CROCS REGATTA 15/16/17 December 2012

Day 1:
Race 1:Light winds with the Bridge postponing as they were expecting a wind shift.. eventually the decided to hold a race. YOLO got a good start but made a few crew mistakes in the race. When the wind starting shifitng and dying YOLO was on the wrong side of it so lost out.
Race 2: Good start, in breeze gusting in the early thirties. Great downwind sailing. Again some crew hitches that cost us, but good to sail in that sort of breeze.
Day 2:
Race 3: Nice South Westers in the upper teens with gusts just over 20.. Good sailing with team YOLO sailing well.
Race 4: Another good race with team Yolo beginning to find her form, nice close racing with some of the other boats.
Race 5: With a dying breeze, Yolo opted to break from the fleet and was caught without any breeze, so another bad score.

The last days racing was cancelled due to strong winds.
YOLO came 4th overall..

Aboard were(a couple of crew changes during the regatta): Ian, Dale, Dennis, Phillipa, Sarel, LEroy, Kenwyn,Alexander, Sieger//

Boat performed well, no problems.

WED Nite Racing -5th December 2012

Typical Wednesday night weather for this time of the year. A Strong South Easter was blowing. Nonetheless the Race Officer decided to proceed. He set a different course with a downwind start and two laid bouys, taking is in at Granger bay for a part of the race. The winds were in the high 20's at the start with gusts in the thirties... This remained the whole race with the return beat mainly at around 30. We got a good start but the later starters blanketed us, taking some time for us to get clear breeze again.. After this we sailed our own race leaving them to fight it out. Allowing us to sail a more direct course to the leeward bouy.. We then had a good beat into Granger Bay, rouding the mark there and then a sail parrelel to the breakwater and the final beat to the finish. All in all the boat performed well for the conditions. We "straightened" a reef bullhorn on the tack.. The highest wind speed noted was after the race while trasiting Ben Schoeman Dock.. at 37knots. We were please to have raced, giving us the opportunity of testing the boat in those conditions. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Sieger, Sarel, Peter, Alex Cassar(newbie aboard) We can first in our class.

Social Sail-18th November 2012

Michael Valcic, one of the Yolo and previous boats regualar crew was in town to give an address at a corporate function.(He is currently Based in Ghana) and came sailing with us on Sunday. The conditions were predominantly a South Westerly.. at around 18knots.. had Yolo sailing around Robben Island taking it to Starboard. A great sail on the bay.. getting close to the city it shifted back to SE, which we did some sailing in. Great sailing conditions. A perfect afternoon of sailing. Aboard were: Sieger, Dale and Michael. Boat performed well.

DOUBLE HANDED RACE: 17th November 2012

There were two converging winds before the start with the SE just getting to the line at start time. Yolo managed a good conservative start.. Rounded the weather mark and hoisted the spinaker. The conditions were around 23 knots at the weather mark.. Yolo then gybed and made for the leeward mark. just before the mark there was a convergance zone with Yolo making a bit more distance into it then the rest and then Yolo stopped while the boats to weather pciked up the Westerlies.. once around the mark the SE came through quite quickly.. with Yolo setting in for the beat.. there were some shifts which had Yolo tacking on the beat. On the end Yolo won the race and the series although Drew on points with Nuther Witch.. The split was taken from the better result in the last race. Boat performed well.. Aboard were Dale and Ian.

PROP CHECK -17th November 2012

On the previous Wednesday, we picked up something on the prop which forced us to shut down the engine and get a tow in.. (cooling was working fine, but prop did not fuction).. So we had it dived. They found plastic wrapped around the prop.. the type of heavy duty plastic that you would wrap a mattress or something similar in.. and the same sort of size. SEE PIC ATTACHED. This was easily removed and all worked well afterwards..

Wednesday night race: 14th November 2012

Prior to the race the boat was removed from the water, had a spray down, the engine annode changed, the engine and gearbox oil replaced and a few antifoul spots touched up..

THE RACE:Conditions were between 22 to just over 30 knots on the gusts. We decided to take it coservative withe the J4 and a reef. We got a good start just below the 34.7.. the first beat was gusty.. the 34.7 seemed to have a touch more speed on us and maintained their lead with us rounding the weather mark around a boatlenth behind them.. on the downwind this gap remained the same, after the gybe we sailed higher and played the gusts. the 34.7 got over powered once causing them to luff up which lost them ground allowing us to take advantage. We rounded the leeward mark half a boat lenth ahead. they managed a bit more height then us but tacked off earlier into a header, we tacked later. this allowed us to open a gap on them. They caught up a little of this gap on the downwind but we still managed to finish 5o seconds ahead of them. We won our class as the 34.7 was not in our class as we sail non spinnaker and they sail spinnaker class. they did try and hoist in the breeze but after a near broach dropped the kite again. so it was of no advantage. Aboard were: Ian, Dale, Sieger, Sarel, Frederic, Peter M.. Boat performed well.. picked something up on the prop on the way back into the harbour.

LADIES DAY RACE- 10th November 2012

YOLO was entered in the Ladies day race with Phillipa Hutton Squire putting together a crew of capable ladies. Phillipa has recently being doing some of her local sailing on YOLO. The start too place in a light Westerly.. with Yolo perhaps being a bit low on the line. After rounding the weather mark Yolo hoisted the kite and soon after the fleet were becalmed. The new breeze came from the South so those that were ahead or on the South side got it first.. this relegated Yolo to a bad position. Once the breeze came through it was nice sailing with the breeze blowing upto 20 knots at times.. the rest of the race was nice to sail but not enough opportunity to catch up on time. The ladies handled the boat well. It was resolved after sailing that next year they would put some training session in to make it better. Yolo sailed well. 8 aboard.

Delivery-Saldhana to CT -3rd November.

Yolo departed Saldhana in the dark at 5am.. motoring. The sea conditions remained flat and a pleasure to motor in. the winds increased at one stage to 10 knots but from behind, so not worhtwhile sailing in as the speeds would have dropped. At times there was a current pushing us along. We rounded the CT breakwater at 2:30pm. It was a very comfortable delivery. Aboard were: Ian, Dale and Phillipa. Boat perfomed well.

Yachtport Overnight Race 2nd November 2012

Winds were forcasted to be light and fickle with a SE start, moving to the easterlies, then more to the north. We were not convinced. 10 minutes before the start we spoke with our weather forecaster who forcasted 15knots NW for the whole night with Fog on the coast..  We got a good start but needed to tack soon after as a larger yacht interfered with our plans... we then got becalmed and most fo the fleet sailed away with some boats going over the horizon quite quickly.. eventually we got the breeze again and worked to sail inside Robbben Island. The rest of the fleet opted to sail offshore. The breeze freshened and we settled in for a night of upwind sailing. We were tacking up the coast on the shifts, just off Melkbos the fog came in and we spent the next 4 hours sailing in thick fog. The seas were relatively flat which had the boat sailing optimally, fully powered and fast. Yolo sailed just to the outside of Dassen Island and tacked in just after tacking back just below the layline... The sun started rising just before the turn mark. Yolo did a wide rounding of the turn mark(Virtual mark) and sailed direct for the Saldhana heads in ideal conditions. On arrival at the finish we did the early call only to realize that we were earlier then expected. we sailed in and took our own time and docked. We were the first boat in and winner of our class on corrected time. Aboard were: Dale, Ian and Phillipa. The boat performed well.

Double Handed Race --Sat 27th October 2012

A 10 knot NW at the start, the race was sailed in these light conditions with the occational rise to 14knots. nice sailing.. towards the end of the race there was a convergance with a wind change to the South East.. We read this well and maintained our position..(second overall) highlight was a Gybe, hoist, weather drop and mark rounding in similar time to a full crew. We came second overall. Aboard Were Dale and Ian. No problems.

WED Night Race- 24th October 2012-Race 2

Second Wedneday night race of the season albeit the 3rd one in the series. the second was blown out..
Ideal conditions, falt sea, 12 knots blowing.. who could ask for more. A nice course was set.. A minute before the start one of the competitors tried to sail over us so we started to nidge forward to block.. in the end we were both over the start line and had us coming back to restart.. we gyybed, hardened up and tacked=, now at the back of the fleet and startted to try and work back intot he fleet. As there was lots of dirty wind we tacked back and sailed to clear our air and tacked again.. we then tried to catch up ont he fleet chasing the puffs and sailing in clear breeze. At the weather mark we were still quite far back in the breeze. On the downwind we struggled for speed.. probbaly a bnit light for us without a kite(non spinnkaer race), We lost a posiition on this leg, the next leg being a tight fetch in fresh breeze had us take back two positions. In the end we came 4th on corrected time. It was a great evening on the water. Aboard were: IAn, Sieger, Frederic(From Jenneau), Hugo(a newbie) and Dale. No Problems.

Round Robben Island Race - Sat, 20th October 2012

With a Black South Easter Blowing, the fleet was reduced as most sailors chose not to race. Nevertheless we decided to take it on.. At the starting area there were gusts in the 30 odd knots.. It was a downwind start, pursuit race.. We started with a full main up, on time, lay off and hoisted our kite. It was a good hoist, we started to sail as we quickly tried to settle the boat down. We were sailing quite deep and must have got a gust in the late 30's with a lot of South in it.. this caused us to Chinese Gybe in style. It took us a long time to recover and recover the kite. We assessed our damage and realized we could not use the kite again. so we two sail reached our way down the course. We rounded Robben Island and tried to look for a SWesterly on the other side of Robben ISland with winds around 17-20knots which we picked up but then it swung back.. the final part of the beat had it gusting upto 35 knots again.. We ended up midfleet.. Aboard were: Ian, Sieger, Riaan Brits and Dale. We broke our windex, Spinnkaer pole fitting and bridle, blew a barbour hauler block and tore the kite.

Wednesday night race- 10th October 2012

First Wednesday night race of the season and the start of the Puma Twilight Series, Winds were ranging from 18-23knots.. We were short handed so took it conservataly and hoisted the J4. We got a good start which had us in the lead of our class a the weather mark.. We managed to maintain the lead throughout the race with only the Sports boats ahead of us(spinnaker class) On the upwind leg the boats behind us were giving each other dirty airs which assisted us in pulling away.. Aboard were: Ian, Sieger, William,Phillipa and Dale. the boat performed well. We came first in our class on corrected time.

RCYC OPENING CRUISE- 6th October 2012

With the Opening Cruise, Yolo went out to partanke in the opening cruise which had the sailpast in the V&A waterfront. Over 70 boats took part. Yolo dressed up in full colours(full alphabet flags) South African Flag on Stern and club burgee flying. Of the regulars aboard were: Ian(skipper) and Sieger plus guests making 8 in total.

Delivery-Simontown to Cape Town -2nd October 2011

With a weather window opening with light winds and no winds forecasted we opted to deliver the boat back to Cape Town during the week. We set off rounding the bullnose just after 8:10am under motor, hoisiting the main as we went. False Bay was very flat with us motoring. We rounded Cape Point where there was some swell and Motor Sailed Northbound passing fishing boats catching fish as we went. At one stage the winds rose to 11 knots for a short while on a beat and then died down to 5 again. We reached the Cape Town Breakwater at approx 4:20 making for quite a quick passage. Aboard were Sieger and Dale. Boat performed well.

SPRING REGATTA -22-24 September 2012

Racing Season had begun with Spring regatta taking place in Simonstown. We raced in IRC (IRC provincial championship)ass 1 devision which had us sailing against 40 footers with us having the slowest rating in the fleet. Quite a challenge.
Day 1: 3 races sailed in a good breeze with lots of oscilations in the breeze.
Day 2: 2 Races Sailed in breeze gusting in the early 30 knots.. boat performed well. A few boat decided not to race and some retired.
Day 3: A meduim distance race. We were able to read the wind conditions which allowed us to hang in with he bigger boats for most of the course. We won this race.

Overall we came 2nd. This was good especiually considering that this was our first proper regatta with the boat. Aboard were: Ian, Dennis, Sieger, Sarel, Phillipa, Hans(from Dubai) and Dale. Boat performed well.

DELIVERY RACE -CT to Simonstown

Weather forecasts were varied.. with most Grib sites forecasting light conditions but the SA weather service talking about 25knot south easters.. We decided to race in any event.. the race started at 9:10am, with us getting a cracker of a start, we immediately went to kite hoist but the kite had a wrap which lost us some time while we sorted it out.. then followed some light conditions eventually dropping the kite and started beating. Around a hour and a half into the race we decided that the conditions would not improve and if we carried on it could take 24 hours plus to finish the course. We therefore elected to retire and motor the rest of the way.. We were first to do so, the rest of the fleet started to do the same around an hour after us.. The conditions were very pleasant to motor in.. making for a great day on the water.. We made the Simonstown breakwater at 18h20.. with Ian supplying the lift back to CT. Aboard were Dale and Phillipa.

Random pic 2..comp. M Bloch

RANDON PICS comp., M Bloch

Sail - 14th July 2012

With the Youth Regatta being sailed, there were no club events. We decided to sail out and wath the YOuth Regatta. Conditions were cold, with a 18knots Southerly blowing. We tried out a different mainsheet arrangement which seems to work quite nicely. Sailing was good, with us being conservative with a full main and the J4 up.. Aboard were: Ian, Sieger, Marc Bloch, Dave Gerrad and Dale. Boat performed well.

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Double Handed Race -23rd June 2012

Last race of the series... Light breeze. We got what we thought was a good start, not realizing we could lay the first mark lower down the line.. that was our downfall.. as we got to the weather mark the wind shifted making us put two quick tacks in. We did very well on the fleet on the downwind pulling though all but the A35 who held us off. We needed to put in two speedy gybes with the kite up to avoid a ship.. the breeze freshened towards the end of the downwind giving us nice sailing for the rest of the race.. We came 2nd in this race and 1st place for the series. Aboard were Dale and Ian. Boat performed well.

Portugal Day Race -9th June 2012

Unfortunately we were short on crew, but we still decided to race. We took a very conservative approach. There was a good course to sail and good conditions to sail in besides the pockets of light winds during the earlier part of the race. We hoisted the brand New Code Zero for the first time and was very impressed. In the end we placed 13 out of 57. Aboard were: Dale, Dennis, Sarel and Sieger.

Club Racing, Saturday 2nd June 2012

It was supposed to the IRC and Club racing racing as one giving both club rating and IRC results afterwards to allow the fleet not to be diluted. Anyway, light wind start, we were stuck above the line trying to sail downwind in the light stuff, so started about two minutes late.. quickly caught up as we sailed the catspaws... the conditions were split between the 12knots South Easter and a light NorthWester and the convergance zone.. We sailed well to weavethrough most of the lighter stuff and kept up with bigger boats, but the lower rating boats ruled supreme in that weather.. Towards the end once we were in good winds the Race Officer shortened the Club class, which meant we had to make a choice.., We opted to race with the bigger fleet and finished with club in line with previous races that we have already competed in for the series. Aboard were: Dale, Sieger, Dennis, Sandy, Walter and Leroy. Boat performed well.

Double Handed Race -26th May 2012

Start was in about 11knots.We managed an OK start with us rouding the in the back of the front bunch.. We immediatelty gybed and hoisted the spinnaker, the rest of the bunch delayed and then did a slow hoist.. Neccessity did not even use their kite.. Once we got going we gybed to a puff which allowed us to gybe under the fleet and give us a nice lead.. the wind started dying off to 4 knots.. which barely had us going. We rounded the leeward mark in first place, with us struggling on the beat to keep going with th elight breeze which allowed a J27, a class 2 boat to do a wonderfull catchup job on us. They were revelling in the lighter conditions and we were struggling in it... The fleet caught up with us a bit but we maintained our lead to the weather mark on the CLass 1 boats with the J27 pipping us there, we had a good downwind leg allowing us to pass the J27 but they had a shortened course so they could carry their kite past the mark and we needed to drop for the mark, so they passed us there again. We managed to pull out a bit on the next leg.. In the end we won our class.. Aboard were Dale and Ian.

PPS Challenge 19th December

This is a social race sponsored by PPS between all the industries. We sailed with the Legal guys... to make the numbers up, 3 regualr crew, namley Ian, Sieger and Dale plus 5 legal guys. The day had 46 entries.. light wind with lumpy seas and a wind the regressed slowly over the race.. Nice sailing and fun to be out racing, unfortunately we did not fare well. Boat performed well.

Saturday Sail -5 May 2012

With no club activity over the weekend, we decided to take the boat out for a sail anyway. Wind was around 12 knots South Wester, with a running swell... the Sail was good with the self steering doing most of the work. We got to do some reefing practise. Sail was good. No problems aboard. Aboard Were Ian And Dale.

SATURDAY SAIL -28 April 2012

With no racing on the calender planned, we decided to take a sail int he bay in any event.. the wind was a North Wester with just a little chop running and for the most of it a steady 14 knot wind.. We decided to mark off the following bouys on our GPS to ensure accuracy.. Landfall, Blouberg, Milnerton, Woodbridge and Paarden Island. A good sail was had.. Aboard were: Ian, Sieger and Dale. Boat performed well. No problems experienced.

Double Handed Race..21 April 2012

The conditions were foggy with the bridge only aggreeing to start if they could site the full start line.. they ran a postponement..There were a quess of about 20 entries. THe fog started clearing and they started in 12 knots of wind... We got a cracker of a start, allowing us to reach the weather mark first, ahead of the larger boats... We hoisted the kite and set off in the fog getting overhauled by the faster boats.... The fog was quite thick with us having to navigate.. we ended up about 50m too low for the mark with a quick strike and sailing the 50m with the main only while we set about sorting out the deck... allowing for a faster downwinder to get through as they made the mark dead on.. We rounded the mark and started on the new leg which was almost a full beat.... a few minutes later we were called on the radio by a fellow competitor as they were expereincing difficulties and they asked us to assist, so we radioed Race control advising them.. and left the race course to assist a fellow yacht. All was quickly sorted. Boat performed well, we picked up something before the start on the prop so we had very little power and no reverse thrust... Aboard were Dale and Ian.

CLUB BAY RACE 14 April 2012

Winds were around 10 knots at the start, a NW and a slight build up on the open water.. We got a good start and did fairly well but decided to duck the stb 34.7 who was on stb at clsoing in on the mark.. we did well on the downwind and sailed a technically good upwind pulling on the 34.7, again on the downwind we went a different route to the 34.7 feeling that the wind was shifting and it would help us, which it did, we pulled out some good distance, on the beat we sailed conservatively.. and did well to finish 2nd on corrected time. We found out speeds very similar to the 34.7, our main gains came from reading the shifts differently. Aboard were-Ian, Sieger and Dale. Boat performed well.

DELIVERY-Simonstown to Cape Town Easter Monday.

We departed Simonstown at 07h30.. with a light Southerly., We were expecting around 15 knots later in the day so we were hoping for some nice spinnaker sailing. We motored to Cape Point, At Cape Point the seas were confused and large after the large frontal system over the previous days.. Due to this we headed all the way to Bellows rock before turning due to the large breaks off South West Reefs.. The swells were forecasted at 4 metres. We then motor sailed all the way down the coast line. Some of the crew catching up on sleep or eating. We completed the passage in 9.5 hours. No sailing as there was only wind in the final approach to Cape Town. Aboard were: Leroy, Dennis, Steven and Dale. Boat performed well.

Easter Regatta -FBYC Simonstown

Some of the metal collected..

SAT:
Due to the Two Oceans Running race and all the pending road closures, we made an effort to get to Simonstown before all the closures with some of the crew opting to arrive later. There was a North Wester blowing.. We got an OK start, with us immediately Chasing the Simonis 35 Our Dianne, they had a touch of speed on us, with the extra waterline etc.. We sailed to Castor where we hoisted our spinnakers for Whittle Rock.. Our DIanne kept pulling on us, putting the pressure on us to gybe and keep with the wind, with them covering from below. As Whittle Approached rain squalls of 26knots started coming through.. Our Dianne led at the mark with some margin... we rounded up in the strong breeze seeing Our Dianne ahead, they were overpowered with their sail choice... they soon tacked off and we carried on sailing to break out of the squall and then tacked on their weather hip as the wind dropped to just below 20knots. The wind lifted and we pulled through Our Dianne with quite a margin as there was a big separation... We both sailed to the coast and then tacked up the coast with us placing the cover tack.. they were steadily closing the gap with speed. As we got closer to Glencairn they started to work higher to make the mark, on the face of it, it looked like they were through us, but with our local knowledge we also knew that it would head at the mark, so we kept up speed to take the knock, which did happen, we were then able to tack immediately and lay the mark whereas Our Diaane effectively needed to sail into the knock.. allowing us to maintain and increase out lead. In the end, we were over the line first and first on HAndicap.

Sun:

This race was in a predominant South Wester with fluctuations. We got an excellent starts.. and hoisted Spinnaker, but Our Dianne just had more speed and was soon able to pass us. They were ahead of us at Castor and again they were ahead and Glencairn.. then the long spinnaker run to Seal ISland.. at one stage it looked like we had chosen the right side of the shift but as we neared the island squalls came through which favoured their angle and we lost out.. the highest windspeed was 30knots.. we still had the kite up.. We rounded the island a few minutes behind them but after rounding the island the wind had died and we struggled to make headway.. while Our Dianne had found and stayed in more wind, allowing effectively for them to do a horizon job.. we eventually did get back into the wind and did a long take to the Surf break of Sunrise beach and then got lifted to Glencairn.. We were looking like we were recovering as initially they did not get the lift but it just kept on lifiting with us having to crack off and they got lifted to the mark. They were first on line and first on HAndicap.

The overall event was calcualted by putting the times of both races together and applying corrected time.. So we won the full event. Aboard were: Dale, Sieger, Leroy, Assaf, Dennis, Steven, Mark. Boat performed well.

Delivery to Simonstown 31st March 2012

Pic of Siger Rounding Cape Point.

We delivered the boat in preparation for the Easter Regatta, a club event which takes place in Simonstown...
Left Cape Town after 7:30am.. winds were Southerly 16 knots.. motored the first section in the lee of Sea Point..,.. Off Llandudno the winds were 20 knots with it settling down to about 9-11 knots by the time we reached Slangkop... We ended up motor sailing to Cape Point in a very slopppy sea with big swells.. After Cape Point we hoisted kite with the breeze increasing to the early 20's.. with the boat sailing nicely... We reached Simonstown roughly 9.5 hours after chucking off lines in CT. Aboard were Sieger and Dale. Boat performed well.

Double Handed Race 24 MArch 2012

Sailing aboard were Ian and Dale.. Strong Southerly... off the line quite conservative.. so needed to put the effort into catching up on the smaller boats.... We were able to hoist our kite straight after rounding the weather mark, in the strongish breeze and were able to comfortably gybe on the downwind... While on the downwind we decided to change to the J2(We started with a J4) in preparation for the upwind.. The downwind mark was Daeyang.. We dropped the kite just before this mark and rounded up just behind a 44.7.. then for the long beat back.. we worked the boat quite hard.. and read the wind right... which allowed us to finish soon after the 44.7..
We came first overall..

Mykonos Regatta 23/24 February 2012

FRI:
This was alomost as promised, the 60 odd NAutical mile dash down the coast.. With the usual no wind zone at the start followed by the struggle of whom would get to the breeze line first... well it was not us, by the time we hit the breeze line some of our nearest competitors were alreadzy past Paarden Island.. In the breeze we quickly got going.. round Paarden Island and the kite was up.. with breeze at around 25 knots.. we were quick... putting in gybes when closing in on Blouberg.. we sailed a mid route but suffered just past Robben Island with no wind... leaving us wollowing for 20 minutes which probbaly lost it for us... thereafter we had a great spinnaker sail.. with the best sailing in the Jutten Island area.. reaching goood speeds under kite.

SAT:
This was a pursuit race with us leading the full fleet until just short of Jutten where the wind died on us with a sloppy sea condition which is not good for a sunfast allowing the longer waterline boats to catch us and start to pass us....

Overall we tied for 4th on points but lost it on the tie breaker so we can 5th overall. Not bad for a first major event. Aboard were: Dale, HAns(who came down specially from Dubai), Ruan(back from travels) Leroy and Sieger. Boat performed well.

DELIVERY BACK:
This took place on the sunday morning(following day) we were fortunate that the full racing team were aboard.. we left early morning under motor in fog.. using the plotter to navigate.... we motored past Dassen while coooking breakfast(Stoves first use) and halfway to Robben Island picked up some breeze formt eh South West, so we were able to fetch for CT, deciding to take Robben ISland on the outside.. It was a great sail back...

FIRST RACE-11 Feb 2012

This was to be the first race... it happened to be a Double Handed Event, an event that we enjoy..
Sailing abaord were Ian and Dale. We got a good start in a light North Wester... we had to sail up a shipping lane and round a shipping mark.. as luck would have it, a ship was enroute through the racing zone so we had to chose a side, once we rounded the mark we had to quickly gybe in order to get behind the ship, gybe back and then hoist the kite... we managed to find wind in the rather benign conditions.... helping us to catch up with the fleet and had a reasonable beat back to the weather mark followed by a good downwind leg, with us having found and kept in the breeze the whole way.. the last leg was to the finished... we managed a second on corrected time.. which was really great.. boat performed well.. HAd a great day on the water..
Pics Courtesy of Theo and Shirley Van Der Hoek.

First Sail

The boat was launched on the 3rd January 2012. A few days later we took her for her first sail, accompanied by the sailmakers. Boat went well, we sailed in the lighter breeze and hoisted the full inventory. On finishing we worked back into the South Easter and did a brief beat in 33 knot of wind with the J4. All worked well abaord.

LAUNCH Cont..

LAUNCH

Boat was launced.. The Champagne for a later date. Starting of the engine.. etc...

BOAT PREP

The Boat was prepped by Diviing and Yachting Services(bottom and instruments) and the Rigging was done by Associatted Rigging.

BOAT ARRIVAL

Late in December the boat arrived. Due to high winds in the harbour there were delays in ship omovements within te ports.. Eventually the ship docked and the boat was brought through to Royal Cape Yacht Club for prep.