Well we knew we had a good handicap and were in with a shot. We had an excellent start and hit the startline about 2 seconds late, by the bottom mark we had overtaken Fairy Tern (Fellow Mandurah Boat) who started 2 minutes in front of us with a good first lap we had already dragged ahead of some of the smaller boats and pulled away from X Factor and Dark Energy who started just behind us. At the end of the second lap sitting about 5th we had an altercation with the S97 Wyuna 2 who took us to the wrong side of a mark causing us to drop the kite and sail back at the mark, they had basically broken every rule in the book and destroyed our chances of winning. The crew were fairly annoyed with this but we got moving again and started chasing boats down again showing great boat speed and excellent crew work. Adrian our injured crew member did state there were 4 boats out there with good crewwork being Optimus Prime (Marten 49), Knee Deep, The Next Factor and us, which is great as it shows we are as good as the front runners in our division. All in all we still had an enjoyable day and will not speak about the delivery to Mandurah that evening.
Nav would like to add that it was a fantasic race to watch and the boys would have most likely won this race if not for Wyuna!!
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