May Update...

Not much to report this past week. At the weekend Brigite & I sailed on a J/24 (Hospice Regatta), and so did not take Silver Fox out.

Had a lovely race day on the 19th, light easterly around 5kn. Short course K, J, S presumably in the event the wind crapped out.

We set up for the start a tad early, at the favored end, and after burning time barely laid the pin end, plus a couple of bigger boats to weather rolled us, but it was not too bad, the other end of the line was a complete cluster!

Had more Spinn boats out this week - for first time. I think there were 4 total, and Schock Full O Nuts was red hot. Turbo's Tub also got us, making their time from J to the finish, as we rounded the leeward mark together (us and CYMRU outside of her).

The boat felt dialed in, I don't remember her feeling this way racing before, it was sweet, and fun! We used the #1 on the Primaries and that worked well. We also did well preparing well in advance (before the start) for the first hoist. Baserunner came in to the top mark on the Stbd lay (Stbd rounding) and fouled us, but we waved it off when he tacked. We also have a new holder for the small GPS and it worked very well.

Despite the boat tracking well, and no major mistakes we were still deep in the fleet. We did beat most of the non-spinn fleet and one spinn boat, but as expected the boat is not thoroughbred! Which is fine by me.

Sailed back to the dock as it was a pretty evening for a sail.

We put on the Starboard handrails this week! After about 8 months or so! I also checked the oil (fine) and the water level in the Battery (also fine), and added a holder for the trash can at the base of the stairs. By my estimation we have run for 15.75 hours since the tank was last full.

Ralpho Out!