After a long period of lockdown due to Covid-19, the South Australian Laser fleet is back in the water. Even though Mawson Lakes Model Yacht Club is still closed, we run unstructured sailing at Mawson Lakes each Wednesday, and we have regularly been getting 6-7 Laser sailors in attendance. We are also running unstructured sailing at West Lakes one Saturday a month so that those Laser sailors who work during the week also have a chance to sail.
Last Sunday we had a sail at Hart’s Mill, one of South Australia’s premier RC sailing venues. As you can see from the photo, we had a light south-easterly breeze but great sailing was had by all participants.
During the Covid-19 period some significant developments have taken place in the South Australian RC Laser fleet. Don Turnbull has been regularly travelling up to Wallaroo, about an hour and a half north of Adelaide, and has now recruited several members of the local club into the SA fleet. Also, Mark Keeble from Mildura has bought several RC Lasers and we look forward to racing at Lake Cullulleraine with him in future. We have another new member of the MLMYC fleet, Bruce Backman who has joined us recently with RCL #169.
We have released a revised 2020 program with a date of October 31 and November 1 for our State Titles. This is about a month after the planned date for the Nationals and we hope we will get lots of interstate visitors for this event.
We wish all other Australian fleets well and hope to see some of you at Emerald Lakes in early October.
Adrian Heard