The spi is up!

Finally tried out the spi! Got a brand new spinnaker pole, all the lines and blocks and were anxious to try it out of course. First set was a disaster, the halyard shackle opened and up the halyard went and down in the water the spi went. Urgh. So we had our friend Daniel climb the mast and retrieve the halyard. (Twice since he let go of the other halyard teehee). So in the end we got it up and look how nice it flies!

PHRF series is over

Last Wednesday race got off pretty well. We won the pin end quite nicely but were behind at the first buoy. By the time we reached the 2nd buoy the div1/2 boats had caught up and behold, the wind died completely. So even the guys which were way in front and in biscuit tossing distance to the finish line just couldn't make it with the current setting out. So the RC abandoned the race and that was it for the summer PHRF series! Still a nice evening sail with our friend David. Just read the final score, we came in #8 out of 10 that qualified (and about 16 that raced). In the Sunday series we barely qualified and got 6th and last place :-).

Last Sunday race

went pretty well. We had nice wind, a fantastic start, got the pin and powered upwind like crazy with about 5.5kn. Not enough to match the other boats in our class, though, they just simply took off. We were like 2 minutes behind at the windward mark and then lost it on the downwind leg. I was too chicken to put the new spinnaker pole out with just the 2 of us on the boat and quite a chop with 15kn of wind. Anyways, had lots of fun and qualified for the summer series. As far as I can tell in last place, but who cares!