The races now are coming home in the dark, and Auckland city was looking very Blade Runner when Tim took this pic.
The Crew
John (Captain), Nicola, Tim and Ian.With thoughts of the upcoming Route 66 firmly in our minds we had a few jobs to do and some teamwork to work out. Pointing for instance.
Course 6
The course was same as last week - down to Northern Leading Buoy... but this week a bit more wind... however the race was finished at Resolution, which was good a thing.The Start
We started well - early into the box and then hit the line with a bit of speed. The fleet was off and then not... the westerly wind died out - meaning the spinnakers of the 88's and 830's in the next division caught us before we got to Stanley Point.Progress
With our newly cleaned hull we 'drifted' along nicely with the fleet, only getting left behind as the wind rose. We made our way down to Northern Leading well, arriving just before Blackstar and another and yelling the 'no-overlap' call, however we couldn't hold the line pointing to Rough Rock Buoy and had to do an extra two tacks. That put us behind them. I was counting on the outgoing tide pulling us through which was reasonable but there was not quite enough and we had a boat length to make up.The Result
We were 4th on handicap by only a couple of seconds, so that extra tack cost us dearly - and with the Route 66 looking like being on-the-nose in both directions (there and back) we had better get out pointing working a bit better!Oh and the skippers $50 prize from Mariner Insurance was very well accepted by yours truly - breakfast for the crew at Marina Cove on Saturday morning paid for ;-)
JohnHS
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