Friday, August 8, 2008

Fine day and goods finish on day 6

Day 6 started off nice and sunny with a decent 10-15 knot breeze. The start was on the Squadron line at 1120, so a fairly late start, although we were close getting there because the traveller had to be rebuilt about getting it re welded last night due to some cracks appearing in the metal. We got it done though, and had a pretty good start. 1st leg was a beat up the shore out of the tide, keeping in as close as possible to the land... at one point our depth read 0.1m under the keel! We managed to keep very close in, and held off all the competition, including Amey Love Shack to get round the 1st mark in the lead. We held onto that lead for the rest of the race, building it slowly on the run down to the final mark rounding, and crossed the line over 90 seconds in front of Amey Love Shack on the water, and almost 5 minutes ahead of them on corrected time, and 0ver 7 minutes in front of Beachwood Homes! This puts us at 15 points overall, and 2nd place in our class.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well done. Keep up the good sailing and make it 1st for the last few races. You all must be on quite a high at the moment. Keep this up and the end of Cowes party should be a good one. Whitstable will seem so tame after this!! You are very lucky to be doing this, enjoy every minute. I emailed a link to one or 2 others at HPYC and everyone is impressed. Dad G