Who was out this weekend?.....

Originally posted by alstorer a cracked carbon wing (very worrying)

Was meant to be doing this open, makes me glad i didnt go, my boat always
seems to break somewhere, anyway, who was it that cracked the wing?

I was buddying for a friend at the Challenger class open at Grafham Sailability.  The wind was great on Saturday, but very testing on Sunday.  The hospitality offered by Grafham Water Centre was superb. 

Got back on the water for the first time in quite a while, pleasant light
breeze, proved once more with no shadow of doubt the Alto pole system is
worth its weight in gold, manage to hold the 5 oh off complete with its new
set of sails on a really broad reach by soaking as low as they did.. They are
faster, but not fast enough to dive through the windshadow, starve the air
supply and they can be held.
Didn't do enough to hold some laser that just happened to go mackerel
fishing around the course though...

Edited by G.R.F.

The Medway was good on Saturday. We sailed a Dragon and
came 5th out of about a dozen. The wind was consistent
from the W and we were fully powered up.

Sunday we were back to the 4000 and very fickle conditions.
Nice to leave the 29ers and the 59er but it was good for
the 400s so again we never made it to the front. I notice
the Timmings had ditched the 800 and gone back to a 5000 -
I wonder if there are any other teams in the country who
prefer the 5000 over the 800?

I had a good weekend at Lee, a bit of a drift on saturday, especially at the start, the wind came up a bit for the second race and died again for the third. Then Sunday we were greeted by a similar windless sight, I said it should fill in a bit for 1 or 2 to a decent level, obsessively watching bramblemet when I should of been revising gave me a fair idea of what to expect. The first race was a bit of a drift again, just about on the wire trapezing off the foredeck, the second race wasn't much better untill the 2nd beat at 1.03 the wind filled in to full trapezing wind (insert big smug face here), happy days. And it kept building for the final race.

I came 3rd out of 10 boats overall but was 5th overnight so have to write the report, funsies.