Saturday

Very light winds.

Neil and his son from the sailing forum joined us for the day.

Poor start and could not overcome the tide in to the Roach.

Decided that the fouling on Sirenia's bottom was not helping so we retired and headed for a beach to dry out and scrub some weed off.

We got and amazing amount off.

Evening BBQ with members of the sailing forum.

Spent the night moored on R&C pontoon.

Sunday

Light winds again.

Invite to sail on Jim's boat for the day.

Good fun and we just managed to finish.

Monday

Raced Sirenia with Lucy and Jim's wife Lynn as crew.

We finished!

Tuesday

My son's friend Russ joined us.

Very light wind again.

We managed to sail most of the course but could not get to the finish line that was up in Burnham town as the tide had turned and it was in the wind shadow of the town.

Very frustrating.

My farther joined us in the evening to come racing the next day.

As we sat on the veranda of the Royal Corinthian I had a phone call from my eldest daughter, Jessica, to tell me that she was expecting a baby.

Wednesday

The Burnham week always sail an up river race on the Wednesday.

There was a very light wind from behind the town and we all had difficulty in getting going.

We ended up kedging to stop ourselves drifting back to the start.

Ended up retiring as it was a waste of time.

Not at all impressed with the organisation of the event.

No thought given to the prevailing wind when setting courses.

Dad, Lucy and Russ then had to head for home.

I spent the rest of the week crewing on Jim's boat and just used Sirenia for accommodation.

I don't think that I will bother with Burnham week again.

Mileage about  - 20

Total for the year 655.7