we worked out that port start was best but got back to the line later and ended up starting in the middle, we ducked the fleeat and got clear wind and ended up at the mark in first place thanks to a last minute windshift.
after that it was slow progress out of the bay and surfing some big waves as we neared old harry, at one stage we almost wiped out with a big gust.
going over old harry the waves were big and we were going very slow
in the lead of the cats were steve, mike,richard then mark d greg gybed of and disappeared and mark g was behind as was pete.
we rounded bournmouth mark after almost 95 mins doing about 5-6 knts the whole way. upwind we headed out to sea and then tacking for the port 2 bouy to head home. greg caught us up at this mark and then going over old harry we pulled away slightly, we headed back at to sea and greg went in.
when we were almost in durlston we headed straight for the finish we could se 2 boats ahead rich and mark d. we taked once more on top of greg who had caughtt us again and we went into irons on the old pier. we lost a min 55 doing the 360
we got overtook my mark g as well
5 cats finished within 5 mins, we were 1m55 behind greg and mark and 5 behind rich. time 3hr 3m 21.5 miles sailed
clock elapsed time
22.15 start
22.53 line
1h 04m 44s mark opposite port 2
1h 55m 44s bournemouth mark
2h 43m 16s port no 2 mark
3h 01m finnish
