Day: 11 August 2026

Hi Skippers,
We arrived at the lake to find strong gusty S Westerly winds ideal for B rigs. I rigged up and 1/2 an hour later not only had the Council pulled the plug on the lake water level but the winds abated so we all changed to our A rigs. The tide dropped heaps throughout the afternoon. No Gumboots need !!
We had 13 skippers sailing including Richard Machin from Victoria. Super close sailing all afternoon with only 7 points between the top 6 places.
The H’cap adjustments kept the fleet close especially at the finish line.
Congrats to the place getters:
1st Bill Heritage #59 31points
2nd Phil Gray #57 / 147 33points
3rd Derick Warne #97 35 points
Full sailscores results below:
https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/iom-winter-handicap-series-aug-11

Thanks heaps to Kym Mitchell for scoring and doing the start box once again.
Thanks to the team effort in packing up the 6 buoybots and flags.
Geoff Morris will be excited in buying a new IOM “Pikanto ” No 63 from a retiring past club member. We will see it on Saturday.!!!!

See you all on Saturday for Club Champs H’cap sailing.
Happy sailing,
Simon K

Hi Skippers
At 7am this morning there was a gentle 2 knot SE breeze – nothing like the forecast but very picturesque !
Just after 9am it went SW & started to increase ( & increase ) … by the time we started it was gusting 10-12+ knots. Off came most of the A+ rigs & the majority put on B rigs…. 2 out of 7 participants stayed with the larger rigs.
Within a few races everyone was on B’s as it was almost impossible to tack with A+’s … by the time we finished it was pretty hard to tack even with B’s !
Results :

Check out the scores online : https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/df65-club-scratch-day-aug-11

Highlight of the Day : well as you might know I never include myself in this section but today is the exception – I’m happy to say I won the day – I have been on a mission to improve my performance in recent weeks – a continual struggle ! As you can see it was close with good competition especially between myself, Tug Boat Phil & Doug Turner – lucky for me they both started with A+ rigs but that was their choice ! I’ll take any advantage I can 🙂

It was a good fun racing with running commentary on various skippers dilemma’s throughout the morning – I enjoyed it anyway.
Thanks to Robert Cornthwaite for scoring, ably assisted by Robert Hunter.
Next Session : Saturday 15th Aug : Winter Scratch series – windy by looks of it.
Have a great week.
Cheers
Mark

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