Endless summer of DNFs
The novelty of not finishing races due to gear failure is wearing off.
This time my primary vang strop let go before the start of the second race at SIRS. I couldn’t get it fixed in time to make the last race, so I have two alphabet scores to go with a 2nd in the first race.
Given I’m going to miss a few more today to make it over to the 18s, my scorecard after two days is going to be pretty woeful.
Anyway.
The Moths have been relegated to the Rose Bay course this year, and in the light easterly yesterday, the top mark positioning was doing nobody any favours. At least it would provide plenty of passing opportunities as the fleet compressed in the hole each time around.
Dave blasted away from everyone pretty early on, but Rob Gough, Amac and I all swapped the lead at some point. By the finish Dave took the race with me sneaking through for 2nd about 10 seconds back.
But that’s about all of the racing I saw.
So Sunday rolls around and we have a very light seabreeze which is forecast to build nicely throughout the day. We’re racing the morning session, so we’ll probably get a bit of low riding in and watch the real breeze from shore this afternoon.
Or sail in it on the skiff as the case may be.
