Tag: Soling 50

Surprise! What another great day on the pond!

Thanks Steve Delva for being the RD for both classes and thanks also Steve for helping Kerim and I pack everything away.

Good breeze and a good number of boats on the line for each class.
Welcome back Ken Titilah, hopefully we’ll see more of Ken for the remainder of the year.

Formalities out of the way it was on to the water.

Not surprising, Chris Staiger started clocking up a few bullets after settling in and consistently finished in the top three, taking out the day narrowly edging out Chris Davidson, Larry and Ty.

Racing was generally quite close with quite a few position changes as skippers navigated the tricky shifts and pressure lines.
Uncharacteristically there were no flying port hand starts from Bill this week. Must be saving himself. Stay tuned.

ODOMS’s were next on the water with some extremely tight racing between all boats at various times.
Kerim continues to light the pond on fire with another win overall. It’s not too late to enter the Nationals at San Francisco coming up!

The level of competition in this class has certainly lifted, in fact, the level of racing has lifted right across the board.
The information/ tuning sessions coupled with the ongoing sharing of knowledge is what makes being a part of the Argonauts so enjoyable.

Thanks guys for another great day at the pond.

A day of play next week, so bring what you got!

Best of luck to all of the Argonauts venturing up to Mason park next weekend to participate in the last DF 95 Traveller’s Series event on Saturday and to those skippers also participating in the team racing event up there on Sunday.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – Argonauts are go!

Thank you, David Stong, for being the RD for the day.

It was another beautiful day at the Pond, with a solid turnout from both the ODOM and Soling 50 fleets.

Results are posted below:

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Posting this a bit late.
Apologies for the tardiness.
Better late than never. 🙂

Appears that Kerim has maintained his speed in the ODOM and Agent 99 seems to be in good hands with Dave Woodward, having given Ty Beach a run for his money.

Soling 50’s

ODOM’s

What a day!

14 ODOM’s out on the pond today. They’re breeding!

This week Steve Delva did a great job as RD for both classes. Thanks Steve and thanks Bill Bridge for laying the marks and Gil Jansky for retrieving them.

The tuning clinic last week obviously paid off with the fleet being very close throughout all heats, at times a little too close. :O

With a good breeze blowing, some skippers didn’t quite have their time on distance calculations dialled in, me included! :O

Nevertheless, penalty turns were taken as applicable and there was some healthy discussions afterwards, which highlighted how any one situation can have at least two perspectives.

Well sailed guys…

Next was the Solings. Breeze was still which saw these heavier displacement boats revel in the conditions.

Some tight racing throughout the heats with lots of close encounters.

Apologies Gerry for my ‘Specsavers’ moment. :O

All in all it was a fantastic day on the pond with a number of onlookers from the public and almost standing room only in the peanut gallery.

Wonderful to see some of the sailors from the ODOM’s stay to watch the show.

– Chris Davidson (VC Sail)

And thank you, Larry Grant, for recording and sharing some of the races on our Facebook Group:

https://www.facebook.com/1333203860/videos/3982029032066019/
https://www.facebook.com/1333203860/videos/1853228208780988/
https://www.facebook.com/1333203860/videos/950306087212148/
https://www.facebook.com/1333203860/videos/661070956290631/