Pot of Gold - The weekend that was.

Well the two days of racing have wound up and the weekend ended with a mixed bag of results.

Saturday saw us race around Rottnest in an anticlockwise direction out to Sorrento up to scarborough back to centaur reef and then to the finish at Hillarys.

A pretty good start and out to the day buoy a shy kite run around to the top of Rotto where we made some good gains but then that was it. Pretty much a soldiers course from there with the wind right up our rear at around 13-17 knots most of the day. Not good for our isometric kite set up so all we could do was minimize the threat from others making large gains on us with symmetrical kites. We ended up with a 5th on IRC. We probably could have made up another 30sec to a minute with things that we tried and didn’t work, and jybing earlier on the last run but it would have no impact on the final result with us still 2 minutes behind 4th.

Sunday saw 3 Windward leeward courses for the IRC championship.

The first saw us break the start….well according to the start boat calling over the radio anyway, and much to our amazement. We all are pretty much in agreement on board that we were well behind the line, not to mention a stunned simon, but you can’t argue with the start boat, even Simon with his red firemans hat! After returning to the start , with V on the rib wondering why we were going back … we then ended up stuck behind crews control doing an excellent cover job on us, they sailed well most of the weekend. We ended up with a fourth, behind crews control.

Race 2 and a better start good crew work and close racing saw us in a reasonable finish sequence and our marvelous display of a goosewinged kite! We placed 2nd behind bad habits.
Race 3 knee deep and next factor both broke the start. Great crew work in a strengthening sea breeze, better winds allowed us to make better use of the assys and we had a good finish. In the bag with first place. Two money bags full of Gold.

Overall we took out second with 7 points behind Bad Habits with 4, congrats to them , even sailing with some serious damage on their transom compliments of Total Recall before the start.

The delivery back to Freo with oh damn, mattman, and naviguessor was straight into a 17-20knot SW sea breeze but it was excellent with a reef and the new no4 doing speeds of 7 knots. A bit less swell perhaps could have been more comfortable on our already broken bodies though.

TWU was tucked safety at home in the new pen at Freo by 6pm and was frolicking amongst the strawberry fields with her new friend Maritimo when we left.

Nav out.