More rain, but racing at last!

Another night in the leaky tent after a night with a half decent Black Sabbath cover band, got up to more rain.
After a long time, rain eventually stopped wind came in from the north and a race was to commence.
Wind was nothing short of all over the place, from 4 - 16 knots making the race a bit of a lottery.
GBR 2 off the line what we considered to be conservatively to battle our way through the fleet through to third position. Some of our overtaking was down to favorable wind shifts. Luck can go both ways and we got shafted just before the finish by 2 boats giving us 5th. - Actually, by looking at the results we got 4th, not a bad first start.
Team 1965. It was their first ever international race. here's how they thought it went;

Tom Fish
'awful start, a bit overwhelming at beginning, then got our act together and overtook 5 boats to finish 10th (out of 19) Happy but could be happier'

Sweedish Jon
'yeah, i agree, we were about 10 seconds too far from the start line, then got a bit stressed and put in too many tacks up the first beat, downwind leg really good, that's when we overtook most boats. Really happy for the first time'

Incidently, the Italian Tiger Nationals are no longer the Italian Tiger Nationals as there are only 4 Italian boats in the event, so now it is an event with no name.
Looks like forecast is looking better so our hot weather training will be able to really pay off.

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