Skipper Dee Caffari just oozing class.
She had a newish crew and a potentially dangerous situation forming ahead, with lots of variables all moving at once. So she simply;
Calls for the main ease and dumps speed, giving Scallywag who's ahead and to leeward some valued room to come up to avoid a spectator boat. Moves over to port still washing off speed, giving SW room, and line up a better angle through the rapidly narrowing gap,
The numpty in the next spectator boat then swings late and wide into them. Eek.
This is really good helm work, she purposely doesn't panic and jerk away, which would pivot too hard and impact the rear quarter. She sneaks through and then braking and shedding more speed with a sweet slalom to neatly avoid running up Scallywags backside
Love the little 'whew' at the end
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