Gina,
Yesterday was a Tuff Day at the Office for the guys sailing.

Race 1
Monday 2 pm start.

The forecast for the first day of official racing was a breese of 14 knots out of the south.
The conditions looked promising as the crews arrived to prepare their boats. The forecasted
14 knot southerly arrived early and continued to build slowly.

By the time the first race got underway we had a good 17 to 18 knots with an element of west in the southerly
breese causing the seas to rise with waves or around a 1 metere with quite short distance between the peaks.
As racing got underway the sea conditions was becaming increasingly rough.

At the first start Frank Boon and Paul Warren broke early and had to go back and restart.

The first to the windward mark was Hans followed by Matt & Bart , Marcus and then Geert & Karin, Gil & Kathlene, MarkP and John & Paul Alani.
The sea condition was continuing to deteriorate and on the downwind Matt Macdonald flipped as did Wouter
and Martien & Frank.

In Matt's case the crew (Bart) must have gone into the main as the bolt rope had pulled out of the mast and Matt
had to retire going back to the beach to ready the boat for the next race.

Following his false start Frank Boon & Hester were having a blinder moving up into 3rd place before the end on the
first downwind.
By the time they converged on the top mark for a second time Frank & Hester had worked past Marcus and was now in second place behind Hans.
As they past the clearance mark Marcus pulls his kite first but the teamwork of Frank and Ester's showed
as they had the kite set and drawing first.

Frank's and Hester's hard work of climbing through the fleet (following their false start) was dashed when they flipped and had to retire.

By the bottom mark Marcus had worked his way past Hans and moved into the lead.


Going up the second work Marcus managed to get his mainsheet under his rudder and C/B so at the top mark
for the second time Hans had regained the lead from Marcus with Geert & Karin followed by Gil & Kathlene.
Positions were held on the downwindwith Hans, Marcus, Geert & Karin, Gil then John & Paul Alani.

At the top end of the course Hans rounded followed by Marcus who capsises on the reach out to the clearance mark.

The finisshing order was Hans, John & Paul, Geert & Karin, Marcus, Gill & Kathlene, Paul & Anne. Sorry but I'm not sure about the rest of the fleet. [img]http://[/img]