WEDNESDAY NIGHT RACE 19 October 2016

Good Breeze on the bay., gusting to 30 in the starting area, but sea was flat.. Full mainsail and a J4.. only 4 aboard so a bit light.. Good start, but as the Class one yachts were starting with us. we slowly got rolled by a few.. we had our competition well placed though. Nicely around Paarden Island in a good pack, pole up and a fair run/reach to next mark managing to retain the inside at the mark, a smart rounding and a reach to the leeward mark fighting off a larger vessel trying to pass, eventually the two larger vessels ended up having their own tussle, approaching the mark Yolo took it conservative and did not fight for the inside with a Muira who was guarding it.. rounding on the outside and in their dirties so went off a bit of speed to clear the zone, then hardened up but was in a lower lane From behind came a larger boat who came up to the stern and started shouting weather boat and started pushing up, forcing Yolo to stall out to avoid contact.. Although this boat was not even racing in our class but was tail ending their class they felt that this was a good match... tsk tsk. As it was this incident cost us first place in our class on corrected time.. After this incident Yolo had to tack away to clear air, which was the header tack and did a short leg and then tacked back, but had to start dipping behind boats on the tack back.. which would not have been the case if the incident had not happened.... putting us in a different lane. we even lost placings with our competition in the process.. tacking back for Harken Mark, then around Harken and to the finish. 2nd in Class, Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Sieger and Cath.