Bloody Mary 2010

I bought some new gloves especially Seabadger, they were super warm but the lack of proper grip cost me a fair few dunkings and swims!  They are some neoprene things with latex palms by Gill and are probably the worse £25 i have ever spent!

 

The D-ones struggled a bit, i was re overtaking one when its mast snapped. They point really well but in the gusty conditions yesterday it seemed that when they dunked a wing they capsized.  The angles the guys were sailing down wind seemed allot higher then some of the other Assy's.  The looks side of things has really grown on me, actually seeing them sailing.  Speed wise I'm not sure, but i think the boat more then most others rewards sailing time.

Just curious - did they allow juniors to sail? Pretty brave PRO if he did.

Our respective sailing Widows got a few shots of boats
other than our own. Feel free to email if you want the
full resolution versions.

What a cold race though, we have never sailed the RS400
together and haven't sailed together full-stop for
something like 18 years so it was always going to be a
challenging day!

Many thanks to the shore based folk and rescue crews at
QM for sticking out all day.

Having the main halyard thaw out and detach from the head
of the sail less than 10 mins before our start and fixing
it on the water was particularly cold. Made it to the
start with minutes to spare.




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Edited by simonrh

Originally posted by simonrh What a cold race though, we have never sailed the RS400 together and haven't sailed together full-stop for something like 18 years so it was always going to be a challenging day!

You should have sailed the Vortex then Simon!

Well done for even turning up though - frankly it looked horrible.

Peter from Devoti took some video footage of the Bloody Mary  -  go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcCfE9T_QQM

Rodney