After sleeping in our own beds and with a civilized start time on Sunday, we were raring to go again on Zatarra 1. There was a good wind and the boat responded very well on the up wind leg to the Bluffs Bar buoy. Sharon's son Bob had now joined us, thank goodness, as there was a lot of grinding to be done as we tacked up wind. Because Zatarra likes 12plus knots we were even passing some boats and managed to stay with the pack for much of that leg.
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| Dreamer sailing by during the start sequence. What a beautiful wooden boat. |
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News, overtaking us. It was the kind of day that you needed plenty of "rail meat"
to keep the boat at optimum heal. |
Once we rounded the mark we slowed right down and everyone passed us. Zatarra doesn't like the downwind leg.
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| Sometimes it takes a while to get the spinnaker ... |
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| ...just right, |
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| and it doesn't always stay that way. |
We picked up on the third leg again but were last across the line.
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| Party with free booze again. |
Most participants ended up at the Port Dover Yacht Club for liquid refreshments and a catered Perch Dinner. This was followed by the announcement of 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each fleet in each of the first 2 races. Zatarra (actually she was called Zantarra and Zatarrus - its a tough name to pronounce) was declared first in the rally fleet for the Erie to Dover race (later we were disqualified - more on that in a later post) and second in the Long Point Bay Race. We were thrilled.
I slept on the boat Sunday night as Monday was another early start.
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| Sunset behind the dingy - that's the give away that we are in the "rally" fleet. |
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