If there is nothing written here for a few days you can pretty much guarantee that we didn’t have a great race, or more importantly that we didn’t rank in the top few.
Saturday was one of those days, were well we just couldn’t get it right. We choose one way the wind chose to go the other etc etc. We didn’t do too bad but OP kept going the right way and we kept going the wrong way, add a couple of stuff ups and its all over.
Had an interesting start with a few boats playing bumper cars on the port end of the line and us hard on the breeze looking like we weren’t going to make the line, we had to throw over to port tack to clear the line. It would be safe to say there was a major bias in it. Crossed the line around 20 secs after the start but so did everyone else. Pretty much us verses OP up front from the start but they were higher and stayed that way. We were forced to try different tacks to get some ground back but as mentioned this just put us further behind. Think its best to stick with them when this happens, as it has never worked for us to separate.
Tried to use a retrieval line but that got ditched quite quickly after a couple of poor drops. We tried the new sock for the kite and after a couple of slow hoists we think we got it right and it could prove worthwhile for the shorter races.
Good sail selection but some poor jybes and kite work left us a few minutes behind OP at the finish and mid fleet on handicap. Touched to bottom again at M mark! We are pretty good at finding all the shallow spots that are not marked on the charts.
Put this one down to a training race I think.
That’s Nav out for at least 3 months now. Off to get the shoulder fixed from Geraldton last year, so hopefully there will be willing contributions from others for the next 4? weeks, until I can type again.
7 all with OP but whos counting?
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