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CYAA 2024 Winter Series Race 5 on Port Phillip waters 15th July 2024

Results comments

What can you say? Looking over the results, on page six, some close and notable spinnaker
based battles for over the finish line times were recorded..
Little wind to talk of and the classic’s completed a race.!! Take a look at
the committee boat flags. Only a whisper. Corrected times across the minor race five placing were interestingly
tight.

The sail of the day goes to the ex Sydney to Hobarter, Akala. Her on
course elapsed time in light winds performance time was less than the
division one boats. To arrive home before the ex Sydney to Hobarter’s
and Admiral cuppers, Mercedes III, Mercedes IV and Boambillee is a
feat that sustains today’s classic yacht racing.

A touch of the sad’s

Here’s a late mail from Pastime II’s skipper.

“Two weeks ago Pastime struggled to get out of the pen and I think we
carried a large lump of mud around the track
Photo by
Jane
Today she was hanging off the mooring lines and about a foot deep in
Williamson
mud so couldn't get out of the pen.

At least it was warm at the coffee shop...”

Newpaper race result records from those days of yesterday show how
Pastime II was the gun boat of the bay. So good to have her with today’s
Port Phillip clasic fleet.

A Thank you round up
Light winds displayed by the race committee flags
Two light wind features of this race. A vote of thanks must go to our regualar panel of photo contributors to
allow us to see how the race five scene unfolded.
The sight of Akala clearing out from the
fleet and the sight of Acrospire III, after A special note of thanks also goes to connections of Richard Stringer
her division start, doing a fleet round up that allow us an eagle eye view of how Race five went in those light wind
th
and leasding them home.Seventeen conditions. From the 46 floor of a city building actually.
minutes ahead of second placer Akala,
that is. To wrap up the Race five comments, a note of thanks must go to our
race management team on the RMYS committee boat, Williaqm
Some nice kite runs Paterson.. Finding the sweet spot locstion to set the Race five start l.ine
and the shortened course finish line were decisive factors that made race
During the short lived swing of the five another great day of Classic Yacht racing on Port Phillip.
breeze to the South some nice kite runs
were experienced. Tandanya’s AIS Next Winter Series race,
st
recorded a knocking 4.1 knot run after Yes we’re moving on. It’s now race six, scheduled for 21 July and we’re
rounding the Top Mark. all set to go. Entries and their allocated handicaps are posted on the
RMYS website. Click HERE to check out the Race six details. So far the
Across the fleet it was everyone down Indigo Jones style forecast for Sunday is 13 knot northerlies with 50%
on the low side. rain chance. Who remembers the long range forecasts he used to make
Tandanya’s AIS record every Christman day of the early 1950’s.? His forecasts had the same
must listen to status as the Queens Christmas Day message in those
late 1950 years.
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Photo by Jane Williamson