Practice Day

Good day again.

Well today we had a great practice late in the day as the Mistral slowly died away and we had a nice 18-22 knot day. We had two important goals today. 1) Choose which mainsail we would use and 2) do some spinnaker/crew practice. We were able to accomplish both tasks and are quite happy with the sail selection and we are a work in progress on the crew practice. But that is what you get for having a couple new players in key positions. Time as they say will conquer that.

We needed to decide whether we were to use the newly reshaped WB mainsail or the Quantum mainsail that we bought from Vixen. I can say that the WB mainsail is a much different sail then we last saw it. I am happy to report that the changes to the luff curve of the sail that I recommended were applied and the mainsail looks much better. This is for sure still set up more as a heavy air sail but the boat was able to finally sail to targets up wind.

Due to the weather forecast however we have chosen the Quantum Mainsail as it will give us more range for the conditions that we are expected to see for the remainder of the regatta. It is quite nice to finally have an option and finally have some pace with angle. Thing are looking better.

I am sitting at the yacht club getting ready for race day #1. The breeze is supposed to be about 9-14 going right all day. Beautiful sunny skies and warm temps!!!!!!!!! This is for sure not Cowes!

Here is a picture to prove it!
Cheers


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