Cillen

Racing at Kaneohe Yacht Club today! It was crazy. Normally the puppies Cal 20's are doing well, but they had only tried this one once beefore, in easy water. It was windy out there today. It started with the sails, it was constructed holes in the sails! Who make a sail with holes? The ideas was to make the wind go through and power the leech. Stupid! But it was what we had to go with. Next, I realize we didn't had any wind arrow or yarn in the sidetays to show the wind direction. Still in the dock we fixed it. On water our first issue was a stuck outhaul, we couldn't make it tight and the bubble in the main was a fact. Racing round one and lay on the jib was the first test. We hadn't any thing on that puppy to help us out. No white tape, no knife, no extra lines, no rudder extender, no sparpole, no tools... and we had forgot the watch to the start...

We broke the first of the three races and got a knife from the startboat. We managed to fix som struggle with the jib. Then, I realize how we could fix the outhaul with a peice of line from the jiblech. We got a stopwatch from L's other boat and we was set for the second race. By starting to early we went on the wrong piont of sail. It seemed to go well anyway, uptil we came close to the first buoy, then two blocks for the jibcheet on the port exploded. We had to break again. Surfing on run we remanage the jibcheets in other blocks. Time for a snack and I brought up my banana. "Do you have a BANANA onboard! That's why we are so struggled. Bananas are bad luck on boats. Never bring a banana onboard." Okay lets eat the banana and hope we are fine. I restarted the stopwatch and we was set, AGAIN! Cruisesailing up and down wating for our start flag. Then we hear L screaming FUCK from the stern. The rudder just broke! We had no steer and the wind powered the boat. "Let the jib go and cruise on the main." Finally, after crossing the whole course we got contact with a powerboat. We got the jib down and then the main. The powerboat picked us up and gave us ride to the dock. We was done. The litte puppy will need some good service before she are set to go out again.


Thanks to experienced sailors onboard with fighting spirit we was fine. I have learn to not bring bananas on boats, and some serious experience too. Since all three of us was in a good mood and stayed calm, I actually did enjoy the day. Well, I do have a story to tell...

 

"The Cill - On Water"