Hi guys,

we'd given one of those daggy Australia coffee table books to yank friends, and they noticed an old windsurfer pic in there:



Question is: when/where/what? (am at work, so got time on my hands...). Book only says: "Race in Sydney Harbour".

Bear with me. If it's Sydney indeed, then judging by their wetsuits, it must have been summer.

Now, in them's years (not so anymore), there were only 2 kinda winds in the summer: NE or southerlies. But southerlies used to be strong winds, and the wind is weak in there. So must have been a northeaster. Also looks flaky, looking at the water ripples ahead: musta been in late arvo. They're not near shore, looking of the long wake on top of picture. The shadow is coming from dead right, it seems.

So I concluded, still having nothing to do, that it must have been a mid- to late-arvo race, taking off perhaps from Balmoral or the Spit - there used to be a shop and races there. Or rounding off Middle Head towards Harbour, although that would end up in ferry galore.

It couldn't be the south shore in the morning, since Rose Bay is crowded with boats, and southerlies didn't follow those wind patterns then.

The highest sail number is 330k, and I used to have one of those in 1983 or 4, so the picture must be that old.

Anyone remember this race?