On Friday evening we took a part in the night race Helsinki-Tallin.
The race started at 18.00. we started from the midline to avoid the rush on the top buoy. It was nice to be - for a moment side by side with two other swans: 46 wafi and 45 Two Fast.
The wind was approximately 6-8 m/s. we made a wrong selection with the sails and the light Genoa teared in two peaces... Unfortunately we put in on the furlex and we had to take it down before we were able to add the other Genoan. We lost our good start on this manouver and also for the extra turn we had to take because we had to eat the windshit from the fleet that was sailing upper. Total loss about 10 minutes. That was very unfortunate. We lost practically more, but first of all we lost the good touch we had on the start.
We got our spirit back after The Lighthouse Helsinki 12 nautical miles from Helsinki while we noticed that Najadi IV from our sailing club was sailing behind us. The steerman Jaska made nice movements, closed the gates so that she had to turn before Tallin Lighthouse.
In front of Tallinn just reaching the Aegna Buoy we noticed that actually we were part of the reace still, because we heard the first announcements from the VHF that the fleet was approaching Aegna.
Then we got to really eat the shit of the lost ten minutes.... The wind shifted ad we had to make extra turn. and the next time...just before Pirita the wind went totally dow. If we had this ten minutes back....
anyway excellent result we were 11th on the Business LYS out of 23 participants.
Next day we had a big party, our Chef Ville had organized us some fillet of beef that we grilled outside on the docks and ate with Garlic potatoes + Bearnaise Sauce. Sipped down with 1996 Chateauneuf de Pape - Not bad!!!
In the evening there was a great party on marina. approximately 800 sailors participated on that. A lot of speculation after speculation... late hours.
Sunday morning after late hours we left the Marina at 10.45. Quite rough weather, not by wind, but the waves were enourmous. The highest measured wave were 3 meters! We had to ate water several time. with one wave we can actually say that the Yacht really fell down, because the spreaders hit the water.
We reached the Helsinki around 17.00. Luckily no accidents happened with the waves. Great race, nice homecoming. The skipper thanks the crew for everything.
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