Apparently I got third!??
Feel free to add your own thoughts as it all kind of blurs in to one day!
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Weymouth, weybiza, foil town.
What ever the address; it delivers.
The world beater of the Weymouth regatta strategically placed days before the uk Cherub 70th birthday took place on the 3rd/4th of July.
Being a highlight of the cherub circuit each year, we were delighted to be invited to the regatta because of reduced/restricted number of classes due to... you know... coughy boi.
Saturday was out in the bay it’s a late start, most rigged up for the conditions we had (light winds) but during the wait we heard rumours of 25+ knots outside the walls. Most swapped for small sails.
When we actually got out to the course, it was a lovely 15-18 knots.
For most of the regatta A&E, marmite and Usagi snuck off in front with Eleanor, gravitas and poppy a few boat lengths behind.
My excuse was it was too lumpy got a mere pond sailor.
A squadron of cherubers were dispatched to castle cove sc later that night to keep the bar open and spread stories of past cherub heroics.
Sunday was inside the harbour. Meaning we enjoyed the flatter water.
Again, the front 3 snuck off. The rest of us were closer, trading places and ready to break through to the front 3 after an error.
One of which was a downwind where marmite was 2nd, poppy was 3rd, Usagi was 4th with Andy’s pole right up Poppy’s bung.
Helpfully marmite decided to capsize right on the lay line to the bottom mark meaning she was blocking poppy, Usagi gybed off early and got over the top, poppy had to carry on, gybe, then come in hot after tracing marmites transom.
Most of the stories in the many pubs after sailing had the basic layout of ‘I was here in X place, we were doing so well! Then we gybed and saw a whole armada of scorpions coming upwind, so we had to avoid and that’s where we lost out’ usually followed by said person finishing their drink of choice.
Thank you to WPNSA, castle cove, all the volunteers and helpers, the castle cove bar man and the other classes for making the event what it was.