Mark 3?

Nic and Kev on the way back to the Club

Nice colours as sun sets

Wes keeps the boom under control on the trip back

Sunset: Day are getting shorter!

The start of the fall series was a series of mix ups. The crew was all on time. I was a bit anxious about getting everyone adjusted to the earlier start.

Unfortunately it was raining. WE got the boat launched and kept out of the rain. Most of the discussion was about when the committee would call the race. Around 17:50 Grand National left the basin. We headed out.

Obviously we went into AP. I was not sure about the indicated course; Foxtrot, 3 --- 0. Is there a Mark 3? In the fall series we are second start. All the FS boats are in one start. This makes navigation easy as we just follow the bigger faster boats.

We headed to windward and very quickly Notorious and Zoomer were ahead. We could see a mark but I was certain that it was TSCC’s. One boat rounded it; it was TSCC Mark 3. We tacked when the big boats tacked and went.

I could see spinnakers flying and asked the crew could they see the mark. Nope; there was no Mark 3.
The RC flew ‘N’ over ‘A’ and made three sounds. We enjoyed the sail if not the race!