well not making sure the green rope is really tightly tied is an expensive mistake if you turtle the boat and lose the mast chocks
have to make my own i think
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i have now added 2mm line to go thru the rear chocks with a recess for knott the trailing line can then trail down the mast hole and be secured off as with the front chock , cant afford to lose them again.
early start to easter saturday with sunshine and wind forecast ,
boat rigged and dressed all before the brief , wow good going on my part.
3 races to do last being a triangle.sadley never got to see the end of race 1 as i was doing well untill i got stuck under the boom with bouyancy aid , over Mutley went with me trying to get untangled from the mainsheet, my drysuit was also leaking more as i felt the cold water give me a shower inside.
this hampered my attemt to get to the centreboard to pull the boat back over
i neglected to do my bouayancy aid up as well so that didnt help either so i was low in the water, the safety crew arrived grabbed me on board and then between us we got the boat back upright to find the mast chocks had gone and mast had unstepped. so that was curtains, a slow tow back to the beach on a very low tide i finally got ashore having a job to walk in my drysuit with legs full of water.
in conclusion i made mistakes.
1. i knew drysuit was leaking
2. didnt wear bouyancy aid correctly
3. didnt tie mast down tight as chocks fell out (green rope)mast wouldnt have fallen out just came loose.
4. never did pratise capsize on boat , need righting line to assist
we all learn from mistakes , i will resort to long wetsuit from now on
and something over the top in colder times, if this had been a solo sail it would have been a disaster and prob RNLI rescue
lesson to be learned
photo credit Chris Taylor from his mavic 3 drone
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2021
25/7/21 ERL2007 SOLO 2H22 cruise
19/7/21 ERL2007 SOLO race 32m + Cruise
13/6/21 ERL2007 SOLO 5.8NM++ 1H30
13/6/21 ERL2007 SOLO 43M race not recorded
18/7/21 ERL2007 SOLO race 1H34M
18/7/21 ERL2007 SOLO sail 1H41M 5.22m
25/7/21 ERL2007 SOLO race 1H4M no distance
25/7/21 ERL2007 SOLO race 49M no distance
25/721 ERL2007 SOLO sail 2h22m full length of Bala
28/8/21 Mutley93 Dzero R1 3.28NM 59M
28/8/21 Mutley93 Dzero R2 4.43NM 1H18M
2022
23/02/22 Mutley93 Dzero R1 30mins R2 19mins plus sailing in and out
03/04/22 Mutley93 Dzero R1 2.4NM sail out plus race 50mins total
R2 2.9NM race plus sail back 45mins total
16/4/22 Mutley93 Dzero R1 ABOUT 40MINS BEFORE RETIRING
14/05/22 Cara of Menai Fulmer 32 Race Aberaeron-New Quay-Aberaeron- Ynys Lochtyn 18.nm 4h33m
28/05/22 Mutley93 R1 4.86NM 1H12M sail out as well
28/05/22 Mutley93 R2 2.69NM 59M23 sail in as well
29/05/22 Cara of Menai Fulmer 32 Cruise to Aberaeron and back 11.99nm 3h4m
12/6/22 Cara of Menai Jubilee Cup R1 11.0NM 2H26M
12/6/22 Cara of Menai Jubilee Cup R2 6.2NM 1H4M
1/7/22 Cara of Menai NQYC KBR R1 20.9NM 4H11M39S includes sail out and back
17/7/22 Cara of MENAI Aberaeron regatta r3 9.1nm 2h 01m sailed from NQYC
17/7/22 Cara of MENAI Aberaeron regatta r4 8.9nm 1h 54m return to NQYC
27/7/22 Mochyn Du Cardiff BAY Yacht Club 8.6nm 2h 19m Tuesday bay race evening
30/7/22 Cara of Menai NQYC Summer series 8.4nm 2h 9m
27/8/22 Bala Regatta fast handicap R1 2.4NM 1H34M plus sail out
27/8/22 Bala Regatta fast handicap R2 2.3NM 1H14M
27/8/22 Bala Regatta fast handicap R3 3.7NM 1H49 plus sail home
28/8/22 Cara of Menai NQYC Summer series 6.4NM 2H29M
minus 4 overnight , not looking forward to it, but winds and sun were ideal.
a quick breakfast roll to start and off to rig the boat , the clew ties didnt play ball , luckily Tim came to me rescue, this held me up and i was late leaving the beach.
the race started fairly prompt a windward leaward, i made mistake of being on pin end and wind was too light, the boat went well and i caught up quick to finish 4th on handicap.
race 2 i got the mainsheet caught around the tiller and misssed the start by a few mins, however, i went left and tacked for the mark and made up a lot of ground, in the end i ended up 2nd on the water and 3rd on handicap, Martin won the series laser and chris 2nd , i got 7th having only done 4/8 races, however on those 4 i had done i would have got 3rd overall, so that was a bonus to think about. the new kicker went well, i doubt i will do the 32/1 16/1 seems fine.
R1 2.4NM sail out plus race 50mins total
R2 2.9NM race plus sail back 45mins total
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