![]() ![]() “We had a strong team on board, the hardcore Popeye sailing team. “We did everything right,” Douglas asserted. Performance Class SpinnakerĬraig Douglas’ Beneteau First 47.7, Popeye, revelled in today’s conditions and took out Division 1 from Eric Frank’s Bliss and Mark Gorbatov’s Blink. No Friends (Geoffrey Charters) and Another Dilemma (Jim Vaughan) placed second and third overall respectively and finished on equal points., four behind Artemis. We couldn’t even tell if we’d won the final race it was that close. We had great tactics downwind and great competition with Another Dilemma especially. “Our manoeuvres and crew work were incredible and the conditions suited us,” she said of the building nor’ easter on a perfect sunny day, when a 12 knot breeze worked its way up to 18 knots on the Sydney Harbour course. “Best day ever,” a thrilled Richardson said. She did so by scoring three straight wins on the windward/leeward courses. With MHYC celebrating International Women’s day at the regatta today, it seemed appropriate that club member, Tracy Richardson, came from behind to win the division with Artemis. The Sydney 36 scored four wins and a pair of second places, outsailing Peter Farrugia’s Bullwinkle and Neil Padden’s Wailea. Serial winner, Stormaway (Colin Gunn and Jack Stening), won Division 2. We stayed consistent and were able to just hang in there,” Griffith ended. We lost our bowman over the side in third race, but the crew did an excellent job of retrieval, had him back on board very quickly. ![]() It wasn’t so easy, but we are pretty happy to come away with two second places today. “Today we had a good ding-dong battle with Nine Dragons. Macca (Steve McConaghy) did great job on tactics and we had good speed,” Griffith shared. “Saturday we had a really good day and won by some fairly big margins. Keiran Mulcahy’s King 40, Soozal, placed third. He did enough today, with 2-2-5 results to win Division 1 of the Open Class from another DK46, Nine Dragons, owned by Robert Cox. ![]() Mark Griffith did his best work yesterday in light airs, claiming all three windward/leeward races with the DK46, LCE Old School Racing. ![]()
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