Koh Samui Day Two. More photo opps...

Downwind trimming is soooo dehydrating.  TC enjoying a can, au naturel

More photos below the fold

Sam Chan's TP53, Freefire and Frank Pong's RP76, Jelik head back to Chaweng Beach

Let's see... Noel, Michael, Iris, Jing, Digger, TC, Stevo, Peter, Judy, Cess, Tony, Grant, Simon

I only took this photo to check the overhangs, but the crew insisted on getting in it.
They're such prima donnas...

Enough of these light airs!  Cess jumps ship and swims ashore.

Check out the clouds reflected in the hull: makes it look translucent.

On a dinghy built for four... the boys give the freeboard a bit of a test...

Wow, goodness me, one of those TIA days, as Stevo would say: “This is Asia”.  You hear that these Thai regattas can be plagued by light airs, and this was one of those today.  The last two Regattas we’ve done in Thailand –  this one last year and King’s cup in December – we were lucky enough to have decent winds in the mid-teens for all races.  Today, after a delayed start, they sent us off in about 7 knots, but during the first beat, it died, got shifty, holey, the whole palaver.  Consequence of that was that the fleet ended up bunched up, all of us drifting round the course at the same speed -- slow -- homing in on the finish, with about six of us under spinnaker, heading to a shortened finish line, all within a boat length of each other, kites collapsing, kites gybing -- on purpose and accidentally -- with us carrying our weight on through the pack to get over the line first, just. 

Soooo, Line Honours.  But can’t be good for us on corrected time, close as we all were at the finish.

Kudos to tactician Simon for picking the shifts and moves.

After another couple of hours waiting, lunching, dropping sails and up again, move by committee boat, the second race cancelled, so we motored on back in and had a bit of a swim, before heading off for a relax before prize giving drinks on the beach.