SAILING: The 2002 racing season began on Sunday with the first race in the Flying Fifteen Spring Trophy.

In non-stop sunshine and cloudless blue skies, with a light southerly breeze taking over from the cold easterlies of previous days, the fleet sailed a starboard Olympic-style course up in North Lake.

The fleet stayed together until the second lap when David Brockbank and Rob Parfitt in Fever and John and Dorothy Wright in Doroffee started the spinnaker leg to Adelaide ahead.

Fever chose the better line and reached Adelaide with an advantage which they held as the boats tacked across the lake to the Dan buoy.

Nigel and Graham Tullett, well back in third in Flotsam, sailed down the east shore, passing south of Rough Holme and freely round the outside to bypass the leaders and round Claife just ahead.

They built on the lead gained by their unconventional tactic, covering the rest of the fleet as the breeze died, finishing ahead of Fever, with the rest of the fleet some way behind.

Result: 1 N.

and G.

Tullett in Flotsam; 2 David Brockbank and Rob Parfitt in Fever; 3rd J.

and D.

Wright in Doroffee.