Following a quick text-round last night, Three trailer yachts assembled at the club in the early morning to have a bit of a practice before next weeks summer series starts.
Sailing with families, Aaron and Gina were in the Cherry, while Rob was in the beachcomber, and Murray was in the quicksilver.
In the first race, Murray established a commanding lead on the long reach across the river, only to have a halyard failure, and lose the use of his jib. This allowed Rob and Aaron to both get past on the beat up river. The cherry then built up a sizable lead, saying "Cherryo", and was never headed. Rob got through to second in this one, with Murray third.
All three boats then went ashore, so the halyard could be repaired.
Once back afloat, the action continued. This time, again, the quicksilver opened up quite a lead early on, with Rob in second, and Aaron back in third. In the lightening breeze, Aaron went right on the beat, while Murray and Rob both went left. Aaron hooked into some nice fresher breeze, and started gaining. Part way up the beat, and in nice breeze, the cherry hit the front, and then hit the mud! After dragging for maybe 200m, they cleared the mud, and, incredibly were still ahead, just. The quicksilver was close behind in second, while the beachcomber was struggling for speed upwind in the light conditions.
Rounding the top mark for the last time, the cherry went for a poled out jib, and slowly eased further in front.
Two from two for the cherry today, however it doesn't matter, as our real series starts next Sunday at 11:30 in the morning.
Good fun was had by all, and we all hope for a much bigger fleet next weekend.
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