I was having a word with Dave Rickard, who races with Charles, at the weekend. They'd just come back from the Grafham Grand Prix where Dave says the FF turnout was not too strong. (He and Charles were DQ'd though I think .... the air will be thick with Barrister words...) He says the new boat is coming along really well - it went back to Composite Craft for an Upgrade just recently and has come out looking superb. The one thing that caught my attention was that the lead correctors in the boat were now buried in floor recesses as low as they could get it - Dave said you could feel a difference. In even a new Ovington, your lead is under the console quite a bit higher up. Actually, it is a lot of lead so perhaps you can indeed feel it - even if you're not Charles(!). It reminds me that when I saw Steve Goacher recently in Windermere, we talked about his storing of water bottles under the console as close to the Centre of Gravity as you can get. Howard stores our kit-kats in the spinnaker bag - must have a word....
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