The forecast for Wednesday night wasn't good. Thunderstorms. I thought there was a good chance that we wouldn't go out; if we did, we would be drifting in light wind and rain. I took the opportunity pre launch to get some sails mended. By 17:30 there was a good wind from the east and little or no rain.
The RC went a long way south and I expected that we would be using Gibraltar Buoy as a windward mark. However the windward mark was set just north of the Gibraltar Point. (Very good mark setting!) We had an OK start but were blocked by Candlelight and Flawed Logic on the north side of the course. At the windward mark I provided a bit of navigation assistance to a new skipper unfamiliar with the course. We had a problem with the first leeward mark douse. The combination of pole down, free flying the chute, mark rounding, and gybe resulted in some tangled lines. It took us a while to get sorted and by then we were too far behind. The winds got very light. We finished, just as the rain restarted!
It was a long trip back to theclub. We were late for the results. The RC hailed me as they were leaving the club, to let me know that we got a third.
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