Heat 4 @ Lake Macquarie

27. Nov, 2007 15 Comments

Heat 4 @ Lake Macquarie

img_7456.JPGAnother perfect weekend of racing on the Lake. Check out the results, photo gallery and now the GPS Action Replays. Photos by Angela Nelson with more to follow…

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15 Responses to “Heat 4 @ Lake Macquarie”

  1. Sean O'Brien 27. Nov, 2007 at 6:03 pm

    You know if Sak hadn’t been OCS in that race on Saturday then we would’ve had 5 individual race winners from the weekend…

    Has that ever happened before?

    Two thumbs up to Sam F, is that your first race win?

  2. Brett Morris 27. Nov, 2007 at 7:00 pm

    We did have 5 winners, Sean, Sam F, Kook, Brett & Uncle Mike……we should have had 6 winners but Sam Parker was good enough to gift me race 8…Thanks Sam….
    Touch wood, but how lucky have we been. Another event, another maximum # of races….Nice.

  3. Sam Fawkes 27. Nov, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    Yeah i think it was my first race win. 5 different winners – it was good close racing

  4. Sean O'Brien 27. Nov, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    oh yeah. I can’t read.

    I’d like to extend a big thank-you to Mike and Sam Fawkes btw.. keeping Brett in 4th overall gives me a nice buffer for the overall pointscore…

  5. Rick Murray 28. Nov, 2007 at 8:35 am

    I am a bit disappointed that there are no photos the BIG fish (Mr Sharky)

  6. Rick Murray 28. Nov, 2007 at 8:36 am

    who is the funny looking sheila in the red and white hat?

  7. Sean O'Brien 28. Nov, 2007 at 10:44 pm

    Not to mention no photos of the cherub that plowed into me (missed skewering me with the spinnaker pole by about 12cm) … jesus!

    Do those guys know anything about right-of-way, or maybe to not sail through other fleet’s startlines??

    Amateur hour.

  8. Rick Murray 28. Nov, 2007 at 11:09 pm

    Seane,
    maybe you need to slow down a bit and then they might see you.

  9. Sean O'Brien 30. Nov, 2007 at 7:09 pm

    I was slowing down Rick. I got a 6th at one point on the weekend… and I couldn’t even blame it on using a 9.8m like Brett :-/

  10. brett morris 01. Dec, 2007 at 4:12 am

    Some of the best racing of the season. I’m going to miss the Thai and Mas guys. Great to see Sam Fawkes and Mike Nelson going to fast. (not that great actually). Looking forward to the Slalom Nationals. I hope we can all remember how to reach again?….Hey Rick, i have a great photo of you port tacking the fleet, i wish i had the Wayne Bowness port start on Saturday though. One of the best…

  11. Sean O'Brien 01. Dec, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    Rick,

    Here’s that photo in all its high-resolution glory.

    http://www.storm-riders.com.au/SiteImages/events/IMG_7163.JPG

    Waiting for Chris to finish uploading the rest of the photos then I will add them to the gallery ;)

  12. Rick Murray 01. Dec, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Thanks Sean.
    “TAKE NO PRISONERS”

  13. Sean O'Brien 01. Dec, 2007 at 5:23 pm

    Is there any particular reason you have a question mark on the back of your sail Rick??

    I thought Brett was the only one who put random stuff on his sails.

  14. Rick Murray 02. Dec, 2007 at 7:20 am

    It can mean alot of things such as
    WHY start on port or WHY not start on port.
    WHY use 11.8 in 25 knts
    WHY tack to early for the top mark
    Etc.

  15. Sean O'Brien 02. Dec, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    Ok boys…

    The GPS Action Replays are now up. Have a look at some of the wind shifts in races 6-10 (Sunday).

    No wonder we had so many different winners.. it was all over the place!