2011 Batemans Bay Regatta

The 2011 Batemans Bay Regatta will be held on April 9th and 10th.  Traditionally the Batemans Bay Regatta is held on the weekend closest to ANZAC Day. However, in 2011 ANZAC Day will be on Easter Monday. Holding the regatta over Easter would clash with NSW Championships in several classes so the regatta will instead be held two weekends earlier. NSW schools break up on April 8th, giving NSW based sailors the opportunity to have an extended family break in Batemans Bay.
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Bay Cup 4 - SAILING REPORT

Last weekend Batemans Bay Sailing Club conducted the fourth race of its popular Bay Cup series. Eight yachts ventured forth. Race officer Robin Foote, assisted by Michael and George from “The Shed” had a difficult task in setting a course as the breeze was shifting dramatically. A southerly course was set although the breeze swung south east at the start. This gave the yachts a port tack fetch to the Wimbie Beach mark. The breeze then backed right around to just east of north making the next leg to the Toll Gates a work. After a short reaching leg to the marine park middle mark the breeze almost completely dropped out. Subsequently the run back to Wimbie Beach was a very slow one. The south easterly breeze then came back on the leg back to the middle mark. Mercifully the race was shortened there.

“Apostrophe” (Tim Davis and David McNicol), the biggest boat in the fleet and an excellent light air performer, threatened to get away from the fleet but ran into dead patches in the breeze a couple of times allowing everyone else to catch up. She finished just under 3 minutes ahead of “Black Velvet” (skippered on the day by Dave Boardman) after two and a half hours racing. The timing of the windshifts suited the smaller boats such as “Avior” (Peter Smith) and “Juicy Fruit” (Michael O’Brien) who were able to able to hook into new breeze early on both the second and penultimate legs of the course and sail a more direct course than the bigger boats. The whole fleet finished within half an hour of “Apostrophe”. On performance handicap the S80 sisterships “Juicy Fruit” and “Avior” were first and second. Gus McDonald and his crew employed the big sailplan of “Totally Mild” with effect for a third placing. On IRC, “Ghoster” (Lachlan Brown) ghosted into second behind “Avior” and ahead of “Juicy Fruit”.