Here we are again, Marie G and Yours truely.
After the very good performance in Askøy, it was time for a dip in Cold water. The 21st of June, it was the Ryfylke rundt, a 55 mile nightsail around the Ryfylke arcepelago. The Wind was a steady partner this time, the race was done in less than 9 hours. It was a Nice excursion, but the results was not very good. Of the 3 shorthanded boats, I was beated by 28minutes by the winner and 4 minutes by the second. All Things considered, not too bad.
Next race was the Stavanger seilasen the 23rd of August.
All went well until I aimed for the wrong turning mark. Sailing back set me back 10 minutes. without that excursion; I would have had a Nice midfield finish. Lesson: Read the sailing description, Make notes on the map!
Next race was a race for singlehandlers only: The Henry Lloyd singlehanded the 6th of September. It turned out to be a windless race. The start was good, With 6knots Wind from behind, and I had a brilliant start, but then the Wind died. The current ran along With us in 1 knot and took us all towards the first rounding mark. We got one hour of sailing, With 6 knots breeze from behind, far too little to sailaway from the slow boats, but I managed a 2nd Place from 14 boats sailing without spinnakers. (Quite the same findings as in PBO).
September 27th and 28th was singlehand/ shorthand weekend in Stavanger.Only 3boats in singlehanded class, and 19 doublehanded boats. I won the race on saturday, and took 2nd Place on the sail back on sunday wich made me the winner of the weekend. What impressed me the most, was that I could keep up fairly good With the Bermuda rigged boats in the headwind (20 knots) on sunday. The biggest problem was that the sheetingforces pulled the sail aft on the mast! I started wondering about putting parrels to keep the sail forward on the mast. I will have to think about making a traveller to shift the point of sheeting to the Windward side for Next years races.
2014has been a good year for my racing, even on my motorcycle. I won the Scandinavian cup in my class,and can drive With number 1 on my motorcycle NeXT year, not bad for an old fart.