Thanks to SSANZ for putting on the event, our main competition has been Hard Labour and Playbuoy over the last few years and we really looked forward racing these teams. All week I was checking the forecast sites hoping the front was going to go through either early or late, I declared that anything that had a 4 in it and I wasn't going. Of course we went and of course the top sustained windspeed we saw was 35!
For me 20-30 is a the top end of the fun zone in the gulf, after that its ok-ish but things break, claret gets spilled, sailmakers get happy...
We set up with our small jib an