What a horrendous awful misery of a start. We sat at R2 for a couple of sad hours, and then beat to St Mary's in a wide range of wind conditions, none of which were good for Huzzah, for about 25 hours. I'm sure that has to be a record. We finished during the awards ceremony I think. Bleh. Anyway, had a fun raft up with Basta once we got there and then the return on Sunday was WAY more fun tbh. Glad to have done it, and at least one way was awesome. lol
(by awesome, of course I mean, failing to dodge the myriad lines of storm cells and getting almost knocked down by a 40kt "pink radar donut" sitting over us for several minutes...it was great haha.)
Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell
Friday, July 31, 2026 to Sunday, August 2, 2026
Number of days:
3 days
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Suuuuuuuper low wind day, but it did eventually pick up enough to get some decent light sailing in. Went back and forth a bit, ended the day over by bloody point and then sailed back in.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Really fun night! Trimmed jib and spin and we were flying. Note: Jib cars need to be at the front of the portlight for best pointing. Finished about 6minures before next boats but idk if it was enough to stay in first.
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Sailed around and got everyone up to speed on the code 0, etc. Met up with Josh on OrgaZmatron and got some fun shots as he was heading home too!
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Whooooaaaaa baby I'm a multihull convert... that was amazing.
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Lower wind than expected (5-8 SW), AND we got smacked down by a big barge turning in near our penultimate mark. Still first over the finish line, but a major bummer with corrected time.
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Got a practice day out with some new people including James and Hunter to prep for Gov Cup. Was going well until a bad jibe the wrapped the spinnaker hard and made a bubble up at the top, could not unwind without massive flogging. Took ages to undo and by the time we got it, there was a major tear across the whole top half. :-( Super sad and frustrating, but I guess another learning experience. Jibe SLOW people, thoroughly explain the entire process and assign people specific jobs that are easy to communicate instructions for during the process. We won't have a spinnaker for a good while I think, certainly not for gov cup.
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Motored from SSA to pirates cove and stashed OrgaZmatron to a super neat spot until next week. Insane how shallow the draft is.
Friday, July 10, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
OrgaZmatron was struggling to get to the start line, so we hopped on to Gemini (catamaran) attempting to get to him, but the he had an adventure running out of gas and we were dropped off at SSA and Li got some gas out to him on another adventure involving a kayak and powerboat and ending up fully in the water lol. Anyway, eventually he made it but we decided to give it a miss rather than trying to catch up more than an hour after the start. I think it was for the best based on the wind conditions.
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Really good evening going through all the systems much more deeply than I have in years. I feel way better about potentially skippering it on trips coming up.