With her shiny new bottom Farr Out was gliding along on rails last night. The result was academic as once again the faster boats could finish in more breeze and it all but shut off for us. We had some nice sail handling although the race was marred on the start by Scoline who protested us. It was the same old thing of shutting us out at the committee boat end, we had Hooligan above us and could do nothing about it apart from protest Hooligan. We tend to spin out the way when this happens, they did it to us in the Rear Admiral's Cup last year and we were in the same team!
To protest or not to protest......some might say that you need to protest to enforce the rules and overturn the disadvantage that someone has thrown at you. Me, I think it's sad on a thursday night race in the bay and I have no enthusiasm for turning up on a tuesday four weeks hence to listen to somebody whinge to a disinterested protest committe. We don't even have a protest flag on board! (although we could fashion one from an ensign quickly, if you care to bring it on).
Ho hum, I think we'll carry on just having a word when feeling aggrieved - if it doesn't win us a match race against Mathieu Richard or James Spithill then never mind!
Draig are still going for it in the fastnet - overtaking stuff past Bishop Rock I hope.
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