Surf to City

Hey Shaggy good luck tomorrow . Now if you can cancel till Sunday ..........
6/9 knots on the nose till amity and crap inshore until they turn the corner at east cardinal. S. L. O. W.

:)
With an hour to the start gun, we have a blistering 3kn WNW.
So much for the prayers to the wind gods ...grrr
There are two Sunfast 3600's racing, so we're all going to have a fat bottomed girl party at the back of the fleet!

Hi guys,
We're home, another epic Surf to City. I have to give QCYC a big wrap, they really go out of their way to make it as good as it can be for everyone. 101 boats raced, Mulltis, trailer sailers and keel boats all scattered over the waterways from Southport to Shorncliffe, it must resemble scattering cockroaches. Up the inside through challenging narrow waterways (I forgot what length, say 50nm?) or outside heading north then over the top of Moreton Island before the run across the bay to Shorncliffe, outside measuring a 100nm.
We started in 3 odd knots, and then built to 5-6 knots where we got punished, before building in the late afternoon to 10-12.

The work up the beach began in earnest to Point Lookout, most boats option to tack at the beach in the 5-6m gradient, just before the big swells stand up before breaking, with the odd 1-2m swell giving you moments of mild panic. You could get a lift right in on the beach closer into the swells, but phwoar...a brave move from hardier souls than I. The point to tack back toward the beach was about the 20m gradient. We tried one dig out to 30m to look at the current, and it cost us noticeably in that one tack, so back to the 20m line. The whole fleet was sailing well, a squillion tacks and fighting hard.

Cracking sheets at Cape Moreton, the run across the top of Moreton was relaxed and just fun sailing. 15-17 knots at 80 true, ease barber haulers to the lifelines to get the jib outboard, traveller up to get the boom on the centreline and lots of eased mainsheet to twist off the top to dump the puffs. We're finding if we can keep the heel minimal we can plane earlier, but it's not easy to flatten when there's wind, we're still working on where best to stack the crew.
Turned into Moreton Bay was a 4nm horrible squirrely square run in lumpy swell, the kite was collapsing and trying to wrap itself around the forestay, ugh. The swell eased as we tucked into the Bay, then to run smack into a 1kn glass out inside Moreton Island.
Sigh. God hates me.
We finished in a lovely dying breeze going forward of the mast with our biggest deepest running spinnaker up, sheeted on like a headsail, with no time to drop as we're trying to stave off a heel snapping Dream and then Not a Diamond behind her. Great finish to another top notch race.

I hope the inshore fleet had a good race too, the winds were right across the range from 1 to 17 knots, mostly in the NE.
Edit: Update, it sounds like the inshore fleet had some brisk conditions!

We dropped off crew at Shorncliffe then motored home to a beautiful sunrise just before hitting Manly,


Mr Lucky, a Sunfast 3600 heading back to Manly.



I'm too buggered and hurt too much to clean the boat. It can be a tomorrow job. Off to the trophy presso, then its bedtime .
Thanks to the QCYC and volunteers!

Fusion Won!! .
Damn.
other Fusion inshore.

Sounded good fun SB . Tks for description

Sounded like fun Shaggy