Team Seacats

Yesterday was a bit patchy – occasionally we would get an 8 to 10knot lane of breeze. With a large mixed fleet including J24s, J22s, Melges 24s, our two fleets of catamarans, and others, the RC was able to get one race off in the fluky breeze. Mike Krantz and David Lennard checked out early by catching a puff and riding it downwind while Rick Harper on his Hobie Tiger and us on our Nacra F18 just ‘missed the bus’. Rick and I duked it out fighting for 2nd and although we just gained the lead on the last C-mark rounding, I didn’t keep tight enough cover and we slipped into a hole in the breeze while Rick moved ahead. We fought hard tacking to try and break free of their cover but only put ourselves in yet another hole and finished a couple of minutes behind Rick. It was a frustrating kind of racing – but we did have some good moments. We experimented with our boat setup for the light breeze and were happy to find that we had good speed where we have been struggling in the past.There’s no breeze out there right now, so it’s questionable if we’re going to get any racing in today – a bit of a let down because we really want another shot at it. At the moment we’re all checking our boat tuning and comparing notes on the beach. Rick Harper has his boat on it’s side and David Mosley and he are looking at matching the mast curve to Rick’s new main sail. With any luck, some breeze will fill in….

Originally uploaded by Team Seacats.