No Sailing As Wind Howls

Woke up to a very cloudy day with the wind up at 8:00am to 10 - 15 knots. Had been hoping for a more liesurely day than last sunday but after studing the weather maps all week knew that the wind was going to be at least in this range. As I left for Ballina, a one hour drive south, I was thinking that at least it wasn't raining as the weather forecast had been predicting last night, but passing through Byron it started pelting down.

At the sailing club most of the keen sailors were there but noticably none of the trainee sailors. When it wasn't raining there was almost no wind but it was cold, my car's temperature gauge registering 13 degrees which is almost unheard of in Spring in these parts. When the rain came it bucketted down and brought with it strong gusty SE winds. On this basis the Vice Commodore cancelled the day's racing and even knowing I needed the practise resigned myself to taking it easy for the day and settling down in front of a TV for a change to watch the footy.

Unfortunately making up for last weekends failure was going to be delayed for another week