The winner is Sundowner once again on Wednesday afternoon and for a change I had a hand in it. Instead of being ballast I womaned the port jib sail winch and both backstay winches. As you can see by the photo I also played skipper while the rest of the working crew took down the sails. The owner of the boat for some reason took over once we were close to the dock. Was a grand day for sailing, or some thought, a lot of the skippers chose not to sail because the wind was strong and very gusty, good weather for wrecking bits and pieces of your boat. The wind was so unpredictable that at one point I got wet because we heeled over suddenly and the person on the main sail didn't let it out fast enough. I should explain that to effectively haul on the jib sheet I had to straddle the back of the cockpit seat hence my leg was perilously close to the ocean at times. I also managed to get the old sailing white knees which was rather strange since the boat was turquoise.
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