Lite & Easy
The 18 footer fleet at the League had to wait til the 3rd race of
the season before we had the easy warm-up race. After being thumped
by two weeks of relatively fresh breeze, it was a welcome
break.
An idyllic clear day and building NE seabreeze of 10-12 knots made
it easy for the handicap start pointscore race.
However, the handicapper must’ve been on drugs when he set 2000
Olympian Daniel Phillips on Omega Smeg off on 8 minutes. Smeg
rolled in the earlier starters fairly quickly then sailed off for
the win… albeit by a suprisingly small margin.
We started off on 7, with Sean Langman on AAPT. Given the small
shifts and consistent breeze, we managed to move up a few places,
and held off the quick boats chasing us to score a 2 second loss to
the guys on AAPT. Apart from a shoddy last 100m where we lost 2
boats, our speed and strategy proved pretty good… Over the course
Giltinan Champion Euan on Club Marine only pulled 30 seconds out of
us.
Other surprises were the young guys on Panasonic, who raced very
well given their first season in an older generation boat.
Anyway, it was nice to have a day where the boat-work todo list
stays small…. let’s hope we have a few more of those.
/* heads off to the gym to prepare for those windy days */
