remmie’s sailing blog

Started out in 8-12, had an absolute romper of a start except for words with some morons.  Bit late in arrival, a quick run along the line, spin around and we’re lining up the start.  Running the line with every coming up close hauled, all shouting up, no one really serious cause we were clear.  Then one decides we’re being a bit too cheeky and starts to hunt us, misses, spits his dummy that we didn’t go up; he never got  closer than 2m and the only course adjustment he made was coming down to try and get us.  Got a screamer of a start just lee and ahead of him and he starts screaming that we were OCS, nothing on the start boat.  Break away and come back with him just behind at the first mark at which point he decides he’s protesting us.  Pointed out that it was null and void; ignoring the fact it was a non-incident and there were more than enough witnesses, he didn’t notify us as his earliest oppurtunity (it was the 3rd) and we’d be rule 2 protesting him for the OCS calls.  Shut him up and flag disappeared by the time he hit the finishing line; dick.

Wind was up and we were rolling, did a fairly good horizon job on most of divi 2 and were in the middle of divi 1 fighting with Northshore36’s, Farr40s (albiet they had a 360), etc.  Big grins all round.  Slid back a bit on the big run offshore, divi 1 took off and the WL divi 2 boats caught up with us.  Got halfway around the course, wind died and we parked.  Watched WL divi 2 sail away with momentum and the rest of divi 2 just sail up behind us from a  mile away and past us in one case.  It was 3-5k just forward of the beam, we just didn’t have the sail wardrobe, we’ve got an awesome running kite but it’s got very rounded shoulders, we’ve got a symetrical kite but it’s heavy and has too much leech curl.  Both of them were catching the wind in a leech curl and acting like a brake, so we were having to two sail.  Quite a few of the other lead boats had a kite they could shape up right and just sailed around us.

Got 4th over the line and handicap wasn’t pretty.  Handicap results weren’t too popular, 2nd position was virtually got boo’ed they were so far behind and they were looking very sheepish about getting it.  Joys of PH.

Very unwell boy today, didn’t hit the piss too hard but kind of forgot to eat.  Got home and ended up with a couple friends from my apartment block dropping by on thier way home from partying and they didn’t leave until 5am (wasn’t complaining… they were the hot female type).  So rocked down with about 2hrs sleep and feeling fairly seedy from piss minus food.  Pausing mid gybe to hurk is never a good look.  Can be effective in discouraging people from luffing you though

Ohh, and actually put some faces with some of the SA crew as well which was cool.  Hopefully put some faces with the LSD crew if I get over for Airlie Beach.

Rgds,

remmie