......Froze my nuts off!
One piece of advice.....when the huggy bear label says to wash on a cold wash and not tumble dry....follow them instead of shrinking them and splitting your crotch when getting the air out of the drysuit.
Managed to rip a hole the size of a grapefruit in the crotch of my huggy bear underneath my drysuit, which after the second capsize was enough to drop my core body temperature down to a level where I was really struggling to concentrate on righting the boat....so I thought it maybe a tad too cold to perform well enough.
My hands were toasty, but I felt really chilly.
I should have worn my shorty inside the drysuit.
While I was sailing the spray that was coming over the wings etc was turning to sleet and snowing in my face.
All my sheets where frozen, kicker would not adjust, traveller car ropes were frozen and when I went to hoist the spinny for the second downhill run the cleat and 5mm sheet had frozen to a block of ice.
Not to mention the sheet of ice on the wings.....MENTAL.
It was really really good to race against other D-Ones and I was really glad to say I was up the front end which cheered me up.
My second capsize was in a mentally huge gust which just wiped me out with the kite up.
It was the same gust that snapped Andy Rice's mast.....a build fault on that particular mast, mine was absolutely fine, glad to say I had no gear failure whatsover, apart from my faulty huggy bear.
Had great fun, but wish it wasn't so bloody cold.
:o)
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