FLINDERS RACE

What better way to finish a Winter Series than with a serious taste of summer! Quite a contrast to some previous races where crews have been heard complaining of sheet ice on deck and icicles hanging from booms.

Fortunately, the BoM duty forecaster's prediction of moderate conditions inshore, despite the forecast for gale force conditions further offshore, through to Saturday evening proved spot-on. This gave an adequate window to conduct the race in ideal conditions and give boats adequate time to get back to Port Phillip before things turned feral.

As dawn broke, it was revealed that "the boat carrying red green and white lights" was in fact Shogun, which had already established a handy lead before going on to complete the 40 mile Division 1 course in the very fast time of 3 hours 48 minutes and 45 seconds. That will take a bit of beating.

Next came the two DK46's Dekadence and eXtasea which staged their own private match race for the entire course, eventually finishing less than 30 seconds apart.

First boat home over the 32 mile Division 2 course was INSX in 4 hours 12 minutes and 2 seconds, followed 23 seconds later by Schuss.

Placings on corrected time went to:

IRC Division 1 - Shogun frpom Dekadence and Extasea

IRC Division 2 - Fade 2 Grey from INSX and Schuss

AMS Division 1 - Addiction from Godzilla and Extasea

AMS Division 2 - Fade 2 Grey from Magazan 53 and Good News

PHC Division 1 - Outlaw from Spirit of Downunder and Addiction

PHC Division 2 - Magazan 53 from Magic and Good News

Full results, still provisional at this stage, Click Here

Angus Fletcher