Well this coming third and having to write up rule seems like a good incentive to be 4th.
The good news is that most of the detail has been covered above, which is just as well as my ability to retain data at this level left me several pints of lager ago.
What I can confirm, is that there was some swimming, but not as much as the reader may perceive, I think at least 3 boats (RV, UY and BN) made race 1 without a swim and Ronin maybe only one.
The races really were gruelling, I reckon a lap was taking about 9 minutes, 4 laps per race; as we rounded the top mark in the 2nd race my watch bleeped as we hoisted ... it bleeped one minute later as we dropped ... so its not surprising that there were a few more swims later as tired limbs came into play. I know Eddie was moaning like a big girls blouse and I have him on double homework this week as pennance.
Other things of note :-
- Often very close racing between all boats with places switching at marks regularly, this is shown in the results below
- Incredible boat handling practice navigating lasers on the start line, mirrors, toppers, GP's and XOD's during the course, hairy and often dowsnright dangerous!
- Excellent speed from shiny (before spinnaker issues) and ronin (before swims and dagger board snappage) and Pasta Frenzy (before I am not sure which issues !)
- And of course Roland/Hayleys amazing blast (I didnt see this but he told me to say it !)
I dont have a copy of the results, but I reckon they must look something like this
1 - Badgers Nadgers 3,1,1
2 - UY (God knows how you spell it) 1,2,3
3 - Riot Van 2,3,2
4 - Ronin 4,4,4 ?
Shiny, Slippy and Pasta Frenzy, sharing breakage honours
please feel free to edit !