This morning I arrived at the club and it was already raining. Steve called me to ask if we are sailing and I said yes, so he came within 20 minutes. We rigged and went out.<\/p>\n
It was quite windy and wet. At the start, although I went to the line in time, I didn’t stand my ground so I was “pushed” and my start was not great. I couldn’t cross at the pin end, so I decided to tack to port. I was already at the end so nobody was I wouldn’t be on anybody’s way. We had a long course through all 8 buoys of the Harp. At the last lap, while I was about to tack I got a cramp in my leg and I couldn’t move to the other side. The boat came on top of me and I capsized. I brought the boat upright quite easily and I got back in. I decided to quit the race because of the pain in my leg. I was already last and I thought that if I would take a rest I would be able to sail the second race.<\/p>\n
The second race was quite uneventful too. Before the start the weather seemed to be getting better, but soon it started raining again. It was actually a storm. The wind and rain was so much that made it difficult. The rain stopped after a while and the conditions where better. At some point Peter was behind me and he was “chasing” me. He passed me and I was trying to regain my position, but my mainsheet got tangled around the ratchet block and it took me some time to untangle it. I lost quite some time and the distance got even bigger. The rest of the race was quite boring.<\/p>\n
I think, because the weather was bad, there were not many people sailing. So it wasn’t as exciting as I would have liked. I didn’t stick the tell-tales on the sail, because the sail got wet as soon as I uncovered the boat. I will have to wait until next time for that. Hopefully on Wednesday it will be drier. I still haven’t bought a wind indicator so I was still sailing “in the dark”. I am glad that I have my own boat, but soon I will have to spend some money to improve the boat. The things I will have to buy next are: wind indicator, mainsheet and traveler rope.<\/p>\n
Later on, I will have to buy XD fittings and kicker. Obviously, these are going to cost me much more than two pieces of rope and a wind indicator, but at some point I will have to buy them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This morning I arrived at the club and it was already raining. Steve called me to ask if we are sailing and I said yes, so he came within 20 minutes. We rigged and went out. It was quite windy and wet. At the start, although I went to the line in time, I didn’t… <\/p>\n