Team Victory were triumphant at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club’s RS21 141st Anniversary Regatta held in Hamilton Harbour on Sunday.

In a tightly contested race featuring ten teams, Team Victory, with Alan Frith steering the boat, came out on top with Team Salty Sea Dogs, helmed by Carola Cooper, in second place and third going to Team Elizabeth II, who had Mikey Wollman in charge of the boat.

The regatta featured a variety of sailors ranging from a RHADC junior team made up of high school students to sailors from the RBYC and St George’s Dinghy and Sports Club

Racing in the club’s fleet of six RS21 boats, the teams rotated through a round-robin series in a perfect westerly of 8-14 knots, with each team completing six races on the course set between White’s Island and Salt Kettle Point.

John Nicholls, the RHADC commodore, expressed his delight with the number of teams taking to the water.

“This is the first time we’ve done this format in the RS21s, so we were really pleased to get ten teams out and we couldn’t have asked for better conditions,” Nicholls said.

“It all ran very smoothly considering we were swapping teams on and off boats between races and it really highlights what a fantastic racing venue Hamilton Harbour is.

“This is what we envisaged when we invested in the fleet. It’s a great boat for youngsters to transition into after the Optis and 420s.

“Its also a good club racer in that it’s a high-performance keel boat but it’s very stable and most sailors can hop right in them and go racing.”