Tuesday race with Sylvie

After I arrived aboard Redline and Sylvie worked hard on her boat, we both were eager to go out for a race.

We took off at 17:20 and motored to the Gut with little expectation to race due to a lack of winds, the winds did pick up and we had a good race in.

I helmed.

The first leg was tough on the downwind leg even with a good start, AdLib ran port in front of us.  We got to the windward mark a little behind Just Now, which was not bad.  

But the downwind was miserably slow up to 1.6 knots.

The second upwind leg as fluky due to shifting winds.  We decided to tack and got a big lucky lift making it to the mark when we were not expecting it.  

On the downwind leg, we decided to put up the whisker pole and we got up to 4 knots. Quite a difference, but we were the last to complete the race.

We motored back on autopilot in the dark and put everything away underway, docked and had supper with Ghost Owl crew.

Sylvie drove me home so I could bike back to the club the next time.

It was nice to be under command on the water again after ten days on the QEII.