V&A Temp Mooring

With Lipton Cup around the corner, all boats moored in the front row have been requested to relocate to the V&A in order for the L26's that are competing to take up the front marinas... YOLO has therefore relocated for the next few weeks to the V&A. See pic of boat at temp mooring.

Portugal Day Race 11 June 2016

A firm favourite club event celebrating Portugal Day.. and the history the Portuguese navigators had accomplished. The original format of this event was a much longer distance race, upon completion log books were also examined and judged, nowadays a fun pursuit race which draws good numbers. Xtra-Link Yolo had not been out racing for a while, so it was good to be out again. A chilly winters SE wind of around 20 knots blew.. Getting a fair start, a fetch off to Woodbridge.. with the J2 up.. gybed around and fetched to Number 8 another gybe and kite up en route to Blouberg mark.. a slow hoist... not getting the kite all the way to the top delayed and made us sail free till this was done.. which had us trying to clear a ship but the angle had become to tight so eventually had to bear away and sail below this ship.. the rest of the reach leg was pleasant.. and changed down to a smaller jib as the wind had freshened.. good strike of kite and gybe around.. At this point Xtra-Link Yolo was hauling int eh slower boats, but some were sailing too high and in order not to be caught up, had to sail through the lee of some of these boats costing time.. A good rounding of Landfall mark with a good beat to the finish. Nearing the breakwater a ship was exiting and blowing their horn... a competitor ignored this and carried on sailing across their bows, we put in a number of tacks to sail close to the breakwater and tacked back once around it.. In the end Xtra-Link Yolo scored a third place in this event... Which was very good as generally Yolo does not feature in the Pursuit type races. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Sieger, Cath and Tony Cassar. Boat performed well.