September means the return to school, end of summer, etc etc but it also means that we are now racing two nights a week as the Monday night spinnaker series starts. Just to be confusing, this year, it actually started in August. George races on Goldfingers on Mondays so I went out to help on the Committee Boat, Sea Dancer. There were lots of able bodies on board which meant I didn't have much work to do so could take pictures.
It was a good windy night, gusting up over 20 knots at times but from the North West so the waves were not too intense.
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Kestrel's crew "hanging out". Kestrel is Si and Dan's new boat.
Note the bow wave, she's fast. |
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| Goldfingers |
The start of the race was bedlam and a number of boats went over the line prior to the horn. So we had a "general recall" and they all had to get back across the start line and start the 5min countdown again.
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| General Recall! |
It was a lovely night for watching a race; good wind, pretty spinnakers, some close competitors and a sky that was magnificent. On the water there is so much sky to look at that a camera has no hope of capturing it. But I tried and got some of the effects while still taking boat pictures.
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This is Amazing Grace with her spinnaker up. The clouds were developing beautiful blue and deep purple
stripes, interspersed by pale blue sky. |
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| Sequence and Goldfingers, neck and neck. |
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| By the time the race was over the sun was setting. |
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