May 18 2011, Another Wednesday night race!

For an old sea lady of 38, I'm sure doing a lot of racing with Hank and Paul, (our other crew member). Last night they took me on a race with 15 - 20 knot winds. Even though he reefed my jib to 50%, I still heeled over to my rails, with waves breaking over my bow.When 10 boats racing, we came in only 7th!!! not good for a good old lady like me.
to recap...

1. Hank got to the start line too early and had to run down the line to the marker. Unfortunately, we ran out of start line and had to jbye, now on a port tack heading into the fleet who are on a starboard tack... not good... we lost at least 3 - 4 minutes.
2. During one tack, our starboard winch was wrapped to many time and the winch knotted; we had to pull up into irons and undo the knot. lost 3 minutes.
3. During a port tack run, we had to give way to another race boat on a starboard tack. Hank was hoping to slow a bit and pass on his stern, but another race boat was just up wind on our starboard side. So we had to do an emergency tack. Paul was still on the windward side so he to scrabble to get to the sheets. Lost about 1 minute.
4. Estimate time lost 7 minutes.... we could of placed 2nd if all went well... but that's racing eh!

1		Radiance		David Chard	WVYC					40:02	1.0
2		Mystique		George Streadwick	WVYC					42:08	2.0
3		Equilibrium		Bob Johnson	EHYC					42:28	3.0
4		Avontuur		Dave Bruynesteyn	WVYC					42:45	4.0
5		Lopeka		Jason Bowman	WVYC					45:13	5.0
6		Silver Shadow		Bev Parslow	WVYC					47:28	6.0
7		Tarka		Hank Schut	WVYC					48:37	7.0
8		Wildwind		Gary Wildman	WVYC					1:29	8.0
9		Baloo		John Noble	WVYC					1:27	9.0
10		Lark Not Registered									10.0
11		Solaris		Rand Thompson	WVYC	209			DNC		12.0

Well you can see from above, it does not take too many minutes too loose / win. :)

Afterwards, Hank went for a great dinner with Jason and Andrew at the Yacht club... Paul had to go home - family committment.