Friday 30 July 2010

Ladies Race @ WSC, Tracy helms.

Our star helm for the ladies race was Tracy. Despite only having helmed a boat for a few hours before and being seriously limited in her tacking and gybing experience, she did really well with the minimum of guidance / shouting from us.

The closest thing was a near coming together with X99 Excalibur but that was caused by their lady helm and not ours!

We had a little bit of trouble when the middle of the boat called for the asymmetric, the front of the boat (me) rigged a sheet wrong and then the back of the boat gybed way too early. It all got sorted out but did mean an up the mast inspection later on!

All in all good fun. Unfortunately the single handed race next week has been cancelled, something about bar takings! So we can look forward to an all-in start average lap race - what's the betting that's going to be on a dying breeze?

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