I can remember driving off the back of the wave on the port gybe going back towards the beach in the 2nd leg from Hollywood to Jupiter. That gybe was going with the rollers, and if you weren't careful the bows would dig into the back of the next wave.

We stuffed the bows all the way almost all the way to the crossbar, I popped the chute briefly, releasing a little pressure and the bows snapped right back up.

I turned to Trey and said "Nacra 20 - the preferred choice of business travellers all over!" I'm still convinced to this day that had we been on another boat, we would have been swimming out there. (well we still did go swimming - THANKS MISTER PARASAILING BOAT!)

There's a picture from the '05 steeplechase that shows a 20 just submerging itself completely upto the mast. Looks rediculous <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


As for girls on board. Kate was able to hold the chute, but struggled when trying to sheet it, and she couldn't even get the spin out of the bag to hoist. (I think the new tweaks to the snuffer system may solve this though)

Wendy pulled the strings for Zander this weekend at Tommy! She did a damn fine job from what I could tell!