SAFA Skysailor Magazine

14 SKY SAILOR March | April 2023 Eleven pilots in goal in the Open class and Stuart McElroy was the only pilot to make goal in the Sport class. Task 4 An earlier start today with the possibility of overdevelopment later. Amazing sky again! Open class have a 155km task to Wellington, Sport class a 53km task to Gooloogong. Towing started early with everyone away in good time. A super task with all but two pilots in goal. 1 Olav Opsanger (Norway) 2 Rohan Taylor 3 Attila Bertok (Hungary) Sasha Serebrennikova (Austria) first woman and Peter Garrone was the only Sport class pilot to make goal with Stuart McElroy just 1.5km short! Jonny Durand: “A classic Forbes day. A 155km dogleg task to Wellington. Everyone did the first start and soon the gaggle split into three different groups. I was heading more right of the course with Trent and we maintained the lead all the way to the first turnpoint. Rohan and Olav got a good climb behind and overtook us at the turnpoint. Then it seemed everyone caught up again and the race was on to goal. Olav Opsanger won the day ahead of Rohan Taylor eight minutes in front of Attila and myself. Wellington goal – Photo: Jonny Durand A small but dedicated group of individuals assist launching and looking after our pilots Task 5 Attila Bertok arrives at the Boorowa goal at 7:20 after a gruelling five and a half hours in the air Photo: Sasha Serebrennikova Forbes Flatlands 2023