Sunday:
The blue skies seem to have deserted us but its still very warm (in 20s). Went to the outlet centre at Birkenhead Point to get Tim some new shirts, then headed east across the city to Double Bay.
Double Bay is home to the 18 foot skiff club and they race on Sunday afternoons.
When we arrived and parked we wandered into the park, rather like wandering around the pits at a motor racing event. 16 of these formula 1 of the sailing world were in various stages of preparation on the grass.

At 2 o'clock the spectator ferry arrived at the jetty to take the crowd out to watch the action. (We choose to stay ashore), then around half past the crews carried the boats down on to the beach and launched, setting out into the harbour.

The skiffs went across the harbour so little could be seen from Double Bay so we drove up to Point Piper where there was a small public garden overlooking the water and watched the action from there. The wind was fairly light, only force 2 - 3 even so the skiffs were not hanging around as they criss-crossed the harbour.

Then it was back to Dee Why for dinner.