Wonderful to wear shorts again whilst sailing. Nice 12-14 knot breeze from the South gave me a great ride, first following and passing a Hunter 26 and then an Aeleron 28. Cooking along at 5.3 knots upwind, on my ear. But delightful!
On the downwind, re-rigged the genoa leads to the spin blocks. Got back up to 5.3 knots, which was fun. Worked fine until time to jibe, and ended up getting my head whacked by the mainsheet apparatus as she came across. Knocked off my hat and glasses, but was able to finish the jibe. Needed to rest, so next tried to furl the genoa. Fouled the furler halfway in. Dropped main in a hurry, as headed towards land. Wrestled with the furler to try to get it unfouled, to no avail. Tried to wrap it up in genoa sheets, and only made some progress. Used engine to get home, with 1/4 of genoa flogging the whole time.
Once home at the dock was able to unfoul the genoa pretty easily, which was a relief.
A great ride until things went south on the way back. Left part of my head still a little sore. Still pretty exhilirating when I was out there going 5.3 upwind. Helped by bearing off to 38 degrees from 33 or so -- went from 4.4 knots to more like 4.9 or 5. And blissfully warm out there!