Sunset over Back Creek
The intrepid crew
Father's Day race out to the bridge. Paul and (dammit I'm probably misremembering his wife's name) Nancy were outstanding shipmates. She did this thing where she sat on the leeward bow and held the jib sheets such that she functioned as a combination jib car and whisker pole. A little experimentation showed that this move gave us an extra knot or so of speed - quite possibly the reason we won the race, in spite of a terrible start by me and in spite of us being in the white knockabaout.
(Also helped that Ben, who was ahead of us for half of the race, let his kids play with the sails. Worth it, I would have done the same.)
(Also also, it helped that I used the iNavX app to plot my true cog toward the marks. On long legs like these, that can make a big difference.)