To sum up

Well, the last three races of the Spring series have taken place and were hard work. I never thought we could have so many Sundays in a row with no wind! The fourth race saw us achieving 4th place, the fifth race we got a third and so to the final race. No results had been posted at PHYC so Saturday night I made my way across the Haven to enter enemy territories, Neyland yacht club. A quick look at their notice board resulted in me non the wiser as no results were posted there either! Ah well, I thought, just do the last race and see what happens.
We had a good start with the wind right behind us, but the majority of the fleet had declared spinnakers, so slowly pulled away from us. We got to the farthest mark without too much trouble and the fleet hadn't pulled too much out of us. Great, we know we can make ground on the beat back up. Then the wind got turned off! Nothing, zilch.............We tried everything to gain some forward momentum. One by one boats started to retire.......I lowered the engine into the water ready to give it up, but my crew member made me hold out for a few more minutes. He had spotted a ripple working across the water coming in from the sea. We waited and waited and eventually we started to get some movement. The wind had done a complete 180 and was again in the stern. There was now only three boats still racing and we were within spitting distance of one, so we now knew if we could hold this distance on the run back we were guaranteed a second on corrected time. The engine was lifted out the water again and we painfully made our way back. Boy was I glad back at the clubhouse we had waited. We got a first! Not only that, but Jumbuck had also won the series by one point...........