Nice day of sailing, weather predicted wind from SE, 8kn climbing to 15. So we hanked on the Geneua, First bouy was suppose to be down wind, so only raised the headsail. But on way to mark wind was a little squirrel so raiser mail to help dump air into the headsail. This helped i think. Could not find bouy, so we sailed on to second one. Note on sailing to windward the wind shifted more to the east, and the boats up wind pointing proformancrcis was poor. Took over helm. Got to think pointing up issue is because the poor state of sails. As I believe the sails were trimed as best as they could be. It can be seen on one tack we pointed up a few more degrees, after moving the head sail car back on their tracks. Wind speed steady increased to about 15kns. Nice thing was main aread had single reef tied in for last time out. This was good as we had the big head sail up, and with wind gust over 15kns we would have been way over powered. Even still, following one tack put rail in water, with Mike on lower side of boat,laying on seat trying to stay in boat, and still trim sail after the tack. When we also hit a wave the came over the high side and soaked us both.. Never found second bouy either. On returning to the bay, the heading was fast and fun. It was a just a little off the wind, but almost a broad reach at times. Waves were pushing the boat, from  about 8 o:clock, and the little surfing was fun, as they made the boat a little more squirrel the if they were further from aft. Had a good day, weather prediction was basically right on, other that the higher gusts and the north part of the east winds. Going back to the pointing up maybe it has some thing to do with the mast tuning something I need to. look into

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