Early season JOG racing

Mostly Harmless’s 2021 season got off to a slow start as a consequence of Natalie needing to focus on studies for her physiotherapy MSc and Tom coming off his bike at the end of February, sustaining injuries to his right shoulder and left elbow.  Rather than risk Tom’s recovery, Mostly Harmless scratched from the JOG race on Good Friday because of a breezy forecast and retired a few legs from the finish on Easter Sunday.

Ben Rogers joined Tom for JOG’s Salcombe Gin Sopranino Race on 1st May, a light airs event out to West Princessa buoy, securing third overall in the double handed class and fifth in Class 2.

Jonathan Clark joined Tom in mid May for the first day of the JOG Home Ports Regatta.  After making a great start in 12 knots of wind and leading the race on handicap at times during the first half hour, the crew the lost the will to live when the wind died to nothing off Ryde and, with the forecast suggesting that the wind would remain very light for a few hours longer, decided to drop the sails, turn on the engine and head home.