It was the Stern Chaser race on Saturday. Thanks to my dismal performance in racing to date, I got off about 5th in the fleet, calculated by the handicapper to be fifth slowest. I managed to take a lead over Paul, who had been calcuted to be as bad as me, and overtook Penny who had been deemed two minutes worse. I got past the other two boats and for about a lap had the totally novel experience of leading the fleet, but on the last lap the fast boats, cats and lasers and Impulses, came thundering past. But I managed to stay ahead of the rest of the Sabres, just, despite various errors and loss of focus caused by my hat continually blowing off. Back to the end of the fleet for me for the rest of the season.
I was hoping to go to the WBA Rye sailing day, but I was stuffed after yesterday and Oz seemed unwell last night and kept waking me up. So I stayed home and finished wiring the hull of the Skerry. It is much stiffer now. Turn over tomorrow, shouldbe interesting.
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