BEN45 Whitby Stonehaven Race on Odyssée

This season, Frank is the new owner if a Beneteau First 45 called Odyssée.
He asked me to doublehand with him on the medium distance race called the Stonehaven.

Beautiful boat below and above.
Power winches on the cabintop AND the primaries.

Winds were 10-14 knots from the east.
We went out with a full main and a 110% jib.

We decided against doing a spinnaker or gennaker as it was only two of us.

Me on the helm eating a sandwich

Frank scurried about the boat trimming the sheets and such.

We tacked to head to the start line, and started powering up, the bowline for the headsail sheet let go, and the leeward sheet came out of the car.  The jib was free flying, so we had to furl the headsail in and correct.  We missed our start my 5 minutes.

We decided to go offshore as there was more breeze (16 knots at times).
The forecast was supposed to swing to the south, so we figured we would be knocked to the mark.
Well that didn't happen until after we got to the mark!
We went wing on wing and were last to the mark near Pickering.

Close haul to the Ajax weather buoy, we passed several boats:

We caught up and passed several boats to the finish, but ran out of room to catch the Capri 30 JustinTime.

Great day on the water.

Trip Odometer: 23.7 miles
Moving Avg: 6.2 knots
Moving Time: 03:50:00
Max Speed: 10.5 knots

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