Intasure Spring Regatta - FBYC

This event was exciting and highly enjoyable with thrills and spills in abundance. There were crash tacks to avoid whales, shredded spinnakers, broken gear, collisions and near collisions, man overboard scenarios, people shouting about suing each other for being luffed onto the wrong side of the committee boat, enough shouting and bad language from a certain top IRC boat to last most of us well into 2012 and prawning operations (of which perhaps first prize should go to Thunderchild for a full on dragnet operation right over the finish line). There were one or two exhibits of really poor sportsmanship and even gamesmanship which don't belong in the sport of sailing. Then were some competitors who had little concept of the racing rules. I suppose those are essentially all minor issues when one considers we had a large number of people enjoying the sport of sailing - that is first prize.
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