I had an interesting sail today, and I thought that I should share it.
During the last six months I've picked up various tips from the posters
here. I've been waiting for a chance to try out the suggestions.

HW was at 15:30, so we were a bit limited in our choice of destinations. We
decided to go to Wooton Creek for lunch.


Normally, this would have involved a 75 minute sail there, and a 75 minute
sail back.

There wasn't much wind for the outward journey. We had 8 kts and, as usual
it was on the nose!!!

Fortunately, we had departed early, so we sailed for a while. We made
between 1.5 and 3 kts. I played with the travellor position. I set it much
lower than I used to. I can report that we didn't go any slower.

On the way home, we decided to try the spinaker. There was 8 kts of wind
when we started to rig the boat. By the time that we had the spinaker
lines rigged, the wind had risen to 15 kts. It had also shifted direction
..... big time! We decided to try the spin anyway. So we spent an hour
sailing in *slightly* the wrong direction. Eventually, we took the
spinaker in, and set course for home. The wind was now just off the nose!!
We had a fantastic beat home for the last hour.

Regards


Donal
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