Another beautiful but windless day with everyone so grateful for Vladimir and
Benny catering , good food and super coffee
At about 1300 as on the previous day the wind began to fill in but this time the
prevailing westerlies blowing from the mouth of the river
Race officer Simon had already advised that the flooding tide was not suitable
for our planned long distance race conceived to give an opportunity to some
of our less experience racers but more experienced in the mysteries of the
tides around the navigation buoy Selat which have confused many an
experienced sailor
So back to our usual river venue with the start closed to the marina , Race
Officer Simon wanted to get in the promised 2 races to have 7 in all and 2
discards , the first a windward /leeward with a very equal start against the
tide was won by Mandarin with Peach second and Haiku 1 third, this made the
final racing very interesting because either Mandarin or Haiku could lift the
magnificent Royal Selangor Pewter Salver presented by our sponsors Platinum
President Amir , Commodore Jeremy Vice Commodore Rama and Rear
Commodore Jega, and Gold sponsor secretary Ian Rm 1,000
This made the whole regatta financially possible ,
So the final race started, competitors whether exhausted after so much racing
were very line shy , in tricky flukey winds Mandarin on a triangle /sausage
course sailed into a good lead with Haiku only fourth , the race committee had
parked the committee boat Jega s X 34 Leopad Dream on the outside
pontoon of the marina with a finishing mark not far out so anyone in the
clubhouse could see the finish,the Committee watched the persuing boats
Alice and Haiku visibly catching up with Mandarin which seemed to slow , in a
lightening wind which have helped Haiku passed Alice on the originally up
wind leg and was very close approaching the last but one mark , Haiku healing
more crept inside Mandarin and sailed off to victory
Congrats to our First Malaysian National Squib champion Luke Robins sailing
with Vladimir moonlighting from running the catering , he had sailed
consistently well discarding a 4 th and a 3 rd on 7 points ,second was
Mandarin sailed by Jason and John only2 points behind on 9points also
discarding a 4 th and a 3 rd third was the Commodores Jerry sailed by Dr Izham
and Amir with 15 points discarding a 6 th and a 5 th fourth was Lady VG sailed
by PSC and now RSYC Vice Commodore Rama and wife VG the only husband
and wife combination with 19 points BUT including a remarkable 2 first places
fifth Ratatosk our mythical Nordic squirrel sailed by Gavin and Yasid with 24
points handicapped by breaking their main halliard in race 4 and missing 5
sixth Peach 2 sailed by Simon and Harro with 25 points also missing 2 races
with a broken shroud , seventh on count back also on 25 points was
Quicksilver sailed by Peter and Michelle who only started sailing a month ago
8th Alice sailed by owner Jega s sons Kumanan and Aguilan , they improved
in the last race to finish third and 9 th PSC s own club boat sailed by Charles
and Jenny, really a lack of confidence rather than speed
Each competitor received an engraved Selangor pewter coaster as did the civil
defence ambulance and sea rescue party who attended as support ,
fortunately not being needed ,
Our thanks to Tony Sobey and lan on our rescue boat our newly refurbished
Macgregor 25 Tiger and our very efficient mark laying team led by Chandran
who assists Simon at regattas and really understood what was needed
supported by our own Rahim and Heppi , on the committee boat was amazing
, she did everything raising and lowering flags , raising the anchor as well as
taking photos , leaving the Commodore to enjoy using the horn
But above all to our Race officer Simon James who masterminded the sailing so
efficiently and made this so good for the competitors Simon turned down a
regatta in Tahiti to attend and told me he wanted to support what we at PSC
are doing for sailing