Hi Skippers,
We had beautiful sunshine and a light SE to Easterly breeze. 13 yachts on the water so racing was always going to be close and hard fort.
We had Andrew Wilson ( Mr Buoybots ) # 16 joining us for the afternoon which spiced up the fleet with his demonstration of good sailing and judgement. Thanks Andrew for travelling up from Brisbane and joining our fleet. I started him off on a H’cap of 40 sec and he quickly moved that out to 85 sec and won the day on 11 points. Well sailed!!
For the rest of the fleet it was very close and at 1/2 time break ( 5 races sailed ) there was only 4 points between 5 skippers.
We could only sail 2 more heats as the batteries went flat in 3 out of the 4 buoybots and there was only 1 able to function. What an embarrasment with Andrew here to sail with us and driving up from Brisbane.
Clearly the batteries the DF 65’s were using in the morning were not charged and it was only a matter of time before all were flat. The charging system and procedure has failed us today. Buoybot 4 ( the bottom mark ) was stranded out in the middle of the lake dead in the water. Thanks to Derick and others Dan, Paul, Greg etc……. for helping out at the end of sailing as I had to pick up my son from school.
We only had 4 buoybots in use and 3 of them had to be rescued.
Tony not good enough mate !!!
Prior to the buoybots failing we had very close sailing and tight finishes.
Congrats to the place getters:
1st Geoff Morris #96 21 points
2nd Simon Kellett #141 23 points
3rd Derick Warne #97 25 points
Full sailscores results below:
https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/iom-annual-club-handicap-championships-sep-01
Thanks to all for helping rescue the buoybots and pack up. It was a team effort.
See you all on Saturday for Club Champs scratch racing in the sunshine and 29 degrees.
Happy sailing,
Simon K
