WED NITE 11 March 2009
Nice flat water and a buidling breeze. As the normal Wedneday Series had ended for us and we won it etc.. we chose to sail in a different class. We had a brilliant crew but we had not sailed fully together before with Spinnaker, nevertheless we decided that it would be fun. We started agressively, we thought that the boats around us, uncluding ourselves were over the line so we immediately tried to sail back to the line but did not hear our name called so we sailed on. Unfortunately we now had to contend with the dirty breeze from the bigger boats. This took about 3 minutes to clear so all in all we were already about 2 minutes down. We gybed on the weather mark and did a good hoist but had to contend with a small rap which was quickly resolved with a bit of handy work on the piano. On the beat it took us some time to settle down. As we settled down we started to get the boat going well with us slowly making up while trimming all the time, upwind and downwind. In the end we managed to come 3rd overall for this race. Not to bad. Aboard were: Ian, Siger, Michael, Massimo, Sandy, Elena, Raffaele, Franceco, Sarel,Dale. The only damage sustained was a mainsheet block.