With A Northerly blowing, with rain etc.. and forecasted to have a freshening breeze, this deterred some of the sailors, not all.
On board Yolo we took it conservatively knowing that it would be a bumpy ride to the first mark.. electing to use a J4 and one tuck in the main. We had a conservative start.. as did most of the fleet due to the sea state.. winds were mainly in the early 20's so not too bad...Chop was steep, but not too high. No waves had built up yet.It was mainly a one tack beat to Daeyang, with Yolo trying out different heavy weather techniques.. to varying degrees of success. A short tack on Port followed by a rounding of the mark.. Baring away and immediately dropping the reef(and picked up kelp, which we could not shake off the entire leg).. We were planning on hoisting the kite, but with no one else doing it.. and not being part of the whole series, we decided not to bother...
We gybed, poled out the jib and sailed a mundane downwind leg to the finish. Pity we had the kelp and we could easily have handled then kite..
After finishing, we went into the harbour and backed up, with the kelp coming up.. confirming our concerns.
Boat performed well. We came 4th in the race. Aboard were: Dale and Ian.
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