SAFA Skysailor Magazine

16 SKY SAILOR March | April 2023 Corinna Schwiegershausen (Germany) first in Women’s class. Task 6 and Australia Day! A 127.3km task south to Stockinbingal for the Open class and 53km task to Gooloogong for the Sport class. A super final task of the competition with Guy Hubbard on fire, charging and winning the 1000 point day! Ollie Chitty (UK) second, Lukas Bader (Germany) third. Corinna Schwiegershausen (Germany) in goal too for the Women’s day win. Richard Hughes takes the day in Sport Class! All the pilots made it back to the Aeroclub for our Australia Day presentation BBQ! Our presentation was made that much more special with a surprise visit from three times World Champion Tomas Suchanek! The amazing people that come together to put this show on for us is what makes Forbes so special – a big ‘Thank You’ to: • • Meet Director and Scorer – Wesley Hill • • Tug pilots – John Blain (Blaino), Marco Carelli and Bruce Crerar • • Launching crew – Greg Cain, Michael White, Alan Bond and Rob Van Der Klooster and a host of helpers! • • Steve McCarthy – for the week’s preparation work before the comp! • • Jonny Durand for MC’ing for me • • The task and weather committee – Attila Bertok, Ollie Chitty, Jonny Durand and Forbes aeroclub 9pm on Australia Day 2023 Open class (l-r): Oliver Chitty, Attila Bertok, Olav Opsanger Vicki and Greg Cain Every task winner receives a macadamia chocolate chip cookie freshly baked by Molly Moyes (l-r): Peter Garrone, Richard Hughes, Guy Hubbard, Olav Opsanger, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Attila Bertok, Stuart McElroy, Sasha Serebrennikova, Alena Marvin-Cookie Monster Photos: Vicki Cain Forbes Flatlands 2023