Australia Day Regatta - Lake Cootharaba

[onthebeachalone]

Here's some more information..

http://www.lcsc.org.au/mam/index.php?Itemid=72

[Boatmik]

Howdy,

I couldn't get the link to work or find the page manually.

Is it an open class regatta, will there be a woodenboat assoc. presence.

And just how big is it?

MIK

[onthebeachalone]

I Don't know much about it. Just going along as crew (ballast actually).

On their web-site it is billed as....

This year we have an Australia Day Allboats Regatta scheduled for 26th - 28th January

Our skipper emailed these details to me yesterday.

Day and date Race number Time of warning signal not before

Friday 26/1/07 1 1230 hours
Friday 26/1/07 2 Back to back with race 1
Saturday 27/1/07 3 1030 hours
Saturday 27/1/07 4 1330 hours
Saturday 27/1/07 5 Back to back with race 4

After these 5 races handicaps will be decided for the pursuit race to follow on Sunday.
Sunday 28/1/07 6 A pursuit race (handicap start) 1030 hours

There is no "official" Wooden Boat Association entry. Out next messabout will be sometime in February.

Club contact details are -


Lake Cootharaba Sailing Club Inc.
ABN 30 624 557 096
24 Boreen Parade
Boreen Point 4565
Queensland Australia
Telephone:- Ph 07 5485 3352 Fax 07 5485 3080

Hope this helps!

[Boatmik]

Cheers,

I'll be seeing if it fits in with Midge's crazy schedule. I can fly up in time, but there is probably a bit to do on the boats and spending 3 days sailing is a big bite on resources.

We'll talk it over.

MIK

[onthebeachalone]

Most enjoyable regatta at lake Cootharaba. Smallest participants would have been Minnows (2.4m). LCSC seems to have quite a fleet of them. Longest would have been the 10m Bolger folding schooner, that my wife and I were crewing on. Fastest would have been A Class catamarans :aro-r: :aro-r: :aro-r: :aro-r: :aro-r: :aro-r:. Wow!

Probably the most numerous were MGs and there was a wide range of other entrants including Hartley 16s... you name it!

Slept well last night :cool:

Puddleducks would have been right up there...:2tsup:

[bitingmidge]

Puddleducks would have been right up there...:2tsup:

No doubt! :( But we do have two yellow ones now, and a trailer that nearly works! :D :D :D

Maybe next year we'll have a whole fleet of them!

Dont' worry, the pain and stiffness will go away just in time to do it all over again!

cheers,

P

[Boatmik]

Whose pain and stiffness?