Great White and CS34

Last lesson for Whitby Yacht Club Start Keelboat Sailing students Andrew and Ian.

Winds were VERY light, the flags were drooping in the basin.

I had the guys rig the boat by themselves.  This was the first time we used the #1 genoa.  Had to get longer genoa sheets from the other Shark.

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There was just enough wind to review points of sail and had each of them take the tiller for a couple of tacks and gybes.  The larger genoa enforced the concept of holding the headsail back during a tack to have the wind push the sail to the other side instead of forcing it and having it catch on the mast.

Ian and Andrew

Towards 8pm, the wind completely died:

...so we headed in under main and motor.

Trip Odometer: 5.00 miles
Avg Speed: 2.5 knots
Moving Time: 02:00:00

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We quickly got the boat away, and headed back to the CS34 Still Time to do course evals

We looked out in the lake and could see wind lines off shore, we we headed out to give the guys a bigger boat experience.

Winds were only 4 knots coming out the harbour as we hoisted the main and furled out the genoa; we could only muster 1.5 knots of boat speed on a close reach.  We could see the wind filling in slightly to the south, so we motored with the sails up out to the Ajax buoy.

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After rounding the Ajax weather buoy, we furled the genoa and hoisted the spinnaker and were able to do between 4 and 5 knots sans motor.

Auto pilot did most of the steering.

As we got closer to the race marks inshore, the wind had clocked from from the S to the NW. meaning that we couldn't fly the spinnaker, so we doused it down the salon hatch.  The guys did a great job.  That NW wind off the land was noticeably warmer.

Thanks guys it was a pleasure "showing you the ropes"; hopefully I got a good eval from them!

Another great night on the water.

Trip Odometer: 12.52 miles
Avg Speed: 4.5 knots
Max Speed: 7.0 knots
Moving Time: 01:52:00

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