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.
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