Hey all,

Another weekend of beautiful winter weather, raced at Royal Qld on Sat in their Frostbite series.

I was in a fleet of 1 - yes all by myself in the mixed cat division. Normally there are more cats but none showed on Sat.
There were plenty of Optimists, Sabots, 420's, 29ers, Tasars, puffins, Lasers & Contenders in the mono fleets.

There was also another fleet of Lasers on a seperate course for Australian masters. So in all quite a fleet on the water, it was great to be out.

So I started with the allboats division which was nice to at least be part of some fleet.

Came home first in both races - bit hard not too when there is only 1.....

Had about 5 - 8 knots maybe and played around with sailing positions when going downwind, tried standing up as far forward as could go on windward hull and front beam ( thanks Ben for idea ). Basically doing whatever to get tails out of water. Did the same upwind by sitting on hull in front of beam with my feet on the spinnaker pole.

The course was really cool - we did upwind, then down to a gate type double leeward mark where you can go either port or starboard then back to windward and then around a trapezoid with 2 reaches and a downwind and then beat to finish line, suited the spinnaker rig well.

Was just a lovely day to be out the water and sailing, will be sailing again this weekend with kids at Cleveland so will have some competition to race against. Hope to sail well.

I will update the East Coast web page with sailing reports for winter racing and the Toukley brass monkey soon.

Cheers,