spring series 6

my crew for today was john russ.
we launched very early so john could get some pratice. we praticed some trapezing and general moves so john and myself were in tune for the race. we had roughly an extra hour prior to the race.
when the race started we were on our own half way down the very long line, we had to dodge the mono's as usual.
with john out on the wire from the very start we made good progress but not as good as the groome and chem spitfire. we rounded behind adrian(d15) we then overtook on what was a fetch rather than a reach to 2 and then down wind to 3. the wind wasnt very good at all. everything seemed very slow. it was a nice sunny day with the occasional good bit of wind.
we could see we werent doing well because martin and greg were catching us.
my rudders made the steering really heavy and i suspect they were out of adjustment from 2 weeks earlier, one rudder arm was sitting lower then the other, the boat kept heading upto wind and i was constantly pulling on the tiller. so with this affecting the boat speed for sure we just had to finnish. The wind died as well on the last lap and we just made it across the line.
we made our way back to shore relieved the race was over. my arms were like popeye's
the whole race and pratice was captured on my new v.i.o. POV.1.5 all singing and dancing rugged waterproof bullet cam.
i recorded 2.5 hrs of sailing and some clips will be on youtube soon
when i got home and looked at the rudder it was out of adjustment and one of the bushes was loose so there was movement in the arm. hopefully it was adjusted correctly and will be ok for the next race.