Greetings CMYC members,
Yesterdays racing was an interesting day…………..for me. The weather was a usual shifty SW but was a nice sailing strength and tended to lighten as the afternoon progressed until in the last heat the lake was glassy. Our Race committee was Ron Bedyn and Dayele Hobson and they used the same course configuration as the previous weeks club J champs, and, as it was still nicely written on the course board, there it stayed. We had a 2 lap course and a mark foy start and with a relatively small fleet everything worked out well. No general recalls were had nor any protests lodged, so I was happy that our behaviour stakes are again building up to a long unbroken stint.
The day started off with some of us reading Nick Richardsons illustrated and rewritten version of the famous poem Gunga Din written by Rudyard Kipling. It was a literary masterpiece of about 7 or 8 pages (1 verse on each page) and each page was illustrated in colour, what a clever fellow, also especially as Roy wasn’t feeling so good during racing and Nick helped seeing to his well-being.
Now I aforementioned that it was an interesting day for me. Why? Because the previous week I ascended to 4th with J 150, yesterday I descended to last with J 146. After a nights pondering, I still cannot work out 146’s poor showing because it looked okay to me, so today, it will be a half hour of sitting in the garage staring at the boat, which always works wonders, so lookout Monday sailors.
Are you all aware that from January 1, 2025, a new Racing Rules of Sailing book comes into force for the next 4 years, and the existing book is redundant. I am attending a 4 week webinar on what the changes are and will probably give out snippets of the changes as I understand them. Bryan Treleaven proposed that one of the major changes would be the reversing of Rule 10, so that a port hand boat became the right-of-way boat and the starboard hand boat became the give-way-boat………..so far no evidence of this has surfaced…….yet.
Now it is congratulation time. Well done race committee for a smooth operation. Well done Dayele for raising the flags. Not well done Dayele for the untidy mess of the flag halyards. Congratulations to Graeme Raxworthy, Cliff Bishop and Al Ross for climbing the podium……but even more congratulations for keeping Polly off the podium.