Gypsy Bowl Teams Race

The Gypsy Bowl is an old NSW Moth trophy which has not been raced for for at least 10 years. It declined when the number of moth clubs shrank to too few for an event. Now we have 4 clubs in Sydney Pete Harney revised the event and rean it at Northbridge. The last sunday before Christmas was the only time when no clubs raced but it seems most people are busy on other things. But we had more than a dozen moths and it made an enjoyable event.

So the Gypsy Bowl event lives. Not sure where the trophy is though?

Three teams competed,
The local NSC/SMSC scow team.
The Balmoral Bladerider team, and
a mixed group comprising Alan (just home from Finland), Les (BYRA mostly), Eric (Balmoral) and me (StG),
nominally 4 boats per team with only best 3 to count.

The course as a short two lapper and the scows got a 6 minute start.
The scows beat the mix in race 1, We beat the Bladeriders in race 2, The Bladeriders beat the scows in race three. All even!
Then top scows Andrew and Ian Sim went home to a serious? other apointment. So the scows lost their last two matches and the event was decided when the mixed team beat the Bladeriders again.
So we won!!

Wind was good for NSC, 0 to 12kts and only swinging through 40odd degrees. But very tireing, lots of leg work.

It all went smoothly thanks to Pete and Jim and other NSC helpers and a nice BBQ afterwards.
This event must happen every year but a better time might attract more teams