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.
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