Cruising Report

Cruising Rally 5

After all the hype and excitement of the 36th America’s Cup, our cruising members were keen to be back on the water “doing it, rather than watching it”. The forecast was for light easterlies with fine weather… perfect conditions, or was it?

Frank & Barbara Young on Asmara along with their grandson and his mate filled the Race Management start/finish roles with calm and experience so that when the light winds became even lighter, a shortened course was signalled off Brown’s Island beacon.

Over such a short distance it was interesting to see how spread out the varied fleet had become. Terminator (John Faire) crossed the line first, after 90 minutes, while the smallest (but not slowest!) Pink Cadillac (Basil Orr) took just under three hours. Our original destination of Rocky Bay was still one hour away by motor and time was ticking away for the gathering ashore. This was important because we were to welcome our new sponsor PIC Insurance.

It was agreed to proceed to Calypso Bay A serenade all about the America’s Cup went down a treat.