Wed Nite Race-27th Feb 2013

Nice Westerly blowing at the start.. Yolo managed to get a good start at the lee end of the line tacking away immediately and managed to lay the first mark and clear the yachts still on Starboard. Once Around number 4, it was a downwind sail to Milnerton in varying strenth conditions... On the downwind we had to dodge kelp catching some on the way.. Two boats managed to pass us on the downwind. On the upwind, en route to Number 8, again the kelp was a hazard with us catching some. the breeze was also up and down. In gthe end, we came third in our class. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Sarel, Gordon and welcoming back to Sieger who has just recovered from surgery.

RETURN DELIVERY-Mykonos-CT -24th Feb 2013

We departed Mykonos at 05h40 under motor.. putting the main up as we crossed the bay. Sun started rising and found some nice wind off the heads.. As we knew it was localized kept to motor sailing. In the end we motor sailed all the way back to CT. Saw a few whales. Boat performed well. No problems. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, HAns and Kenwyn.

MYKONOS RACE 22/23 February 2013

FRIDAY: Light fickle winds at the start.. We chose a conservative start. Soon after the start it was decided to sail down to Blouberg where we felt we would pick up more breeze. We started off with the Code Zero, later switching to the jib. The boats around us stuck to their course of sailing outside Robben Island, with us opting for the inside. We slowly picked up more breeze on the shore line, with us tacking our way up the coast in the light conditions.. We had taken some room out on the boats that were with us at the start but near Bokpoint some of them closed in on us again with them joining us ont he shoreline.. Conditions got lighter and around 2NM short of Dassen Island(gate) the sun started setting and we realized that it would be unlikley that we could make the cout of time of midnight.. so we retired from the race.. In the end we motored to Mykonos and docked at midnight. A very frustrating day... not many boat completed the course. SATURDAY: Light breeze from the South.. We started on pin(Pursuit Start) with good speed and made our way up the beat, perhpas reading it a bit wrong so lost a few boat lenths on the way, on the downwind we started with a kite but later changed to the Code Zero.. IN the end we probbaly held the Code Zero for too long and could have perhpaps gone back to the Kite.. the next few legs were sailed optimally. In the end we managed a 5th place against the fleet in that Race.. Aboard Were: Dale, Ian, Kenwyn Daniels, Phillipa and Hans and CLarence who came in from Dubai for this event. Boat performed well.. no problems,

WED NITE -13 Feb 2013

With a Westerly wind runnign a bit out of the ordinary.. with 20 knots in the starting area.. a difficult call on the genoa.. but in the end, a bit of local knowledge and downwind legs prompted the call for the J2.. a lot of the fleet had much smaller jibs up.. It was one of those days where one gets a perfect start in a pack.. going at full pace on the gun.. Within minutes we were able to settle down, were to weather with clear breeze and was able to command the fleet. Already we felt our gain to win the race was had at the start... the beat was tricky, we again were able to read it correctly which increased our lead. followed by two downwind legs with the wind just aft of the beam.. Due to the start and the part of the upwond(and most cometitors with small jibs up going into lighter breeze) we were able to pull out and win nicely under handicap.. Aboard were: Ian, Phillipa, Sarel, Gordon Kling, Sophie and friend and Dale. Boat performed well.

FLING REGATTA -+1/2/3 Feb 2013

FRIDAY: First race was a race starting at 5pm on the Friday evening.. Winds were just over 20 knots at the start but quickly built with the highest wind reading during the race of 37knots... We sailed a conservative race using the spinnaker most of the time.. clocking up a top speed of around 15knots.. SATURDAY: Winds were over the 30's in the harbour, race orginzers opted to try and set a course in the lee of the mountain hoping for a Westerly.. Unfortunately this made for tricky flukey conditions but kept the yachts out of the 40 something breeze on the bay.. We struggled in the light winds and choppy seas. SUNDAY: THis time it was blowing hard and again opted to sail in the Granger BAy area where there was a 20-30 knots breeze blowing. We sailed conservatily.. Albeit on the last leg we made a mistake and caused a bit of damage.. All in all, a very heavy wind regatta.. In these conditions sailing gainst the 40 footers in the same class makes no sense.. as we quickly lose range with them. Aboard were: Dale, IAn, Phillipa, Kenwyn, Petrie, Michael and Heidi, Steve White.