Drifting under spinnaker
Sailing on Neptune's Wager this evening for a big-time drifter. Storms were threatening as we were looking at leaving, so we got out pretty late. I filled mast and helped Chris with bow work as needed. We were late to the start on account of an unforced error unfurling the jib, but we quickly gybed around the pin and set a spinnaker for the downwind leg. We worked to sail angles and keep boatspeed up, and made it to the mark just a bit behind the fleet. Unfortunately we had some rigging issues once we took the spinnaker down, had to put in an extra tack, and generally fumbled the rounding. We did finally make it around, and were rewarded on the upwind with a 10-minute burst of breeze that the rest of the fleet didn't get to take advantage of. Unfortunately it wasn't quite enough in the end, and we were the last boat across the line and missed the time limit by 9 seconds.
Not our best performance on the water, but a good learning day with some memorable takeaways for how to do better in the future.