A nice bit of wind here in Weymouth at the moment the olympic hopefuls in the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta have been having a marvellous time in our bay.
We had a bit of trouble pre-start when the No. 3 luff came out of the tuff-luff and was stuck during a change down to No. 4, we did well to get the course and get to the line. Ended up OCS and had to dip back, Scoline doing to us what we did to them last week.
Stephen drove and did a good job around the square course set by the dinghy class Captain Tim Bowden. We had an issue though...a lazy spinnaker sheet managed to get itself stuck between the rudder and the hull meaning that we couldn't gybe and had to white sail one leg which effectively lost us the race. All we knew though was that there was rope stuck underneath at the stern so we daren't turn the engine on. Taz tacked us back up the harbour and we sailed onto our mooring. All fixed now.
Rattler sailed well to take the win but managed to break a few bits on the way round. Didn't get the series though as Scoline had done enough.
Next thursday is a ladies race so hopefully Darren's wife Kerry will be our helm, monday will see some more dinghy sailing for me in the club OK. I really was into it last monday - might have to get me one of them!
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