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Small Cats Report 16th April 2016

23/4/2016

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A nice warm day peaking at 27 degrees Celsius with a light breeze swinging from ESE round to ENE and back again. Varying from dead calm to 5 knots with a gusts reportedly up to 9 knots (C/O Bellambi BOM).

A great turnout of  thirteen (13) catamarans (11 racing) came down to compete in the final Point score round 23 and Club Championship round 8. A distinctively red sailed Hobie 18 was in early rigging up and could easily be seen when approaching the club. A southern highlands sailor having come down to try out our facility with two crew members. They were rigged by around 10am and went out whilst the wind conditions were almost calm and as a result didn’t get too far in the ensuing 1 ½ hours. They came back in and sampled our club burgers before heading back out around 12:30pm when a light SE breeze kicked back in. This resulted in a much better experience.

After lunch briefing, Barry Grant and Ray Stanley manned the response boat. They set a port course with the start just out east of Gooseberry Island, Wind ward mark over towards middle of the shallows and the wing mark beside western side of the reef. A couple of the keener and more organised crews such as Whitewave and Pilot Error getting out a bit earlier than the rest to check out the course and conditions. Initially the breeze quite nice at around 6 to 8 knots from SE.  Starts got away pretty much spot on time. With a port bias on the line the small cats all headed down the pin end and started on port tack. With anticipation the cats crowding the line the hooter went off and they were away. An uncharacteristic error saw White Wave cross the line early and have to come back and go around the start pin and through the start line again. This resulting in them having to chase the pack on the 1st work to the windward pin. Due to shifting breeze White Wave chose to pinch and were able to get very close to the windward mark on the 1st work. Due to pointing higher than majority of their rivals they kept in touch with the pack. Billyo liking the lighter conditions and set a good pace early. It was at this point that the faster big cats started to catch the small cats.

On the reach down to the wing mark the catamarans started to spread out a little. Once round the wing mark most (except some of the cat rigged) heading back over towards the middle of the lake and jibing back to the bottom mark. As the race progressed the wind dropped off. Hot Pepper was pretty much able to pinch and almost make the windward mark directly on the last 2 works. Rounding the windward mark for the last time Hot Pepper caught right up with Groove Thing. However Groove Thing was able to maintain a lead on the final leg home in the testing conditions. 

At certain times particularly on the last leg of the last triangle and on the way to the line the old cassette tapes hung straight down and the boats were becalmed. This week wasn’t Dark Horse’s and he found it was pretty frustrating and slow going. A bit of playful banter was heard late towards the end of the race from way across the mirror surface of the lake. Something along the lines of,  “Haven’t you heard of a course shortening flag”?

Whitewave capping off another dominant performance even after giving the rest of the fleet a head start. Leading all the other small catamarans across the line. Closely followed by Billyo, The Jack Pot, Groove Thing chased by Hot Pepper the Dark Horse. Blue Tongue deciding to call it a day early with the at times frustratingly light conditions. With the last of the boats getting in at around 5pm with light fading fast the street lights were turning on during de-rigging. Afterwards a number of sailors talked about the days sailing and had an end of year fish and chips and socialise.
 
Finish times were as follows:
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General:
1. The Season has ended, however a few of the catamaran folks are planning to sail an informal winter series. Last Saturday of each month start at 1pm. No response boat or club facilities. Anyone wanting to come along more than welcome.
2. If a nice day a couple of people were talking about maybe Anzac day 25/04/2016 for a sail. Again if interested feel free to come down
3. Presentation night Saturday 7th May 2016. Buy your tickets online on the PKSC website. Movie star character theme.
4. As the small catamaran delegate I would like to thank all the club members and volunteers that make club racing possible. Everything from the canteen, regattas, maintenance, duties, newsletter, website and alike. Also thanks to fellow catamaran sailors creating a friendly helpful atmosphere making sailing at PKSC a pleasurable experience.
 5. In recent weeks three (3) new potential catamaran sailors have come down and talked to a few of the members. Hopefully they have been convinced to come along next season and boost our race day fleet.
 
Regards Hugh Lewis
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Catamaran Sail Report - 2 April 2016

2/4/2016

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This week around twelve keen catamaran sailors came down to a lovely warm 29 degrees day with WSW breeze starting out around 9 to 14 knot mark (with reportedly up to 19 knot gusts c/o BOM Albion park) and dropping off to around 4 knots (and I think less) at times later in the day. This week was Point Score 21 and Championship 7 for both large and small cats. There was a large contingent of Trailor Sailors (TY'S) and with this week being the final weekend of the juniors it was decided to do a round the lake race. John and Amelia Richardson doing the honours on the response boat. This week start line out front of the club house, 1st mark port rounding a couple hundred metres up wind between the club house and Goose berry Island, next mark starboard rounding near the entrance at Windang, then port rounding over towards Koonawarra, port rounding at Oak Flats the all the way back to the reef port rounding then back to “X” in front of the western end of the breakwater to finish in front of the club house. Tony Zahra on his maricat “White Wave” putting in a request for a forward hand was able to pick up Tom Caroline who was very happy for the opportunity as was one of his siblings on Ian Richardson's Sharpie “Space Monkies”. With a good turn out we had 4 starts, small cats division 3 and large cats division 4. All the small cats got away well on starboard heading south then tacking west to make the 1st mark. Then a long work heading over to the lakes entrance at Windang. Hot Pepper able to keep a high line and make this mark pretty much on the lay line without having to tack. A nice strength breeze allowing the catamaran sailors to get out on trapeze. At this mark Hot Pepper kept in touch well. Dark Horse was in front but got a knock when tacking to the mark allowing Hot Pepper to slip through. By this time the large cats had already started to catch up and pass the small cats. At this point in small cats White Wave was 1st around the Windang mark leading the way. Hot Pepper holding a high line was able to keep above the disturbed air of some of the other boats and made good ground to the Koonawarra buoy. Billyo just able to sneak past on the windward side. The breeze fluctuated several times so you ended up going out and in off the wire a few times. The last broad reach from Koonawarra down to Oak Flats had similar fluctuating wind conditions. A number of the juniors on TY's armed with water balloons able to pepper some of the other sailors with water bombs. Tony Sanderson on Groove Thing in particular had a bit of a surprise when gently sailing past getting bombarded. On the way back from Oak flats to back over to the reef the wind dropped to only a couple of knots with the occasional stronger puff. This challenged all involved. With the predicted wind shift from a SW to a more SE and possibly some tidal assistance, a number chose to head over toward Windang and be able to get a clean run down to the reef. Billyo and Hot Pepper choosing to head towards Gooseberry Island and at times was able to point directly towards the reef with the SW breeze swings. The light winds making it slow going however out in the middle of the lake it was even slower with what appeared to be a big hole in the breeze. Billyo and Hot Pepper getting a better run to the reef and to the finish line. With the faster large cats four (4) finishing closely together within a minute or two of each other. They must have escaped the lull suffered by the rest as they finished a fair way ahead. Billyo leading the small cats home. Even being stranded with no breeze out in the middle of the Lake White Wave showed it’s class coming in second place (yardstick corrected) followed by an elated Hot Pepper. Next came Playtime then Dark Horse and Groove Thing who also had a neck to neck tussle to the line with only seconds separating them as did Blue Tongue and Chesha Cat.
Finish times were as follows:
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General:
1. Only 2 weeks of sailing left.

2. Reminder large cats championship 3 has been rescheduled to next week 9th of April 2016.

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