Double Handed Race -19 January 2013

First Double handed race of the new year.. Nice entry but a few missing in Class 1 for understandable reasons. Nice breeze on the bay, as we felt that it would increase we opted for to use the J4. Winds were around 16knots at the start. We chose to start lower down the line, to give us a clean start and we could easily lay Paarden Islend from there. We got going with the only boat to overhaul us from weather was Tenacity with her longer waterline.. She managed to round Paarden Island just ahead of Yolo. Yolo rounded and went deeper and started to hoist her kite.. with Tenacity opting not to use her kite. Yolo got going, but got caught for a while in Tenacity's lee.. after breaking free Yolo make good distance ahead.. winds gusted to around 25 for this leg.. Yolo did a conservative early drop and Gybed for No 8 and fetched across the bay.. Tenacity closed in a bit on this leg. With the beat up Yolo got the lay line just right and pulled out a bit.. using the Spinnaker on the next leg again which allowed further pulling out.. On the next beat Yolo sailed well. NExt leg to the finish, Yolo decided to try kite it.. but unfornately the Sheet came off the kite just before time to sheet so we had to drop the kite again.. Yolo came first on line and first on Handicap.. yay.. However she was the only one in her class who braved hoisiting her kite.. Aboard were: Dale and Ian. Boat performed well.