Around 42 degrees at start time, almost 25 degrees below normal yesterday. But, still a great turnout for the GBCA Icicle Rum Race #5. It's also their "Judge Smails Regatta" and some came out in costume. My costume was a hat this year.
We did lousy. First two legs were both upwind with almost constant headers, last leg DDW. No reaching at all to give us any kind of a chance. We did manage to pass a Hunter 41, a Catalina 380, and a Jeanneau 44 on the last leg wing on wing.
A couple new crew members for this race, some forum posters may be familiar with one of them. When I was editing the video, I was wondering what the 59 year old was doing on the winch while the 19 year old was at the helm.
We did lousy. First two legs were both upwind with almost constant headers, last leg DDW. No reaching at all to give us any kind of a chance. We did manage to pass a Hunter 41, a Catalina 380, and a Jeanneau 44 on the last leg wing on wing.
A couple new crew members for this race, some forum posters may be familiar with one of them. When I was editing the video, I was wondering what the 59 year old was doing on the winch while the 19 year old was at the helm.