Century Club: Seth Winnick

Fast Race with solid and gusty NW wind 12-18.  CHESSS class, good start, lauched spin for downwind beam to broad reach.  Twisted spin in a gust at the end of the leg and continued with main to jibe a 80A.  Beam to close reach to Choptank light, then a beat to Oxford. 3h 47 41 elapsed time, finished 17 minutes behind first place CHESSS boat with identical 144 rating - not bad.  Turned around to come home.  Rounding Black Walnut Pt got hit with rain, hail, squall, 35 + knots, motored with double reefed main past Sharps Light then set up staysail on a heaving deck for upwind to Annapolis. strong winds until sun dropped.  Arrived 2100.  65 miles sailed. Top speed 9 knots, top wind gust 46. Woohoo.

Boat all fixed.  Practice/prep sail for Oxford Race

Beating into a 15+ knot breeze with a reef in my main and my genoa furled 10% when there was a sharp crack. I took a quick look, saw nothing, released the genoa sheet, and tacked. The stays and shrouds were intact, but after a minute of looking around, I discovered that the reefing line/spinnaker tack line double clutch had ripped out of the deck.  Spent the next days doing a repair to properly throughbolt the double clutch which required cutting into the headliner and reaching into impossible places to secure the bolts.