Snipe Racing

I was in Guelph on the weekend racing our Snipe with Sarah at GLBC.  The racing was great.  Short course windward leeward, twice around.  Each race took about 15 minutes, with a three minute countdown for each race.   The series was 12 races over 2 days.

We’ve done a few regattas together, and this was our best yet.  It was hard sailing, with gusty shifty winds, but our boat handling and speed felt pretty good, and we had good communication and teamwork.  Much better than our bumbling and fumbling from a couple of years ago.  We’re not quite in the top tier, but not far off the pace.  The Snipe is a fun boat.  Easy to sail and forgiving but very tweakable and reasonably athletic.

The Canadian Championship is in Wiarton in four weeks.  I’m going to get Escapade up there by then, and we’re going to race in that regatta as well.