The smallest boat that travelled the shortest distance with the smallest crew of four in the fleet of 17 yachts did very well returning to home port on Tuesday 28 April 2015 with no breakages after an ‘eventful’ trip which included two spectacular spinnaker runs of over 7 hours each, huge seas and winds of over 40 knots, barepole surfing, whale and dolphin sightings, minimum sleep and much more ………..
Wallbanger finished in 3 days 4 hours 48 minutes and 47 seconds in the PHRF fleet which had two retires out of the 8 retires in total. But Free State Yacht Club entrant, Star Spirit, took first place on handicap with an elapsed time of 3 days 4 hours 50 minutes and 14 seconds – a mere a mere 7 minutes and 36 seconds but a great victory for the guys from the Gariep Dam.
Line Honours went to Gumption (2 days 6 hours 58 minutes and 25 seconds), followed by AL Mount Gay Rum and in third was ABYC’s second entrant, Nemesis, sailed by Tony and Sigi Bailes.
