Sunday, June 23, 2013

The wind is definitely beneath our wings

After our triumph at the Manly Women's Yacht Challenge Cheshire Cat's mighty crew have kept up the   pace.

At the Balmain Sailing Club's presentation night dinner we won two firsts, three seconds and a third. We had our hands on a lovely trophy for a minute but it ended up staying at the club.

 But we got a tasteful and space-saving trophy to take home.


Then the Winter Series began. I was away but the team sailed under skipper John and came 4th. Very clever. The winter series includes Balmain, Drummoyne and Greenwich clubs so there are lots of boats out there. 





Our well set spinnaker
When I got home my ebay spinnaker arrived in the post so there were no excuses. Dee came up from Melbourne for a training race with the Hammo crew. Jenni was struck down with gastro but the rest of us threw caution to the winds and up went the spinnaker. And it worked. It fits and we didn't get a twist or a tangle. Celine and Karen were faultless on foredeck, Julie trimmed like she had been doing it all her life, Laine managed the main and the stings as if he had three hands and Dee kept us all focussed like the winners we plan to be. We hoisted twice in the race, with a thrilling spinnaker finish as we managed to stay ahead of two boats in the division above us, and then just for the hell of it gybed a few times for practise because it turns out we can. We were fortunate that the wind was light. We probably would not be so cocky if there had been more breeze.





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