Trip dates:
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
wind farm passes by to the NW
looking pretty flat at 1730 hrs
Oh boy, what a great Chesapeake mid-summer's evening race.
The RC displayed the Cat in the Hat, but not for long. A system passed by to the north that generated plenty of wind to get a start sequence going. We had set the rig for 0-4 kn and of course, it was blowing 14-16 at our signal. The upwind leg went OK as well as the hoist. Downwind, the breeze died until it turned into a header. Genoa up!
And all of a sudden, we were setting up for a kite hoist after rounding and heading for the finish, 180 degrees from our previous spinnaker run of ten minutes ago. All-in-all a good set of teamwork and sail-handling to grab a 2nd in conditions that were both confounding and challenging.