CS34 Race Night

Now that the CS34 is ready to sail, and I want to get some new sailors out on the race course to get them interested in sailing, racing, and potentially buy a boat and join the club.

This week I took WYC's newest member Todd out and Sue from the crew bank.  I work with Todd and Sue works at OPG Darlington.

I put Todd on the helm;  he did well. 

Sue worked the jib and main sheets with me; she is keen and quickly learned.

The winds were forecast for 12 knots from the NW, so a course was set for 3 medium.  When we got out there, it certainly was much less.

I wanted to stay away from other boats with the new sailors, so we started well back of the start line.  The wind had died further, and it took us another 15 minutes to cross the start line!

Winds were shifty and variable: at one point, the wind shifted almost 180 degrees!

After two hours, we had completed two legs and had 3 more to go. 

"Whitby Race Fleet"
"Whitby Race Fleet"
"Whitby Race Fleet"
"This is Still Time, Still Time, Still Time"
"We are withdrawing from the race"

Chris on little Still Time quickly jumped on the radio to make sure the race committee knew it was big Still Time withdrawing.

We turned away from the race course and hoisted the new never flown  asymmetric spinnaker going home:

Full hoist

Notice the ATN Tacker on the furled jib

The initial hoist was no problem.  In 3 knots of breeze we go the boat going close to 3 knots on a broad reach.

Of course the winds piped up when we went to take it down.

I got Todd to put the auto pilot on and man the halyard to drop the spinnaker, I unclipped the tack of the spinnaker, and feed the sheet to Sue in the v-birth who pulled it into the boat.  It went in the water a bit, but no issues.

Was a fun night on the water.

Trip Odometer: 8.68 miles
Moving Average: 3.2 knots
Moving Time: 02:44:00

Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2015/20150520-2.kmz