Winter Harbour Cans Race 2

Down on crew again but Aaron & Juliet made the trip over from Waikawa to help out, along with Bruce Lines who usually sails on Bootlegger.
Patrick invited his friend Tony and their 2 - 9 year olds Haden & Mathew, plus Howdie and myself.

A 15 boat fleet enjoyed the12 - 14 knot SW and  up wind start off Nelson Yacht Club. with a short beat to the top mark set near Haulashore Is and the entrance,

Not a great start as we had pre race problems with jib sheets, sorted we made the line (just) but at the leeward end, our tack back on port saw us cross ahead of all but Blackout.
Blackout rounded about 5 boat lengths ahead of us, they had opted for a fractional gennaka, we gybe set our masthead kite, running them down half way up the harbour to the bottom mark.
We slapped a loose cover from here on in beating back down the harbour, out the entrance for a 2 sail reach out around the Approach beacon, another kite ride up the boulder bank to Boulder middle, back to the harbour for another lap and finish.

Blackout and Zenith fought all the way for 2nd place, Zenith winning out with superior up wind speed.
4th place was also a fight between Wild Thing and Galralda the Giant Slayer, Wild Thing winning it in the end.
3 guns in 4 races so far, not bad. 5th on handicap in this one.