Hermanus Points regatta was a great success what comes to sailing conditions and great relaxed atmosphere on shore. HYC looked after all sailors and hangarounds in great style, sailing on the water went on smothly and services on land were fantastic. We all found a piece of level enough land to put up the tents and enjoyed fires and good food in the evening.

The optimist fleet saw nearly 30 A-fleet sailors and an encouraging B-fleet as well. Saturday was a rather windy session and some of the younger and less experienced kids were battling to survive. Brevan Thompson dominated the A-fleet and sailed away from the fleet in both races. Another sailor fresh from the Worlds in Uruguay, Michael Crosland, also showed incredible speed as he capsized at the gybe mark but managed to fight back to a second in the same race! Sunday''s three races did a bit of a reshuffle to the fleet as wind was much lighter and the heavy sailors lost their advantage. Brevan also proved to be mortal and was beaten in two of the three races on the final day. Michael Crosland won one of the races as Tim Manley, Alex Lehtinen, Josh Rubenstein, Josh Stubbs, Alex Burger and Ashwin Daniels were also showing good pace. The last race of the regatta was won by Josh Rubenstein followed by Constantia Waldorf School class mate Alex Lehtinen.

TOP 5:
1. Brevan Thompson, ZVYC
2. Michael Crosland, ZVYC
3. Tim Manley, ZVYC
4. Alex Lehtinen, ZVYC
5. Josh Rubenstein, ZVYC

Eero Lehtinen, ZVYC