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 BlueJ had her best season on the water to date. A combination of great crew, solid boat prep, and the right sails led to: 1st - B Series 1st - M Series 1st - Burton Cup 1st - MS Cup 1st - Commodore Cup 2nd - G Series 2nd - Sunset Series Highlights: 33 races attended 23 races completed (delta mostly abandons to to lack of breeze) 13 WINS 22 podiums (only one race off, a 4th in very light air) The new Code 0 is a WEAPON 3 races won double-handed. A real testament to the boat, and crew Won the Commodore Cup. While we're won individual races, never the whole thing! We used the boat as a true racer/cruiser, with more night on anchor than the combined club! The 'Tindy' Sunday crew was a blast, and prepped us all for: A 15 day sail in Greece on a 30-foot sportboat, and we still managed to do all of this! Quite the year. I'll let a bunch of pictures tell the rest of the story!

 Well thats year 1 in the bag for the Code Zero, and we could not be happier with it. In a nutshell: We won all but one mid-distance race we entered (One 2nd place, sailed SOLO) Very versatile wind angle and speed range. Allowed for THREE double handed wins vs fully crewed boats Allows for good speed in wind holes that used to kill us With velcro strips at the clew, we can leave it up before or after deployment without worry. We did have to double jacket the spin halyard at the area around the clutch, as the load would pull it out! In the picture above, we are power reaching at 7+ knots and the spin halyard (pre-jacket) is in the aft winch as an extra lock.. Some notes: Fore SURE jacket the halyard as noted above Not a sail to hand-trim. On a winch 100% of the time. Twings are required to help control the luff and shape. LOTS of tell-tails. Luff, body, leach. 3 rows. Try and keep most flying, just like a genoa Learn your cut-offs between jib-code-asym. Its easy to sail too long on ...

 Light air buoy race in the bay. BlueJ wins, correcting over the fleets scratch boat (Soling with yellow kite) to help secure the M Series trophy. Conditions were marginal but the RC started hoping it would build and not fade. In light airs (less than 5 knots) we will often foot to keep moving and to get into better breeze. But in the end we catch up to the Soling, and half the previous start!