Semi-skippered Elysium, a friend's J/33, today for the SMSA Vice Commodore's Cup. My brother was in town, and we ran the boat with 5 with the intention of getting a spin up for the first time in a while. Light conditions prevailed in the pre-start, but we were able to get going on a nice first race. Went out in the middle of the river in search of better breeze, and did well. After the mark rounding, Sean inadvertently plugged the spin in sideways, and we hoisted a clew before realizing the mistake. We got it fixed, and had a nice spin run until the breeze died shortly before the line. After some floating around and a douse we were able to finish in third place.
In the short second race, we got off a great downwind start, followed by an early-ish douse, a tidy rounding, and a nice upwind beat to a second place.
In the much longer final race, we enjoyed nice conditions for the first 2/3 of the race until the wind fell off and we encountered a big shift towards the end. We sailed the boat to a slow but clean 3rd place finish.
A fantastic day on the water on my favorite boat in my subset of the Solomons fleet, couldn't ask for better.
Most of the crew for the day