Sailing Yacht Aurora

Getting ready for the new season.

Off-season maintenance:
Wake up at 05.00 in the morning, to be on the mast with the first light, then continue on foot and at 09.00 your working day is completed, just before sizzling heat builds up.

Have a bigger boat to sail this week, but unfortunately without sails.
Had my last command of cargo ship 16 years ago, since than just occasional visits sometimes connected with short sailing onboard.

Off-season H-Cup means three racing days in extreme heat of over +40, over 30 participants: keelboats and multihulls racing together and only one winner 🏆
It was tough, but we did it! After first race we got 7 minutes penalty to our starting time, after second race - another 6 minutes, finally we beat second place by one point only 😉

Pursuit races is a smart solution for midweek evening races and for off-season summer races.
There's no starting sequence, no committee boat, just the course and starting time assigned for each boat according to her rating. Finish time is the same for all. So, your position in the fleet is your race result.
To add more fun, top 5 boats from the fleet get additional time penalty for the next race. Correspondingly, if you finish in the end of the fleet, next race you start earlier.
Means, if you regularly finish amongst top five, your starting time gets postponed more and more. So it happens for us. Last Wednesday we started 37 minutes behind the first boat, but still managed to get to podium. The wind was good and Dragonfly was flying.