Monday, May 23, 2016

Hout Bay Cruise 21/22 May 2016

Hout Bay Cruise being a firm favourite.. Yolo departed CT at 13h00... unfortunately no wind, so it became a motor there.. but nice and scenic.. and good to spend some R&R time aboard. Conditions were sublime, with a bit of wind off kabonkelberg, where we managed to catch a few of the boats who left 2 hours before us as they went offshore in search of wind. We arrived at 16h30. Moored on a really great mooring.. and had drinks aboard. Later being joined by some of our crew, then off the HBYC and then we decided to eat in a locla restaurant.. and then back to the Club after which to the boat for Irish Coffees.. Thanks to Cath and Shane who joined us for a while in Hout Bay. Sunday morning up, a walk around the marina and then breakfast in the local yachtclub.. followed by a cruise back with all boats rounding the breakwater at 11h00. No wind again so it was a motor back which took approximately 3.5 hours. Once back a tidy away and drinks aboar. All went well. Aboard were Dale and Ian.. and joined in HBYC by Shane and Cath.

Monday, May 16, 2016

DOUBLE HANDED RACE 14 September 2016

Last race of the Double handed series for the season.. Nice 11 knots in the start area with flat seas.. Yolo getting a "neutral" start... and working to the puffs to keep the speed up, wind rapidly died down to 6 knots and a slight swell started to pull though as the boats made way into the bay and closer to the first mark Landfall, closing in on the mark, there was a wind shift that bode well with a touch more breeze, once around the mark, kite up and a reach back to Paarden Eiland.. the wind was patchy, so worked hard to keep the boat going. There was an incredible amount of Jelly fish in the water.. The same as we have encountered before when sailing close to the Namibian coastline, but unsual for Table Bay. As we got closer to Paarden Eiland the winds started to pull through a bit, making a nice approach.. We had by this time, taken out quite some distance in the fleet having been fortunate to have stayed in breeze most of the time.. Tenacity was the only boat close to us, who rounded shortly after we rounded PE. The course was shortened so just a beat to the finish.. Which was good sailing with sufficient breeze. We crossed the line first and first on corrected time. Yolo Scored 4 firsts in the series.. thus first overall. Aboard were; Dale and Ian.

Friday, May 6, 2016

Mossel Bay Race

Dale has thrown his lot in to assist in getting the Mossel Bay Race firmly back on the map. This race takes the format as follows: Starts on Thursday 9am, 29th September in Simonstown (Simonstown to Mossel Bay, being the original course)... There is a all night bar and Breakfast that will be available on the Friday night/Saturday morning. Prize giving will happen the following week, this allows the weekend for all the boats to return back to their home ports. Yolo is planning on entering and likely to race Double handed as part of the qualifier required for the Cape to Rio Yacht Race.