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River A - Town Green to Settlement Point
Not Third Any Longer - Australia Day Regatta
The allure of Port Macquarie lies in its sub-tropical climate and all that it brings in terms of wildlife beaches and the general positive energy it exudes. Visitors and locals received a treat on Australia Day as yachts in PMYC’s Australia Day regatta made practice starts and jockeyed for position in the regatta start area in front of the Town Green, with the extended unofficial prestart of around 30 minutes between the on water race briefing, and the 11.00am start time, drawing a substantial c
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28 Jan 2025
There was a joyous mood apparent across the fleet that turned out for last Sunday’s (12/01/2025) Port Macquarie Yacht Club river race when after one yacht voiced, “well at least we’re going to podium” there were peals of raucous, almost riotous laughter on adjacent yachts during a surprisingly eventful pre-start.
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The old saying that “One swallow doesn’t make a summer” has been thrown out the window with the performance of Frank Lagudi’s Third Man as that yacht continues to sail it’s socks off in both Port Macquarie Yacht Club’s river and ocean series.
After unlocking several additional knots per hour extra performance during the 2024 sailing season Third Man took the honours in last Sunday’s River “B” sailed between the Settlement Point and Hibbard ferries.
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Perhaps the best place to take the temperature of a sporting body such as a local yacht club is at an event where annual pointscore placings are already settled, the race effectively counts for nothing, and the weather forecast is somewhat blancmange. In such case then the Port Macquarie Yacht Club would appear to be in very good shape, as a healthy fleet of seven yachts turned out to contest last Sunday’s ocean buoy event.
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With a peaceful bar crossing, winds hovering around the 15 knot mark and easy seas, skippers and crew, considered they had found the ultimate in sailing bliss, and could only marvel that five yachts alone faced the starter for Sunday’s long ocean north event.
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The definition of relentless is “continuing in a determined way without interruption”. Such definition could be applied to Cool Change’s skipper, who, although having taken an unassailable lead in Port Macquarie Yacht Club’s inshore pointscore, with a crew of irregulars, continued in Cool Change’s domination of club inshore events, on a day that tested all skippers and crew.
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Ocean pointscore regatta: Clean sweep to Enticer
The Port Macquarie yacht club runs sufficient offshore regattas for regularly competing skippers to have a reasonable idea of expected elapsed times for the various courses. Last Sunday, with racing scheduled to commence at 9.30am on the North easterly regatta course a fleet of seven yachts faced the starter at the slightly delayed start, in a light to non existent breeze.
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12 Nov 2024
Many visitors to Port Macquarie who sing the praises of the light and gentle breezes and the safe, accessible beaches would have found only wind whipped sand and beaches closed due to the heavy seas on Saturday when PMYC ran the first day of it’s Invitational race weekend to Laurieton and return.
In those conditions four yachts only contested the weekend’s events. Northshore 38 Solar Coaster skippered by Stuart Watson used the weekend as a training run for its skipper who has entered
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Variable breeze from 7kts to 23kts greeted the reduced fleet that faced the started for Sunday’s long river race from Settlement Point to the Dennis bridge turning mark. The handicapper was in form, dealing with the varying winds and a segmented race, managing to produce two separate segment winners, and with the longest segment sailed being decided by a mere 0.77 seconds on handicap.
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A lesson in survival : Offshore Regatta weekend
Some of the more senior Port Macquarie Yacht Club sailors were heard to comment that last
weekend’s Offshore regatta was like an episode of Survivor, as, one by one yachts withdrew from
the event until there were only the placegetters left standing.
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15 Oct 2024