Another blowy Sunday

March 10th, 2008

The little bay in South East Queensland where LSD spends most of its days saw yet another weekend of intense pressure, again causing damage.

Dismasted yacht - no doubt the crew were a little upset
Photo by LSD reader Craig

Daily Wind High: 23.84 knots at 4:00 on 10/3/08
Daily Wind Average: 8.67 knots
Monthly Wind High: 34.20 knots on 9/3/08
Monthly Wind Average: 8.56 knots
Yearly Wind High: 38.92 knots on 1/1/08
Yearly Wind Average: 8.07 knots

The above figures come from the wind gage on top of the Marina office, which is inside the harbour. There were a few massive gusts that came through, the biggest being the 34.20 knots. But remember, that was INSIDE the harbour.

Everyone was keen to race. The combined yacht fleet headed out, again with a strong following, and were eager as anything to get racing underway. There was talk between competing yachts and the start boat as to how they could make racing happen - after all, there was no warning out. They ended up deciding to move their start inside the bay and attempt to get racing underway. The fleet was keen! But not after too long, Code Flag N was flying and the fleet headed home to begin fixing some of the damage.

The Etchells managed to get in one race out of the three scheduled with their Fleet Championship ending on a four race series. Most of them were pretty relieved to get their boats back to shore!

Team Racing saw only a handful of races for the lower groups, with everyone attempting to get racing happening, however the spikes in the pressure were just too intense and frequent throughout the late morning, and unfortunately racing for the kids was abandoned as well finishing off their competition for Term 1.

So it was an eventful day one might say!

As everyone was packing up, discussing the conditions and enjoying a refreshing ale, the mad crazy Laser fleet decided to head out to the carnage stricken bay for an afternoon of training.

So how was your weekend on the water?

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