Racing restart

Musing

Now it has been a long, long time since the musing was last mused….
And I am moved because last weekend we actually raced with an OOD (officiating from the Begafigo yacht). Our own resident OOD Gerry with his able assistant Graham set up a race and three lasers (a modest start) contested.

Now racing amongst the adults has taken a backward step and we were all out of practise but, when the time signals start….this was more like it.

Now there is no point in describing the racing, the gallant competitors or even the race crew, because honestly we were all rubbish. Capsizes were the order of the day and plenty of rule invention. However there is pleasure in calling “starboard” on the newly elected Commodore, his obvious displeasure making the joy even better.

Now we will be there to do it all again on Saturday afternoon, full handicap racing, I promise not to “rig” the scores to much……

The Fatboy.