Tales from aFarr

Originally posted by iGRF I'm having to have a bit of a lie down after today, wind was a bit holey, but it was warm and force 3-4, lovely conditions. Once again I screwed the start by arriving a bit early so had to foot off down the line but once underway got off into clean air and wired. The wiring is coming together now, and I only had two issues, one miss tack (harness back got caught under the boom)into irons, and one miss hook (hooked in under the hook plate instead of the hook again) and fell in to windward which dropped me back to the next boat which was a Blaze so had a good race with him, and managed to get back passed him upwind. It was a fabulous day and a fabulous race, best race yet, 5th on corrected in the biggest fleet we've had all year. which would have been better if I'd not made those three mistakes, so I'm pleased as punch it's all finally coming together. If I ever get a clean start and these conditions again and don't do anything stupid I can see the day when I get that elusive bullet.

Sounds brilliant, loving the enthusiasm and not a mention of PYs, simply sailing.

I'm on duty tomorrow and it was a classic Hythe Easterly today, so I did something i've never done before, just went out for a blast just for the sheer joy.

And yeah I know, the main halyard had stretched and I hadn't tightened it, but I didn't care..

Where’s the ‘like’ button. GRF seems to have found a steed that suits his stature, his ability and his ambition. Good news all round. I for one am really pleased for him.

Well that turned out to be a good decision Sunday turned out to be a light wind day, as to the lid, if your head has been smacked by the boom as often as mine, you'd wear one, I do take it off in light conditions but that day had been quite breezy earlier, a good four to five and I'd been pushing it a bit to see what I can get away with, those pics were taken as I was coming in.

I'd just had what in windsurfing terms we'd call spin out, I was in the back straps footed right off and flying when the whole back end just broke out (probably cavitation) and I ended up swinging into the back of the boat legs in the air,with the whole lot just managing to stay the right way up but head to wind, quite sudden quite alarming.

Now poor fins(bendy) usually cause spin out, air gets down the foil and the board breaks out, never had it happen in a boat before, I'm obviously doing something wrong but can't think what, or maybe that rudder does need a T foil to stop aeration, not that it's likely to happen in a race, we never get courses that suit great riding angles.

Oh and thanks for you positive comments, I am enjoying the fun of sailing it if not the race results to date..

Edited by iGRF - 16 Jul 18 at 10:00am