Passion sails well with a specialist heavy air No 3 genoa in 20 knots of breeze. Wednesday Twilight at Greenwich Flying Squadron was no exception. We were a bit timid and reefed the main before the start. Izzi and Tartan, both fast reaching Northshore 28’s, had full mainsails for the reach down to Spectacle Island and rounded first. Surprisingly Worlds Apart with a double reef also rounded in front for the tight reach to Schnapper Island. Once on the work to Goat Island Passion showed how a short footed headsail helped to keep the yacht under control and allowed for short tacking on the many shifts. By the end of Cockatoo Island we had a good lead and were covering both sides of the course. It was just as well we were as Izzi picked up a big lift on the North side of the course and almost caught us. We tacked just above her line and managed to shave the point at Long Nose by the smallest of margins while the whole fleet had to tack away for a 200 meters drop on our position. For the reach back to Humbug we shook out the reef and managed to hold of the fast reaching Northshore 38 duo. A tidy work through Humbug ensured our third fastest time result in four races and a tidy third on handicap. This may be our last Twilight race in Passion as on Wednesday morning we launched Passion X and are scrambling to have her racing next week.
Tacking angles on the work to Goat Island. Guess on which one Izzi caught up.