Bish popped a spinnaker during a white sail and thinks he can get away with it?

Can you translate for us non semen
We were sailing.

The rules for this particular race were that we should use only "white" sails meaning the main sail and the genoa.

This guy put up a spinnaker, the light multi coloured sail that replaces the genoa in lighter winds.

Then after he got ahead, he brought it down because the wind was too powerful to continue to use it and he put the white genoa back up.

You have to concede time to other boats to use a spinnaker but in a race where you are not to use it if you put it up you can be disqualified depending on the reason you put it up.

Basically it's the equivalent of using NOS in a car race to get ahead when everyone agreed not to use it.
 
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We caught him and the best part was even though we beat him physically in time, he had to give us time for his infraction which made us even faster than him.
 
So I finished cleaning up the boat today.

We clipped some sort of dead head in the water and broke a cap off the rail and the screw popped out so that was why we took on water every time we buried the rail.

We're going to have to re-fibreglass the spot and then put a new screw in and seal it and put a new cap on.

Also, and I'm looking at the Captain for this, someone forgot to turn off the drain to the sink in the bathroom and when we went over on lean and kept burying the rail water would come washing in.

There was some laughter as the Captain kept trying to explain it must have been his wife who did it.
 
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