Autumn Series 21st October

Let's face it we've been struggling for a few weeks now. We haven't got the boat going and two of our regular crew have been missing. I've been short on motivation the kind of yacht racing demotivation which is only cured by winning!

Then Darren jumps ship to Draig. These things happen. We had to clean her bottom because surely this was the major issue. Good job we did:

As we drove away from the crane she verily slipped through the water. So lacking crew and with something to prove the only option was for me to relinquish the helm. I'll have to admit it I'm better placed running the middle of the boat than helming. All I had to find was someone who was better at helming than in the snake pit...enter Nick Sharp.

Nick made a re-appearance on FarrOut on sunday and I was pretty pleased that he could. Not bad seeing the last boat that he'd driven was a TP52!

Results below:

Now if you consider that we had two kite hoists in the race and had problems on both of them, to do with clips opening, also that we had one newbee crew and one sea sick, then I'm happy with that. Alright it's third but look at the ratings and type of boats:

1.Beneteau First 36.7
2.Dehler 36 db
3.Little Laser 28
4.Sigma 33
5.Corby29
6.X99
7.Dehler 33

Everybody has got their best team out there at this time of year, so should we. That may mean that not everyone is going to get a ride every week for this and the next series but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.