Magical win for Andrew

The bay was full of colour at the weekend, as the local fleet was joined by 25 Fremantle yachts for the Rockingham Race Weekend.

Organised by Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, the bigger cruisers held a Windward-Leeward race on Saturday and Sunday, which was followed by a passage race to and from Rockingham. In the YAH Dolphin Race

down, TCYC’s own Optimus Prime, sailed by Trevor Taylor, was pipped for line honours by the smaller Black Betty, which also won the race on corrected time.

It was a clean sweep for sailor Garry McNally, who also won the return race.

In the local racing it was the Sabres which produced the closest racing with Aten, skippered by Craig Nylund, finishing first and fastest.

Just 43 seconds separated all three boats on corrected time, and Craig took line honours by just 13 seconds.

Brian Andrew showed more magic by sailing Abracadabra to another win in division 1, following his triumph last weekend in the Ode Saw race back from Fremantle.

Alan Campbell’s Ruffian couldn’t repeat last week’s first and fastest in division 3 in the same race, and had to lower her colours to the eventual winner Paraway, skippered by Kevin Ritchie.

Paraway raced to the win with a skeleton crew to an impressive win in the 18.5km/h westerly and is now considering laying off some of her excess ballast.