It was a fast
and furious days sailing for round 2 of the IOM AM&PM series.
14 skippers
braved the brisk breeze and poor forecast to turn out lakeside, the breeze
which at times reached the top end of B rig.
Race officer
duties were undertaken by Rod Carr and Paul Edwards,
as Rod’s boat was a non starter. A windward leeward
course was set with a gate at the leeward end creating two very long beats and
some exciting downwind sailing with skippers sometimes running to keep up with
their boats, even myself breaking into a trot.
The racing
was extremely close with no one skipper dominating the racing there were no
less than 5 different skippers winning races across the day. We finished having
sailed 14 races and everybody went home with wind burnt faces, ruffled hair and
a smile!