Recent content by martin_y

Ha ha.. thats very brave of you to confess this story !

OK, so I used to be so far behind, that I hardly ever bothered to write down the course - I could just follow the other boats. At my club the Solos start 2 minutes after the Lasers, and I would often be caught up by them. So, its a run down to this one bouy, but I didnt know if it was a port or...

oops - I am not sure why that came out twice ???Anyway, we have a magazine here fro DInghy sailing, and I started the same thread on their forum ( not with your responses) , and they have chosen it to print in the magazine. They are sending me a gift, too ( Gul bag, I think). So I feel a LOT...

Hey I'm sorry, but your post made me feel a LOT better ! Because its not just me ! Fancy a game of chess, then ?

Lol !

Hey it was still fun ! Disheartened I am not ! I have been at the back for ages, and a few years ago, the Toppers used to overtake me.I could have become disheartened ( and taken up chess) ages ago. I was very heartened to be 8th at the first mark. Some guys from my club even looked...

Thanks Stephen That my overall though... I must not land up at the back ! I think I need to go do a whole bunch of open meetings and then I will maybe improve. During one race, a top runner came past us because his kicker had come loose. I was right behind him , and I tried to emulate...

Right, then - Next race.... Protest every boat at my club with a teeny weeny boat infingemenet !

"If he was last in every previous race, his thinking was that maybe he could make YOU last in this one. So far his experience was that he could not sail fast and overtake boats in the front. His few minutes of covering you was the most fun he had in the race and maybe in the regatta. Last year...

"It may have been frustrating, but it's part of the game and an exercise as well. You could have imagined that the other guy was in first place and you were trying to break his cover and beat him to the finish line." Ok, I see what you are saying here... one day maybe I WILL be at the front...

Ok, so it seems my thinking is in the minority :-( But I chatted to another sailor who had a bad start and then had this guy cover him when they got on the run, to the extent that he eventually pointed and said to this guy "the race is over there" ! :-) ...and still overtook him anyway...

Hi everyone Today I sailed my first open meeting. Out of 20 boats, I was finishing in the last 5. There was 1 boat that came last every race. In the last race, though I was about 9th on the 1st lap, I slid down the fleet, and eventually landed up sailing with this last boat, with the fleet...