Sixteen boats contested two point score races on Wallagoot Lake on Saturday afternoon in light to moderate winds.
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Organisers said it was great to be back for another run on the lake and welcomed the strong field for the day.
Organisers said it was great to be back for another run on the lake and welcomed the strong field for the day.
The club also held its first-ever junior division races that have not been held on Wallagoot before with Rief Oliver trouncing the field in both races.
In the multi-hull division, Tony Hastings made best use of the wind in his paper tiger to easily outpace his nearest rivals.
Jeff Hope and Darren Lydierd finished second and third respectively in their windrush boats.
Neil Fisher won race one of the monohull division on his Sabre.
Rodger Ubrihien had been leading for most of the race, but faded in the later stages for Fisher to slip through and take the win.
Third place went to Goete Vikstrom, who was visiting from Cooma.
Greg Thornton won Race Two on his Laser.
He finished ahead of Neil and Terry Kirby who debuted his new boat.
The day began with a basic skills training session.
Manly juniors, Sabot, Bic, Spirals and Sabre dinghies all took to the water with Terry Kirby and Tony Hastings helping to provide tuition on the day.
The training was co-ordinated by Josh Dorrough.
Organisers said the club hoped the run the sessions every week for new young sailors to develop their skills.
A sailing school will be held in February for people, who have not sailed before and want to learn the basics.
The club will host a discover sailing day on October 25 from 10am to 4pm.
This is an opportunity for anyone to come to the club and be taken sailing on the lake, for free.
For more details visit the club's website at www.wlbc.org.au
Organisers said the club had scheduled warm up races for September 25 as well as an October long weekend meet.
However, both were cancelled due to a lack of wind.
The level of the lake was also surprisingly high and caused trouble trying to launch the club’s rescue boat with water edging the club’s picnic shelter.
It was also about 20cm deep at the edge of the ramp’s apron.
In other sailing news, the Wallagoot Lake Boat Club's Monohull Club Champion Greg Thornton, and Multihull Champion Tony Hastings both raced in the Jervis Bay Regatta over the October long weekend.
Similar to conditions in the valley there was just light shifty winds prevailing during the races.
However, Hastings said this suited his style of racing and he claimed wins in four of five events to bring home the multi-hull trophy.
Meanwhile, Thornton borrowed a Spiral for the event.
He competed solidly, but not as successfully in the fading winds to finish a creditable eighth out of 24 dinghies in the monohull division.