The Two Rivers race

Julian thought we should sail off the mooring, so we raised the main sail on the mooring at 1040 and cast off, then raised the stay sail. The wind was very light so we hoisted the top sail, but the top sail sheet came untied so we had to lower it. While we were doing that we ran aground by the Lee Channel marker buoy. We were not the only boat to ground; Kajan had taken the buoy we abandoned the previous evening and was just sitting there.

We got all the sails down while the rest of the fleet started the race at 1100. We floated off by 1115, and raised sail again, but one of the mast hoops had come untied, and by the time we had everything sorted and had sailed over the start line it was 1140.

We ran/very broad reached down the Stour, rounding Shotley Horse racing buoy at 1315, then headed up the Orwell to pass the finish line at Orwell no5 buoy at 1503. Avola, who acted as start or finish boat on the races had waited for us to finish, which felt nice...

We then turned down river again and ran down to Levington, and the Suffolk Yacht Haven marina where the fleet was assembled.