YOLO

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Friday, May 31, 2019

Monday, April 15, 2019

An event which we always enjoy, albeit numbers were really down. Sieger Yolo's trusty and long running crew member was delegated as skipper.

Getting a good start but light fickle conditions that followed, Sieger held his own, nice rounding at Paarden Island and managed to catch the windline as the SE started to push through. eventually caught in a hole with those behind catching the breeze. With a couple of good manouveres to avoid all collisions with those that don't abide by the riles at the leeward mark. Around the mark and then some really nice sailing... later in the race while approaching the weather mark on Starboard a Port tacker forced Yolo to tack in order to avoid a collision... later this same boat on the downwind caught up and overlapped to weather, in order to clear air Yolo started to head up.. but this boat was adamant, their overlap gave them rights.. no amount of telling them that it is a simple case of they are the weather boat and needed to keep clean made any sense to them. Dale even offered them to come to the boat afterwards to go through a rule book together. As this was a fun race, the protest flag was below.. In future the flag will be ready and deployed.. fun race or not... It is not fair to stand down, purely because there would have been a collision.

Well done to Sieger on sailing a good race. Unfortunately there was another hole at the finish line and we ended up wrong side of it... Still coming in 19th overall and 5th in age category(over 70).

Aboard were: Sieger, Dale, Ian, Antonio

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.

Thursday, March 14, 2019

WEDNESDAY NIGHT RACE 13th March 2019

This was the last race of the season. It was supposed to be the Flag Officers race, but it seemed to have turned out to be a Fun race. Yolo decided to do spinnaker class for a change.
Getting a good start, but called over so had to sail back and restart.. then sailing into a convergence zone, before getting to the breeze having lost out a bit, worked the breeze and shift to pull back a bit, around the laid mark to weather, kite up, gybe and worked the shifts downwind gybing again having made up good ground at the leeward mark there was no wind.. so worked through this zone till eventually into the SE and then a nice sail to the finish.. Finishing first in our class. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Sieger and Antoinio

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Wednesday Night Social Sail 20 February 2019

As we have missed all the Wednesday night races in the series to date.. with he boat being shipped back... Albeit we did some sailing on other boats.. it was decided that Yolo won't enter the last few races.. which could effect other boats overall results...
So we opted to go social sailing instead... with a SE of around 22knots.. we had some good sailing on the bay with flat water and enjoyed watching others race for a change...
Aboard were: Dale, Sieger, Cath, Antoinio, Arran And aa newby aboard Gavin.

Social Sail with Daniel and Friends.. 17 February 2019

Daniel chose not the have a party to celebrate his birthday, so instead opted to take a few friends out for a sail.. All wearing lifejackets and a basic safety

briefing, off for a sail, working to SE corner with winds in the early twenties a sail down the coast and then a reach to the centre of the bay where a light NW was blowing.. we spend the rest of the time sailing in the NW while viewing dolphins, seals, penguins and other sea birds. Everyone enjoyed. Aboard were: Dale and Antonio, plus Daniel(Dale's son) and friends, Finn, Michael, Sam and Jed.

Double Handed Race 16 February 2019

An early meet at the boat to give the deck a high pressure clean with salt walter… the South Easters have left a lot of fall out on the deck.. which will eventually require a polish.

Conditions were a NW, flat sea with winds in the early teens.. Getting a fair start but unable to tack as a Class B boat chose to over stand holding us off a bit, then a good fetch to first mark, a nice reach to Milnerton, a good beat back playing the shifts.. round landfall and a tight kite reach to Woodbridge followed by another bear which had wind fluctuations which we worked and around Number 8 with a fetch to the finish..
Overall we came first in our class. Aboard: Dale and Ian.

9 February 2019 Social Sail

SOCIAL SAIL 2 Feb 2019

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Wednesday evening sail on the 30/01/2019

Crew on board : Sieger, Wilhelm, Antonio, Aaron and Ian ( as skipper).

The crew gathered on Yolo, just back from her solo Cape to St Helena race, in which Dale did very well to get a 4^th place overall, in his solo entry.

We put the racing black sail back on the boom at the club, before proceeding out to Table Bay. The wind was averaging between 18 -30knts, though the wind speed indicator only showed 9 – 11knts!

We used the J4 upfront for good balance. We decided it was not worth it to enter the race, as we had already missed all the proceeding races for the series. So we reached off towards the Milnerton mark and sailed around, waiting for the big class 1 boats to arrive. And they did so in style. The powerful Cape Fling always impresses at 25+ knots and the more pedestrian Nitro was not too bad either as she screamed pass us. Not far behind three C31’s with Windpower hot on their heels.

After all the gybe action at the Milnerton mark, we reached off to Granger Bay for some more sedate sailing conditions. The dropped sails in the shelter of the V& A mall, and headed back the RCYC mariner, for some after action beers and a chat.

A great evening on the water. Good to be back on board Yolo…