This is an especially short report because it was an especially unspectacular, at least for Circe, regatta and because Nadal took so long to dispatch that pesky Russian tonight.

Thanks to the following Circe Crew for dedicating their Saturday to sail on Circe especially son Graham and Adam.

Foredeck - Kathleen, Pam, Sam

Mainsheet & Timing & Custard tarts- Susan

Jib Sheets - Graham & Adam

Tiller - Skipper Ron

The wind was all over the place, up and down and all around. We were in PHRF white sail Division 1. All other boats in this division were QCYC boats; Amelia, Bandoleer, Alpha Omega, Running Free, Firtha, Veloce, & Don’t Think Twice. Try started White sail division 1 & 2 together.

There were three races held. There were delays between each race as they reset the course to deal with the shifting winds and an especially long delay before the third race waiting for the wind to come back.

It was the usual regatta race course, windward leeward, two times around. The leeward mark was a gate where you could round either one.

I won’t deal with the details of each race other than to say that the first and third races ended up with messy starting lines you couldn’t crossed on starboard tack and we got buggered up on both. The second race was a good line but Circe was uncharacteristically most leeward boat and couldn’t tack earlier because all boats to windward hung on to the layline so we got dirty air after tacking for the mark and had to tack back. But what especially hurt us in that race was deciding to take the left gate mark at the first time around while all our competition took the right mark without noticing that the wind had shifted 90 degrees again making the left mark considerably downwind from the right mark. We lost it there.

The beloved QCYC Regatta tradition continues

We ended up with a 3rd, 5th, 2nd in the three races with no drop that put us in a tie with Bandoleer with 10 points but she got the blue flag presumably based on winning the first race. Amelia had a very good day with a 2nd and two firsts. Alpha got the second with a 4th, 2nd, 3rd for nine points. So it was all pretty close between the second and fourth positions. It was that unfortunate mark rounding in the second race that was our undoing.

But the Circe Crew did well, Sam getting used to the foredeck and Graham getting used to being on the boat again. And no custard tarts survived the day.

Skipper Ron