Report from PRO Chris Tyerman – Race 1 (27th October 2024)
Basically a perfect first race day yesterday; dry track, sun out, not too hot and plenty of wind in time for the racing. It was a south westerly that just kept building, gusting to near 30 knots at times. Everyone was down a sail size or two by the end, and after a couple of sailors ended up in the bushes we had to shift the east mark a few meters further from the edge. We did most of our races on an L shaped clockwise course, with an upwind and downwind leg between Tram Trash and Pigswill, then changed to a counter clockwise reach-heavy course around the edges.
The races were loads of fun, with lots of duels and place changing happening. John ran away with the day but not by a mile, Luke and Greg both got a first, and second and third changed a lot in the production races. Performance was really fun too, almost all the races had the places shuffle on each lap and were pretty close. We had a few breakages cause some DNFs and DNSes unfortunately, I’m definitely going to have a close look at my kart before the next event
