A good day at last. Saturday at StGeorge was a nice 10-15kt southerly. Seth came out to play and the moths were mostly disorganised or absent. Only Grant foiled and sailed away from us as usual.

Seth and I had a good work out. He has a slight edge to windward. I am either improved after some batten work since Hayden beat me upwind convincingly in October, or Hayden has improved since Seth raced him at Easter. Maybe its a bit of both.

My boat is still a lot faster downwind. I can run over Seth and then soak down way below and ahead of him. This was similar to what we found 16 months ago when the Log was new. Maybe its the weight difference, maybe its the narrower beam, maybe its the one big sail. We will find out at McCrae when I race the US DCs with sloop rig.

I got well ahead in the race and after a couple of laps I waited and we started together again. Same scenario, he got an edge at the top and I ran past him. We lined up together for a beam reach and I just managed to get through below him by a few boat lengths.

A good day, made all the tacks and gybes without swimming. Had a couple of lazy dips while trying to run by the lea to miss some traffic. Not taking it serious enough at the time.

Two weeks to go. A couple of solo sailing days practice then the big one.