Managed to get my first sail in of the year. Yes I know it’s July and I meant to do it two months ago.

It wasn’t that an auspicous start to the day as I thought I’d managed to dent the back of my car reversing. Fortunately I hadn’t done any damage at the low speed I was moving so that was a relief.

I spent a very sunny Sunday morning out on Southampton morning out of the SWAC sailing a RS Laser. Took a while to rig the boat together as I wasn’t sure that I was doing things right. Sorted that out or so I thought. Managed to tip it over trying to get the rudder in setting off. After having tried out for a bit I spotted that I’d managed to not put the battons in the sail. Managed with out.

A bit of patchy breeze but I was sailing. Had a couple of power boats tearing up and down Southampton Water at the edge of sailing area just to make it more interesting. The sky was a little more interesting as I noticed black smoke emitting from three of the Fawley flares.

At the end of it I had the satisfaction of getting back ashore in one piece without too much faffing.