We practised our start on the five-minute warning. The Wind was quite good blowing across the river, so we could sail up and down the river on the same tack. The one minute horn sounded. As if on cue, the wind, which had been doing a passable impression of “light breeze,” decided it had better things to do. Like not be here.
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