My story? Brad says to me: "
Chris, here's the Wave you wanted, and there is a new set of rigging sitting on the tramp, so change it out."
I, of course, being super Hyper and all excited to get out on the water, completely ignore the advice. As the watch is counting down for the first start of the first race I made my turn for a port start and HONK off goes the horn. I sheet in, duck one boat and prompty drop my mast into the water. Forestay broke. What an idiot. I should have taken to 5 minutes to switch out the old for new and didn't.
Thankfully, the people in the skiff made it to me in few minutes, I got the sail off the mast and rolled, and the mast on the deck and they towed me in, I fixed the boat and was back out before they finished the first race. THEN on the 2nd start, Stan Woodruff baited me into the huge hole he left for me just before the start. Yep, he ran me into the committee boat. I don't know why i didnt see it coming. I did my circle and headed up and made some ground but had a tough time catching him until he couldn't find B mark. Then I passed him and was heading to C with them 300 yds behind me, but of course he caught me in the last 50 yards and passed me for the bullet. That's the way it goes......
Pretty awesome though.