The Olympic Series - Anchors Down

2nd race of the Olympic series and an even more crazier idea for a race. The original idea for the race came from the A team mates Steve and Jez, and I do believe, Monday previous to this race Steve was saying to me whoever came up with this idea must be mad! The race involved starting the race with your anchor down and your sails down, it was an all in start so the dinghy's were doing 720's on the line. Vice Commodore Jez and Co were on race officer duty to Farr out did not sail. However, behaving like a typical Boat Tart, I jumped on board  the Sigma 33, Scoline, and enjoyed sorting out all the bunting before heading out to the line. While enjoying some banter about leaving the anchor behind to save time we didn't realise that we were floating across the line 4 mins early, a situation which was luckily easily fixed. As soon as the flags came down at 1900 hrs, the jib was hoisted straight away, anchor lifted and not long after the main was up and we sailing off, leaving boats behind us and following in the wake of an osprey. We did two laps going round the big red gate mark buoys where the official Olympic racing takes place, We were kept entertained by watching the you've been framed moment performed by nick frampton in his OK, rudder popped off, then watching making the difficult decision of whether to stay with the boat or to jump in the water, deciding to jump, he made the leap but didn't expect the boat to move backwards as he jumped so his graceful leap turned into a full frontal belly flop! Overall we came second in this race, good result i think but i don't believe my fellow members of the A team weren't particularly happy that we got such a good result when i was on a different boat.