Volvo

It was good to get out on to the Olympic waters this weekend for a RYA national ranker.

With only a small fleet we headed out in to the bay on Saturday. Sharing a course with the 470s and Radials. We started in a 16 knot breeze that died through out the afternoon. In the first race I caught and passed Nick Thompson on the run to take the lead, he was then penalised with a yellow flag for rocking which made life a lot easier as I went on to win the race. The breeze dropped in the second as I just pipped Eifion Mon on the last run to take the second win before we headed in.
The second day was a changed format of racing with four shorter races scheduled. In the first I lead around the leeward mark just behind the 470s but got sailed around on the right hand side to slip to 9th, I managed to sail round the boats just infront on the last run to get back to 4th behind a photo finish between the front 3 eventually won by Alex Mills Barton. In the tricky conditions I started well and went on to win the next 2 races before being sent home in the dieing breeze. It was great to get out in the bay racing and I was really happy how I sailed to win 4 out of the 5 races.
It was super tight behind with just one point separating 2nd and 4th.

For results see here

It has also been the start of the bike racing season with the first race last weekend a 10 mile time trial. I wasnt far off the pace with a 23.36 just 6 seconds off the leader. Pretty pleased it must be the new bike shaving the seconds off!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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