It was crowded on the bank at The Bus Stop.

17 boats today which made it a very busy start line and with a big port bias into the boot, it took some lateral thinking to get a good start.

Competition was at the top of the scale and the gated course favoured the left side to the top. Port entry for the top rounding was a very risky move with starboard tacker's entering the zone at speed.

An interesting observation for me when leading at the finish to the RTW, I made a quick turn at the last moment to make the course anticlockwise. Looking back up the fleet everyone whacked their rudder over and immediately went left to shorten the distance to the bottom mark. It looked fantastic. 

Nigel 168 won the first RTW and Garry 54 took out the second.

A wonderful afternoon at the lake.

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Pete 179

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