You guys addicted to 1 mile WL racing need not read further ...
So OK ... after deciding the beginning of the season to get the crew into doing a decent spinnaker peel on a J30 ... we used it in our first race yesterday. It was a simple 40 mile from Naples Pier to SC at san carlos off of Ft. Myer's Beach and back.
standard ~20 mile run ~close hauled.
standard ~20 mile ~beam reach spin run with the ebay 1 oz on the way back till the wind dropped ... peeled to the ebay .5 3 miles from the finish ... and the crew was delighted ... so ok 3rd out of 5, but the only difference in the awards was the type of Vodka in the quart bottle.
Always good to see crew using new skills.
average speed 5.5 kts. and that included drifting a bit before the thermals started to figure out what they wanted to do.
sunny, mid 80s, typical summer thunderstorms a couple of miles away at the beach, water temps going to mid 70s. Bascially a better summer day than we've had in Newport the last couple of years.
