Last Saturday we completed our final practice race, the OYRA crewed Farallones race, before we head off to Hawaii. While it was a beautiful, mostly clear day, on the ocean - the one thing we could have used more of was wind. The forecast SW breeze didn't fill in until the middle of the afternoon, and even then it was barely over 10kts. It took us over 6 hours to make it out the SE Farallon Island, but it was pretty much a straight shot back with a southerly breeze that was a bit too far forward to set the spinnaker. As the wind bent to go under the Golden Gate bridge we could set the spinnaker at about Pt. Bonita and carry it to the finish line. There were three of us sailing some pretty high apparent wind angles with our spinnakers to get across the finish line. We left the dock at 0730 and got back at 2200. A long day!
You can see the race video here: https://youtu.be/X--o25DytpA
Next up will be the 2022 Pacific Cup Race. Our start will be Tuesday, July 5th, at 1110. We're nailing down all the provisioning to be loaded onto the boat in a few weeks. I've got a test going with our new cooler (a COSTCO knockoff of a Yeti cooler) to see how long dry ice will last.
Next posts likely from the race!!
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