The Solo

Sounds like quite a race...
I knew someone who had an epoxy/foam Solo and it was particularly prone to denting, so I'm not sure if being in one of those would have saved you from damage during the midships assault.
The last Solo I sailed was an old fibreglass job and the floor was so flexible it actually made my feet hurt when I stood up.
Did you manage to avoid the centreboard capping assault on your shins?

How fortuitous!
And the helmet was worth it too by the sound of it.

I find it extremely irritating being covered, especially within a few minutes of the start, it's crap technique and typical small pond behaviour, covering is for the final beat. It ranks right up there with mid fleet luffing matches.

Edited by iGRF - 08 Dec 13 at 10:10pm

Well I can't say I actually want to, but it's a bloody great gash in the side and I feel a sense of guilt, I'll do my best to avoid it, but the guy loaned me it with a view to sell it me if I liked it, the irony i didn't actually like it, I don't like wooden things, for exactly this reason, repairing them is not something I can undertake whereas epoxy I can.
I've now worked out it's a 1978 model, the year I first started competing in Windsurfing 35 yrs old, seriously why would you, but then I should have thought about that before I took it out. It's difficult.

£800.... Go on, find another few grand and I'll do you mate's rate.... Just think what a show you'd put on whooping ass in the lilac decked one.

(Or failing that buy it, then I'll hang on to mine for the 2014 showdown)