Originally Posted by
tboussie
After finishing the race and putting my boat away, I ran into Nathalie Criou propped up on the breakwater outside the GGYC where she had served as singlehanded race committee all day, solely for the purpose of "trying to get more people involved in singlehanded racing". Amazing. Kudos to her - I hope she recruited a few more souls to give it a try.
I certainly enjoyed the trip out to SF and back, albeit under pretty light conditions past the approach channel. It took me forever to get around the mark, badly miss-judging the tack angle twice before finally clearing it.
With the copious time afforded me I took the opportunity to tune my autopilot settings (upwind and down), experiment with various spinnakers (I am not loving the A2 so far), and watch, sometimes scared shitless, the 10+ whales breaching closely around me.
I dropped outside the gate (because I am a wuss), and I watch with admiration as Domino blasted all the way home under full spinnaker. I guess he has had some practice lately...