A usual Wednesday evening breeze on the bay.. winds mainly
in the early 20’s with the odd puff.. highest recorded was 31 knots… but most
of the time well below that.
Yolo got off to a good start nicely positioned and for a
change was not rolled by the bigger boats… giving a good leg to the first
mark.. then sailed for the leeward mark winking the boat in the puffs… took it
conservatively around Milnerton which was to be a gybe followed by a beam reach
to the offset. There were a few boats struggling with the gybe and managed to
sail around them all, the boats behind us seemed to be pushing the rules at the
mark making for some exciting spectator stuff… once on the beam reached we were
quickly being hauled in by a bigger boat which necessitating us sailing higher
to clear our breeze.. eventually soaking down to the mark with a boat length or
two to spare.. good beat with the crew working hard for max speed all the way
to the weather mark and then a sublime reach to the finish. It was good to be
back aboard. YOLO’s first Wednesday race this year. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Sieger,
Cath, Arran, Antonio and Manda.
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