Riding in the wet never bothered me, I'd rather have it properly wet so you know where you are with it, but if you get some info before you leave the line that also helped. At The Manx of older days you knew before you got on the boat there was a chance of starting a wet race and at times it was p'ing down when we started and one year we had hailstones, rain and and howling wind .. it was biblical weather, early 1990's.