2012 Zhik Winter Regatta (Wangi)

The Wangi Winter Regatta is back! Despite the rainy weather late in the week, 40 competitors gathered at WASC for 2 days of the Zhik Winter Regatta over the June long weekend.
A variety of 6 classes of boats, 'A' Class cats, Foiling Moths, 29ers, Tasars, OKs, Flying 11s and the light wind provided a challenge to Race Officer Tony Outteridge. At times the committee boat was finishing classes (Moths and Tasars) while another class (OKs) was in a starting sequence.

I somehow jagged a win!

On Saturday the sun shone but the breeze rarely went above 4 knots which turned the non foiling moths into expensive Sabots. In the A Class fleet we had some great racing and the welcome return of Roger Colman racing for the first time in over one and half years.

Sunday provided more breeze but cold showers! In the A Class fleet we had some tight racing again sometimes with only half a boat length between the places but we did also see that we are not very good with counting and losing track of the number of laps we are doing causing some funny moments.

Not as bad as it looks.

Local sailors were joined by sailors from Sydney, Central Coast and Southport.
Zhik was the generous sponsor making it worth braving the cold for all the winners, big thanks to them.

results below

Place	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Race 7	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1	AUS898	A Class	C Cairns	GSC	14.0	1.0	2.0	5.0	2.0	1.0	2.0	1.0
2	AUS4	Brewin Sails	S Brewin	GSC	25.0	9.0O	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	9.0O	2.0
3	AUS969	Harken Racing	G Pellew	RPAYC	25.0	9.0F	4.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	1.0	3.0
4	AUS22	Spunspur	M Johnston	GSC	36.0	9.0F	3.0	3.0	4.0	9.0C	3.0	5.0
5	AUS914	Pistool	B Wicht	Kurnell SC	37.0	2.0	7.0	7.0	6.0	4.0	4.0	7.0
6	AUS941	Firefly Dance Club	J Jenkins	KLL	39.0	3.0	6.0	6.0	7.0	5.0	6.0	6.0
7	KA524	1984	R Colman	KLL	42.0	9.0F	8.0	4.0	5.0	7.0F	5.0	4.0
8	AUS977	Go With The Flow	R Griffiths	LMYC	49.0	4.0	5.0	8.0	8.0	9.0C	7.0	8.0