New Recruits

Nick was unsure about whether or not he could crew and in the end he was unavailable. The crew bank provided two new recruits Monica and Wesley. Monica had little experience but Wesley was a boat owner. Jeff gave an intro to spinnakers. As a test we did a spinnaker hoist as a pre race practise. Things got off to a good start.
There was a bit of delay at the start. The wind was North north west and fairly brisk. Dragon Lady seemed to be standing by. Was it being towed? Yes. Dragon Lady was having motor probs. The PRO had to use preset marks and used Dufferin as the windward mark.
There was a lot of traffic at the pin end. This made for a lot of tacking and a bit of a work out for the new crew.

Flawed Logic gave a great demonstration of how to sail a small boat but they were so far ahead it was hard to learn anything. We had a good start but slowly fell back. Windlight and Windburn kept to the right side of the course while we went left. I was happy with our tacks. We got the chute up and down without any undue problems. Wesley and Monica did a very good ‘first time’ on a J performance but we couldn’t keep up to the more experienced crews on the two ‘Winds’.

The key is that we had a great time. It may not have been a prefect performance but it was good.