Skips in 3rd place and Redshift Drama

Hi Dave.... Libby here...We are having a great regatta so far..... Mon passage race and we were FIRST over the line and had about 12 mins on the next boat over the line... thought we had it in the bag, and BUGGER me we came 3rd on OMR....then around the cans for the next day.... 2 races... race one... 5th over the line... 7th on OMR... second race.. second over the line and 2nd on OMR... so 3rd place overall....Wednesday was a lay day.... nothing broken so nothing to fix! (Played lazybastards sitting on someone else's cat doing the WAGS {Wednesday AfternoonGentlemans Racing} flying around the course, top speed 20.2 knots! Thursday (Today).... we were having a SCREAMING race... ( well until we were at Peel island when we lost the 10ish knots we had on the way and came to a screaming halt... and watched the rest of the fleet catch us)...But then we were not forced to drop anchor to stop going backwards, as at least three other boats were.... We had a HUGE 20-25kn on the return leg... BIG kite up ( the boys were LOVING IT!!) Tim was almost steering one finger.... Skippy was so well balanced.... All going well until we were about a mile from the finish line... and we hear a call the race is abandoned and a man lost overboard... down comes the kite.... deciding we were not much help in finding anyone as we were so far ahead we could not see anyone except for Akimbo even close!!!! ... then we hear it isREDSHIFT who has lost a MAN OVERBOARD... about 20 VERY tense minutes andwe hear the man is picked up by a passing yacht and all is well after about 30 mins in the water... It was GEORGE, who was steering through a jibe with the crew up forward all doing jobs... the rudder had given way and George went over the back with the crew unaware until things had settled, and then they had no rudder to steer back on their course, and called Pan pan... George and crew all well...Gotta go now as we are off to the pub....Skippies in 3rd after Coco Loco and Intrigue..... Ciao Libby X