Last Evening Race - Glorious 3rd

We competed in the last evening race of the season, we now move onto sunday mornings.

Missing Stephen but the rest of the crew were there and it was a beautiful evening with sunshine and about 20 knots from the North.

After a great start in the front row on a short and congested line we did well up the first beat losing a couple of places at the mark and with an ayso hoist which was perhaps too shy. after reaching the first wing mark we found the next leg very deep and we had enough puff behind us to sail the ayso "wing on wing" which was fast. We could have got away with the next reach but were back up the fleet so kept it simple and white sailed it.

A great race but again beaten by the level rating Folio who always seem to overtake us. There can be only one of two reasons: 1, they're better than us 2, Folio is faster than FarrOut. I offered to swap boats for a race to find out. Chris declined politely...hmmm

August Series - Thursday 23rd

For various reasons we've missed all of the preceding August series so no hope of a trophy in this one. But it was great to get back out there with a full crew even if it was a little light.

We had a little swap around putting Jack on the bow and Adam in the pit. A bit of an eye opener for Adam I think but we didn't shout too much at him. It all went well really but a big wrap allowed Folio to catch up and overtake. This was great from them as they'd had to pull a 720 after alot of Committee boat end barging from the W class. The Commodore watching from his Merlin Rocket later described it as "appalling".

FarrOut wasn't involved with this business, our start was the new PTF/lee bow tack the fleet which is cracking when you get your timings right. Got this from a dodgy 80s lecture on YouTube. Worth a watch.



Too busy to take photos, so here's one of Stephen and Corrie from last weekend:

Nowhere Island Race - Nice Pics

Thanks to Alan and Deo McDine for a great photo of FarrOut in control whilst Rocket is in trouble in the recent Nowhere Island circumnavigation.

Also another nice one from Joan Whyte: