Day: 8 August 2026

Hi Skippers,
It had a summer feel down at the lake for the 9 skippers IOM sailing in the 7th round of our Meter Cup series. Blue sky and a gentle 3 – 5 knot SE to Easterly wind. Another close afternoon of IOM sailing. After heat 6 there was 1 point between 6 sailors. The last 4 races ( 2 h’cap / 2 scratch ) were full of tactics and holding your nerve was key. Geoff Morris managed to win the last two scratch races with his Cockatoo 8. Well sailed !!
We had a visitor from WA Cliff Davis #33 who is here for the IOM Nationals. Cliff would have won the day but his results have been removed from the club score system. Thanks goodness!!
Congrats to the place getters:
1st Simon Kellett #58 20 points
2nd Geoff Morris #28 / 96 22 points
3rd Derick Warne #97 26 points
Full sailscore results below:
https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/iom-metre-cup-club-hybrid-championships-aug-08

Good to see Paul Newman #60 back sailing after his OZ camping trip around Australia. Thanks heaps to John Halloran for scoring the afternoon and running the start box. A great job!

Thanks to all who helped pack up the frags and buoybots. All 6 worked perfectly.
See you all on Tuesday for Winter Series H’cap sailing.
Happy sailing,
Simon Kellett

Hi Skippers
Another beautiful morning at the Lake – a reasonable SSW breeze that increased nicely & went southerly then SSE. 11 boats on the water which was good as we had 3 regulars that have ventured down to Paradise RYC on the Gold Coast for this weekends Qld DF65 State Champs ( Craig Wiley, Mark Burdon & Tony Silver ).
Results :

Check out the scores online : https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/df65-revolution-cup-hybrid-aug-08
Check out the cumulative scores for this series so far this season https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/2026-df65-revolution-cup-hybrid

Visitor Andrew Young #79 from Gladstone launched his new DF65 this morning but unfortunately had battery issues . Many thanks to Andrew’s better half, Sue who "volunteered" to score the morning – fantastic job Sue , nice to have a scoresheet I can read clearly. You are both welcome anytime !

Highlight of the day : well… it wasn’t a highlight it was the opposite – too many bingles, mainly at the top & bottom marks where mark room wasn’t given when it should have been – unfortunately one sailor got targeted too often & justifiably wasn’t impressed !

*** In radio-controlled yacht racing, mark room is governed by World Sailing’s Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) Part 2, Rule 18. The most essential principle is that if two boats are overlapped as the first one enters the "4-boat-length zone" around a mark, the outside boat must give the inside boat enough room to sail to and safely round the mark without touching it. ***

Next session : Tuesday 11th August DF65 Club Scratch racing.
Have a great weekend
Cheers
Mark

Mark Lewis
Secretary / DF65 Coordinator
Sunshine Coast Radio Sailing Club Inc
0424 787 884