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SYSCO Summer Thursday Series Race 6 July 8, 2021 This evening was a beautiful light wind racing night.  The course was "T", Start-1(Buoy 2)-3-Finish.  Crew was back to Jon and Jill.  But before the race this evening, we tried to thread the new spinnaker line.  Jon and I hoisted Jill to the top of the mast.  I even drew her a diagram on how to thread the line through the spinnaker block at the bow end of the mast head and down through the hole in the mast.  It would have worked if the hole was larger or the line splice was smaller in diameter.  But Jill tried valiantly to get the line into the hole after threading the chain through it.   However the evening was not lost.  I had repaired our hull cleaner and cleaned the hull, which needed it. As I stated earlier, the wind was lighter this evening than in the past races.  The starting line was wide and watching the boats sailing, I notice that port tack sailing was more down stream tha...

  SYSCO Summer Thursday Race 5 July 1, 2021 The course was W, Start-1(Buoy 2)-4-Finish.  Normal summer wind from the west.  Start was off east end of Tomahawk Island.  My normal crew was back.  My repair of the hull cleaner did not hold so we did not clean the hull.  Aventura was a little slower because of the dirty bottom.  Looks like we were about 1/4 knot slower because of the dirty bottom looking at the track below. We had a decent start on starboard tack.  We held that tack until the entrance to Tomahawk Marina.  Tacked to port and made it to the ramparts under the condos on the Washington side.  Tacked to starboard to make the mark.  Blewstreak, La Dolce Vita, and Wildheart rounded the mark before us.  We were close behind and was able to put up the pole fairly quickly.  We headed toward the Oregon side and shallower waters with clean air.   Managed to stay ahead of La Dolce Vita, was level with Wildheart, ...