Sailing on Sydney Harbour 14/10/09
November 17th 2009 01:30
Oh the pain.....
Not so good last Saturday.
A pity as it was a great Sydney Harbour day.
Warm, even hot, 10-14 knots, NE shifting to East.
Not that we're one to complain and blame other things that are nothing to do with us.
Oh, but we are!
Any old excuse will do really.
The start.
Ouch.
Some one had parked a blo*dy great cargo ship just in front of the line.
If you hit the boat end start you could get 'round it after a short tack on port.
So we didn't do that did we.
We went looking for a clean start where we could tack onto starboard, find our usual hole and clean up.
Great in theory except the hole didn't appear. Regrettably last.
And we were too close to the ship and lost a few more boat lengths as we sailed through its lee.
Never mind, that gives us heaps of boats to pass.
Which we did. 3rd at the top mark. Hmm. that'll do.
A bit of confusion at the 1st kite set from Lady Bay to WS. The wrong pole had been called so we had to fix that. Then the kite halyard was lost in the confusion and it had to be hauled up by hand without help at the mast.
I thought I'd have a heart attach. Nearly faint from the effort which as you all know I try to avoid. Memo: Must train more.
So we dropped back to 5th letting Norn and Senta thru.
Which is where we stayed 'till the end.
Our speed wasn't as consistent as we would have liked and we fell back to end up scoring a miserable 8th on handicap.
No, no names will be mentioned but I reckon I had a lot do with it.
Next week!
Great racing
c
Not so good last Saturday.
A pity as it was a great Sydney Harbour day.
Warm, even hot, 10-14 knots, NE shifting to East.
Not that we're one to complain and blame other things that are nothing to do with us.
Oh, but we are!
Any old excuse will do really.
The start.
Ouch.
Some one had parked a blo*dy great cargo ship just in front of the line.
If you hit the boat end start you could get 'round it after a short tack on port.
So we didn't do that did we.
We went looking for a clean start where we could tack onto starboard, find our usual hole and clean up.
Great in theory except the hole didn't appear. Regrettably last.
And we were too close to the ship and lost a few more boat lengths as we sailed through its lee.
Never mind, that gives us heaps of boats to pass.
Which we did. 3rd at the top mark. Hmm. that'll do.
A bit of confusion at the 1st kite set from Lady Bay to WS. The wrong pole had been called so we had to fix that. Then the kite halyard was lost in the confusion and it had to be hauled up by hand without help at the mast.
I thought I'd have a heart attach. Nearly faint from the effort which as you all know I try to avoid. Memo: Must train more.
So we dropped back to 5th letting Norn and Senta thru.
Which is where we stayed 'till the end.
Our speed wasn't as consistent as we would have liked and we fell back to end up scoring a miserable 8th on handicap.
No, no names will be mentioned but I reckon I had a lot do with it.
Next week!
Great racing
c
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