Hi Skippers,
It was a nice blue sky afternoon at the lake for the 7 skippers on AFL Grand Final Day . What a mighty win for the Lions. 3 in a row!!
We had a 3 -8 knot Easterly wind which was very fluky. The top mark was proving to be really tricky as the wind shifts and strength were always changing. Well done to all for hanging in there!!
As it was Grand Final Day we decided to run our 10 heats back to back ( 5 scratch / 5 H’cap ) so we could finish by the end of the 1st quarter of the game.
It was very tight racing for the scratch races with the 7 yachts all bunched together.
Congrats to the place getters;
1st Geoff Morris #96 15 points
2nd Simon Kellett #58 17 points
3rd Doug Turner #82 18 points
4th Dan Silk #56 32 Points
5th Derick Warne #97 32 points (tied on a countback )
Full sailscores results below:
https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/iom-metre-cup-club-hybrid-championships-sep-26-moved-from-sep-12
We had 4 buoybots on the water with a start line and top and bottom mark They all worked well.
Thanks to the team effort packing up the flags and buoybots.
John Halloran and Geoff Morris will be running the Tuesday racing Admirals Cup #3 as I am off to Straddie on Sunday for the week with the family for school holidays.
Other than the challenging winds the sailing was a lot of fun. It was good to see Mark Burdon #88 sailing with no issues. New rudder servo, receiver and transmitter. He had very good boat speed!
See you all next Saturday.
Happy sailing,
Simon K