Alex McKinnon images from Day Two of the VIC Etchells Championship

by Alex McKinnon on 12 Mar 2017 Alex McKinnon was out on the water for the Brighton Land Rover 2017 Etchells Victorian State Championship. It is being staged out of the Royal Brighton YC, and Day Two also started in light breezes. Racing was scheduled to start at 1100hrs, but with less than 3kts the AP went up, and all were kept ashore until the breeze started to fill in. There was even some thunder and a little lightning while we waited.

Eventually the breeze filled in, and racing got underway at 1400hrs on an axis of 180degrees and out to a range of 1.4nm. This first race of the day got away cleanly, unlike the second race of the day, which had one general recall leading to the U flagging hoisted aloft, and then another resulting in the back flag going up!

The second race had an axis of 190degrees, with around 10 knots blowing. The wind still proved challenging for race officials, with it moving through a range of 160–200 during the day. At the end of Day Two it is incredibly close with Yandoo XX leading by 5 points after a drop, and then Fast Forward, Magpie and Triad2 all on 13 after a drop.