The forecast was for rain today. We had decided to head for the beach for 9:00am regardless and were ‘rewarded’ with a period without rain and a NW breeze which was momentarily strong enough for us to set the standard sails with normal race rods and try the vented kites with green race.

Before the first rain arrived we had gone back to the standard sails with diamond rods in order to cope with the lulls.

We flew 11 in a mini ‘mega’ team before lunch and that was the point that the rain set in initially.

We did get to spend time in the arena during the afternoon and Lupo selected some of our favored tracks but the turbulence from the pine forest along the beach sometimes left us with no means of recovery. All good experience ahead of Weymouth of course where the prevailing wind is over the town. <grins>

Felix