Page 6 - CYAA 2022 Winter Series Race 7 31st July

MARTINI conditions no boats
A RACE FOR SURVIVAL ON PORT PHILLIP should ever sail.
Disappointmentstruck
ROSS CLARK
one hour before the
It started easily enough, Michael start time, 0930. The
Williams and I really enjoy the weather was really
Festival of Sail and we had to enter ugly and the race was
the race to avenge our previous postponed. Sadly I
victories. But this year, 2013, there prepared to go to work
was a problem … as did our third crew
member. We usually
take wives on this
passage race but this
.. the weather for last Friday was forecast
to be bad, really bad. There was a gale year said no due to
warning out for the bay and under these the predicted bad
weather.

From the 31st level of Freshwater Place of the start at 11:45 am The cloud
bank to the south doesn’t look that ominous!

Then a strange though there was a gale warning
thing happened. current. They shortened the course
The weather presumably to avoid a severe second
appeared to cold front that was approaching from
abate and the the south west.
race committee
decided to run I dropped the work idea in about
the race, even 40 milliseconds as did Michael. We