Well the racing today was short and sweet, well it would have been if a) I had gone the right way in the first race and b) my pushrod connector hadn’t failed (again).

For those keeping check the results are

Heat     1  2  3  4 5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12
Bruce  2  1  1  2  2  2
Phil     1  2  2  1  1  1

Back in the real results, John Emonson who has not turned up is ahead of me then Phil and Marty, all based on alphabetical order of our surnames.

Al least I am not alone in the land of alphabet as only 5 boats managed to make the finish in time in heat 6, so everybody else gets some too …

Lap counting like we do at our Moth nationals is soooo much better.

So SIRs kicked off yesterday, and this regatta does its best to discourage anyone but the best from actually competing. There is one little rule

“14.2 A boat(s) failing to finish within 15 minutes, 10 minutes for 49er, 29er, Techno 293, RS:X and Moths, of the first boat to finish in its race will be scored “Did Not Finish”.”

What this means is that every race I sail at this regatta will be a DNF, or a DNC as most race committees seem to use those interchangeably. This manifests itself on the course as the race committee doesn’t even bother recording times and starts the sequence for the next race 10 mins after the leader has finished.

And that is pretty fucked.

Phil and I have started our own score, of the tfirs one through the gate on the last lap and it currently looks like this …

Heat 1 Heat 2 heat 3
Bruce M 2 1 1
Phil S 1 2 2

No matter, despite that and poor mark placement resulting in up and down races in shitty shifty breezes I was very happy with my straight line performance when it was all hooked up.