Flying Flounder relishes conditions to hand young skipper Eden Gray memorable victory on the harbour

Junior skipper Eden Gray with his father Benn as crew, scored a win on corrected time in the Flying Fifteens.

Gray handled the light conditions well aboard Flying Flounder around a harbour course with a gentle southerly that never got much over seven knots and dropped to about five knots towards the end of the event on Saturday, November 9.

Wayne North in Frequent Flyer was the early leader over the first few legs but was a tad late to hoist a spinnaker and was overtaken by Simon Lucas in Forever Young.

Aileen Lucas in Crazy enjoys the lighter breezes and was also moving well.

Gray, who had slipped well back, was still sailing well and always in contention with his handicap.

However, Simon Lucas went on his merry way to finish first but was relegated to fourth place on corrected time after being the fastest boat.

Flying Flounder was announced the winner on handicap in a fine performance from the youngster.

Crazy finished second with Wayne North third in an interesting and challenging race.

Two division two yachts were given a 30-minute start by a lone division one boat and Josh Hughes skippering Joker was away smartly leaving Peter Bane in Dunluce well behind after his sluggish start.

Joker had established a huge lead over Dunluce which finally got into stride and with some good spinnaker runs was bridging the gap midway through their harbour course race.

Enter Jessie James skippered by Brett Hawker which had the undaunting task of catching the two smaller boats.

It was superb sailing by Hawker and his skeleton crew as they began closing in on the leading pair.

Hawker caught and passed Dunluce and on the last leg was only seconds behind Joker as they neared the finish line.

Hughes did something special and was able to find some extra speed in the dying breeze to cross the line 20 seconds ahead of Hawker.

Dunluce was able to stay in touch throughout the last few legs and was awarded the win on corrected time with Joker second and fastest in a fine display.