AYC Racing

Wednesday Night racing April 11, 2018 – Pretty much perfect breeze!  Chris and Garth on Allelu set a nice long start line and got the race off nicely. A big THANK YOU for their efforts! The course set was from the middle of Fidalgo Bay upwind to the SW mark then all the way to the N mark along Guemes Island then back to the start-finish line.  We on Syndicat had left in our 2^nd reef from the past Sunday at Tulip Regatta so we just left it in for the upwind leg along with the #3 headsail, shook out one reef going downwind and because we had no other boats on our fleet just flew the #3 downwind although we could just as easily have flown the ¾ oz. spinnaker.  We decided to save the wear and tear on the spinny!  On the way downwind the breeze lightened a lot so we shook out the reef and finished with the full main sail.  About 5 minutes from the finish line the wind picked up again to where we would have liked the have the reef back!  Back at the club Steph announced the results and a nice time was had by all!