the season is almost over, the weather is colder, the outside temperature said -1c all the way down to the coast today, at least it was sunny and bright and i was keen to get back on the boat.
the beach was full of seaweed and boat space was limited because of it.
richard arrived and surprised i was there saying it was too cold to go sailing lol
the wind was NE swinging around to NW and the swell was fairly big, but it was ok for me. we managed to surf a few of them no problem. the start seemed messed up as we went with what i thought was a minute to go so i guess the timekeepers got it wrong or they never sounded the start of the 3 mins
we made a good start near the committee boat and trailed martin and mike, the pin was biased to the right by a long way, mike tacked onto port and expected everyone on starboard to do the same, we did or a collision would have occurred as we had nowhere to go, he did us a favor really as we seemed to be doing better than the others. when we got to mark 1 we all stopped and the rest of the fleet all bunched up, mark martin and mike all rounded and we followed and went right, martin then gybed off into the middle as this was clearly the best way with the tide going out. we rounded mark 4 in 5th place after nick and shaun gained a spot as well.
we stayed together for a lap or so and then greg was looming fast, he had caught up well, we tried to keep calm and not make mistakes ,coming off mark 4 he was right on our rudders, we tacked off and so did he , it was now a straight blast to the pin end of the line to finnish, he was ahead and then i altered course for more boatspeed and got to the line looked over and seen that i was infront, the hooter went off BEEP..BEEP, so i knew it was close, greg thought he had it, i knew we had beat him,it was a good race for me and richard as we made no mistakes, its a shame the season is ending so soon.
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