Day Two, another Bullet

Finish Race two [photo & champagne, courtesy Guy Nowell, via TC]

Today's result: Line Honours and First on corrected time. This time second over the line was the Warwick 66 Storm2 and third over the line the Beneteau 53f5, Baby Tonga, which took second on corrected.


After a delay of half an hour, again like yesterday to let the breeze fill, Race Officer Ross Chisholm set us off on an Islands course, 1B, a 22 miler, south and east.

We had a good start just to weather of Baby Tonga, both at the pin end with most of the rest of the fleet. Tonga showed good pace on the first work to the Islands of Ko Hi and Ko Aeo, when they decided to stay right while Stevo took us left and that proved the winning strategy, as we led from there to the finish.

Breezes were light - 5 to 10 knots Easterly - and very fluky, much more so than even Hong Kong. Shifts of 10-20 degrees and winds from 10 to 4 knots and back, were the order of the day. This meant constant focus to stay on top of the shifts and to try to read the upcoming ones.

In the end we managed and were happy to put another bullet in the belt.

Guy Nowell the sailing photographer, was at the finish with a couple of bottles of champagne as "payment" for having us pose for the Asian Yachting magazine, for which no one loath, to various shouts of "Wooshka".

Sorry still no photos as I'm blogging from my iPad. Maybe Thursday, layday, I can get some from Babs.

Full results here.

Asian Yachting report:

Peter Forsythe & Jing Lee's X-55 Xena survived the hole at the finish line to once again take out the daily double of line and handicap honours, to hold onto top spot in the Premier Cruising class. Aussie racing legend Peter Sorenson on the chartered Beneteau F53 Baby Tonga, threw everything he could at Xena but just couldn't advance beyond second place. Jon Wardill's thirty year old Cassidy 55 Australian Maid continues to shine and holds onto third place despite the pressure from the modern sleek yacht designs they are up against. [Full report here]

PS: thanks for the comments yesterday guys!