Its Over

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Dockside beer and banter. Tent band a total hoot. Dancing drinking into the night.
Thur 17. Last race windward leeward. Wing mark spinnaker. Cloudy. Hard to believe its all over. Held unblemished record, seven races, seven fastest. Showed mortality today with spinnaker wrap. Not nice. Tear. Taped for later downwind. Opened but didn't tear further. Mild breeze. Work to finish off Mandalay. Feel like I've been to Burma. New places, new faces. Islands of trees. Sulphur crested cockatoos ashore. Band booze. I seem to be having a good time. I could have gotten a boat with a better handicap. Not a better boat but. Chris, Dave, Angela, Paul, Leon, Dan and Rob. Thanks. First four loved flag plus today's new girl Tabitha bound for Hamo. Hamilton Island Race Week the big kahuna. Can I miss it?
Later I'm standing in the crowd - award time. One bloke from a crew says 'Bugger the handicapper.' His mate says 'If it wasn't for the handicapper, we'd have been out the ass from the start. I should have a Mummbo shirt.'!!!!

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