ON Sunday, October 11, the Jervis Bay Cruising Yacht Club ran the second round of their spring series, which also doubled as round one of the season's round the bay series.
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With gentle southerly winds forecast, the race fleet of 10 yachts tackled an anti-clockwise course circumnavigating Jervis Bay.
The six larger division one yachts took on a 17.2 nautical mile course.
The four smaller division two yachts raced around a slightly shorter 13.7 nautical mile course.
In division one, Invincible, helmed by Trevor Kanaar, got the best of a close start, just beating Peter Brown, skippering, Tranquillity and Paul Gooey's Out of the Blue to the first race mark.
Out of the Blue was able to pass Tranquillity as they raced down the bay but could not pass invincible.
The Navy entry, Friendship, skippered by Rod Targa began making ground on the leading boats as they sailed past Vincentia toward HMAS Creswell.
The winds picked up as the yachts contended with the choppy seas as they raced east across the bay towards Longnose Point.
As Invincible turned to head north, with the wind directly behind them, they attempted to hoist their spinnaker.
A wine glass formed, slowing the boat, and Out of the Blue finally got passed.
With the wind at their stern, and their spinnaker set Out of the Blue was able to stretch it is lead in the run back to the finish at Callala Bay crossing the finish line in a time of three hours six minutes.
Invincible and Tranquillity in a close race for second swapped places repeatedly with Invincible finishing just 10 seconds ahead of Tranquillity in three hours and 12 minutes.
Once handicaps were applied Trevor Kanaar (Invincible) was awarded first place with Rod Targa (Friendship) second and Paul Gooey (Out of the Blue) third.
In division two Y-knot, with Steve Lee at the helm, and Sirocco skipper by Pat Grogan, got good starts racing away from the other two yachts in the division.
Sailing into the light winds Y-Knot passed the first race mark in the lead.
Sirocco kept in touch with Y-Knot as the wind picked up and they pushed through the choppy seas crossing the middle of the bay.
Steve Lee (Y-Knot) held onto his lead all race, crossing the finish line first in division two in two hours 46 minutes.
Pat Grogan (Sirocco) crossing just under nine minutes further back with Peter Cowman (Double Time) third another 17 minutes behind.
Those placing remained unchanged once handicaps were applied to the results.
With the second round of the spring series run Trevor Kanaar (Invincible)and Peter Brown (Tranquillity) leads division one, both with one win each.
Division two, having only run the one race so far, has Steve Lee (Y-Knot) leading.
The club's next race is scheduled for Sunday, October 25.
JBCYC welcomes new members. If you are interested in entering a race or being a member of a crew, details on how to get involved are on the club website www.jbcyc.com.au
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