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29 June 2006
Fast Cat News
Hi,
last weekend was a mixture again - 4 hours lying in the baking sun cosseted in a winter steamer resulted in one Stewed Stannard. Not pleasant at the unwrapping stage. Frustratingly this was not justified by a result, as we all timed out before drifting anywhere near the first mark. Even more frustrating to be caught by Pete Spedding in the big drift and to sit with him as he finished at Mark 5, while we were somehow expected to reach 3 while being pushed out to sea by the tide. We hung in there in case the breeze filled in, but unusually it never came.
Sunday was much better - F2-3, steadily from the NW. Wild Cat had an intruder from the Dart fleet on board in the form of Simon Moruzzi, while Kate commenced her recovery program by crewing for the Comm aboard Eat My Kittiwake. Carpe Die(ee)em chased us round, and Scare Dee Cat looked for survivors. We had a great couple of races, and thanks to the RO who having set the traditional w/l course was adventurous enough to offer us a reaching race. I don't know if he realised the fast cats would use the opportunity to fly their spinnis - but we accepted the offer in the full expectation of doing so. Mark calculated afterwards that we covered over 8 miles in the 35 minute race, averaging over 14mph - that's not bad when COBS was reporting less than 10 knots (11mph) of wind. On White Tiger, we were twin trapezing with the spinni up for almost the entire race - absolutely excellent fun! WC and WT had some very close racing, with WC close on WT's tail throughout the first and vice versa in the second. It seems Simon M helped us out a bit here, by ripping the spinni as he went to stow it before heading up to the finish, and thus allowing us to haul WC in sufficiently to win on h'cap. The trouble with these 2 race regattas is that if you win the first, you have to win the second as well - or potentially lose out on countback.
This w/e I'll be sailing with a new member on Saturday - it would be great to have company. The weather looks fantastic. We should have water from 14:00ish. Sunday is races 4,5,6 in the Summer Series. Come on down and get some scores on the doors!
Cheers
Simon
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