This weekend saw the teams of Tom and Robin, in Banshee Ambulance, and Jamie and Rosie, in Shiny hit the water at Draycote. Though shiny weren't there, Saturday was a good force 3-4, easily twinning conditions, and Tom and robin rigged up only to break the gantry about 20 minutes into the sail! This provided the evenings entertainment for Jamie and robin trying to find a way to hold the bottom gudgeon on Banshee ambulance, and taking an angle grinder to Jamies new trolley before the usual visit to Weatherspoons.
Sunday arrived warm and very breezy, amazing sailing conditions, and after the finishing touches to banshees repair, shiny hit the water, closely followed by Banshee Ambulance. Jamie and Rosie spent ages on the water, getting a great sail in with few swims, and showing some amazing speed and pointing upwind. Banshee Ambulance once again broke, but only after Tom and Robin discovered just how incredibly fun an 05 rules boat is with a standard rudder in place of a winged one!
Monday dawned, with tom and Robin deciding not to repair banshee badly, but to fix it over the week and sail cheese, and Jamie and Rosie taking shiny out once more. The wind Started as a steady force 3 or so, however by the time shiny got out (and cheese had headed in) it was starting to shift and very gusty and changeable between almost drifting and fully powered up.
All in all, some great sailing over the weekend, especially by shiny with the new crew pairing of Jamie and Rosie looking fast! shame about the breakages but an impeccable display of how to rescue a rudderless cherub in a lot of wind by Draycote safety crew!
Hopefully shiny and banshee will both be hitting the water again next weekend, along with Norfolk in Chance, which has just been bought by Abi!
