Light Breeze for the Sprint Series

A delayed start for the Sprint Series on Saturday with light breeze frustrating the Race Committee and sailors alike.  A gentle fluctuating Nor' Easterly breeze kicked in allowing the boats to get underway in the Sound for two short races conducted by Race Officer Steve Tucker and the MHYC Race Management Team. .

In Division 1 Peter Sorensen won both the IRC and PHS for Race 1 on Advanced Philosophy with Toy Box 2 (Ian Box) taking second place IRC and Samarkand (Walter Carpenter) second in

the PHS.  In race 2 Ian Box picked up first place for both IRC and PHS on Toy Box 2. For the PHS results for Race 1 in Division 2, Goran Hultin won podium position on Stella Polaris

followed by MRX (Geoff Pearson) and Rumba (Robert Carr) in third place in PHS with Neil Padden taking first place in the IRC on Wailea. In Race 2  Wailea (Neil Padden) won first place for both the IRC and PHS with MRX (Geoff Pearson) taking 2nd place also for both handicap systems. Alliance (Ben Thompson) received third place for the PHS and Stormaway (Jack Stening and Colin Gunn) for the IRC.

In the Adams 10 Fleet Tracy Richardson had a successful day on  No Friends  taking first place in Race 1 for both One Design and PHS with Rock Solid (Mitch Miller) coming second in the One Design and Another Dilemma (Jim Vaughan) in third place. In Race 2 for One Design Mitch Miller won first place on Rock Solid  followed by Contentious (Brian Lees) in second and No Friends (Tracy Richardson) in third place. Contentious (Brian Lees) won first place in the PHS result.

For full results click  Inshore Sprints or Adams 10 Sprints

Thanks to Marg Fraser-Martin for the great photography on the day. For more photos here.