FLAG OFFICERS RACE - 5 December 2009
We were contacted by the Honarary treasurer to take part int he Flag Officers Race as a member of his team.. We met early to use the time to prep the boat for Crocs Raggata. We removed any unneccessary items aboard and prepared our racing inventory.. We completed some of the maintainance items aboard at the same time. Afterwhich we went out sailing. A SW was blowing, around 9-12knots.. Good start, good first leg. Unfortunately we had to dip a moving ship which allowed those behind us to catch up a bit. 3rd around the weather mark. Good Kite hoist. We sailed this leg well with one Gybe which was well executed. AL sails a lot faster then us on the downwind and got through us. On the beat we ended up tacking early which cost us two places.. We used the Code Zero on the last leg. We came 3rd on corrected time and our team came third. On board were: Dennis, Michael, Sarel, Sieger, Riaan and Dale. Boat performed well with no problems.. Deon was down before racing to help with the alteration to the traveller...