When I pull up in the car at Bedlam Bay the rain was bucketing down, Darrell arrived a minute later and as we sat in our cars the question was not will we sail, but will we even get out of the car! A full ten minutes passed and there is no sign of Barry so Darrell and I discussed what beer we would have back at the warm dry club house. With no Barry in sight we decided to head off to the club, however just then his car pulled up and miraculously the rain eased off.After a lengthy discussion under cover in the shed, the time came to make a decision. We opted to go out with just enough time to make the start.
The breeze was from the south again and Anne set number 2 course. We had our usual debate, fly the number 2 or number 3 jib. We put the number 3 up but noticed that the breeze dropped off and we are thinking…, this was a mistake. Lined up for the start were just Xena and Memphis. With Barry on the helm we headed off into the southerly and within a few minutes we were very pleased to have the number 3 up with the southerly firing bullets at us. We soon shot ahead and, looking back, we could see Xena and Memphis struggling with the gusts.
We rounded #4 mark to run square back to Cabarita. Barry went below to get the small spinnaker up on deck and set up. I grabbed the spinnaker pole and brought it up, we were not ready to hoist so I stowed in on the boom as usual. I figured we would gybe soon so I put it on the lee side of the boom. Once we were settled and had the spinnaker ready we would see if she wanted to gybe. The boom would not come across, puzzled we persisted in trying to get the boom across but it was going nowhere. It was at this time that Barry noticed that when I put the pole on the boom I had put it around the front shrouds. We were locked to the shrouds. Woops, that could have been ugly.
Barry, shaking his head and muttering something about crew performance, sorted it and we hoisted the small spinnaker in somewhat challenging conditions. We were able to carry the spinnaker on all downwind runs.
As we headed back from #2 we were a little surprised to see the shortened course board up, however being wringing wet it was nice to get back a bit early. We were back, packed up, in the bag and back to the club, all in time to welcome Memphis across the line.
A soggy but most enjoyable race.
Paul Fowler
Farrago
Our track:
http://raceqs.com/tv-beta/tv.htm#userId=1046927&updatedAt=2017-03-04T04:57:03Z&dt=2017-03-04T13:43:51+11:00..2017-03-04T15:56:52+11:00&boat=Farrago&time=1488595667393&focus=Farrago&tab=fleet&view=follow&lat=-33.842569&lon=151.126854&tilt=1&range=1591&heading=0
We rounded #4 mark to run square back to Cabarita. Barry went below to get the small spinnaker up on deck and set up. I grabbed the spinnaker pole and brought it up, we were not ready to hoist so I stowed in on the boom as usual. I figured we would gybe soon so I put it on the lee side of the boom. Once we were settled and had the spinnaker ready we would see if she wanted to gybe. The boom would not come across, puzzled we persisted in trying to get the boom across but it was going nowhere. It was at this time that Barry noticed that when I put the pole on the boom I had put it around the front shrouds. We were locked to the shrouds. Woops, that could have been ugly.
Barry, shaking his head and muttering something about crew performance, sorted it and we hoisted the small spinnaker in somewhat challenging conditions. We were able to carry the spinnaker on all downwind runs.
As we headed back from #2 we were a little surprised to see the shortened course board up, however being wringing wet it was nice to get back a bit early. We were back, packed up, in the bag and back to the club, all in time to welcome Memphis across the line.
A soggy but most enjoyable race.
Paul Fowler
Farrago
Our track:
http://raceqs.com/tv-beta/tv.htm#userId=1046927&updatedAt=2017-03-04T04:57:03Z&dt=2017-03-04T13:43:51+11:00..2017-03-04T15:56:52+11:00&boat=Farrago&time=1488595667393&focus=Farrago&tab=fleet&view=follow&lat=-33.842569&lon=151.126854&tilt=1&range=1591&heading=0
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