My campaign has stalled due to injury! I had a rough capsize on the boat. With Texel coming up, I purposely went out with the wind howling on the lake, the problem because of the buildings and forests around the lake, the gusts just could from anywhere. I was sailing upwind concentrating on trying to avoid a skiff coming down the lake. But while I was looking at him and not the water I got hit by a big footer that took me by suprise and just got knocked straight over. I got catapulted off the trapeze. Somehow I managed to hit everything sharp and hard on the way down trying to avoid going through the mainsail. My right arm got tangled up on the remaining deck fittings from where the self tacking gear for the jib would be. So you can see from the picture that my arm got pretty badly gashed and bruised (was much worse, this was taken a couple of days after). But also I have a bad side and shoulder strain from it. Anyway I haven't got that much strength in the arm right now and the cuts and bruises are pretty uncomfortable too. Like an idiot a carried on sailing for a while and probably made the injuries much worse.
Anyway I've had to pull out of Texel, maybe the ECPR too but we'll see how it goes. I guess I need a lot more work to be able to sail this boat fast without destroying it or myself! I had underestimated how much cat sailing ability I had lost. Being a bit fitter would help too. Might be letting my enthusiasm get the better of me and pushing too hard too soon - maybe I should go back to my original plan of using this season to train and start some club racing next season (hopefully in UK).
