Good turnout today - 6 boats raced - FC and Howard, The Millar Team, Roger sailing Midnight with John Hanson, Adam without Emma but with a new crew for the winter, plus the two most regular starters, the Stensons and the Humes....
Adam's new crew, Tim, looks a handy piece of work - obviously not up to Emma's massive Gaelic charm (no swimsuit days to look forward to here...), but pretty useful in a breeze, I'd say.
It was the first cool sailing day of the autumn but a nice non-planing breeze. We had around 10mph gusting maybe 15mph, so just the odd bit of fun and spray. It was definitely a double thermals kind of day (6 degrees) - we had a pretty unusual northerly direction to the breeze, with some jolly massive shifts. Gave up on the tactick mullarkey....
The FC had returned from his holiday in Windermere. We are told that he persuaded his wife that it would be a perfect place for an autumn break. It just so happened that they were two minutes walk from the base and sail-loft of a certain well known Flying Fifteen Champion... Wifely comment on this chicanery is not recorded. ("It is in our house" - Ed.) She should have guessed something was up when they hitched up the Fifteen for the journey. Completely baffled at their new turn of speed, Richard and Howard just took off in 3934 and left the fleet for dead in both races. That's three wins out of four starts for them. Of course, there was nobody named Firth competing which makes a giant difference, obviously!! Racing was very close in the Fleet though - in the first race 90 seconds separated 2nd, 3rd and 4th places and in the second race just 30 seconds separated the same three !!!
Team Millar were sailing exceptionally well - they have got to grips with their new mast and had a really convincing 2nd in the second race after a great tussle with the Humes.
XFC appeared for coffee, sounded more cheerful, adjusted the spreader settings here and there and inspected the FF part of the boat park and 3888 in particular. I have never had to face an Ofsted inspection but it must be somewhat similar - that feeling that one could do much better if one tried only a little harder!!
Water level still disturbingly unmoved.
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