It was a fantastic day sunny with a good steady wind gusting up to very exciting in places
Billy No Mates start a day and a half later
Pacer should have gone ages ago
Carl And Alan and Fliss coming in with the rescue boat towing in her boat
Tacking up from buoy 6
Garry rounding the mark in front
And then off he goes
Very good sailing from Garry
He's hard to catch at the best of times
Mike doing his best to get him
Followed by the rest of the fleet
Abby flying along
she had a nightmare at buoy 1
Fleet coming up to Buoy 1
Garry already around it
I'm working my way through the fleet
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Bringing in Fliss
Tony keeping an eye on things, thank you for helping out
Vicky off the water for once but enjoying the day
pacer going well (was very hard to catch)
even when he got over powered
A vago WEeeeeee moment there were a few of them today
chasing after Garry
And he's off around 7 a way again
the rest of the fleet closing in on Garry
Good hard beat up to windward
On the next lap I forget to hold the tiller extension (not a good idea)
really fickle wind around Buoy 7
But good fun
Lasers having a tight race
Carl and Alan join back in
Jon had a good race too
Rob did well there were some really strong gusts out there today
Well done to Garry coming 1st
Mike 2nd
Me 3rd (well just keeping up last years scores)
A good day was had by all big thank you to Kerion for the mulled wine and all those that brought Mince pies
See you all in march if not before (Alton Water has a New Years day race if you want to come along see http://www.altonwater.co.uk/index.php?pid=181
