Sauna Sail




Once again the Mosquitoes turned out in force for the sauna Sail this year,
with a record fourteen Mosquitos competing. There were at least another five that wanted
to be there but missed out for various reasons, so next time …..

The Sauna Sail is well known for usually providing at least one wild
race in survival conditions, and this year was the exception. The weather
ensured that there would be no broken trapeze wires or harness hooks this time.
The wetsuit knee pads were the equipment that took the biggest
beating as we spent the weekend
chasing elusive zephyrs all over Hazelwood Pondage. Only the final race
on Monday saw
some boats actually leaning over because of the wind rather than
through exagerated roll-tacks, but even then the knee pads still had
their moments.


Despite the flukey and unpredictable conditions the light weather
experts still came through strong with Jon Guymer winning the Mosquito division
on a tie-break and Neil Joiner comfortably seeing off
Philip Warren-Smith and Tim shepperd in the open “Asymetric” division.

On registration we all received a beanie and a water bottle, the
beanie being very appropriate, and just what those of us with
minimal insulation up top needed while sitting around the Mosquito
camp fire. We didn’t feel the cold on Sunday evening though, as the fire
was well stoked up for Di Floyd’s delicious lamb roast (with pudding!).

The promise of the roast was enough to bring Matt Kirby
from Warrnambool and Garry Johnstone from Swan Hill to the event.
There would have been more boats if Stuart and Anne Ridge didn’t
have car trouble, and Jeremy Pearce didn’t have an injured hand.
Jeremy Pearce turned up with Peter Foulson on the Sunday just
for a look, and were impressed with what they saw.

Presentation is after each race plus an over all class winner
at the end of the series, so with prizes for first second and
third, this meant we had seven different people with trophies.


Mosquito division results
1

1755

Prestissimo

John Guymer

7pts

2

1735

Touch’ n ’go

Garry Johnstone

7pts

3

1786

Grey Area

Robert Lott

10pts

4

1792

Veloce

Andrew Neeson

15pts

5

1745

Two Obsessed

Mick, Diane Floyd

24pts

6

17xx

Splashes of Brilliance

Gordon Hyde

24pts

7

1686

Serial Thriller

Clint Burgess

26pts

8

1557

Amos Keeto

Chris Burgess

33pts

9

1785

Bear Talk

Glenn Hansford

39pts

10

1740

Jurassic Karp

Matt Kirby

41pts

11

766

The Langolier

Brett Rowe

42 pts


 


Spinnaker Mosquito VIC State Challenge – Loch Sport BC




Eleven Mosquitoes made the journey to Loch Sport, and got a taste of next
years National Titles venue. The club members made us very welcome and ran an excellent
series of races for us. The racing is all conducted in front of the LSBC club house
so the spectators had a good view of the races from the large deck area.

Neil Joiner sailing “Immunity” was the convincing winner of the inaugural Victorian Mosquito
Spinnaker Challenge, winning all but one race. Peter Nikitin and Tim Shepperd finished
on equal points with Peter winning the tie break for 2nd place.

Half the fleet were non-spinnaker-rigged Mozzies and Steve Cobden ended up beating Rob Lott in
the last race to win overall by just one point.

The winds stayed light all weekend, but we were still able to complete 7 races. Everyone
present went away looking forward to next years National titles.

In the open F16 results ex-Mozzie Gary Maskiell was sometimes put under
pressure by the spinnakered Mosquitoes but proved unbeatable in the end
with a perfect score of 7 firsts out of 7 races.

Many thanks to sponsor Boat Books Australia
who provided a fine collection of sailing books for prizes.

An interesting selection of photos from the weekend can be seen here.


 


Yarrawonga YC ANZAC Day Regatta




There were 8 Mosquitos at the Yarrawonga Anzac Day regatta. We all enjoyed a pleasant weekend socialising on the grass beside Lake Mulwala and being looked after by Yarrawonga YC members. Unfortunately there was very little wind so we had plenty of time for the social side of things and the sailing was a bit frustrating. It was good practice for light weather sailing though.

Rob Lott and Jon Guymer dominated, winning all the races between them. They were so close that they ended in an unbreakable tie so the event was decided on the placing in the last race; Rob first and Jon second. Andrew Neeson was third.

Colin McEwan (from Bendigo) went extremely well considering it was his first outing with his new boat built from two boats he bought from SA. Definitely one to watch. Garry Johnson was over from Boga and Dave Richardson came up from Bendigo with the association boat. Mick and Diane Floyd sailed together but found the light winds a bit frustrating with two adults on board. Philip Warren-Smith and Anthony used their new spinnaker turning a few heads as they cruised through the large fleet but were unable to overcome the spinnaker yardstick.

The regatta was a great success for the club with well over sixty entries (they ran out of forms!). There were a large fleet of Paper Tigers (18), Mosquitos were the next best represented cat class with 8. The misc cat division had “A” class (5), a couple of Kitty Cats, a Nacra 18 and a Marie Cat which cleaned up on yardstick.

We had 3 people speak to us about Mosquitos. One looking for a second hand boat, one a new boat and another thinking about building a boat.

Mosquito sailing Tip of the Weekend; Don’t wee on the hatch cover – they fill up!

Mick Floyd

 



Summary – 2004/2005 season






















Date


Club


Comments


Contact


30-31
Mokoan YC
Rose Festival
 

December
3-5
Colac YC
Annual Regatta
 


5
Beaumaris YC
Training Regatta
Andrew Neeson (9817 4712)

January
2-8
Meningie SC
National Titles
 


15
Merricks YC
Westernport Challenge – 1pm
MYC


22-24
Torquay SC
Australia Day Regatta


22-23
Yarrawonga YC
Australia Day Regatta


19-20
Twofold Bay YC (Eden NSW)
Annual regatta
Richard Hayes 02 6495 9676

March
12-14
Portarlington SC
Victorian State Titles
Results


26-28
Lake Boga YC
Easter Regatta
Garry Johnstone 03 5032 3170


26-28
Bolac YC
Easter Regatta
….

April
23-25
Yarrawonga YC
Anzac Regatta
Trevor Turnbull or
Jack Sterkenberg Ph (03) 5744 1279

May
14/15
Loch Sport BC
Spinnaker Mozzie VIC State Challenge

June
11-13
Latrobe Valley YC
Sauna Sail
Geoff Conway