During the lunch break the wind gods decided to spice things up a bit. The restart saw a near westerly wind coming straight down the lake, around 8 knots with gusts and pretty true and sun in the sky. Fleetwood at its finest. Some might have called it ‘champagne sailing’ but alas we only stopped for a tea break that afternoon.
The course was changed to a windward – leeward with a spreader mark of two laps and a beat to the finish line. The wind gradually increased in strength and the waves started to increase while John T changed down to a smaller, flatter mainsail. Shaun settled into the new conditions and put in three bullets and a second as John T and Mike E continued to press him with some close sailing. Stan Cockeram continued to sail consistently, while John Plant continued to fair well with the club boat, until the rudder fell off into the deep! Bill Green’s self-tensioning winch drum decided to defy it’s description and forced Bill to retire. |