Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Double Handed Race 30th March 2019

Possibly the start of the season which had the potential of allowing Yolo to pull a nice distance ahead... but soon after the start there was commercial shipping where tugs were about to begin pilotage on a ship.. although we could have cleared it, we fell in line with the Colreg rules and bore away and had to sail around it, putting us behind out competition.(Begs the question, should we be racing along shipping lanes) notwithstanding this, it gave us the challenge to try and make up the distance.. we worked the upwind leg, looking for puffs and shifts, round the weather mark second and a few seconds ahead of Tin Tin.. a nice reach in light conditions with us making initial ground till Tin Tin got going which had them closing the gap... Landfall was the leeward mark which was in fog.. with us neck and neck with Ballyhoo, with us getting the inside and gybing the kite.. they opted not to kite. Te next leg was very tight and mostly in the fog.. with the boat fully powered up, going neck and neck with Ballyhoo, Tin Tin struggled to hold a lane and lost out.. with Yolo finishing a few seconds behind the first boat an first by a comfortable margin under handicap. Aboard were: Dale and Ian.

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