Wednesday 13 August 2008

Second day

After our great first day, the second days racing was the kind of day we'd been hoping wouldn't happen. The breeze was good and there was a large sea running from just about every direction. We had good starts but during the first race the mainsheet got caught around the camera tripod on the back of the boat and snapped one of the bridles. We were able to keep racing but its hard to know how much it cost us especially as it was a boat speed type of course. The race officer was turning the races over so fast that by the time we'd fixed the mainsheet the next race's sequence had begun. We got another good start but seemed to lack the pace to take advantage of some of the opportunites that came our way. On reaching the finish we lifted the centerboard to find in covered in tar! Not very helpful. By the third race we still had no definate answers to what was going wrong thanks to the mainsheet and the tar and so maybe lacked the confidence in our decision making that is usually so good. Anyway we had another poor result.
A pretty depressing day. Its dropped us to 9th overall but on the plus side there's still potentially 10 races left so plenty of time to catch up. Just got to cross fingers we have a better run of things and that the wind keeps blowing!

1 comment:

Sam said...

I take it you can't claim redress for the bridle?
You seem to be fighting back with a vengance- just unlucky about the OCS today.

How many discards do you get?

I think the 9ers are the featured race tomorrow, so be sure to put on a good show for the cameras.
I think that means you'll be on course A- going right up the beat seems to have been paying massivly- first with the Romanian radial sailor, and then with the Irish 470 today.