Trip dates:
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
Rail meat in the blow
SMSA Frostbites #3. Back on the Barba Roja for a vicious heavy-air race. Set a reef in the harbor, and decided once we got out that we should put the #3 up. Come to find out the #3 wasn't on the boat, so we tried to set a staysail as a heavy air jib. We couldn't get enough luff tension to point well, so we ended up taking that sail down and running under partially rolled genoa. A couple minor hardware failures on account of the wind. Nailed the start and kept the boat moving fast through the whole race, including a couple brutal beating legs. A cold, wet, but fun day on the water, and an 8th place finish.