Sailboat Racing Adventures

We completed our first four races of 2013 on Toccata, starting in last place and ending in second place. We learned a few things along the way, like where we will run aground in this new boat.

For race 4 Tom Meeh joined us as coach and we (for the first time) used the fancy UK racing sails. Wow, what a difference! We were fast and pointed like crazy. Here’s a picture taken from the committee boat:

Here’s one of our mark roundings (try and watch it in full screen with 1080p):

The J/27 seems quite fast…I think this boat is going to be a lot of fun! If you want to watch the whole race look at: