Second night with the spinnaker up and we are flying. We can see a couple of lights ahead of us and hope they are in our division, but the might be double-handers or division "C" boats. It is really fun to race real-time. You guys would probably know better from the yellow-tracker.
The true wind speed is up to 25 and we are managing to fly the Capt'n overnight. I still in my nigth deck gear, which is my long sleeve T-shirt, polar fleece and my padded long underwear, padded shorts, headlamp around neck, sailing gloves, lifejacket, and tether.
Bob is on the helm and blain is pulling the strings while Jim and Andrew try and get some well deserved rest after eating some home-cooked lasagna and carrot cake.
Earlier, the wind came up to 25-30 while I was on the helm and we thought about changing to our smaller Nancy-Boy spinnaker, but since I was hauling so much ass that we changed our minds before I could run forward and prepare fo the drop.
No "all hands on deck moments yet this race (but we did do a nice spinnaker peel this morning with only three of us). I'm currently figuring out how to do another one that included the outgrabber and the twing.
Almost time for Andrew to get up and then Bob will take over as standby and I will try and sleep for 2 hours before taking the helm again.
Notable firsts:
10kt boat speed- Jimbo
11kt boat speed- Blain
12kt boat speed- Jimbo
13kt boat speed- Andy
Fist broach=- Jimbo
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