Before they started launching yesterday I think most people expected the day to be cancelled. With strong winds, low cloudbases and rain, it seemed that the day was incompatible with soaring.
For many pilots that indeed turned out to be the case. During the afternoon a steady stream of trailers headed North up the Martin valley to retrieve outlanding gliders. We had a convoy of 3 trailers behind us and we passed 4 gliders in paddocks on the way to the Martin airfield where there were 4 more.
There were only 26 finishers in Standard Class (out of 46), Tobi was one, Pete was not. Sebastian also outlanded, but he was just within the 3km finish ring, although his glider is now in the workshop.
In Club Class 34 (out of 45) finished Mike was one, unfortunately Alan was not.
They are promising better weather in the next few days, we hope so, 2 hour AATs in the rain are not a lot of fun.
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