On a blustery, rainy sunday morning the second and third races of the YCW spring series were held. Again, a disappointing show in IRC with just ourseleves and Wildfire the 36.7 turning out.
We had a bit of an issue as Adam was unavailable to do the bow, and try as I might I just couldn't get more people to join us. So Alice, Steve and myself were joined by Ben who was really thrown into the deep-end on the foredeck. Because of this we decided that we would only use the asymmetric and gybe downwind if we had to. Whilst practicing before the race we had the kite wrap of all wraps and went so far downwind that we were late over the start line. It all went better after that in race 2 but the downwind leg probably lost it for us, although we did judge the gybe angle perfectly and that's something that isn't as easy as it would appear. Second by about 2 mins corrected.
The second race of the day started with some controvosy as we had a tussle with Echo at the pin end, after the gun and them probably closer winded than we are. We soon drove over the top and were away. The triangle leg was good for us as we tronked along at 8.5-9.0 knots. The run on the sausage leg was deemed so deep pre-start that we had no other option than to rig a symmetrical kite. We did well down here with the wind swinging to put us on the mark without having to gybe, phew! We lost to Wildfire by 3 seconds corrected. Happy about that as they've got new sails and a full pop-star crew, and sailed well enough to deserve it -especially after the slightly dodgy result last week.
Upwind we sometimes had issues and we didn't really have enough weight on the rail. Ben and Alice both did exceptional jobs. Good fun even though it rained.
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