G,day all
Sailed at the Winter in Paradise Regatta on the week end at Portstephens. There was agood size fleet of mono hulls as well as cats including two Mozzies mine and Bens [guessing around 50]. After a two month break from sailing and 20kg lighter i had a bad start to the first day with my centre board jaming and putting my knee through the deck and that was all before the start. A hundred metres after the start of race one i managed to turtle after my mainsheet jamed. After struggling for over an hour to right her 30 secounds later i was back in the water when my trapeze wire broke breaking my tiller as a result.
After repaires saterday arvo i was back on the water sunday determind not to give up. Race one finshed last by a long way finally getting it together for the last race beat 3 H16 to the top mark and finishing the race right on there heels, [after taking some advise from Ben and running straight for the bottam mark instead of trying to keep with the H16 down wind]. Ben put in a good show for the Mozzies winning the first race.