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Tim Member  Member#: 238 Location: Registered: 01-06-2003 Diary Entries: 343 Mood: Not enough time to do it all. |
2nd September 2004 Windsurfing: Brog Wind Direction: ???? couldn't tell Wind Stength: F1 or less Surf / Sea State: 1/4" ripples Air Temperature: 25 Sea Temperature: 20 Weather: Few Max Speed: Distance Covered: Tony's Racing report 2nd Sept --------------------------------------------- If drifting around a 220 acre lake in no wind is your idea of heaven, then you missed a treat on Thursday. Around ten racers gathered on the start line, most of which, it was noted had drifted across the line before the start. But then the race official (and participant) had once again tried to strangle himself with his stop watch and whistle, and had inadvertantly stopped his watch by mistake at the one minute gun. So felt disinclined to disqualify threequaters of the fleet. The first leg that was suppposed to be a beat turned out to be a tight reach(wind shift) There was a faint breeze to propel us along and Tim was soon out in front with compeditive Skye just behind , both pumping like crazy as if their very lives depended on it ( Forgive my sceptism, but I always thought that windsurfing was the art of harnessing the wind to aid propultion, if there isn't any of that commodity available. WHY THE HELL BOTHER!) In this case it ios about generating your own wind, and that's not farting either!!! It was soon apparant that as the wind dropped to a total void, that it was going to be a pumping battle between the two leaders. With the exception of Chris Burns, the rest of the fleet ground to a halt. A few attempts at tandem downwind drifting by Mike and Mark failed miserably . Onlookers on the bank (four ducks and a goose) watched in facination as this impression of an oversized butterfly, which was drifting no where At the finish Dave Skye upped his pumping rate to 2 pumps a second to sneak past Tim (was it worth it? Well he seemed to think it was) Chris Burns finished some time later, in the mean time at a given signal from the race officer, everyone else dropped their sails and paddled home in a total flat calm Before we started we had considered that due to the light airs. Croquet might be a better option and this we might well have done, had not the Flamingos run off and the hedgehogs unrolled themselves and left the court I suppose we could have used Mallets and balls, but its not nearly so much fun!!! Next week is the last race of the season, well conditions can't get worse! |
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