Friday, a nice sail down to Loch Sport for the night, about midnight the wind went North and it started pushing me up onto the sand, so I motored out and anchored. Saturday, a nice fresh Westerly so a beat all the way to
LWYC at
Marlay Point, found a nice parking spot in the reeds. Lots of trailer
sailors rigging and launching, and lots sailing down from
Paynesville and anchoring out front, Lisa Lisa and Steve arrived in time for the
briefing. With a South Easterly blowing
Sknot decided to try and join us onshore, but the rocks were narrowly missed with the quick actions of some fellow sailors. Next minute the Bare Decided to take off
as well so it was the Commodore at full gallop to the rescue! Quite a action packed
Briefing! Time for the twilight start at 7.45 pm and soon after looking back at a sea of bow lights slowly fading in the distance. With Mad Max well out of sight
Frassld was behind Bare Essentials with Dash just behind us as we entered the
Mc Clelland Straights, we managed to get into 2
nd place for a while but Dash passed us then we ran aground just after Hollands landing before entering Lake Victoria, Steve jumped in and saved the day. Bare passed us before Storm Point as did
Sknot just after Point Turner but as we neared the
GLYC at
Paynesville the wind dropped out as did most of division M, but after being anchored, and a couple of hours sleep we decided to press on, we could just see
Tripple Expresso sailing into Lake King so after 4 hours sailing around Raymond Island (and 16.5 hours since the start) we
finally had a nice kite run over the finish line 36 seconds behind
Tripple Expresso. Off the 15 division M boats only 4 finished. So a special thanks to my crew and the other competitors who traveled long distances to attend. Shaun
Fishley
