Surf to City Yacht Race - The predicted record breaking race last weekend from Southport to Sandgate defied the predictions and only broke records for the number of anchors needing deployment to hold the boats against the tide in the predominant doldrums.
The first half of the inshore and offshore courses was sailed in less than five knots with plenty of parking stations for the crews to have a friendly chat in the swinging East to North East to North to Northwest wind lottery. Luckily the wind in the open parts of the bay built to 12 knots mid afternoon and some of the inshore boats at least made it home in the daylight.
Inside Courses: Vivace again scored the line honours with Supergoose easily winning the corrected time in division 2. They actually dance with a plastic chook to help bring on the wind, or so they say. The venerable classic, Ocean Racer Chaser, managed line honours and corrected in division 3. She is one of those boats that everyone has sailed on, and I can even claim to have helped poor her keel in a back yard on Cabbage Tree Creek. We had a great race on IntrIIgue to grab the multihull OMR, after working all day to keep the line honours winner Mad Max from getting out of sight. New Horizons managed to win the multihull PHRF.
Offshore Courses: There was no stopping Blackjack in the division 1 monohulls, and a host of rock stars on Lambourdini won the corrected time honours. The division 2 double went to Scott Murphy’s Out of Orbit with replacement skipper Ben Somerville, while Scott waited with the hot towels expectantly at home in the nursery. Corrected IRC went to Alacrity, and the close corrected times in that fleet proved that the IRC formula is still working well, even with most elapsed times above 15 hours. Multihull OMR went to Brisbane-Gladstone winner and favourite for 2012, Rhythmic, but Boss Racing crossed the line first. Newly built glamour boat of the weekend was the uber-cat Mojo winning the double in a boat that was covered in drool from sightseeing tours after the race.
Overall winning team was Multihull Yacht Club of Queensland, ahead of the host club Queensland Cruising Yacht Club.
Rhythmic wins another one - Surf to City Yacht Race - Peter Hackett
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