OK, I am going to be very honest with everyone. I am just exhausted!! This racing around the bay in 20 to 24 knots of wind can be very be very hard work even with all the extras we have on Di's Dream. Our crew has been fabulous, doing everything Roger is throwing their way, even telling some of our competition that we have voice activated winches. This story was getting so much publicity that we finally had to come clean and explain that when Roger says " in a bit" we just push buttons. Thus voice activated winces, Roger speaks and we do!
We had a fabulous race today, fabulous as far as I was concerned because it was way too windy to fly our spinnaker. Ours stay nicely packed inside the bag on the foredeck. Another boat had hers deploy right out of the bad and it was not pretty what happened next. They did recover to finish the race but their hearts were definitely beating way too fast. There were many spinnaker wraps and even one that appeared to fail completely. We made the right decision and may get to fly ours tomorrow.
Roger has promised that race two will find us in a better position at the start, way better. Today we were just seconds late and were barely able to squeeze out enough room between the committee boat and another one in our fleet. He was trying to force us up right into the side of the committee boat and we had no where to go. T bone a boat or sideswipe another, we took our chances on the later and just managed to get by much to the relief of all. No chance of being pinched that tight tomorrow.
I will try to post pictures tomorrow. I just have to recuperate tonight.
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