Sprint RACINGWith a large number of our sailors away at Wangi (see following piece), we set a north easterly sprint course for our normal 2pm start. When we headed back to the club no sailors had rigged but as 1 pm approached they arrived one-by-one until we had eight contenders for the building wind.In all we had six fast and furious races in a breeze that frequently climbed into the high twenty’s, some said over thirty knots. Big smiles all round and a few capsizes along the way. Jim Dounis was consistently 1st in the ILCA 6 while Diana Chen won all the ILCA 4 finishes. To be fair, they were each the only one in their fleet but did finish somewhere in the middle of the full rigs with a bit of self adjusted handicapping. We did lengthen the course a bit as the wind eased a bit, but then the
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