Start sharpening your spinnaker poles, for the premier Mosquito-with-Spinnaker event is about to be run again soon.

This season the Victorian Spinnaker State Titles will be run at McRae YC and Rosebud YC over the weekend of the 5th & 6th December.

Briefing at 11am at McRae YC on Saturday.

Notice of Race

Entry form

Hey All,

Just did the entry form - Now for some accommodation and plenty of dry towels. I hope the water is warm!

Trevor

Trevor

Not so warm today, but good flat water and wind (20 knts) out of the S.W., and rain squalls.
Look forward to seeing you guys next week.
How many boats do you think Tim?

Wayne Thorn

Hi Wayne

Six have put in their entries so far and I can think of another 3 that should be there, and more that really should be there but may not.

Hi All,

OK so who got the top placings, who did silly things under pressure and who went for a swim ??

Yours in anticipation,

Peter

Hi All,

Just a quick wrap up from my point of view:

Saturday race 1, had major problems getting the main up and locked on so missed the start. eventually got everything ship shape and went out to join in. just getting the spi worked out when the the crew jumped ship on me while going down wind - all I saw was a wall of white water go past me with feet sticking out of it leaving me with 3 sails to contend with.

2nd race saw us work out our troubles and settle down a bit with a close last.

Lots of wind (my estimate gusts over 30 a couple of times) saw quite a few of us make use of buoyancy vests .

Sunday came around overcast and about the same good breeze which then died out and the sky cleared up. 2 races in the morning gave us 2 6ths thanks to Phil and his efforts to clear the weed out of the bay.

Lunch at Rosebud YC then into another 2 races in very light winds - That became lighter the closer you came to the beach (Tim and Matt!).

The Toy had to retire before the start of the last race due to grumblings from the crew about sunburn and tired (nothing to do with me, honest!)

Gary M on Thrice Bitten came up with the goods for 1st place on untried main and spi (well done sir). Simon again won the non spinaker division trophy

Big thanks to Simon C for arranging the weekend and to both Mccrae and Rosebud for letting us all crash on their course.

The boat came through OK - I am still recovering.

Copied from the VMCA site, thanks to Tim.

Spinnaker State Titles

Well what an interesting weekend! A check of the satelite images and weather reports at McRae YC on Saturday morning showed the wind probably wasn't quite as strong as it looked (20 knot gusts). Seven mozzied rigged up with spinnakers and Simon was also there without a spinnaker but representing his home club McRae and generally staying on top of organising everyone for the day.

McRae YC ran two races for us and the Westerly wind certainly had plenty of strength but was very shifty, making the windward legs especially challenging. However the downwinds were an absolute blast, with plenty of speed and some pretty "exciting" gusts (too exciting for some!). There was a lot of place changing with Matt, Peter, Neil, Tim and Gary all sharing time at the front. However by the end of the two races Gary had demonstrated that important ability to be the one in front at the end of the race, and was in front with two firsts.

We left our boats rigged at McRae YC and headed back to Neil's accommodation for a delicious barbeque dinner.

Sunday morning we rigged early and sailed over to Rosebud for some light-wind practise. The first race managed to maintain 6 to 8 knots of breeze but after that it started to get more fickle. Nevertheless Rosebud YC managed to run 4 races for us, with lunch in the middle and Gary once again showed an uncanny ability to simply be in the right place at the right time and pulled out another 3 wins to clearly win the overall title.

Thanks a lot to Simon Clavin at McRae for being the oil that kept the wheels turning over the weekend, to McRae YC for running our races on Saturday, and to Rosebud YC for running our races on Sunday, and providing lunch.

Results:
Position Sail No Name Boat Name Score Race 6 Race 5 Race 4 Race 3 Race 2 Race 1
1 1760 Gary Maskiell Thrice Bitten 5 1 1 1 3 1 1
2 1789 Neil Joiner Immunity 13 3 3 2 4 3 2
3 1816 Matt Stone Unko 15 2 2 5 2 5 4
4 1775 Tim Shepperd Karma Cat 17 6 6 3 1 4 3
5 1790 Peter Nikitin Bee Alert 19 4 4 4 5 2 DNF
6 1794 Philip Warren-Smith More than a Splash 32 5 5 7 7 DNC DNC
7 1805 Trevor Armstrong Just a toy 33 DNC 7 6 6 6 DNF