Delayed Post

Apologies for not posting much recently, the Christmas season has been especially busy this year. FarrOut had a great Boxing Day race for which we invited Darren to have a go at driving her. The most notable part was the general recall of the all-in crusier class start. I'm sure it was caused by my saying to the crew that if we were over the line they couldn't have seen us on the committee boat due to the amount of yachts bunched there and the size of them.

We were certain that our second start was not goint to be as good as the first but sure enough we were on the front row again; there's been nothing wrong with our starts in recent series.

The results (on PY) weren't of much interest to us as we were probably stuffed beating up the river in a dying breeze. That coupled with a poor deep run where we were stuffed by the white sailing Seaquest 32 "Spindrift".

On wednesday 28th FarrOut came out of the water to sit for a while on her cradle, not for long this year, we just gotta try to get all the work done. The most remarkable thing about the haul out was the state of the anti-foul, we just had a light covering of slime and this was easily pressure washered off. We weren't expecting this and immediately rushed out and bought another tin of Seajet Emporer in white!

As we're out of the water we once again missed the New Year's Day race, which was a shame but you have to stop at one point. Sam and I went to watch from the stone pier and Weymouth Sailing Club though.

Draig takes line honours in NYD race