Yesterday's race was delayed to a 1335 start due to rememberance day and we started in a cold and brisk northerly wind, gusting to 30 knots with about 24 constant but as always on the northerlies in our bay not very stable. The on-off wind saw Darren doing a lot of work on the mainsheet but keeping us flat and fast at 6.1-6.3 knots upwind under No. 4 headsail and one reef.
The job was one of maintaining a lead so we were going downhill under white sail mostly with a spi hoist only on the last lap. I had to agree that the gusty conditions could easily spin us out and while we were still pulling out our lead and people behind weren't hoisting then that was the right thing to do. On the other hand we had 6 guys on board who all know what they're doing and 25-30 knots of breeze, to me that's a recipe for the most fun you can have in a Laser 28!
When we were all moored up, Paul Barford entertained us by sailing onto his mooring, aborting on go one and going around again only to get a reefing line caught on a pile on the second go thereby pulling his boom off and ripping his mainsail:
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