Well the breeze was on by 9am, and continued to build. The photo above is where our leeward mark would be. The windsurfers had already been in and changed down to their 4.0s. The RC wisely called it at 20:13, no racing till at least 4pm. We all duly arrived back at 4om, still blowing dogs off chains, local wind speed had 28s gusting 33s. Delay again till 5pm, still blowing, RC called it for the day. By 6:30 we could have got 2 or 3 good races in but wise call this early.
Must admit got a bit phased out by today. I've never enjoyed long delays on windy days, would rather get on it. By 5 one side of me said "rig up and get out there", the other said, "you'll break something". It was soften slightly, but I prevaricated, and by the time it had softened enough to be reasonable, I'd lost the mood /drive to go out and practice. Still tomorrow needs to be Go Big or Go Home.
Positives for today:
- Really great tour round with Liz during day, there's some awesome scenery
- Seeing my old boat out on the water and going well
Survivor medal goes to Dalton, his score for the day was
- Gantry off Chris R boat
- Sailing Dan with no bungs
- Gantry off Dans boat
Don t know how many times he had to swim in towing a Moth, but I got tired just watching :)
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