Anyway the results show that AMAC won convincingly with Andrew and Luka fighting it out till the last race for second and third. http://nsigns.com.au/moth/results/Race%20results%205.pdf
The next three were a bit further back but each of them, Alan, Phil and Brent were at times up with the leaders or back with my group. I ended up behind that group comprising Richard, Chris, John and Ben but during the week we had some fantastic racing, swapping places between us on every leg, with a bad tack enough to drop back a few places. All very exciting at 20+ knots. Not much swimming even in our group showing that pretty well everyone has their control systems working well. My best race was a 6th.
My regatta was disrupted by a few breakages. I reverted to my November foils, an Ilett main foil and slightly trimmed Ilett rudder foil, both on Stevo struts. All worked well throughout the regatta with no control or flex issues. But other things went wrong.
In the invitation race the wire wand/belcrank liknkage broke where it had been bent, easy fix. Then on day 3 the gantry parted as I drag raced Richard to the finish of heat 8, so instead of 8th or 9th I scored 11th based on the previous lap, plus a dns for race 9.
Next day the linkage wire broke again resulting in being a lap short in race 12, but as I was trailing my group I lost little here.
Then on the final day after a dissapointing result in the non foiling light race where I expected to do much better, I broke the mast and scored another two big numbers.
So with 5 dicardable races when only two are allowed I have a poor score. Too bad I had a good time with some memorable races.
I did lead AMAC around one mark and passed Andrew on one downwind so at least at times the boat is going well. I just need some more sorting and practice/fitness/stamina.The mast broke near the goosneck where the 55mm tube stopped and the 50mm was not quite up to the loads. The short frequent waves and course flap gearing made for a high frequency bumpy ride and the mast was shaking about a lot so that might have contributed to the failure. Not important now as I am re jigging the boat and rig for stays. The unstayed experiment was good but yielded negligible gains so its back to convention.
