What goes around comes around

So when you sell a boat, you are meant to get a better one, sail that and hope the old boat doesn’t beat you. Yeah? Then you go and buy your old boat back…. aarr, no …of maybe yes? if it pops up for sale at a good price and your girlfriend wants to get foiling. So the boat in the banner is back home. We are back to having 4 months now which I feel is a minimum really. : ) Sure it has a lot more dents than it did when I had it, but it’s still as original as before. Quite unbelievable really, after 4 years it still has all the same ropes. I somehow don’t think it was sailed more than 10 times.

On the racing front, congratulations to Dave who won the St George Club Championship on the weekend. Since my last post I scored a win in heat 5, however Dave won the race on Saturday. I had to pull out with a broken wand, and the weekend before broke my bell crank. I think lack of boat maintenance due to lack of time is really starting to show. It’s 2 weeks before the States now, so might have to get things sorted sooner rather than later.

Interesting…..

It seems my life is either flat out or the extreme opposite. At the moment it’s flat out, hence the lack of posts. I did however get a chance to sail last two Saturdays in between work at CST and Sunday Moth coaching.

Bruce has some nice data on his website of the race from 1 week ago which for the record was won by Dave by 4 minutes. The tide turned (literarly) at St George this weekend after I won by a 2 minute margin. It good to see the 10 year old Dave v’s Luka rivelry still lives on. What would be even nicer, is to get a few others in there to mix things up. It’s been tough going though, with Lea braking his foil for the 2nd time and Bruce doing the same. Chris is out with a broken gantry, so the fleet is looking quite wounded.

Another interesting thing was talking to Julian Bethweite at Woolahra about the foiling 49er last Sunday. I have seen the powerboat prototype and the final configuration (at this stage) is a centreboard hydrofoil (no flaps) with a forward canard foil which will also act as a rudder sporting a small flap controlled by a wand. No rudder at back.

Certainly an interesting configuration and Julian seems adamant  it will work. It has been tried by few on a Moths too, however  all I can say if this is the final configuration this will be interesting. Launch day is in about a month.