Battle of the Classes

The spectating from the bridge was excellent.  Cheering at the Tasar as it went over was amusing.  Thought the Solution looked like bloody hard work upwind (was it you that Chinese-gybed and got wet at the bottom of the course?).  12ft Skiff kite was huge, pity they retired but probably a good idea!  Pity the wind was heavily biased for "dead downwind" boats rather than skiffs, but fair play the Fireball was extremely well sailed (despite a severe wineglass on the last set!).

I saw the Musto colliding with a B14... they locked wings but the Musto managed to go in.  

Does anyone know who was sailing the Fireball? It looks like it might be Matt Mee and Waggers from the picture but I don't know what they look like well enough to be sure?!

I saw the 9ers on saturday and they were getting blon over left right and centre in the monster gusts that where coming around the buildings!

Watched the VX40 rig and got bored of waiting so I went inside! Now I remeber why dinghies are better!

I was right it was Matt And Waggers!

http://www.fireball-dinghy.org.uk/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=482

I've only seen them twice and I still got it right!

It was suprisingly good fun, good racing in difficult conditions.

Why is it a shame that it did not favour skiffs? If the wind was any different we would have just reached up and down, how much fun would that be? atleast we had two long (ish) beats.

Matt and Richard sailed very well and deserved the win particualy sailing with only one trapeze wire for the last round.

Still have not seen the final results I believe that some of the lapped  boats were counted finished a lap down. I don't envy any race officer particually with that many boats in a small space.