Had a chance to fly in Brazil

 

Sailed Soto 40’s last week in Ilhabela, Brazil.  Great place, fun people and interesting sailing.  We had 0-32 knots of wind and up to 2.5 knots of current.  9 Soto 40’s sailed by very good South American sailors, including Torben Grael.  I sailed on “Pajero” with Edurado S Ramos.  We sailed to a 3,4,2,1  for the win and were very happy.  We improved through the 3 days of sailing

The Saturday race was very windy, started in 23 knots and finished in over 30.  6 legs short legs proved to be hard on the boats.  3 boats had a good race, one had the spreaders fall off after a set and 2 other did not finish.  The other 3 finished over a leg behind.  We were very happy to survive and take a second.  We were passing the boat that broke the spreaders, Negra, and had to wait to set the spinnaker.  In that time the spinnaker rapped a few time and we ended up not getting it up the hole leg.

But on the last leg home with over 30 knots of wind, we flew,

and got wet,

I thought I was back in the Southern Ocean…