19th october 2008

autumn 8
spud & dave MUTLEY 16
wind forecast was 18- 22 knots and building SW winds. everything looked calm until we launched and got past the pier. after finding where mark 1 was we did a beat until we got to mark1, we were surprised by some of the gusts which almost hit us over. rounding 1 we reached across to 2 and the sea was surprisingly lumpy. i struggled to gybe and when we did i lost control completely. heading back to the start line was really lumpy and waves were breaking. we were getting hit and the spray was coming right over the bows into our face, at times i couldn't see. i said to Dave,
i don't like this and we would try one more gybe and then decide if we were going to race at all. we went around again and had another scary gybe. ok that's it were not racing. we had been out over 30 Min's in total. we headed back in . many boats were going over. i felt happy with my decision and tommy tipper also didn't start.
If it's not fun then its no fun trying to just survive. I'm glad i went out, but I'm glad i came back.
Today marked the 2nd year of owning mutley. I've not done so much racing this year for obvious reasons. IE weather. and a few mechanical problems early in the year. lets hope next year 2009 is much better and we have a more fuller season than 2008