Nathan was tactician - until we moved to the cruising division.
We started fine during the Delta Ditch Run - but then lost out to the other Express primarily because of current choices (or so it seemed).
The balance between experienced/non-experienced crew wasn't ideal which meant that our jibes/reaction times in gust were much slower than usual.
It was still a lot of fun. For a short moment, I looked at some of the Express fly away in front of us with a touch of sadness - and then the coolness of the moment won again. Sailing in great company in a great place is hard to beat! Especially with nice food and drinks.
A few fun episodes
- 'ok, let's demo a jibe. Ooops, sorry, main got stuck, that was a round down, not supposed to be that way. Let's say it was to demo what not to do.' (and some notes in the Crew Manual can be helpful there)
- 'do they have vegetarian options?' - 'well, it's the beans and the salad, you just take out the sausages'
- We had borrowed an engine which did not want to start often...We had to go up Vallejo yacht club's narrow channel under sail...
And at night we were moving from green light to green light (the red lights were hard to distinguish) - was actually super easy to spot the channel. We didn't run aground once.
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