Sunday 14th Cruiser Race !

Sunday 14th , was looking really over crowded when there was a total of 12 crews available for Mat Hari, we managed to trim it to 10 but on Sunday we ended with only 7 .

It was then I had a feeling we are going to have a very good workout today with Vincent on the helm, Gwen, Nurul Ain and her sister Ngah on the Trim, Yew on the Main, Wai li on the pit and me me taking care of the foredeck.

It was Nurul's First time on Mata Hari, therefore Yew moved to main to give a her bigger learning space as we gear up towards Raja Muda Selangor international Regatta.

Race 1, Current was strong at about 2-3 knots from the west, Wind coming from north west. The start of race 1 was rather straight forward as we only 3 tack to reach the first mark. After Mark 1 we were on tight reach with the spin, I made a mistake of changing the down haul too early, and as the wind swung to the front we needed to hoist the front sail back. I scrambles to put it back on and that most probably cost us the bullet as we finisht joint second with Martin while the U20 took the bullet.

Race 2, we were really slow off the starting line as the wind begins to die off, still we were first off the line, and as the race progress the wind picks up to about 7-8 knots. We lead from the start and caught every possible shifts we could. It was a race without much or any mistakes and we went home with a bullet on hand.


To sum up the day we went berbuka puasa with nurul at port village restaurants and had a really heavy dinner.

Our Current Confirm Crew List for RMIR now includes Nurul Ain and Wai li,

Sean

RSYC Keel Boat Series 2 - 10th May 2009

Yesterday 10th May 2009, was the start of the series 2 of RSYC Keel boat series.
Wind was blowing from north west, I will say around 12 to 15 knots. I was on Juita together with
Aziz , Swee, Tore and Scott.

Race 1, we had a fairly good start, but it was Skandia that got the best start, we did not have much problem except for that we had to go completely downwind at a point due to the ships/wind shadows around us., We were flying an A so it was difficult. We end the race 3rd on corrected time where cabaret 5 took the race followed by Skandia.

Race 2, we were stalled at the starting, it was looking to be a good start for us until the last 10 seconds where wind died off a bit; and then Rapscallion and cabaret 5 managed to come in on top of us and with the wind shadows that follows up, we were slow to get off the starting line, Skandia had another good start on port at the pin.

On the first hoist, I took a good few minutes off our time when I got the spinnaker sheets all wrond on the clew. And then we had a very bad jibe, where the A sails wrapped around our forestay; where we had to drop it.

We finish the race 5th on corrected times, with only 5 minutes difference to the 2 nd place; we could have done a liitle better and moved up. Cabaret 5 took the race.

It was a great day for sailing for the wind was blowing.

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