RISK SA- Sat 26th October 2013

This Risk SA is a new concept.. put together by RCYC and Risk SA involving teams made up of insurance companies or related to insurance industry paired up to racing crew on yachts where they can compete against each other. this is a high level event, starting with a Black tie event on the Friday evening and culminating with the prize giving on the Saturday evening.. which took place as a full banquet type event. kudos to Risk SA and the RCYC team. Now back to the Race. The weather was not as predicted, with 25-35knots actually blowing.. with Safety being the name of the game.. most boats opted to be conservative with crews who had little or no experience in sailing. Yolo opted for the conservative route, hoisting a J4 and put a reef in the mainsail.. With the reef in the mainsail, downwind performance would have been hindered as other boats had full mains.. and in fact hoisted their largest jibs for those legs.. Yolo started with an average start, opting to stay out the fray, Hark was the first mark which could be laid on one tack.. after which the Coke can was next. Yolo poled the foresail out.. and work downwind.. but lost some ground due to the smaller main.. on the upwind managed to pick up a place or two.. but not enough to make sufficient time up.. IN fact from the middle of the downwind there was probably no change in overall positions from then to the actual finish on corrected time.. The rest of the race was pretty much standard. Those aboard Yolo had a great time.. and enjoyed a great day on the water. Yolo had a great time, no problems aboard.. Aboard were: dale, Ian and Sieger from the regular crew, plus 5 great people from One financial services..