Glad to be back out on Wednesdays
Wednesday nights are back! Still wrapping up projects on Dangerous so Dewey and I rode with Sean on Elysium today. Dewey took the helm, I trimmed main, and Sean & Tommy worked headsails. A brief grounding in the start sequence got us off to a rocky start, but we recovered quickly and set off to L. Made great progress on the upwind leg, and got in a tacking duel with Steve & company on the newly refreshed Barba Roja (He can outpoint us now!). Managed to get an advantageous position on them to round L, and the wind slacked off as soon as we rounded the mark. Did lots of tweaking to find the sweet spot on the downwind leg, finally settling on going wing-on-wing at Sean's recommendation. A spiffy upwind leg to a shortened finish at K, and a second place in the non-spin class. On both upwind legs we fought some strange sail shape problems on the headsail, unclear whether it's just worn out or if there's something else we could've improved on. A beautiful evening and fun to finally get Elysium on her feet and moving a bit.