Hear are a few photo's from the Cock of the Huon race down here on the weekend
We had a good start with a spinnaker run down the river but as the race went on and the wind increased we had too much sail up and at one stage a strong gust knocked us flat with water coming over the cockpit combing
Shortly after the clew ring on the genoa failed and we put a smaller head sail on that made the boat sail faster and was more controllable
I also made a couple of stuff ups on the fore deck with a head sail sheet caught around the spinnaker pole as i was getting it ready to go up causing us to hit and get caught on a mark as we couldn't go about to get around it and costing us time as we had to do a 360 turn when we finally got loose so i was a bit cranky with myself
We also did a block on the traveler adjustment but eventually made it home last across the line but managed to score third in our division
The J24 teenager boat had 2 adults and 2 teenagers on board and reduced the head sail and reefed the main as the wind increased but retired on the last leg as they were finding it difficult to get back up the river against the strong winds
The Melges 32 Crusader was first across the line with the overall winner on Handicap being a Knopp 39 Cromarty Magellan
