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,