SEHMYC - South Eastern Hills Model Yacht Club - Paris Creek SA 

I'm catching up as fast as I can.  I nearly had this one done but the grandkids arrived.

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02 June was an A Class day.

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Congratulations to David Martin for the good solid performance that put him in first place ahead of Philip Scapens.

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Brian Pennifold plugged along for a steady third place. His main blot on the copy book was the DNS in race three. This was cause by a turning block that disintegrated towards the end of race two. Race three became a discard while he replaced the block,

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Steve Rosenberg was, as I recall, beset by a wog and was, in his terms, 'sailing shit'.

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Another one beset with problems was Bob Watson who had problems with his hand/pocket warmer. He found out that if your transmitter has a whopping big battery with the 9 volt type terminals (as shown below), it is not a good idea to put it in your pocket with your car keys. Bob revived the 70's fashion fad - hot pants. Although it sounds funny, Bob was lucky not to be seriously injured. It was a good warning to everyone, these battery terminals can be dangerous as they are easily shorted out.

After getting re-organised he put in some good results but it was a bit late.

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As for me, I was a sailing disaster area. In race one, one of the lines securing the ring for my mainsail sheet failed and the mainsail flapped around like Mrs Murphy's washing. Replaced string, continued sailing, wouldn't call it racing going by the results. In race seven the string acting as the jib boom pivot broke and the jib pivoted around the jib sheet to lay flat back alongside the mainsail. The boat is 30 years old, maybe I should do a preventative maintence on her and replace all of the strings.

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What's this? David Martin won on corrected time as well? I'll have to see to this. Well done David.

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Well done Steve Rosenberg for getting second place on the podium despite your disability.

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Philip Scapens put in a commendable third place effort.

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Bob (battery boy) Watson took fourth place from me on countback.

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Brian Pennifold took the wooden spoon.

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The rest of the fleet played Rafferty's Rules with a rough division of 'biggies' and Foci sailing a variety of courses.

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Bob Tuohy was the quickest of the biggies.

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John Lykke was just a bit behind in second place. Race seven was hampered by a collision and boarding raid by Graham Alcock. Oh dear!

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Geoff Rice's score would have been better in the 'biggies' had the Foci not been taking places from him. He even managed to beat Bob Tuohy in race five. By about a minute and a half! I think that Bob Tuohy would rather forget race five.

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Geoff (the fiddler) Smith was the fastest of the Foci. Well done Geoff and keep on fiddling.

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Graham Alcock only just squeezed in ahead of Bob Dare.

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Well done all Foci sailors. The Foci fleet has been producing some very close and interesting racing. Thank you to all club members (I can think of about five people) who have assisted by coaching the Foci sailors to bring this about.

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I'm pretty sure that racing was called off early due to lack of wind.