From our PRO Ash Deacon:Wet, windy, wild and a tad cold might best describe the opener to the 2022/23 season and Club Championships heats 1 & 2. Thankfully the >25 knot forecast breeze didn’t quite eventuate albeit many in the 25+ boat fleet assured me it felt like it, and we saw a lot of sailors capsizing to test the water temperature.It was clear that the fleet of ‘true believers’ were keen to race as evident by the hotly contested starts resulting in a few general and individual recalls, black flags, and one OCS. The team on the yacht Smitten, generously loaned Kirk Marcolina, David Murphy, Justin Davey and Simon Stone, had an excellent and elevated vantage point to view each start. For future reference, anyone OCS is super easy to detect from Smitten !!The SE course was set early in the day by Craig Sheers (COTD) with Scott Hunter & Quinn Pierson assisting on the water. By race time the breeze had settled to around 16 knots punctuated with lots of bullets
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