Posted on Tuesday 11 July 2006
So yeah, inshore race, Farr 30.
Had the usual suspects (me, the boss, and the eye candy (his missus)) plus a skipper from the offshore series as crew. Now this guy is, by all reports and what I’ve seen, a bloody good skipper and sailor. Unfortunately this doesn’t extend to crew work; reinforced my general ban on skippers on foredeck unless the boat is moored.
No massive stuff ups, just wasn’t snappy and crisp; the boss is steering, the eye candy is on strings, I’m on the foredeck and main, he’s trim; it just flowed and made everything sloppy cause he was working the middle of the boat. I think he’s reevaluated us though, kind of viewed us as the ‘kids’ and started telling us what we could/n’t do…. “Everything is possible, just need some time to think about it”.
Got 4th and 4th so wasn’t horrible just not as smooth as previous efforts. Was spewing cause the wind strength was in our sweet spot, another person or a regular crew and we would have been laughing but these things happen. Inshore is just for sheep stations anyways, offshore is where the blood rules apply so looking forward to the weekend.
Ohh, Orange spanked it; 4 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes, 54 seconds. Wiped 9 hours off the record and one of the rudders looked like this;
Apparently the cavitations over 30 knots were interesting and unmanagable at 35 *blinks*
Rgds,
remmie
Did you do any sailing this weekend???