Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell

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. 

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. 

Had 2 great students tonight and the wind held mostly reasonably steady from the north east at 5-8kts with only ≈30deg oscillations which were slightly annoying but not disruptive. And the rain held off until we were done! They did really well and i think are going to be solid at all types of wind direction situations.

Took Richard out for a last practice before his checkout. Slightly less of a furnace than Saturday, but awfully hot and basically no wind. Bleh.