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DF95 Club Day results - 26/04/2025
When we arrived this afternoon it did not look promising with the only ripples on the lake being from lure cast by some of the locals looking to fish. Happily, by the time the first race started at 1pm a better than expected South-Easterly breeze set in allowing for 12 races to be completed under cloudless skies and a course that allowed a few losses and gains depending on how a skippers read the shifts and gusts.
One of our regular 65 skippers (Phillip Frahm) joined with a borrowed 95 and I feel he will soon start looking for his own boat after a great introduction to DF95's. Phillip had some promising finishes (2 seconds) and a day that could have been very different as twice I recall him going from 2nd to 6th within meters of the finish. Keep it up Phillip, I am sure the consistency will come.
Our regular started/scorer Bob was kept busy with some very close finishing for a fleet of 7 boats and a start/finish line approx. half-way across the lake. The comment of the day from Bob was "Who Knows!!" with his hands thrown in the air after one start where most of the fleet was definitely a little early. At least we are being keen to be on the line and a good way to practice for the upcoming DF95 Interclub event between Coomera Radio Yacht Club and Redlands on the 17th of May.
Don won the day on 20 points and five1st place finishes. I am sure it would not have been so close if Don did not have to miss two races due to a failed rudder servo. Great job in only missing one race after needing to retrieve your boat in race 4. One 1 point behind was myself and Terry Jordon took out third place on 29 points.
As mentioned above, on the 17th of May we are hosting the 1st round of the DF95 Interclub event with Coomera Radio Yacht Club. We would love a few more Redlands skippers to attend the day and if you are interested place contact myself or Don. Last year Coomera took out both rounds and I would love to get some revenge on home turf. Based on the improvement in our DF95 fleet since last year, I feel winning is a very good possibility.
Thank you finally to all the skippers for today. I can't recall too many instances of contact during the racing and penalties were being completed when required.
Next weekend is the 2nd Round of the DF65 Club Championships (scratch racing) and I expect to have a good number of skippers vying for this prize at the end of the year. I hope everyone has a good week and see you on the water soon.
DF65 Easter Classic - 19/04/2025
The DF65 Easter Classic was raced in near perfect weather of cloudless skies but a little more wind would have been appreciated. As we slowly move out of summer, the sun is also finally starting to lose some of that afternoon bite which is a relief to all sailors and making it a very pleasant afternoon at the lake under the shade of trees.
With a reduced fleet due to a number of regular skippers being away for Easter or family matters, everyone started the afternoon with high hopes of sharing the spoils of victory with easter eggs up for grabs for each win. With 4 of the first 5 races won by Gary Earl, I can only conclude that he had not yet bought easter eggs for the family and saw this opportunity to save a trip to the shops.... Last place was also awarded an egg giving Gary a very good haul after 5 races.
Gary continued to dominate the afternoon through both the handicap and scratch races ending with 7 wins from the 12 races, congratulations Gary finishing in 1st place on 17 points. David Kerr showed that consistency will always bring good result with only 1 win, but with 8 finishes in the top-3 (and no last places) he took out 2nd place on 26 points. Third place was taken out by me on 32 points just ahead of David Proctor (34 points).
Although Don could not stay around for the afternoon, thank you for setting the course with no changes required all afternoon. Thank you also to our resident Starter & Scorer Bob; it was noted that there were no start recalls all afternoon, not sure if this was due to brilliant skippers or some leniency from Bob due to Easter (a bribery of chocolate may have also helped).
Finally, a big thank you to David Kerr, with Don unable to stay around, David very generously hitched up the trailer and delivered it safe and sound back to Don's place.
Finally, thank you to all skippers for keeping the afternoon fun and friendly and I wish everyone a Happy Easter.
Regards
Stephen Elkington
RRSC President
DF95 Club Day - 15 March
We were back at the lake for a DF95 club day with sailing being a mixture of scratch and handicap races.
I big thank you for Sel for volunteering to be the starter, scorer and RO for the day, it was appreciated by all skippers; although after being called over the line early in first three scratch races I was starting feel one of us needed new glasses (and it wasn't Sel) . Hopefully my starts are a little better next week for the QLD Championships.
As you can see by the results, the racing was very close with David Proctor taking out 1st place with 27 points and Don 2nd only 6 behind on 33 points. the next 5 places were decided on countback with Terry, Warren and myself finishing 3rd, 4th and 5th in that order and Mark and Greg also on equal points taking out for 6th and 7th place.
Thank you to all skippers with everyone behaving fairly and enjoying an afternoon of sailing with some good friends and good chatter. I can't recall many contacts throughout the day, and apart from one entanglement with the mark in the last race the rescue boat was not needed at all.
One major note to record for everyone; the committee has decided to move the start time for sailing to 1pm each Saturday with a finish planning to be around 4pm. Reminder emails will go out during this week with next weekend being a DF65 club day but please keep this change in mind and if you have any questions please contact myself or Don.
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