Grafham Water hosted the 2008 Ovington boats Inland Championships. A large turn out in the 49er class was all the more impressive with the forecasted freezing temperatures. Excellent race officering saw 7 races laid on over the weekend. Myself and Simon had now spent 30 days training in the 9er and it was nice to see a big improvement from our performances at Sail for gold the month before.
We finished in 4th place overall, with a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th & 9th places on our score card, we won the second day of racing with the 1st,2nd & 6th leaving us very encouraged we are slowly moving forwards. Our boathandling is still our major limiting factor, but we are finding ourselves "racing" far higher up the wind range where as just two weeks ago we would have been just trying to get around the course!
Starting is certainly an area for big improvement, with only 2 good starts out of the 7 races we were making life harder than it needed to be, but it was certainly pleasing to sail through the fleet both up and downwind. Hopefully when we get our boathandling and starting upto scratch we should be mixing it at the front.
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