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It was worth waiting for! What a magic race- our best start and everything went perfectly. Every action and decision out of the textbook. And the improvement in technique- dropping the spinnaker into the fore-hatch and then raising it without having to pack it and all the hassle and delays caused by it; the trimming of sails was as good as can be achieved. Not even the lack of instrumentation seemed to matter. No COG/SOG, log or wind instrumentation. Is there a message there somewhere?
Out of curiosity, I looked up the derivation of the word "spinnaker"- it records that it came from the name of the first yacht to fly one- it was the "Sphinx". Clear as mud. Perhaps it would be more accurate to call them sphinxters.
It appears that Saturday is the favoured day to take M around to Simonstown. We should then leave reasonably early, say 08h00, all depending on the weather. Please let me know if you would like to participate- Ceri, Dave, AndrewM, AndyM, Mikey and PaulE said they were keen. It would be great if Carl could join us- Andy, see if he can make it. DEPENDING ON WEATHER.
The regatta is on the 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th and 26th and is always fun with totally unpredictable conditions. From 0 to 50knots. The strangest was when we were taking M around to Simonstown before the race and we were hit by a 40kn NW- we had our old main which proceded to split horizontally when we were in False Bay beating into the wind- I'm sure all those that were on board will remember sitting with all our fingers crossed hoping that it would not tear completely which was, fortunately, the case. Please let me know if you CANNOT make it- that includes our travelling man, Simon.
All the best and congrats to our team on Saturday!
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