Zero Time

I’ve been absolutely flat out lately… Work is busy, new boat arrived a little while ago and there was a regatta to do. Ok, maybe things aren’t so bad.

I launched the new boat (just in time) for the 1st race at Sunshine on Saturday. Lovely 10-12kn seabreeze and things were looking good. I started few minutes behind the fleet and had to take a few swims to make set up adjustments so I though bugger the 1st race I’ll get the boat sorted for the 2nd one.

I had a reasonable start there and seemed to hold my ground against Rodney and Ben, with Dave slowly creeping away. Around the top mark I was is 3rd behind Ben (who since world is loads faster) and Rodney was not too far behind. Some time into the race I start to realise that I’m way to unfit for this as I got overtaken by Rodney and with Dave breaking his mast stump, I ended up 3rd.

The next day, I went out early and got the boat more sorted, although still not too happy with the sail I was using. I started well and lead along with Dave and Alistair. Around the top mark Dave was meters in front and once again pulled away on downwind legs. Things remained unchanged for the next 2 laps and I finished 2nd, not too far in front of Ben who seemed to catch up in the building breeze.

So, overall I’m super happy. I really haven’t even started looking at the set up of this boat and I’ve come away with a 3rd and 2nd. I think with a new sail and a few tweeks I can gain minutes around the course, not to mention what a reasonable fitness level could do for me….

I’ll see if I can get a few snap shots of the boat soon and go into some detail about what’s different about it, in the meantime here is one taken by a SLMASC volunteer.

New site

Thanks to Bruce McLeod, this site has been re-done with wordpress.

It shoud be much easier to use and now comes with rss feed and comments section. wohoo.

Appart from this it should be pretty much the same as the old one. I should have all pages up to date within a few days…

Zero for US

After much interest in foiling Moths from the US sailing community, Fastacraft has sent a demo boat and appointed a local distributor.

The Fastacraft Zero will be first displayed at US Boat Show in Annapolis from 9th to 13th of October.

Mothcast launched!

For the last few months Bruce and I have been working on a seacret little project that we can now reveal. Mothcast is a Moth sailing podcast which we hope will be interesting and fun. To listen or surscribe to the show go to www.mothcast.net