Owner-reported racing lesson. Dates, classes and official event names are still being checked against records.
In 2011 I moved from Mpumalanga to Cape Town to take racing further. Dams had taught me a great deal. The ocean did not accept that education as complete. Swell, wind and surf changed how the boat had to be ridden.
Forcing the hull through every wave was a way of losing. Letting the boat ride, and reading the water early enough to set up, took months. My first ocean win at Kogel Bay is the moment I remember that lesson landing.
Adaptability here is not a mood. It is a willingness to retire a technique that worked in one kind of water when the water changes. That is as true of a race as it is of any other craft.