Here was our race on Saturday. A deep low developed very quickly to the North East of NZ on Friday night, subsequently the race committee sensibly selected the “inshore” course, our course and track is shown below, with the second picture highlighting the extra wind(the red shading) in the Colville channel as as 1500 on Saturday. The metservice correctly forecast a gale in the outer gulf, but inside those big Coromandel hills we never got much more than about 20 knots, with a few chunky gusts. Predictwind doing well, again.
My biggest mistake was not checking the gas bottle, sadly we got about 5 seconds of flame, then nothing, bad timing, nothing hot today, which would have been better if it didn’t rain just about continuously. Sally was very good about it..
Our race was relatively uneventful , we did well in a brief light patch inside Waiheke, leading our division until close to Coromandel but loosing some ground to the faster boats on the downwind legs. Back on the wind from Flat rock home we passed a couple of boats we couldn’t identify (being vey dark and still drizzling). Probably the challenge of this race was to stay focused and motivated even after you lose track of the other boats, good practice.
We finished just after midnight, 4th in our division on line and 3rd on handicap just 2 and a half minutes behind first on corrected time, which proves you should never give up
We are now narrowly leading our division on PHRF so will be very motivated to our best performance for the last race, which is the short (50nm) race of the series.
Rob
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