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| A muddle ...please tidy. |
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| Radials are in and put away...watching Standard fleet come in... |
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| Lovely English Lavender |
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| This was a good one...'till I sailed into a hole! |
Another gorgeous day on The Solent, with plenty of sunshine and a brisk Northerly breeze. Today was super shifty with big pressure differences all over the course. Today was also the day where the Gold fleet (the top 42 sailors of the 84 Standard masters) finally met for race 1 and 2.
In race one, three of the OCS finishes, finished in the top 5 which moved Scott from 2nd to 1st and Arnoud from 6th to 3rd. Due to the multiple recalls in the Grand Master fleet, there was about an hour and a half delay between races which was cold and not too comfortable! Once race two got under way, Scott found himself in trouble and not able to hold his lane about a third of the way up the first beat. He was struggling and not in the lead pack but eventually found a lane and managed to round the first weather mark in 12th. He then grabbed a great first run and was able to get back into the top 5 at the leeward mark, eventually finishing in 3rd - 'finding pressure was key', said Scott. Scott won the day with a 1, 3 with John Bertrand right behind holding a 1, 4 although Arnoud still holds the lead by one point ...it's anyone's game now!
As for me...it was all about constant improvement! The highlight of my day was rounding the weather mark behind Steve Cockerill (Rooster Sailing guy) in 5th although that was short lived. I finished both races in 23rd (of 58). Super shifty but fun...I like having time to look and think... my boathandling was a little rough though...perhaps they might say that it was in a bit of a muddle.
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