Wednesday Night Race -19th November 2013

Light and fickle at the start... with it being patchy.. At the five minutes the call was made to raise the genoa. Unfortunately it was not clipped on properly, so the halyard went to the top of the mast.. Quick rush to get the bosun's chair and strap on, go up the mast, retrieve the halyard get down and clip on and hoist.. has the halyard up just as the gun went.. Alas due to the wind with the main only Yolo was still far from the start line. It took almost 2 minutes for YOLO to cross the start. IN the meantime the front boats had made a few boat lengths as they picked up the puffs etc.. Eventually breeze came through and the chase was on. YOLO rounded the first mark far behind where she should be.. On the downwind worked the puffs to try and gain... executed a good rounding at the leeward mark and then began to work all the shift on the beat again. This helps to catch up with some of the boats ahead.. IN the end, Yolo managed to pull back to a third overall. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Sieger, Sarel, Jenna, Guest Steve and Owen. Boat performed well.