Sunday, 24 August 2008
The weather forecast was accurate for a change. The heavy winds and rain of this morning disappeared about 12.30 for a great race day. No rain and the wind bounced around quite a bit making it difficult for sail choice. Most did 4 changes over the day as we started with good 3 metre weather, then dropping to about 12 knts, only to come back to 15–18 knts for a couple of races and then 8–10 knts for the last lightweight race and the heavy weights race being stopped through lack of wind. We only got in 3 long races down the road and then a wind shift meant we used the short circuit, covering 5 laps for the race. We used the grass to slow down while the wind was up, made a bit of a mess with the wet ground and quite difficult to harden up on the grass without the whole kart sliding around. Some mastered it better than others with one person missing the corner completely and ending up in the pond. No damage to kart or person but Orca now has a pond mate. With the wind up the gybe mark caught some out, sliding across the road into the ditch and ending up in the mud. Again no damage but it did mean some lost places. Despite the changeable conditions everyone seemed to enjoy the outing although numbers were down, probably because of the morning weather. Haydn looks to have run away with the lightweights but it could be close for the minor places. The heavy weights is still very close with Orca having 3 wins from 5 today with some good starts and clever tactical sailing. Will have to wait for results to see how the handicaps work out but with mostly across wind sailing all day this normally means the back markers come into their own. Race results out tomorrow. The last race day for the winter series is next Sunday, same time, same place and hopefully a full turnout.
Russell
As founder member of the very exclusive BPP Fishing Club, it is a great honour to formally welcome a exceptionally keen new
assistant floundering member.Having passed with flying colours the strict qualifying rules and putting forward his claim to
uncharted waters we now have" LAKE O " west of " LAKE ORCA ". His high speed approach and unwavering direct line to
Lake O must determine a name to remember and honour this brave manoeuvre .I hereby name new member Dolphin Hammerhead
Wet Jellyfish Snapper Wayne of Lake O. ~ or Dolphin Wayne for short!!!!!! Well done~
cheers Orca
catch ya at the Ponds.
p.s. visual evidence appearing soon !
There’s one ABC tradition ORCA has forgotten about, and that is the NAME must have only FOUR letters. Like ORCA!
As the manoeuvre was the act of avoiding the cars, better known as “carping” then the new FOUR letter name for the Lake O(sborne?) entrant should be CARP.
CARP is also described as a “symbol of great aspirations and strength, often represented leaping a waterfall”, which is very befitting of and for Wayne.
And should he choose to “go on a bit” we can always remind him of Wiktionary definition : ” To complain about a fault; to harp on”.
Or else we just settle for ORCA’s given name of DOLPHIN (or DOLI for short). That has a certain ring to it! Roll on the visual evidence.
But what a day – the rain held off for the entire race time making Tricia’s job as record keeper just that little bit more pleasant (thanks Tricia – as always). When I got home I just got inside and we were hit by a hail storm – 33mm in 15 minutes, it looked like a water fall befitting of Lake O. The hail blocked the spouting and the rain just poured on the ground. The deck was white with an even cover of hailstones and it lasted for over an hour. Our neighbour was lived here fr 28 years and has never seen anything like it.
The “dial-up” was very relaxed with one direction of travel instead of the normal “figure 8” and 8 in Heavy, and 14 in middleweight. Despite the regular gusts there were no other mishaps (just one of the juniors doing a capsize on the grass).
Cheers
Grant
