It was a happy hi fi team that hit the dock saturday afternoon in Langkawi.
Going into the final day we had a six point lead over Quantum and Jelik. However with the possibility of three races there were almost half the points of the regatta on offer in one day, we knew it was anyone's game.
As usual in these situations the stress levels onboard were high. It didn't help when ten minutes before the start the mainsheet turning block under the deck decided to let go and tore a hole in the side of the cockpit. After a good bit of improvising we rigged up an external lead and were good to go.
All three races were pretty similar, three laps, short legs and close results on time. We tore a couple of chutes hoisting out of the hatch and had a hard time perfecting our gybing technique, but overall we sailed clean and ended up with a scorecard of 2-3-2.We still can't work out the IRC results on the water, and there was much conjecture after each race as to whether we'd got 1, 2 or 3, and this just added to the 'final day frenzy". As we finished the last race a huge cheer went up on Jelik and this increased our suspicions that we'd had a shocker and lost the regatta. However when we got ashore Willy checked out the notice board and we had won it!
Soon the beers were flowing and you couldn't get the smile off Neil's face all night. Of course the whole crew were in good spirits and we had a great night at the presentation.
The yacht club didn't seem too happy about us filling the expensive raja muda trophy with rum and passing it around and it was a challenge to drink out of but we reckon when you win a trophy like that it would be rude not to.
All in all it was another awesome raja muda and we've learnt a lot about our new rig and sails in preparation for the king's cup next week.
Until then there's a few days r & r and some work on the boat before meeting up at kata beach again....
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