If I told you all it was awful you would all say ” yes not surprised ” The weather forecast was as bleak as it has ever been let me tell you , but I arrived and Tim and Roger our OOD’s for the day were both there , dingy launched ready to move the buoys, sign out flags up, wow I am thinking if no body else turns up we can cancel and go home to a roaring fire , but hey within 20 minutes we had 8 eager beavers rigging their boats in the wind ( yes it was friggin windy and the rain was horizontal ) so 9 of us Roger was not sailing, Even the Landlady turned up, I had already received messages from a few pussies, Not coming today etc etc, But hey what I am about to tell you is we had 9 fantastic races , we helped repair and rerig a couple of boats , big joint effort and we all raced to the end.

Timmy as he is fondly called down under was the master of the conditions, and won four of the 9races The old man Micky boy tried to keep him honest and had a couple of wins, Colin Helliwell sailed brilliantly and won a couple and took the final race of the morning and you could see the pleasure emanating from his face after that one , and the other win was taken by Kevin, The morning started on C rigs except for Colin Toll who only had a B rig but sailed very well with it, we could have probably gone to B rigs around midday when the breeze moderated , but we didn’t, The races were all fantastic I kid you not, If we were in dingy’s we would all have been swimming that’s for sure, just goes to show turn up and take what comes and sometimes you could well be surprised and we were .

Well done Timmy and well done to all for showing up and having a go it really was worth every minute.

Thanks also to everybody for putting all the gear away .