Surf to City 2012 Report
Huey did not play nice again this year. Last year was a survival race, this year was a test of patience. It was bad enough that the breeze never got over 10 knots, it was also bad enough that the breeze was right on the nose for over 2/3 of the race distance of 50nm+-, but we also had to contend with a tide in some areas that was edging 3 to 4 knots when we only had a couple of knots of wind. We saw at least two boats give up the race in one area as they could not make any forward progress at all.
On a brighter note, the ice-box worked very well for the day and was still keeping the food and drinks cold when we finally finished the race after 11 hours and 20 minutes of "racing". We did not see any other boats after about 5pm and I'm pretty sure we came in dead last but happy that we had finished and not given up and motored home like we saw a couple of boats do.
Not much needed doing for most of the race, it was windward work in 2 to 10 knots.
Yawn!
Getting dark and we're getting into the middle of the bay
where navigation is a little more tricky, even with a GPS.
