Task 3

117km zig zaggy thingy.

Mixed for me, great start, at the front with KK and Matty Senior (NZ), got low, struggled for a while in the 20-40km range. Then chose a similar line to Task 2, bombed down the course while the lead gaggle took a dog leg around the high ground and hit the second turnpoint with the lead gaggle.

On the way back, some stonking climbs at 4+m/s deposited many pilots in the cloud with some doing the right thing and spiralling down again afterwards. Base was about 2300 and change but some guys got to more than 2600m and one near miss in a cloud caused a pilot to full stall, then not manage to restart the glider, landing (safely) under reserve.

Anyway, Che and I started to the last turnpoint in front, but the whole courseline was shaded out and I decked it about 84km with a lot of pilots. Che and  rest of the lead gaggle who were mostly higher scored some 0-0.3 style crappy lift and slowly, slowly climbed out and backwards. It took them about an hour to get to base and get back to where we were standing watching.

So Dave just came in, got to goal (slowly), so thats good.

G