The tight, fleet-wide racing that had defined the opening two weeks of the SIXT Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour was notably absent in Race 3. A strong north-east breeze — the kind that funnels down the harbour and builds a short, punchy chop that makes skiff sailing genuinely dangerous — proved more than most of the newer, younger teams in the fleet could manage. What had looked like a wide-open championship quickly began to stratify.
Sydney's Nor'easter Separates the Fleet in 18ft Skiff Spring Championship Race 3
A building north-east breeze on Sydney Harbour turned Race 3 of the SIXT Spring Championship into a brutal sorting exercise, exposing the limits of the fleet's younger teams. The close, tactical racing that defined the opening two rounds gave way to survival sailing as conditions stiffened beyond what many crews were ready to handle.
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