Maureen Lanshe

Gusts up to 18. Reefed to flatten the boat since she was sailing slow. Helped a little but not as much as we hoped.

Light rain for most of the race. Winds above 12 at start then dropped to below 5 towards the finish. Crew was Antionette, Allan, Rebecca, Kelly, and me. Most of the race was upwind with a very hot spinnaker angle at the finish.

Spin not attached correctly at downwind start, recovered and gybed heading straight to first mark with 6kts boat speed. Next two legs were reach and last leg close hauled, tacked twice to cross finish. Placed 2nd

Light wind motorboat ride. When we finally pulled back into the slip, we had logged 101.4 nm and 20 hrs and 36 minutes on the water in 3 days.

Winds SE, wind speed was up and down between 8-13. Close hauled the whole race. Managed boat balance by letting main out during periods of being over powered. Most of fleet was on east side of the course. We were off to the west of the fleet but still on east edge of shipping channel. Other strategy; could have had all sails in and manage heavier air by pinching. Leaving main under trimmed likely hurt our ability to point and sail more directly to the mark. However, would have been a little slower. We were getting great boat speed with our strategy.

Some wind on the sassafras and did a tiny bit of sailing. Light winds from behind down the bay. We got some nice wind once we turned to go over the sand bar. We turned the engine on to turn towards Sean Creek as soon as we started to drop the main, it died. We tried to start it several tines then ended up being towed to Haven Harbour South. Beautiful day on the water. Perfect temperature. We handled the issue well. I helmed while greg tried to problem solve the issue.