autumn 4

duty day

crews race 18th september

wind was light but picked up a little but the tide was strong, all the cats were well behind the line .
shaun helmed for nick mick helmed for greg and richard for me.
the mono flew of the line but the cats took at least 5mins to cross so it was basically a cat race just for fun beacuse were were beat already.
we got to the windward mark eventually and rounded in 3rd we eventually overtook greg but lost out by mistakes or the tide getting us. on the last lap we made one fatal miostake at mark 4 and misjudged the tide and we never ever made it around we retired as the wind dropped off, the race had lots of potential but it all slipped away on the tide, best moment calling a 360 on mike lol

richard if you read this, you did ok, but............

summer series review

SS1   =6TH
SS2   =7TH
SS3   =did not sail due to little wind  RACE NOT RUN
SS4   =DUTY
SS5  =8TH
SS6  =did not race WORKING
SS7  =5TH
SS8  =8TH
SS9  =crewed for rich miller  prep for worlds
SS10 =no race 

autumn series 2010 3

i was really eager to get sailing again after the worlds and after suffering from a bad head cold as well.
we launched earl;y to suss out the weird wind and tide. it did pay off as we timed a really good start and then made the mark without the tide getting us. greg was hot on our heeels and overtook us when we hit the pin on the start line , we did however re over took and put a good 20 secs into him using a bit of skill going to one
he then reovertook us again and we did likewise when poor greg messed up his rounding of mark 1
we kept cool and didnt tempt fate and made the finnish along way ahead of him.
after he commented how did i get in front and promptly covered my boat in sea weed and all sorts of cr..
overall apart from richard losing his head on a gybe we did really well
richard if you read this racing is meant to be taken seriuos and you should know how to hold on and position yourself by now, i was really worried he had hurt himself bad , when we gybe you know you got to hold on tight
sometimes on mutley as the helm i would almost be flung overboard as the action of the sail going over was so violent. so pay heed to the warning its no laughing matter when were racing
as for general crewing richard has come on leaps and bounds as he now is calling the tactics and doing a lot better

hopefully by the end of the season we will be closer to the front