Welcome to Yachting Girls

Welcome to a blog where the adventures of a team of crazy women who are mad about sailing can be shared.
We are living in the beautiful Huon Valley in Tasmania, surrounded by outstanding sailing waters.  In June 2007 my husband and I purchased a Columbia 27 cruising yacht.  My husband crews in a Top Hat 24 in the races held by the Port Cygnet Sailing Club so our yacht was going to sit idle for most of the sailing season.  A great idea came to us - lets have an all women crew and take on the men!

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Race 2

Janet and I raced Pathfinder again this week with Harry. A very mixed bag weather wise including gusty winds, no wind and frequent wind changes.  This is not unusual in this beautiful bay but it is summer and the cold rain was again evident and most unwelcome. We had some problems getting nice clean sail changes on tacking.  The winds became more settled and strong at the end of the race. We were 6th out of 7 yachts but were still very competitive. Our handicap is an issue as they have yet to handicap us on performance. Our goal was to overtake a yacht called Shiraz but although we were very close frequently we did not make a good turn around one of the buoys - we had to put in two extra tacks and they got away from us and was hard to catch.  We had a great reach home which gave us a great buzz. Christmas sees a brief pause from racing from now until January 6 so Anne our helmswoman will be back with us for the next event and we will need to take on all the boys alone. Confidence has risen and we can be more competitive so it will be an exciting event. Till then - good sailing

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