spring series 2

Gary had the chance to crew in his first race with me, a bit of trapeze tuition first from Mike  on land and then we launched. wind was better than saturday and from the west.
we took the chance to do many tacks and gybes before the start to get gary used to doing them.
then we did the most perfect start ever, we were right on the line when the flag dropped.
at mark 1 we rounded after straycat but not totally last. the down wind legs were good and we tried to do something different to the rest by going out to peverill direction.  we all rounded 4 really close and then we lost some ground, however on the next beat we overhauled Pete then the next beat we did something different again and went well right, this worked because we overtook 3 cats and almost overtook straycat who had an amazing lift with the wind that helped us.
 we only messed up one tack which was not bad really , the only other problem was my mainsheeet came undone from the block down wind from 3-4  needs a new one anyway, lost a bit of ground, however the race was over then luckily.  Gary was really pleased with the sailing and so was i.
hopefully Gary and Tony will make an interesting season on the crewing front.

cat training 7th APRIL

mike cemm hosted a cat training session which was for beginners to intermediates. a few new things were picked up on about setting jib tension which i never fully understood until then.
on the water we did tacking and gybing and swapped crews. wind was ligh and not very good, however in the afternoon myself and petes crew were the only ones to stay, so mike jumped on my boat and we had on to one sessions and then petes crew came to my boat, this i found really good and found alot of benifit from
especially helm position during tacks and gybes  not going back to soon.