So we are now safely mored at the Royal Cape Town Yacht Club. Second
place coming all the way from 7th is a great result and we are all
pleased. I celebrated with a shower. The last miles to the finish line
have been trying. Every gybe we did landed us in windshift making our
new tack the wrong one, very frustrating! Eventually during the
afternoon the wind stabilised and we managed to get on to a straight
line to CT. When the wind dropped we swapped our heavy weight spinaker
for the medium weight monster to make some miles on Singapore who were 6
miles behind us at that time. But as always the race isn't over 'till
it's over: the outboard end of our spinaker pole failed dramatically and
we we only just managed to get our sail in safely and avoid a drama. We
quickly swapped poles, repacked the heavy weight and put it back up. The
remaining 30 miles to CT passed without any drama. We reached CT in the
dark and had a nice view of table mountain, Liion's head and Green
Point. The crew of Cork who came in first were waiting for us on the
jetty which was a warm reception and the beer tasted great! The shower
was the highlight though. Deep clean tomorrow but now we are savouring
the delightys of a non-moving boat, shore power and lack of leecloths.
Night night.
