Posted on Sunday 18 February 2007
Took Friday off work and took the T980 down to Busselton (about 300k’s south of Perth), meant a 6am start which sucked. Had to stop on the way and get a spreader end welded up, got down there. Few problems putting it back together, the crane wasn’t able to stand over the mast so we had to dance the mast around the head of the crane trying to drop it back in. Then saga of all saga’s; the keel slides up the casing as it sits on the trailer, putting it back together you lift the boat up and the keel slides through, you bolt the keel back on and lift it back into the water. It’s a bit of a jiggle to get it back on but it’s dealable…. except when it’s a 2.7m draft and the max lift on the tammy is 3m, add 30cm for the trailer and you’ve a bee’s dick to jiggle with; two hours later. Got all the running rigging back in, just need to get the standing rigging sorted and we should be good for the state regatta next weekend.
Got dropped at Farr92 states on the way back to Perth; 6 races over two days. Got out Saturday morning; rain with 25-30, this was NOT in the brochure. Made the wrong sail choice (*grumbles*) and picked up 3rds for the frist two races, with Elusive picking up a couple 1sts and Farr Fetched and Farr Lap picking up a 2nd and 4th each; the other half of the fleet wasn’t going to be in the running. Things cleared after lunch, we made the right sail choice and cleaned up a 1st, Elusive 2nd, Farr Fetched 3rd and Farr Lap out the back door; three horse race. Today (Sunday) was great weather with 5-10kt; Elusive on 4, us on 7, Farr Fetched on 9. Started things off, first race we grabbed a bullet, Elusive got a 4th. Second race of the day, we were confident about taking Elusive down in light to medium breezes and wanted to make that 4th stick, we screwed them (and ourselves) out to a 6th (and 5th). Final race of the day we just went for it, pulled off an equal first (yes, equal, we were at the pin end with Farr Fetched and they couldn’t pick us apart, Elusive was dead last (throwing out wing and prayer stuff to try and get us).
First, us (Igawa); second Farr Fetched, third Elusive.
State regatta in a weeks time so have something while I’m down there…
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