I have to admit something publicly. When I arrived at Plymouth and saw Dinah I got spinnaker pole envy. Dinah’s spinnaker pole looked lovely and on NINJOD aside from the hull the spinnaker pole was one of the few things I had not go around to replacing.
The problem with being ready a few weeks ahead of race day is that you start to go through everything over and over again, “am I ready??”, “what if I break this.. ” etc. etc.
By yesterday morning I was convinced my asymmetric spinnaker performance was going to be impacted by my old shoddy spinnaker pole.
By this morning I had ordered a new spinnaker pole from Andy and the chaps at All Spars in Plymouth.
“But its an upwind race” I hear you cry..
“But what if bits of it are not” is my response and justification for the expense.
Oh dear..