Better late than never, here is my report on our first completed race ever in Temerity, RYC’s Big Daddy pursuit race which was held back on March 15. Crew for the day was David, guest sailor/blogger Edward (who has his own very nice report up), Annika, Char, and Michael.
The route. After some shilly-shallying, we chose CCW, or did it choose us? Pretty painful with the #2 up in light air, getting rolled over and over, but we were glad of it on the reach down to Alcatraz (curiously not on the map). Char was responsible for the upwind work in Raccoon Straight.
Speed as recorded on the GPS. The three legs of the race are pretty distinct. Pretty exciting there in the end, kissing 9kts with the 0.6 oz blue kite up. Pretty exciting getting the kite down on the wrong side, too, and entertaining the rest of the fleet in the ensuing shrimp-fest.
Crew enjoys hot chocolate race-day morning.
The next Sam Davies (?), spokesmodel for Gill junior foulies.
Char driving.
Char rocks!
At the end, we were DFL – 1, which is an improvement over DNF. Next year we will beat 10 boats, the year after that? We will see!
Sounds like a most excellent day on the water. Congratulations on your race and kudos to your crew!