Cal20 Can O WhoopAss has gone out in the big O !
On Saturday June 5th we raced 40 miles out the Golden Gate bridge and up the California coast to Drakes Bay ! With very light winds and an adverse tide and a finish line directly upwind, it took us TEN hours ! ! ! Finishing a NOT TOO SHABBY 9th out of 20 boats.... averaging 4 knots , Not great but not bad either ....
Hurray for us ! So we took our beating , cooked speggetti on the hook , and had cocktails in the grand salon...
Sunday morning at 6am we wake up and set the boat back to race mode... Eat , pack the spinny and with thirty seconds to the gun on a downwind start are drawing full on starboard.... Two MUCH larger boats on port wait to the last min. to come up ! They miss us and don't turn us into to two cal 10's....
They thought we would blink !!! and bail...... Not us... So with 50 yard to the rocks and 20 seconds after the line we jibe and head back to the Golden Gate....
30 miles and 6 hours down wind , after taking a small flyer out toward sea while most other boats hugged the shore looking for wind , we caught a good NorthWesterly and headed to point Bonita right through four fathom bank ( aka " Potatoe Patch" ) Jibed in twenty knots and passed through the gate... Five other bigger boats had dropped their spinnaker's before entering , we turned to port with the the 20 knot wind abeam , and continued two more miles in the bay to the finish line , dropped spinny at 200 yard, raised jib and finished ...
FIRST overall on Sunday , , ,
The hard beat upwind FOR EV ER .... was SO worth the down wind run Max speed on sunday was 12.4 knots. 70 miles of racing in two day's ....
Was is fun , , Don't know... will we do it again , , Don't know....
thanks for reading .. Paul Sutchek , Cal 624 CAN O WHOOOPASS !