Saturday, 16 July 2005

Maji was out on the water again last Saturday for the Winter A3 race. After a brief postponement due to lack of wind, we began the race around 2.15pm. It was slow sailing to start but eventually the wind picked up to about 11 knots. However, by that stage the course had already been shortened to 2 'sausages' instead of 3 (good job as it turns out as the beer was running dangerously low!). Unfortunately we lacked our two youngest members (I'm one to talk!), Paulie and Mikie, but not to worry as Simon and Andy (Marsland that is) climbed onto foredeck and showed us how it's done! Well done to them. Despite the lack of wind, Maji kept up her performance and achieved third over the line third and third overall- excellent! We're getting quite used to seeing the majority of the fleet BEHIND us- let's hope we can keep it up!