Who was out this weekend?.....

Originally posted by Black no sugar

   i was out friday night, perfect diddy rig conditions. nailed all the tacks and all but one of the gybes. then as a came out of another nice gybe, i hooked on stepped out the boat and the trapeze line went BANG. that put a fairly swift end to that sail.
On saturday i got to a chandelery and found 8 or 10 metres of d12 in their £5 bin and also 30m of 4mm stuff for the amin halyard for another fiver. dead chuffed . Saturday night i was teaching and then making new trapeze lines, this time with plastic tube to stop them chaffing at the top.
Sunday i was teaching at 8AM. luckilly all the kids were finnished by lunch and i went windsurfing on my mates mistral OD board (from god knows when in the 90's) and 8m sail. i was just cruising along in the foot loops, hooked on, when i got it a bit wrong and binned it in over the front of the board, taking the rig with me. as i pulled the sail up afterwards i noticed that the downhaul had snapped. on closer inspection, all the pulleys had pulled off the mast extension. but now i had about a mile and half to windsurf back in with no downhaul in conditions that were not that light. By the time i got back my arms were hurting sooooo much, windsurfing is a lot harder with no downhaul. Then there was a race at 7.30 which i did in the 600 and WON on handicap, only the second race ive won in the 600, the first was in an absolute drifter and the lasers were barely moving.
On the train into college on monday i fell asleep twice and nearly missed my stop. That is how to tell you've had a good weekends sailing! 

Edited by mike ellis