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A difficult sail; wind was initially force 5 from the south, predicted to drop although it didn’t. Because we were expecting the wind to drop we didn’t put a reef in the mainsail and we were really carrying too much sail. The skipper said we couldn’t reef the Genoa which was surprising. There were 7 of us on the boat so I was largely ballast. It was difficult to get around the boat for tacking, so I was having to go over the roof to tack. But on one tack, my foot got caught betwee the genny sheet and the guardrail and I got trapped which was a bit scary. But I got out in the end without falling in the sea. We came second in the race and third overall in the series.

Good winds between 20 and 25 kts. Very choppy sea with wind against tide, I found it quite hard to steer often swinging 30° off course. Got better at predicting the waves after a while. Started on a beam reach before moving more onto a broad reach / training run. Direct route would have been down wind, but with sea state we would have been risking gybes.

Wind from the northwest steady 20kts. There was confusion about the start of the race, the radio wasn’t receiving properly and they tried to delay the start because the big Condor Voyager was due to leave port around the start of the race. Whilst waiting to start, we had an uncontrolled jibe which took Jonathan’s hat and glasses. The glasses went in the sea, thankfully he could still see adequately. Spinnaker went up went on the second leg, but we couldn’t get it down easily as the clutch had jammed, so it came down in an uncontrolled way and the spinnaker pole hit Stephen on the head causing a head injury. In the end we came second which please Stewart. Refee lower heads terres all to starboard.

Windy from ENE Force 4 - 5 Swell 0.7m a bit of chop Boat heeled over after tack and I nearly fell off, held on by life jacket by Tony. We came last 😩

Eerste trip zonder werkende boegschroef na Geurnsey. Getankt in Geurnsey 1€/L