The first race went as badly as it could have done with a black flag. However the first day ended well with a 10th. A result like this in the strong winds is great with the limited training hours that we have been able to have so far.
Day three for our flight was blown off despite a short sail before it was abandoned which was somewhat good fun.
The third day will always be one to remember. It was a steady 10-14 knots and swell coming into weymouth bay round Portland bill. On the first beat of the first race we started averagely and rounded the windward mark in pretty much last place, we pulled up slightly to 22nd position. We had overstood the windward mark because we had underestimated the tide sweeping us from right to left looking up the racecourse. For the rest of the day we were determined to use the tide to our advantage rather than loose out again. We did this very well showing our good boatspeed and handling finishing with two 10ths. These are very good 'gold fleet standard' results. We can explain the results being 10ths rather than top 5's because of our inability on the starts to 'punch out'; from the boats around us. None the less these were conditions where you had to do the basics very well and we showed we could sail to a gold fleet standard.
We missed gold fleet by a slim 9 points that we can hope to close by the next grade 1 event. This was a very high standard event with all the olympians attending at the olympic venue.
We sailed a distinctly average silver fleet regatta and finished in 11th place putting us 36th overall out of the 59 entered boats.
For results and photos exc please visit http://www.skandiasailforgoldregatta.co.uk/
James & Ed
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