WED NITE FUN RACE
With the new season upon us, the first Wednesday night race was a fun race(not part of the series). There was a light breeze of between 6-11knots and a bit of a slop which does not help.
We got an excellent start on the line in the best place, our sisterships were way off the mark. We managed to round the first bouy first ahead of the faster boats and poled out for Milnerton mark. The rest of the fleet rounded and tired to two sail reach for the mark, we were the only ones to use the pole which we carried till almost at the mark. We pulled a lot using the pole on the downwind. We rounded and beat back to the weather mark suffering a bit in the slop and the lulls with one of the faster boats steadily closing the gap on us.. We still managed to round weather mark first and cross the finish line first. We won on handicap. Aboard were: Dale, Ian,Dennis, Massimo, Sarel. The boat performed well. Everyone was pleased to be sailing again.