WED NIGHT RACE -3rd Feb 2010
Nice 10 not breeze. We were out testing our new mainsail. We got off to a good start and held our own to the "weather mark" we sailed a good downwind but ended up putting too many gybes in as we got to the leeward mark as we wanted to keep our air clear. In the end it did not pay opff and it cost us. The next leg had us sailing low as our navigator felt that the rest of the fleet was sailing too high. The result of which we ended up not laying the next mark, we lost some space here. The final beat was flukey with as taking a middle of the road course watching the water carefully.. in the end we caught up a bit with some of the boats ahead but Freedom went for the extreme left and gained on us and the rest of the fleet, leaving them to win on corrected time and us coming third. We were extremly happy with the new mainsail. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Dennis, Sarel, Kate, Gavin, Sieger and Michael. Boat peformed well.