John and his business partner Mark from Salt Spring Island in B.C. crewed with me. The guys did great, we improved with each tack. John did the helming duties.
Wind was betwen 5 and 8 knots from the East, but waves were 2-3 ft, so it was very difficult to set a sail to go upwind. Because of the light displacement of Still Time, she does not typically do well in these conditions. She rides the waves, and looses all her speed as the sail does not set, and crashes into the waves. On a port tack, we could only muster 2.5 knots of boat speed. The new sail definately made a difference, as it did NOT flap in the wind/waves like the old main would have.
One start, as there were only 12 boats on the water (5 in our whitesail class).
Our starts were fairly good, John thought is was KEWL to be in the thick of all the boats at the start.
Mark did really well also, he has sailed dingies, and done a 5 day offshore intermediate cruising course. The funniest moment was after we rounded the windward mark, water started coming up through the cockpit scrubbers (about 2" of it). Mark has this panicked looked on his face, "Why is there water coming into the cockpit?" I calmly answered "Thank is a good question", and went off to tweak something forward. The look on his face was priceless! I came back to him in a little bit and explained that the bilge pump had kicked in, and it empties into the cockput scrubber lines.
We finished last in both races, about 15 mintues are the next closest boat.
Results are now posted, and we did not catch anyone on handicap:
http://www.wyc.ca/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=88
Trip Odometer: 13.57 miles
Moving Avg: 3.7 kntos
Moving Time: 03:41:21
Google Earth track: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/20110917.kmz
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