scott.projectsomewhere

There were plenty of interesting antics after today’s light wind race 1 of the Worlds.

Lots of snakes and ladders on the race course, with Amac clearing out to a huge lead while the rest of us went back and forward in the placings.

I started reasonably well and rounded the top mark for the first time in 3rd behind Amac and Brad. A bunch of boats closed the gap on the downwind, and I gybed badly through the gate to round behind Dalton in 4th.

Another bunch of boats came out of the right the next work and I dropped another couple of places, and on the last light lap I lost a couple more, then got a few back on the final run to cross in 8th. not great but could’ve been worse.

Amac won convincingly, with Mike Lennon coming through on the final leg for 2nd ahead of Brad and Chris.

On shore afterwards, Arnaud was changing back to an MSL10 after finishing in the teens, and Rob was changing to his MSL13 to match Amac’s configuration. Simon was again considering retirement, and I was thinking of pulling out the small rudder.

Bora finished 12th, then had Shirley Robertson with CNN take his boat for a quick lesson. After a glamour high speed pin end start, Bora re-started despite no individual recall, then had an uphill battle from there on to close the gap on the leaders.

So there’s plenty of runway left in the regatta, but a few more races like that won’t be too good for all the single digit sailors out there.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 12:53 am and is filed under Moth. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.