Tuesday 4 January 2011

Ready for Day 5

     Waiting in the dinghy park to go racing . More photographs in the album. Foz's first job was to help Harry and Tom repair their rudder stock which was cracked and all spares used. Thankfully Harry's dad had insisted he always carry a "useless" piece of metal which Foz found just right as a brace - sorted. Jonny and Neil had fill the fuel tanks (no smoking around the containers ). Annabel and Megan discovered that their broken mast had been completely stripped of its extras including spreaders (sorry Robert) it might have been Selden desperate for spares.

ECU 's Juan has jumped on our RIB to go and watch the racing. Their team cannot afford to buy another mast so they have dropped out of the competition. We did offer them one of our less bent ones but they declined. Alberto from naughtyvela was having similar issues with THA who have damaged  two masts , two mains and a rudder and their insurance was being iffy about paying .


Boys set off in 15 knots through the binoculars flat wiring in a moderate chop. Looks like about 10 black flag boats hanging around after several attempts to start. Girls seemed to get away cleanly.
........more news soon

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