A nice steady 10-15 knot wind was enough to offset a weakening flood tide.
Wind from north north-west gave a beat out of the river and to Selat
Navigation Buoy
From the start, Lady VG ( Rama/Emy ) and Peach 2 ( Simon/Harro ) took the
south shore and Cabaret 7( Jeremy /Heppi ) and Kittiwitch ( Rainer/ Drew) the
north shore, the north paid, although with the wind of it best not to get too
close, Kittiwitch, newly cleaned and launched, showed better speed and soon
crossed tacks ahead of Cabaret
Exiting the river with some exciting waves despite tide and wind in the same
direction Cabaret went out to sea while the others stayed inshore, which paid
handsomely with Kittiwitch rounding well ahead, Peach crossed just ahead of
Cabaret rounded and soon hoisted her spinnaker, Cabaret suffering the
seemingly inevitable halliard problems after dropping the mast during the
week to replace a broken shroud and eventually got the spinnaker halliard sorted
with the aid of the broom, only to find the spinnaker would only go to within 7 feet
of the full hoist ( it turned out the halliard had a knot in it ) but showing good
speed managed to keep ahead of a closely following Peach, some drama for
Cab 7, trying to escape Peach on her tail, tried cutting inside the dredger barge
and ran into the steel mooring line
The good wind gave us an interesting sail, but Kittiwitch was too far ahead for us to
catch up; she was newly cleaned and launched, which does seem to help but
you have to sail in the right direction, which Rainer did
Result
1) Kitiwitch
2) Cab 7
3) Peach 2
4) Lady VG