LOL - have you ever seen me sail? Far more luck than judgement! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> On the first upwind leg we got a rubbish start, and in a desperate search for clean air tacked immediately. I was cursing all the way up that beat until I realised that we'd stumbled on the fast side of the course and were right up there at the first mark with the leading Spitfires and ahead of one of the Caps. People quickly learnt that there was a strong bias towards going inshore upwind, and a little more slowly that inshore won downwind too, despite the tide.

Generally we were placing mid-fleetish with the Spitfires, which I was pretty pleased with as they had some good sailors there. The conditions were generally F3-4, with a bit of 2 on Sat and a bit of 5 on Sunday, and there was some very close racing amongst the F16s - I think it was race 4 that Mark, John and I were 3 abreast on the final rounding of the windward mark.

The Blade did seem to go well 2-up in the conditions, which was good after the frustrating time we had in the light stuff at the ECPR.

I'm not quite sure why so few finishes were recorded for the F16s. Some people didn't race on the Sunday, but I expected to see some more finishes on the Saturday (although the race officer specifically reminded us of the importance of going through the gate upwind on the Sunday briefing, and I think this could be related...)

Paul