Wednesday night Race(2nd in series)
Nice South Eater Blowing. It was a tighht start with lots of barging resulting in us being pushed and a altercation with an innocent boat. When the gun went we decided that we were over the line and went back and restarted which cost us some time. We sailed a good first leg, mainly in dirty winds. On the downwind we cleared our air and ventually caught the stern wave of one of the 50 footers coming through which gave us a tow. We gybed on the inside of everyone at the mark and managed to catch a tow on Majimoto for the whole of the next leg which really pulled us up in the fleet. We hardened up for the beat with the wind now blowing quite strongly. We judged the layline and tacked. On this part we were able to overtake Majimoto. We needed to do a hitch to lay the mark. At the mark we struggled to bear away and gybe but once we had done that it was a good sail to the leeward mark hardening up to beat for the finish with one tack. We came second overall being beaten by the catamaran. We felt that we had sailed a good race. If we were not over the line(we thought we were, by miles, not sure if the bridge saw though as there were others ahead of us) and did not go back we might have one. We sailed good legs and good lay lines and roundings which helped make up the time. Aboard were: Dale, Ian, Walter, Sarel, Siger, Mivhael V, Matej, Mark D. Boat performed well, pulpit needs to be straightened.