Bill was an inspiration to Swanage as a member and will be sadly missed. many a time was spent working on his boat and others boats making repairs, always glad to help anyone. his love of the correct start line was always heard on the starting line from the committee boat.
im sure hes sailing in the next world .
anyway this weekend i did my good deed for a former work m8 who was also a member of Weston sc
Richard Stanier. Richard had not been out the boat for over 16 months and had a stroke few months ago
he is now partially blind and other ailments. he wanted escape from his home prison and offered to crew for me this weekend, he s told me many a story of his high seas expeditions and i was keen to gain knowledge from him.
mike footer was keen to have a battle with another dart 18 and i made my excuses before the start saying i was sailing with a blind man, they laughed and tried to play it down as an excuse.
on the water i said to Richard just do the jib.
in actual fact Richard gave me a good lesson in how to sail the dart .
we had a good nip and tuck battle with mike but our tactics won despite what mike had done.
1-0 to us.
2nd race we had a poor start but mike was with us, we went high he went low but for speed
we cross tacked and called starboard on him, 3 times in fact he moved at the last minute and we almost rubbed paintwork. after that they fell behind as our tactics were clearly better.
we made our mark every time and had good boat speed every time.
we got 3rd place in all 3 races and finished 4th overall for the weekend.
the wind was too much for Richard for Sunday as he was suffering by doing too much Saturday.
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| race 2 race 1 7.2 n miles 1h 26 race 2 6.1 n miles 1h race 3 4.2 n miles 1h |
