A long overdue catchup…
Well over the winter I have been sailing this year. I took part in most of the Icicle Series at Bough Beech Sailing Club.
I took part in each of the morning races but due to the weather and other factors I was unable to take part in the afternoons.
For this I sailed the Laser, this is a boat that I acquired last May in a swap for the RS800 that I owned. The sail was in particularly poor condition and I did struggle to attain any reasonable results with it in the lighter conditions. As a result of this I placed an order for a new Maldon Sailboats replica sail of the latest design. This was going to take a few weeks to arrive. When the sail did finally arrive I was able to take it out for the last weekends sailing and it made a marked improvement. I was able to point as high as the other boats and had much better boat speed than before. This meant that instead of struggling to keep up with the other boats I was at the front of the pack and finished first Laser in that race.
Overall the Icicle series lived up to its name, it was cold and 1 week we even had snow. My results may not have been that good but it was an enjoyable series of races.
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