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Saturday was a beautiful sunny day, perfect for the Queen Charlotte Yacht Club fleet to enjoy the three race Vet Centre Handicap series. The Race Officer Katrin Wendt, managed to organise the fleet and sail herself in light breezes but tightly contested racing.
A good fleet of seniors made up for the missing top Optimist Sailors, most of which are in Auckland for training prior to the Winter Championships this coming weekend.
The Laser Class made up most of the seniors, the best turnout of Lasers for quite a while. The seniors take their racing seriously, Jason Anderson taking out he days racing from his father, Derek, and Warren Algie.
In the Optimist Open Class, Nico van Beek made a welcome return to the water though sailing with an injury, Taking out the Oen Opti Class from Iolo Adams and Angus Dysart-Paul.
The Optimist Green Fleet was won by Emily Overend, Nicholas Turnbull second and Kate Overend third. The Greenies enjoy really tight racing and their skills are improve rapidly. Most will make the leap to Open fleet soon.
Nicholas Gardiner headed the Starling Fleet with a well deserved win, Callum Radford second and Christopher Cameron third.
Some of the Intermediate Starling sailors are away sailing for Marlborough Girls College at Algies Bay, but still a good turn out for the start of the season.
The Club welcomes the new sailors joining the Rainbow fleet and their enthusiastic parents.
All in all, a great day on the water.
