A Day Of Two Halves - A Serene Posh Lunch Followed By A Race Around The "5-4-1" Course!!

This was certainly a day of Two halves. FIrst of all, with very little wind I decide tomotor out to Pirates cove where I test out the new Danforth anchor for the first time. This will be my main anchor when on the sea so I needed to test using it and also see how well it worked on the stoney floor of lake Bala. I brought a right old posh lunch with me today, it was a banquet of meats and cheese and more!!! With the wind building we decide to set sail and head for the "5-4-1" challenge. This is the other challenege the club has going this year and unlike the long distance challenge, this one is much shorter, taking you around markers 5, 4 and then 1. The race starts and finishes at marker X as usual. It proves to be a difficult course to steer in the prevailing wind but we do it and log our first time! Enjoy! 00:00 Motioring to Pirates bay 01:11 Testing the tiller tamer 03:20 Testing the autohelm 05:08 Anchoring at Pirates Bay 06:53 A right posh lunch! 08:51 Discussing flags 12:33 More lunch!! 13:48 Setting sail 17:17 Wayfarer ahoy! 17:41 Approaching the start line 20:42 Leg 1 - To marker 5 23:55 Leg 2 - To marker 4 25:20 Leg 3 - To marker 1 26:30 Hitting Marker 1!!! 28:40 Crossing the line ? My new website: https://sailingwithdave.com ?? Comments are open, ask anything you want in the comments section! ? If you enjoyed this video, then please don't forget to share and let people know about the channel ? Click here to "Subscribe" and never miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZVuUVKKtVxulmgL3WzejjQ?sub_confirmation=1