Becalmed.....

There wasn't much wind at the start of the last evening race of 2010, but there was a lot less at the end of.

Two members of 'Team Scoline', Dave and Lauren, took the night off to go dinghy sailing, which offered us a very different view of Scoline's start tactics. Somebody decided that tonight was a night to be mid line, windward boat, with a number of boats to leeward pushing them up. Unsurprisingly they we're OCS, not a great start to a mega light wind race.

Lauren and I we're then distracted by our own race....(by the way, we had a perfect start, windward boat at CB, full speed bang on the gun....and all of that with no watch!!)

Anyway, next time we looked up we we're amazed to see Scoline we're back in contention, at the point we looked they we're the only boat with a fully set kite and we're right on the tail of Sapphire & Excalibur with the rest of the fleet well behind.

Nights like that will always go to the proper racing boats though, there's no amount of talent that can make up for the decent acceleration from all the little gusts!! Allthough, they say anybody can sail in lots of wind, it takes a real sailor to do well when there isn't any.