When I woke up on Saturday morning, it was to the sound of the wind blowing in the trees. Where I live this usually means it is actually blowing a bit. A glance at the BOM wind page, once the worst internet connection in Geelong had warmed up, confirmed that at the South Channel it was a constant 30 kn with gusts to 35 kn from the East, so it as no surprise when Peter E rang and suggested that sailing might be off for the day. He made the further point that with the wind from the east the beach at Indented Head was taking on surf like characteristics and launching Ozone would possibly be a danger to the crew, and Peter talks from experience.

Actually Peter had an alternative so your scribe, Alex, Peter V, John W, Jock and Peter E put in an hour or so working on the balcony. Jock belongs to a salty B!tch (apologies for forgotten name) who took down Christmas decorations while Julie did wrap things for those who forgot to bring lunch.

It was good to get a bit more done.

Coming up:

Saturday 25 January 2025.
1400 Matthew Flinders series continues

Saturday 1 February 2025.
1400 Matthew Flinders series continues (incorporates Boat Club Cup)

And in a new and occasional bit:
Your Scribe has decided that he often gets things wrong and he would be wise to write down any hints and learnings soon after a race for review, this is a progression to a ‘professional attitude’ to sailing; and he is prepared to share them with you as a learning experience; and as the New Year brings broken resolutions, the end of a proper test series and to those of us who sail, an updated Racing Rules of Sailing, so:
Learning 31 Definition inserted:
Continuing Obstruction. An object is a continuing obstruction when the boat with the shortest hull referred to in the rule using the term will pass alongside it for at least three of her hull lengths. However the following are not a continuing obstruction: a vessel under way, a boat racing, or a race committee vessel that is also a mark.
See RRS 19 which always prevails at a continuing obstruction.
Commentary:
Boats do not need to be sailing alongside of an obstruction for it to be considered a continuing obstruction, it is a continuing obstruction based on its size relative to the boats that are about to be passing it.
(Commentary provided by Captain Tribhuwan Jaiswal, IJ, Mumbai, India) (and found, I think, on Sailing Anarchy website)