DELIVERY TO SIMONSTOWN 15 Sept 16

The 15th looked like the best weather window for a while and the boat needed to get to Simonstown for the MBR. Departed RCYC rounding the breakwater at 7h45.. two sail reached to Moullie Point light and then hoisted the Kite. The breeze was filling in nicely with the boat settling down to some nice sailing, eventually picking upto around 18 knots, with a few shifts which necessitated putting in two gybes.. with the wind increasing the kite was changed to the heavy weather kite. Seas were flattish, but there was still a comfortable SW swell which we were pushing into. Breeze kept on picking up with the boat maintaining good speeds sailing down the coastline.. Nearing SW reefs, the wind was gusting 25 plus, so went conservative and dropped the kite and poled out jib for a while.. then reached upto SW reefs in breeze that had picked upto 28 steady for a while.. Went very wide at the reefs then heading for Cape Point and around. took a long tack into the bay, hoping for a favorable shift, unfortunately it went the other way.. so tacked inshore where the water was flatter and sailed up the coastline.. rounding the bullnose at 15h45, exactly 8 hours after starting.. We could have made up more time cutting in on SW reefs and not going so deep into the bay.. Boat went well.. Aboard was: Dale.

Sat 10th Sept 2016..

The goal of this sail was to attend to a number of small items and testing.. A nice day with a S, SE blowing.. Picking up nicely through the afternoon.. Off moorings and first order of business was to do some calibration work on the rudders. The initial work was done in the harbour.. with a noted adjustment been made. Then hoist sails and off into the bay. First order of business was to put a reef in and see that everything was sized up, then the second reef… Once completed, reefs out.. and a nice beam reach across the bay to Milnerton. This leg was used to compare the calibrations, which was found to be much improved… then a sail back to the harbour wall.. Dale wanted to change the calibration further… so boat was depowered and the adjustments were made.. then a sail across the bay.. the sentiment now was that the rudders seemed to be operating at efficiency. Then a sail back to the harbour… where some spinlock jammers were replaced and certain fittings were removed and resealed on refitment as they had been leaking. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Sieger, Shane and Cath.