Silos race

The theme for the next day was that you could not crew in your normal position. Bugs on the bow, captain blowhard on the helm, naviguessor on the main, mattman on the strings, oh dear this is going to be interesting! The weather forecast was changing by the minute so anything could happen and did. With forecasts of a SW strengthening during the day we had a kite start in a 4knot southeasterly. Most boats parked on the line but for 3 boats. One look at bugs and it was pretty obvious that the only three boats moving had Avalon Sails kites and mains. A happy little chappy this weekend was bugs.

We carried the kite to the first mark with Fairy tern rounding first and the wind followed us round through the east to become a 10-15 north westerly and carried us all the way to bussellton in true champagne sailing. Awesome sail, a couple of unhappy crew when we had to wake them to put some weight up when we were carrying the kite at 59 degrees apparent for a brief period when the wind hit 300 degrees, before returning to 320. Result 1st on IRC and some drunken sailors for the bus trip home. Thanks to Phil for being the bus driver.