What Happens When There's a Racer on Board.

Having left the RYCT together with Onora by way of a farewell escort, we broke away to enter the D'Entrecasteaux Channel which is flanked to the East by Bruny Island. After such a busy few days we wanted to show something of these waters to Marvelous Miles and let him chill out a bit before leaving Hobart for Adelaide in preparation for the Adelaide - Lincoln Ocean race. As usual he would be racing on Kym Clarke's boat, Fresh.

Racers are never as happy as when they are tweaking the sails and chasing the 'pressure'; eyes constantly switching from water to sails and back again.

Marvelous Miles multitasking.

Sailing and fielding questions about Lincoln Week.

On the way back to Hobart, Miles saw an opportunity to hoist 'Big Red', our asymmetrical spinnaker. Then he decided he could best that by pulling out the little jib as well. It's never happened on Zofia before, so we had ourselves a small sailing lesson. We learned about barber hauling too. It's never too late to learn new tricks!