First race of the new year.. A perfect Summers evening in Cape Town.. Around 30 degrees.. with the breeze ranging between 8-14 knots. Normally we don't bother with spinnaker class on a Wed, but it would seem that our normal class this season has watered down giving us very few other boats to sail against, so we decided to sail Spinnaker Class...
Spinnaker Class has all the Spinnaker boats starting together, but with each class sailing a different course.
Yolo opted to start further down the line on the hope of stronger breeze and a lift being found.. It lifted but not enough.. with Yolo having to try and sail a shift or two to make the weather mark still in the range. Quick kite hoist and a nice reach off to Milnerton mark keeping us within range. A nice beat back to Paarden Island followed by a gybe and a hoist with us making for Woodbridge. Winds in the meantime were around 12-13 knots with a flat sea making for some great sailing. From Woodbridge a beat up.. With Yolo taking it conservatively as essentially it is handicap sailing and we were just sailing for time... Round Paarden Island and kite to the finish.. With us finishing around 40 seconds behind the lead boat giving us a win in the class. Aboard we had: Ian, Dale, Sieger, Shane, Mark, Guest:Simon(who we will try and make a regular) and visiting SA from Australia, Walter Page who was a regular member of the team till he emigrated. Boat performed well.
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