Day Four
9:30am and the Southerly Change is already in, so should be another twin wiring day. Whilst I strongly believe the event is inferior to the presented alternative - Fremantle - I have to confess we've had good, interesting winds every day.
Day Three
Got the 20 knots we expected, a long way from the 30 I've seen on other sites (don't believe the hype), but all good. Partingtons and housewife's favorite Ben and Pistol fired in a 1/3 in race one. Lindsay and Andrew from Victoria managed a 2nd. Flight two, and we got away ok, bit sluggish but ok. Fired left with Greenhalgh and Phil, and got a nice lift to cross them going into the cliffs. Then disaster. Well not quite but enough to slow us. Jib halyard block at the top came undone and the jib dropped a few inches. This was enough of a problem to drop us back to 8th. Ahead of us 1541 and Greenpigo set the pace, followed by Kristic and rounded off with Doug/Taitsie, the Sepo Galvanaz, Denis & Brad and the young Poms. As the race developed Rob & Phil broke their pole and Denis & Brad broke their jib sheet and so we got back to a consolidating 6th. Lots of work to do, and still having too much gear failure but at least we're on the way to getting our mojo back - with the help of Jack from SLAM!
Form boats; Greenhalgh/Harmer, Dan/Archie, Partingtons, Meaty, Ben/Pistol, the poms on 1541
2nd row; Irwin, Brad/Denis, Doug/Taitsie, Dave A/Cam, Dave Hayter, young poms, Paul Galvanaz
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