Prepared by Eddie Cowell for Paradise Radio Yacht Club
Hosted Events
Updated: Paradise Radio Yacht Club successfully hosted the event at Emerald Lakes, Gold Coast.
The weather was perfect, with partly cloudy ,25 degree temperatures. The wind was from south west to south east, A rig, 5 to 12 knots, on both days. The water was clean and generally smooth.
Skippers from two NSW and seven Queensland clubs travelled to Emerald Lakes from as far afield as Gladstone in the north and Lake Macquarie in NSW.
28 competitors, were divided into two fleets and a total of 16 races were completed over the 2 days, allowing 3 drops.
Lindsay and Anne Walker, capably carried out the PRO and heat management/scoring roles.David Black volunteered his fine skills to compile the results
The courses, were windward and returns, two and a half times, taking about 12 minutes to complete.
Paul Jones, from Lake Macquarie won by a comfortable margin, from Allan Walker, then Greg Torpy.
16 different brands of IOM yachts competed. The skill and experience, and some good luck, proving to be the most important factor in winning results.
All penalties were completed, on the water, and the mood of the skippers was sportsman like.
The PRYC team of volunteers worked hard, to conduct a well-run championship.
Greg Torpy from 360 Degree Sails, provided an additional prize voucher, for the skipper who was placed mid fleet overall (Allan Bryant).
Laurie Hinchcliff. (PRYC)
Videos recorded by Ian Lobley from Springfield Lakes Maritime Modellers
Queensland 10 Rater Championships – March 12
By Mark Perkin – PRYC 10R Fleet Captain
The latest 10 Rater championship event was held under fine conditions at Emerald Lakes, with 11 boats turning out on the day. The event also attracted quite a number of onlookers during the course of the day. It was great to see the Sunshine Coast boys come down and compete in the event.
You could say it was a case of diamonds are forever, with the Graham Bantock designed boats taking a clean sweep of the top 3 places.
The sailing breeze was generally light, with winds at the top mark becoming fickle in the shadow of the trees by the equipment shed. This issue eventually lead to the course being moved around half way thru the day, to a better location more in the middle of the lake, where there was nothing onshore to interrupt the breeze.
The wind was quite light to start with, so all boats were initially rigged up with their A rigs, but as the day progressed, the breeze strengthened, and most boats changed down to B rigs around lunchtime.
It lightened again in the afternoon, so some skippers changed back up again to their A rigs.
The top 3 places were filled with Diamonds, as mentioned before, who dominated the day’s racing with their big rigs and sheer boat speed.
Ian Ashe was PRO on the day, and did a great job as usual.
It was pleasing to see that there were very few protests, and also few incidents on the water, so for the most part, the racing was clean and fair.
David Turton, sailing #76, won the day, with 8 wins, for a total score of 27 points.
Greg Torpy came in second, sailing #44, with 6 wins and 34 points.
Tim Brown was third place winner, sailing #07, with 2 wins and 45 points.
Many thanks to all who competed, and especially to Laurie Hinchcliffe for all his work behind the scenes, and also to all the people who came along to act as race officials and support crew on the day.
Happy sailing
Mark
