Titahi Bay
06 November 2010
After a beautiful week the weather turned to custard for
the 3rd WGTN club round at Titahi Bay on Sat. Wind gusts of 35knots
and a 3-4ft swell made for some very tricky racing. With 2 boats popped from
racing the previous night the field was down to 4 cold, scared but excited,
somewhat frightened looking teams.
TBC dominated the day with consistent wins although did
almost get beaten in points after penalties were taken into account, admittedly
the RD and Marshalls may have been picking on them a little (thanks Pip, cheques in the mail). Demon Energy in the
boat they stole from Get Funkd took out second with some interesting driving,
but the team to watch was the new Dodge boys whose super light boat combined
with a super light coey seemed to be everywhere except on the water, with high
winds flying it like a kite over every wave. The same cannot be said for the
driver Dave (no not that Dave) who did find the water when he went swimming mid
race, I am informed he spent the whole drive down hassling TBC
for falling out of their boat, payback aye. The other starter Demon red had an
interesting day of stops and starts, seemingly driving their own race which did
not always seem to be on the same course as the rest of us, still they had
fun.
It was another great day with exciting racing and
amazingly no incidents despite the rough, windy conditions. Well done to
everyone for staying up right and a big thanks to our RD Pip who had absolutely
no faith in us racers placing bets on which lap we would all be flipping, we
proved you wrong! Check out the pics at: Titahi Bay Album by Chainsaw Photography |
