sail Nacra 14sqm cats. Calculations had to go to 2 decimal places to split their times.
Pointscore Round 5 Results Race 9.
Monos
1st Patrick Largier Laser Std, 2nd Owen Muyt Melges 14 Gold, 3rd Greg Naylor Laser Radial, 4th Geoff Sweeney Laser Radial, 5th Chris Guy Laser Std, 6th Robin Rankin Laser Std, 7th Sam Cronin Laser Std
Catamarans
1st Richard Hastings Nacra 14sq ST, 2nd Michael Brindley Nacra 14sq PH, 3rd Greg Yalg Hydra 16, 4th John Smale A Class
Race 10.
Monos
1st Owen Muyt Melges 14 Gold, 2nd Sam Cronin Laser Std, 3rd Patrick Largier Laser Std, 4th Chris Guy Laser Std, 5th Greg Naylor Laser Radial, 6th Geoff Sweeney Laser Radial
DNF Robin Rankin Laser Std
In Race 9 Owen sailed his Melges to a yardstick of 112.7 against Patrick Largier on his Laser Std 114.
In Race 10 Owen sailed his Melges to a yardstick of 108.5 versus Sam Cronin on his Laser Std 114. Patrick on his Laser Std sailed to 119.5.
Catamarans
1st Richard Hastings Nacra 14sq ST, 2nd Michael Brindley Nacra 14sq PH, 3rd John Smale A Class, 4th Trevor Brown A Class, 5th Greg Yalg Hydra 16.
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