Who was out this weekend?.....

Had the Hangover from Hell on Sunday following the annual Lord
Taverners Ball. Came very close to not racing, but then it's the law, 'if
you can't party til you puke and still win the first race the next day' it
means your done, so onto the start line I went.

Started with the slow handicap and pulled away and settled in to enjoy
a freshening 2 fairly flat water and an easy sail which was about all I
could cope with. The Hangover being one of those ones that creep up
and get worse as the day progressed, liberating the Champagne Bottle
for strictly personal consumption now seemed not the great idea it had
been at the time.

A fairly uneventful couple of laps passed until I noticed the 505
approaching from the Starboard wing, on Starboard and it was a
Starboard hand course. I knew it would be tedious, I knew whatever I
did would be wrong, but I left plenty of room, over stood, hoping
they'd tack to lee bow and round ahead of me in the massive gap I'd
left.
But no, what is it with muppets that once on Starboard, a) they have to
shout it at you. b) Stick it by sailing right across and going too far in
this instance then c) Tack back and sail over you again which in this
instance forced me onto the mark in the negative tide whilst remarking
ooh looks like a touch there..

Never mind the windward boat keeping clear, leaving water for me to
round or just general courtesy that one ought to have to a slower boat
when you have all the canvas to blanket them with... feckers.

I should have protested the b'stards..

Quite ruined my day, as well as knicking the race off me..

Originally posted by timnoyce So, to read between the lines... you're officially 'done' then?!

It appears that way...

Took long enough though

Well you have to factor in the 'exactly because it is me they're stuffing' but it
is a wind up when I'd gone for a text book approach and had an opponent in
a similar class or had it been me in their situation, a tack to lee bow gets it
every time.

Had they been of similar sail size they'd have been stuffed doing what they
did. As it was if the racing was of a more serious nature then they'd have
been off to the protest room with bob & no hope for company..

The thing that really winds me up in retrospect, I even did turns cos it's my
way.. and I'm stupid, living in a past world of rule observance.

ps. the above appears to work just fine for about 9 out of 10 Wayfarer racers I've come across in handicap events over the years....

Nore race today. Some epic reaching- three sails most of the way along the Essex side, two sails and flying along the coast of Sheppey. Nice. One swim. Legs sore now. Had a long walk in. Then back out, with trolley. Then back in with the boat.