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Sophia continued her winning streak at the Hillarys Yacht Club in ideal sailing conditions for the second regularity race on Sunday afternoon, finishing ahead of Bad Habits and first on handicap.
A light southeasterly wind allowed the spinnaker to be used up to the first buoy but the breeze started to move southwesterly and the capricious conditions put the skippers to the test on the return to the sea. rating.
Bruce Utting and the Farrouk crew used their large asymmetric spinnaker on three stages of the Division One course staying close to the lead boat Whispering Jack (Bruce Bradford) for a big win. Perle was second and Bad Habits (Ian Holder) third.
In Division Two, the winner was Show Me captain Tim Tucker with just over a minute separating the top three placegetters. Farrouk (Des and Gail Riley) set a breakneck pace to finish with three minutes ahead of Volant (Emille Janssen, John Ball, Kevin Meta, Frank Hagemann) but they had to settle for third place in handicap with Volant second .
Tosca (Stuart Marks and Leigh Collins) reigned supreme over a fleet of 11 Division 3 boats, finishing nearly seven minutes ahead of the day’s fastest Deckchairs Overboard (Neil and Wendy Harrison) with Hard Evidence (Peter Hibberd) in third place.
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