C22 Race Night with the Waughs

Race night on the Catalina 22.

Daughter Melissa could not make it.

Chris brought his Dad with him for his first time racing.

Winds were from the SW, 12-15 knots, very wavy sea state.
We went out with racing main and #1 genoa.
We thought about going with a smaller headsail, but we needed the power to get through the waves.
We did move the cars back a couple of positions to flatten the bottom of the sail and spill wind out the top.

Chris on the helm; course was 4 medium.

The race committee had two general recalls because to many people were over early.

We had a great start and beat our competition to the next couple of marks handily.

Bananas (C&C 29) is 7ft longer than us and was catching up with us (as they should!)
On the 2nd upwind leg, we went to tack to cover them, and the genoa got caught on the spreader, ripping a hole in the sail.  Took a bit to get it off.  Bananas got past us in the minute it took to sort it out.

On the final upwind leg on the final tack to the finish, the genoa hung up again on the spreader.

I really should have had spreader patch material in this area.
I have some, and it will be an easy repair.

We finished a little over a minute behind Bananas, but took the race in corrected time:

Peter took the helm after the race, and drove the boat right to the slip; good job!

Peter and Chris enjoying a MacLays after the race

Trip Odometer: 9.84 miles
Moving Avg: 5.2. knots
Moving Time: 02:20:00

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Detail of the start/finish
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