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Tim Member  Member#: 238 Location: Registered: 01-06-2003 Diary Entries: 343 Mood: Not enough time to do it all. |
3rd June 2004 Windsurfing: Brog Wind Direction: S Wind Stength: F2 Surf / Sea State: Flat Air Temperature: 15 Sea Temperature: 14 Weather: Light Rain Max Speed: Distance Covered: Windsurf Racing Thursday June 3rd. The weather was not too good again. Chris arrived about 4pm and was certain there was enough wind to slalom, rigged and rushed to the shore only to find it was sub-planing conditions again. This is the 5th Thursday in a row we’ve not had enough wind to wiggle a knat’s antenna. The rain held off until 6pm when I arrived. Phil was loitering in the clubhouse doorway with a grimace on hid face. The rain started to fall and it was quite cold too, only about 14 ot 15 degrees. A few minutes later a full 8 people were wandering around deciding to race or not. A vote of confidence from Tim, Chris and Phil resulted in a two lap course from the shore to the windsock and down to the buoy near the flag in the shallows of the far island. The start marshalled held by John Andel. There were the usual collection of collisions and ‘mountings’ as Tony puts it going on, with Sandy I think doing a sail dunking too. Everyone went left, except me, Tim who went right. I could see everyone was close together and turned at the same spot. When we joined up again Phil Young was in the lead again. The lake was flat and the rains started to fall a little harder as the wind tried to increase. By the far mark Phil still lead and messed the flare a bit and pushed Tim very wide. Everyone caught up a little. Sandy was doing well and Chris closed down on Tim a lot. On the run I sailed most of it clew 1st and only flipped later which I thought might gain some ground, but it didn’t. By the end of lap 1 Phil still lead and promptly asked if we could call it a day now… I don’t think the message got very far at all. On lap two Tim overhauled Phil at the start of the upwind leg. Sandy was still doing OK leading Annette with Mark a little way ahead. Chris fell back a bit and was getting caught by John. It was a bit of a slow procession. The run down the lake finished it off. Tim won from Phil, Chris and John. All were cheerful but left wondering “why am I here [in the rain]?” No BBQ followed as frankly we’d got a bit cold and it was time to go! |
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