Projection 762 Help please?

Started last nights race with a number 3 thinking had made a big mistake.  Some horrendous weather quickly followed through with 32 kt gusts.  We hit 14kts through the water and the boat was very well behaved.  Our Sunday practice session paid off with 4 gybes going seemlessly and the boat very steady.  We are learning its vital to strap the kite in when gybing in these conditions using the barbour haulers.

We had bad start and overtook  a Sig 38 and almost a Prima.  However Leeward mark saw us beating into massive chop.  The Sig sailed underneath us and with our main and rig shaking like a compromised dog, coupled with a lee shore we tacked away and threw the towel in!

Shame, but the sleigh ride means we will be smiling for days to come.  Awesome!

Ultimately we decided to enter for IRC classes at the Scottish Series. Our IRC certificate has just arrived and probably not wildly different from the majority at 0.969, however an improvement on 2005 when it was 0.977. If anyone would like me to send them a copy I'd be happy to do that.

F-word - glad you're having fun in the breeze. I won't say that we have the barbour haulers fully down for gybeing, but you definately need them... We don't have problems gybeing in big breeze, just getting the pole back in which often takes two crew. Really flying it's usually so steady that we can almost go dead downwind, so we often drop, gybe and reach to the mark if it's close enough.

heres the new cert, up 4 points in total.

we seem to get on with it fine the other day in 10 - 15 knots, only trouble is you cant see where your going

the day before it was blowing 15- 20 so we put up the old kite, 1st sail of the year and didnt want to push our luck, but we were going just as fast in less breeze the net day with the biggun up.  hopefully we'll win a fgew pots this year on the back of it.

Thanks again garth.