Vice Commodor's Cup

Saturday I was out in a Feva solo. I didn't do very well coming last. But I bumped in to Ian Jones and he was putting Celia on the board as crew for Monday's race. So I said hey lets Merlin !
Later I meet Celia and I tell her she is on helm. I think she was a bit taken aback.

Sunday I was helping Adrian with the mast on Amarosa this is important as I'm off to France with Adrian on her next week ! I got the high water time wrong and Tanja went mental. After a rant all was fine :+)

Monday I took all my sails down to the club to check I have the best ones on the boat. Celia, I think, had adjusted to the idea of her helming and we were up for it. The wind was from the North and a little East but 16 gusting 19/20. Now that would be too much for me on helm and Nat but Celia has more experience than I.

We ran down to the start with little trouble. Checking transits (new to me) went OK them we tacked and scooped a bath full. This was a theme of the day...
We started 46 seconds late ;+) OK by me. I am not ready yet for "all in" starts. Then we headed up to "D". It turned into a slog, very gusty and we capsized 4 or 5 time on the first circuit.

We called it a day as I was getting very tired after righting the boat and Celia was too. So crossed the line and headed home. But as we were half full of water it was slow going.

All in all not a great first outing for Plum Crazy but we are back on the water !

Thanks Celia for a good sail.

P.S. We got DNF but it is the first race result here for Plum Crazy :+)