It was a very rusty and hung over FarrOut crew that made it out of Weymouth harbour on sunday morning. It was blowing quite hard from the east and our broken engine couldn't deliver us enough power meaning that we had to short tack out of the harbour causing a bit of drama first thing and a desperate scrabble to get the headsail up.
We went for a conservative sail plan of No. 4 headsail and full main, which maybe left us underpowered at times but not on our ears at others.....ho hum always a difficult choice. It was blowing at least 20 and with some seas that tended to keep our speed down to windward. With an excellent turnout in the IRC class (9 boats) and a poor turnout in PY, only 1 boat so Rumrunner opted to sail around behind us. We were deemed OCS and dipped back and then touched a mark so did a penalty turn, this as well as having a nasty kite wrap caused us to pick-up 9 points!
With lighter airs forecast next week we might do better.
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