Who was out this weekend?.....

it was good at shotwick aswell. unfortunatly my girlfriend and i had a spot of bother and ended up retiring but it was still awsome up untill then.

About force 4 on the Medway.  I wish I'd been out on the 4000 but had to make do with crewing a 2000.  The helm was not very experienced but we managed to beat a couple of other 2000 and came half way up the fleet in both races - so a good result really.

Nice boat in a breeze too although all up with 28 stone is too much for the boat.  Nicely developed though - everything worked well and it was comfortable.  Its certainly faster than a Wayfarer on a 3 sail reach and matches a Laser.

I enjoyed it.

My elbow is a bit sore too, got about 50% of the normal range of movement! I'm hoping for some big bruising or swelling tomorrow or I'll just get a ribbing at work for being a homme!

Originally posted by timnoyce We didn't fair much better either! Had a close call with a 49er when steaming downwind with the kite up which was a little bit sketchy... bore away on a gust only to see the front end of a 49er about a boat length in front of us! Serious code brown situation, extreme bear away to avoid resulted in some swimmage, in the process I proceeded to rip myself a new one on the wing bar! Matters were made worse in the second race when we sent it down the mine UPWIND and I elbowed the boom right on the funny bone (why the f*/k it's called the FUNNY bone beats me!) Caused instantanious pins and needles in my hand and I couldn't move my fingers for a good few minutes!  Saw your main Mr Merlinboy... I thought it looked like it had had a person through it!

 

Yeah it was a Helm sized hole mate!  My leg now has quite a bit of fluid on it in front of my shin which is nice!! fair play to the white 5 tonner whilst we where swimming he was powering on !!!

We didn't fair much better either! Had a close call with a 49er when steaming downwind with the kite up which was a little bit sketchy... bore away on a gust only to see the front end of a 49er about a boat length in front of us! Serious code brown situation, extreme bear away to avoid resulted in some swimmage, in the process I proceeded to rip myself a new one on the wing bar!

Matters were made worse in the second race when we sent it down the mine UPWIND and I elbowed the boom right on the funny bone (why the f*/k it's called the FUNNY bone beats me!) Caused instantanious pins and needles in my hand and I couldn't move my fingers for a good few minutes! 

Saw your main Mr Merlinboy... I thought it looked like it had had a person through it!