Our PRO, Luke Parker, and LTRAR, David Murphy, have provided the following report on racing on Saturday.Saturday was the harbour bridge’s 90th birthday and the sailing gods presented sailors with a “thinking person’s breeze”. In other words, it wasn’t easy sailing; 5-20 knots predominantly from the SE, but with occasional gusts from the SW, followed by a gust (or maybe it was a lull) from SE and so on in an outgoing tide of flood stained water.Point score 3 and 4 brought some fast, exciting racing within Double Bay and both fleets were a little below usual numbers. There were some really fun reaches (and bottom mark roundings) out on the course. Sailors in each fleet conducted hull and centreboard inspections at various times. The “proximity award” goes to Geoff Boscoe for capsizing to windward pretty much into the Jazzman and taking out the club flagpole!As PRO, Luke accurately predicted a
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