A lovely shade of lipstick

I fully expect to mix good days with bad ones based around the nature of the racing that's just occurred and my interaction with it.  What I genuinely hope for is a return to a gradual progress, improving month on month as I get to re-experience the sport I first fell in love with at the tender age of 9 in an Optimist dinghy.  Will a Solo deliver a return to classic class racing at club level? Well honestly I can't think of a better boat to do that really and when the boredom sets in, or maybe complacency is a better word, there's Hayling Beach and roof load of boards and sails to get a fix.  Thank you for the latter... without my chance meeting of you Graeme, I doubt I would have ever bothered taking the plunge and buying another windsurf set up, certainly not with the limitations there are for it inland in such a binary location.

The irony of the all our jesting- the boats and boards sit very well together.  You just need to appreciate which end of the wind range to apply them and also know one's for racing, one's for blasting and chop bothering.

But you actually ORDERED it like that.  I'm speechless.

In fact, drastic action has been taken.  To avoid any arguments over colour hues or association with "The Pink Slowboe", I have had to sell my Fireball. You see, it had purple progrip and purple kite bags and a purple painted floor.  But it was just too close, and had to go. 10 years of happy Fireball sailing ended, just because you have terrible taste in gel coat. I hope you feel bad.

I'm now going outside to reinforce my masculinity by continuing the restoration of my Gentleman's Afternoon Racing Battering Ram, another 22 coats of varnish on the pipe holder should do it, and perhaps a gimballed period Tufnol bottle holder for the Cockburns.  See you on the water old bean.