Solo nation’s cup 2015
Right time I had ordered my rib driver to take me in to shore when a squall suddenly appeared from nowhere, with the fleet rounding the top mark. right place We turned the rib around and set up just shy of the leeward mark with the fleet blasting down the final reach, afternoon Sunshine illuminating the laminate sails and whitecaps.
“This was proper man-testing stuff, therefore, incredible respect for the one lady competitor, Katie Masterson who completed all three races. The wind increased to a healthy 18-24 and with a tweak to 255 degrees and a course adjustment by Ted and the team, the re- scheduled race 3 was started. Clean away and with a few OCS casualties with something to prove it was big Jim Turner who gained the bragging rights with Cumbley second and Nick Bonner who had calmed down after a difference of opinion with Chris Brown at the start of race 9, third. As the newly installed President of the N.S.C.A I plan to introduce the naughty chair for transgressors of the racing rules of sailing. The reaches were epic. I was called away to shore so could not cover the race but made it back to video an epic reach. At the gun it was Cumbley who secured his third bullet of the day from Davis, Sims, Tunnicliffe (below right) and Turner.”
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