Cracking Day.

   Yup an excellent day to be on the water for first time since early December.  Glad we opted to run the racing last week when it was gusting to 35knots.

Nice south to SSW breeze blowing the length of the lake.  Main rival went over under spinnaker on a tight leg about 2 boats lengths dead ahead but just managed to avoid.  A couple of laps later, we wondered why the spinnie would not fly then realised the halyard had come undone - first time ever.

Tipped the boat over on the pontoon after finishing and got the halyard down.  Went on to win the afternoon race after a beautiful plane under spinnaker which took us into lead before rival tried to claim room at the gybe mark, didn't have an overlap and did turns.

Aching but a cracking first sail of the season.

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Time Lord Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Far too distracted from work Joined: 03 Dec 13 Location: Warwickshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 301	Post Options Post Reply Quote Time Lord Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Cracking Day. Posted: 09 Mar 14 at 8:20pm
	Yup an excellent day to be on the water for first time since early December. Glad we opted to run the racing last week when it was gusting to 35knots. Nice south to SSW breeze blowing the length of the lake. Main rival went over under spinnaker on a tight leg about 2 boats lengths dead ahead but just managed to avoid. A couple of laps later, we wondered why the spinnie would not fly then realised the halyard had come undone - first time ever. Tipped the boat over on the pontoon after finishing and got the halyard down. Went on to win the afternoon race after a beautiful plane under spinnaker which took us into lead before rival tried to claim room at the gybe mark, didn't have an overlap and did turns. Aching but a cracking first sail of the season.
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	First time out for months - speeds from 0.1 kts to nearly 20kts in an squiffy offshore breeze. Really hot because I didn't fall in!
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	First time on the water (for all sorts of tedious reasons) since October. Half decent breeze on Grafham, ideal for remembering how to do this and figuring out of the stick waggler's elbows were OK. Windward shore, so having said goodbyes to parents (they were down from Scotlandshire, and headed back off whilst we were out) launched and went for a kite hoist. To find that the tack and head had been mixed up. Oops. Down, sorted quickly, back up, then a nice long blast dodging various RSs, Oppies and the club fleets. Lovely stuff.
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	After all the rain, gloom & mud bathed launches, we had a beautiful day here today, warm, boardies ad crash vest weather, and for the first time ever, in my single handed sitting down career, I cut my first port ender... Time was I pulled these more often than not if ever they were on offer in my stand up world, but I've never had the confidence to go for one in a boat, with my crap off the line speed, but today, sun in the sky God in his heaven, a Soslow trying to shut the door on me and miss timing his Port end approach so had to troll on down to attempt a tack onto starboard under the starboard enders, who I'd judged correctly hadn't a snowballs chance in hell of getting across that line before a well placed port ender... Boom... 1st to the windward, then the gybe, then come the third how did i manage to screw it all up? Hit the mark. Even worse, nobody saw me and I still copped to it.. Then I managed to execute the longest cock a maimie 360 in the annals of cock a maimieness, 1st to 6th in one stalled out in bugger all irons fest. But it did give me an enjoyable battle back to within two seconds of Alan my usual Rooster nemesis so all in all a smashing morning, How was your day?
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