It was good to get out on to the olympic waters this weekend for a RYA national ranker.

With only a small fleet we headed out in to the bay on Saturday. Sharing a course with the 470s and Radials. We started in a 16 knot breeze that died through out the afternoon. In the first race I caught and passed Nick Thompson on the run to take the lead, he was then penalised with a yellow flag for rocking which made life a lot easier as I went on to win the race. The breeze dropped in the second as I just pipped Eifion Mon on the last run to take the second win before we headed in.
The second day was a changed format of racing with four shorter races scheduled. In the first I lead around the leeward mark just behind the 470s but got sailed around on the right hand side to slip to 9th, I managed to sail round the boats just infront on the last run to get back to 4th behind a photo finish between the front 3 eventually won by Alex Mills Barton. In the tricky conditions I started well and went on to win the next 2 races before being sent home in the dieing breeze.
It was great to get out in the bay racing and I was really happy how I sailed to win 4 out of the 5 races.
It was super tight behind with just one point separating 2nd and 4th.
For results see
www.sailracer.co.uk/sailwavepreview.asp?status=0&usr=sr&event=9933

It has also been the start of the bike racing season with the first race last weekend a 10 mile time trial. I wasnt far off the pace with a 23.36 just 6 seconds off the leader. Pretty pleased it must be the new bike shaving the seconds off!!!!!!!!!!!!!