Down in the Graveyard!

Friends' Adventure

2010.02.17

Written by: Anders Lewander

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This felt like the first real race day, since yesterday's race was one of those days everyone just wanted to forget, three hours drfting around in the calm. "Has never happened before"said the whole park ... It was also the first real day of competition, with steadily increasing winds 12 to 20 knots and breaking waves in beautiful Sydney Harbor. We started strong and remained around the top 5 on the first long crosses up to Beashel Boy, really good speed and strong board work by Peter Warner and 'Eric' Mickos. In the crosshairs, we lost the rhythm of the wing, we were a little too focused on wind speed and lost valuable meters away before the wind to Shark Island. We decided to Gybing directly to port out to the middle of Sydbey Harbor with Rag and Appaliance. We lost big 20 seconds and fell to 12 seat at upprundningen at Clark Island. Very frustrating on board with this choice of the combination of both to be in the edge without checking on the boats akterom. We have less power, not depending on wind strength, but more a feeling of the boat, this requires improvements if we are to keep us top 10! The remaining two laps we pulled boats on crosses, and lost on away from the wind ... Before last nerrundningen and expectation both on experience in the now healthy 'Noreastern' and a yoke end result as we suggested in the last battles against the check mark. De'Longhi played in front of us on the layline and was about to roll over, so we fell to the bottom under their lee, and dropped the height of the mark, just after the turn into RedClaw exactly to windward, and we must push hard on the check mark in the low speed. Low speed in a skiff with over 30 meters in krysstället in tight waste accession is something we have ever had in the spinal cord as a 'no-no', but now not quite so inrubbad the cerebral cortex seems to us a bit abruptly, and plunged into the depths, in the same seconds I turn on and see Fisher & Paykel make similar FALL, everything the only thing I do not see the slate hanging in the air, two feet of bowsprit into the depths ... 2 minutes in the sea, and Peter may flaschbacks of what the word 'fun' duplicitous role. In Swedish 'f - n' 'f - n' 'f - n', the Aussi, 'Fun Fun Fun'. Peter Warner spitting salt water and exclaims Anders this is not 'fun' ... With straight backs, we get a fantastic unforgettable downwind around Shark Island and with a lump in my throat, but happy we end the day 24 of the targets.


 


 


 


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