Prepared for sailing and then at the last minute remembered the sail still needed stitching from the last trip, the batten pocket stitching was unraveling so much the battens were just falling out. After 30 minutes of hand stitching, we were good to go. By now the wind was light but steady, may 10 knots, not quite whitecapping, so with poled out genoa, we did the big down-winder. There was good wind by the time we got to the corner of Waiheke, and deep reaching with the poled out genoa was pretty exciting, close on the fastest this boat is capable of, with it almost continuously surfing !
Got to Oneroa, and just dropped the genoa, prepared to motor in, and the motor would not start. It always starts! Suspect a blocked fuel filter. We ended up sailing into the bay full of at least 50 boats, and tacking a few times until finding a spot 150m from shore. Bit close to another boat. tried the outboard again. It started.. ! Repositioned boat a little further away from the other boats. Time for dinner... and then a peaceful nights sleep.
Another first - trying out the spinnaker ! (No it is not anything like a circus tent.!)
Big down-winder, 20 knots, with the genoa poled out, and the boats in the background are ones we went past, while surfing down the backs of the small waves.. Eileen in control !
What I need is more matching life jackets :-)
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