FBYC EASTER REGATTA
SAT:
This was a pursuit race witht he first boats getting off at 12h30 and us the last boat at 13h40. The course was a start, Castor, Bakoven rock, a bouy off Seal Island and finish. Winds were perfectly steady allowing nice powered up sailing. Using local knowledge we quickly started catching up en route to Bakoven rock. We hoisted the Kite and reached down to Seal Island catching more boats as they delayed hoisting as they probably felt the leg was too tight. At the leeward mark there were only three boats left to pass before Simons Town. We managed to take the lead just before Castor. As we neared the Bullnose we realized that there was no wind bekoynd that ands the little that would be found would come from another direction. We manaouvered as best as possible to get the best gain out of this. Red Bull behind us managed to maintain wind the whole way in but we managed to catch a puff just beofre them, quite near the line which allowed us to take first place. It was great sailing conditions in clean water...
SUN:
This was a Longer round the bouys race using the follwing as marks: Paddlers, Castor, Phoenix, a bouy in Fish Hoek. We had a good start putting us ahead on line almost immedaitely allowing us to focus on making up time. This we checked at each bouy and calculated. Using local knowledge we were able to pull huge gains and alwasy knew where to find the wind. This was a great race in perfect sailing conditions. We won on corrected time.
Overall we won the event. Aboard were: Ian and his brother Sean from New Zealand, Massimo, Michael, Siger and Dale. Boat performed well with no problems.
SAT:
This was a pursuit race witht he first boats getting off at 12h30 and us the last boat at 13h40. The course was a start, Castor, Bakoven rock, a bouy off Seal Island and finish. Winds were perfectly steady allowing nice powered up sailing. Using local knowledge we quickly started catching up en route to Bakoven rock. We hoisted the Kite and reached down to Seal Island catching more boats as they delayed hoisting as they probably felt the leg was too tight. At the leeward mark there were only three boats left to pass before Simons Town. We managed to take the lead just before Castor. As we neared the Bullnose we realized that there was no wind bekoynd that ands the little that would be found would come from another direction. We manaouvered as best as possible to get the best gain out of this. Red Bull behind us managed to maintain wind the whole way in but we managed to catch a puff just beofre them, quite near the line which allowed us to take first place. It was great sailing conditions in clean water...
SUN:
This was a Longer round the bouys race using the follwing as marks: Paddlers, Castor, Phoenix, a bouy in Fish Hoek. We had a good start putting us ahead on line almost immedaitely allowing us to focus on making up time. This we checked at each bouy and calculated. Using local knowledge we were able to pull huge gains and alwasy knew where to find the wind. This was a great race in perfect sailing conditions. We won on corrected time.
Overall we won the event. Aboard were: Ian and his brother Sean from New Zealand, Massimo, Michael, Siger and Dale. Boat performed well with no problems.
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