It was a challenging day on the water for both competitors and race management team in the Sydney Harbour Sprint Series today.
Three races were scheduled on The Sound and the first race started on time with a two-lap windward-leeward between Washaway Beach and South Head in a light south-easterly. The breeze then became extremely variable both in strength and direction and there were a couple of unsuccessful attempts to get the next race away before a race was finally started in a freshening north easterly.
Unfortunately, by lap two there were patches of light southerly, easterly and northerly breeze across the race area all at the same time and racing was abandoned for the day. The fleet was safely back at the MHYC Marina just ahead of a storm cell arriving from the west.
Congratulations to Ian Box and Toy Box 2 for their ORC, IRC & PHS wins in Division 1, Geoff Pearson’s MRX for the Division 2 PHS & IRC wins and Brian Lees’ Contentious for the Division 2 ORC win.