Woman Overboard! My version of what happened

I do believe the title of this post is self explanatory, on Sunday 9th of September, We were doing our regular sunday morning autumn series race and everything was going well, we had a great start and we had a successful beat to I and gone round the mark and hoisted the spongebob, and jez had passed me the spinnaker sheet to trim the kite, so using the technique i had been shown by Darren and Steve, i placed one foot on top of the hatch cover and bent my knees to use my weight to trim the kite instead my arms so i wouldnt get tired too quickly. For those of you who dont read the farr out blog here is a link to Jeremy Rees' version of events, Sunday Series Race 2- Girl Overboard! Here is my play by play of what in my own opinion happened, the kite collapsed a tiny bit so i went to pull it in but a smidge of a second before i pulled it in the ( as dictated in his blog post) "Impatient bloke in the pit" pulled it in, so then i was pulling on a pressure-less piece of rope to naturally i was going to go over the side. I was later told by giggling crewman of over yachts passing by that my dive was very good and got marked  4 out of 5 for the dive by phil samways and the farr out crew were marked 10 out of 10 for the recovery so when we are next asked have we practice our man overboard recovery recently we can actually say yes. It wasn't until after being on the boat for 5 mins i realised my phone was still in my pocket, i took it out of my pocket it and stared at in dismay. From this experience i have learned 4 things, 1. Bring a spare change of clothes and place it in my locker, this includes a towel and underwear, 2. wear appropriate shoes out sailing, 3. Not to bother trying to  dry ones clothes and underwear at the top of the wayfarer mast in the yard in full view of the club house, it wont dry and it just draws unwanted attention and 4. and most important of all, LEAVE ALL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT DOWN BELOW DECK OR ON SHORE!!! 

The Sound of Silence

As William Shakespeare once said " Absence from those we love is self from self - A Deadly banishment."

I think an explanation is due for my absence from my Blog, As you already know i have been working very hard over at the Olympic Venue in Weymouth & Portland and due to my early hours, I have been unable to stay awake long enough to complete a post. More recently i have been Preparing for my further education in A levels at Budmouth College Sixth Form. Because I'm starting school again does not mean iv'e finished sailing for the year, I still have Saturday morning sailings, and the all exciting Sunday mornings so I can guarantee more up to date blog reports on the Saturday and Sunday winter series.