Royal Lymington YC hosted the fleet for Train and Race on Saturday and Sunday, 22nd and 23rd, with a forecast of wind and plenty of it.

On Saturday the fleet were split into 5 ability groups and set off in a good blow down the river to the open waters of the Solent for training in big wind and waves, most of the sailors managed to cope with the conditions for a couple of hours before the training team decided that conditions were too much for the less experienced sailors and brought a number ashore for hot showers and a welcome mug of hot chocolate.

The more experienced guys took part in a number of short races to hone their skills in preparation for the Open meeting on Sunday.

Considering the conditions it was great to see that we only had one bit of gear failure, Tristan Bs' mast decided it was too windy and sacrificed itself so it could have a lie down.

The weather forecast was set for even more breeze on Sunday morning building to 30 knots in the afternoon, the race management team took a decision to move the start times to earlier in the morning so as to try and get some racing in.

The fleet arrived with much anticipation of a great days racing, unfortunately it was not to be, as the anemometer hit 30 knots before the briefing, the race team took absolutely the right decision and abandoned  the event.

Unfortunately this is the second time that RLYC have had to call the RS Tera Open Meeting off for too much breeze, hopefully the new open meeting trophy will get its first airing in 2012, lets hope its 3rd time lucky.

Congratulations and thanks must go the Gina Bassett ably assisted by Fred and the team at Royal Lymington, she and they have put an enormous amount of effort and enthusiasm into organizing the event this year, we will be back in 2012 to enjoy the hospitality of RLYC again.