Monday 14 March 2016

Small IRC winner

Cruising through the Sailing Anarchy forums I came across this discussion:

Small IRC Winner

It takes 8 posts before the Laser 28 gets mentioned? So glad that we knew the Laser 28's potential when we were looking for a new boat. FarrOut is a fabulous boat and looking forward to sailing her as soon as I can get home (currently working in Kazakhstan).

The decision to replace our GK24 with a Laser 28 came to me one sunny morning  / afternoon / whatever it was? I was too tired to know. We were tied up against the waiting pontoon in St Peter Port Guernsey after a gruelling night race from Cowes. We were racing my friend's Figaro 1 "Rattler" and had put a lot of effort in and were hoping for as decent a placing as her rating would allow.

We'd probably been tied up around 10 minutes when along came the Laser 28 "Lazy Bear", now known as "Moondog". It was pretty impressive that this 28' boat had made the passage in this sort of time. I was in love........

The day that the money cleared in the bank from the sail of "Chuckles Too" our GK24, Stu, Steve and I were on a flight to Scotland to view FarrOut.