In race 1 the fleet had a great getaway with Mark/Tony immediately opening up a big gap (as they do), then The Humes a small bit ahead of The Russians, Andy Murphy in his shiny new boat, the FC, The Millars and Roger bringing up the stern. Then lots of overtaking and place changing in the sparkling breeze. The leading three teams were pretty evenly matched by lap two, the order being Mark/Tony, The Humes and then the Russians. The order of the next three being reversed though after a poor drop by Andy&Andy - so we had the Millars, the FC, and Andy&Andy. Roger fighting a lack of spinnaker kept slugging away. By the end of the race though we had more place changing - our heroes out front, but The Russians sailing their Valenkis off (go on, google it... you'll want to know...), very closely pipped the Humes. Then in the next group it was FC, Millars, Andy&Andy, Roger. So plenty of action there.
Race 2 saw datchetman arrive for coffee.... and from the lounge.... it was obviously exciting sailing out there. At the end of the sausage, although our heroes Mark/Tony were away and gone, it was incredibly close between The Russians, The Humes and the FC all rounding the lee mark on lap two within 20 seconds. Some great three-sail reaching followed, and Mark/Tony took the gun by miles. There had obviously been a right set-to behind, and at the gun it was The Russians, the FC and The Humes.
Looked a pretty good day....
VC&DM
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