When we decided to do a few midweek races to support Royal Southampton YC’s break out of lockdown, I had visions of balmy summer evenings. But this second trip involved another overcast evening in return for our investment of a 160 mile round road trip! Nonetheless, it was a nice bonus on top of weekend sailing, even if it left us envious of people with their boats on the doorstep and regretting that neither of the more local clubs where we keep our smaller boats are back racing yet.
The price of doing well on 4 June was that we carried a bigger handicap, starting a minute and half later than last time in the pursuit race format. However, with the boat going well and few good tactical calls we pulled through everyone ahead of us apart from a handful of sports boats and were overtaken only by NJOS (painted a lurid green this season), to finish 6th out 21.