so this week with ade and joe off doing canal boat racing it left jamie and abi along with batman and robin.
Saturday: turned up, Chuffing windy and rainy. watched 2 I14 sailiors (chubba chubba) rent a dart and go for a play.
Cheese decided to launch at 1500 as the wind started to drop leaving abi and jamie with their head under shinys fordeck.
until they stole a rib and took some very close up videos/photos of cheese
Sunday: Turned up - no wind, over bacon breakfast we came up with the phrase 'shiny water, shiny time'
As it was remembrance Sunday Draycote postponed the first club race but held an impromptu windward leeward race.
both cherubs sprinted to the start line coupled with a gathering of old farts in solos and lasers. Both teams were stumped at the coarse with the committee boat being on station only 20M from the south shore with a south wind. turns out we had a running start. as you can imagine 5 seconds before the gun there was frantic shouting at crews to pull up the kite.
the slow boats all crossed the line first and pootled along with the big fast assy boats (Shiny/Cheese before bedtime) stuck with no wind. After some time shiny awoke and ripped down to the Leeward(windward) buoy dropped and turned upwind with cheese still on the start line.
one lap later Shiny was just pipped for line honours by a solo
anyway, with the morning race we were then joined by a 29er, this caused for a close nit battle (dont think if gybed so many times in one leg)
29er beat us with cheese in 2nd and shiny retiring due to a potential ripped kite
lunch: soup for speed!
afternoon: wind dropped for some single wire action along with crew swapping
all in all, Pretty decent weekend