Cape Town Race Week 11/12/13/16

Race 1 -Being a late afternoon race, winds were a bit light for the first part of the race which had Yolo hanging in, but sailed the side with the slightly lighter breeze for the first half.. which relegated us to the back of the fleet...

Race 2- Light breeze with a nice swell to work. SW.. Yolo did well to manage a second place in this race.

Race 3-A "middle distance" race using Barker rock as a rounding mark.. Yolo started well and was looking good, while playing the shifts... but got caught on the wrong side of a shift.. which cost distance.. on the downwind though, saw the change in the winds and optimised on this after the roudnign mark and kept it up for the next leg.. giving Yolo a first in this race.

Race 4- The medium distance race.. down to Koeberg and back... perhaps a wait of 15 minutes would have allowed the winds to settle down.. resulting in there being lots of shifts and "whirlies" till half way up the beat when the breeze settled down.. by then Yolo was not in the best position.. but still hanging in there... a downwind leg to Koeberg which was pleasant.. and then a beat back.. on route back the wind shifted to SE and picked up to very strong.. this allowed the bigger boats to benefit

as they were much further up on the course when this happened.. so they needed to sail less distance in the harder breeze.. and were better suited to it...