The weather is certainly warmer on the Gold Coast than you guys have had in the past 2 days.
24 degrees with the overnight low of 17 degrees.
Yesterday Jenny and I drove to the local Radio Sailing Club at the Emerald Waters Lakes.
An amazing venue with fantastic facilities.
Extremely well run and all the boats were of a high standard ( very new with new sails).
They only had 8 racing yesterday but they average 10 to 16 but a very strong competitive fleet.
I managed to score a sail for 2 races with a BritPop from Brad,
the top guy in their club.
Unfortunately I didn't do that well but good fun.
He was apparently the Australian Veteran National Champion.
Just a fantastic sailing venue and a friendly bunch- just like our Club of course!
There were 4 different fleets racing at once on the lake,
1OM class, International 10 Rater which was a much bigger faster boat ( I have never seen them before)
DF65 and a Radio controlled model Laser Class.
Heaps of room to race 4 to 5 different race courses.
They have a big fleet of DF95's that race on different days.
Each fleet had their own plastic rotary molded rescue dinghy with a new Yamaha 4 hp outboard.
Every day of the week there is racing in various classes.
Photos attached.
Some of the surrounding houses were 8 to 9 million dollars.
See you in 4 weeks.
Regards,
DS