I had set the alarm for an early start. At 09:00 I climbed aboard Keith & Hillary's Libero and we went out through the Swingbridge at 09:30 for the 10 o'clock start. There was about 15 boats out milling around at the start. We didn't have a particularly good start, but we soon made our way through our class. After a while we found ourselves at the front. The course was fairly tight with short broad reach legs. The wind had increased and we needed two reefs in the mainsail and some of the genoa rolled away. After approximately 40 minutes we crossed the line in first place in our class. Unfortunately we had passed a racing mark on the wrong side and was disqualified.
The wind had increased before the second race start, so we retired, rather than be overdressed whilst short handed.
In the evening we returned to the yacht club for the regatta BBQ.
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