Weds. Night Series 1 Race 2

At 5:30 there was a light breeze from the East-South-East. It was gone by 6:10. A South-Westerly filled in a little before 7:00. The RC took us out to T, where we raced a 3 lap Windward-leeward to a mobile mark set along the Morgan shoreline.

The starting line was really skewed, the pin favored by 30 degrees. My plan was to run the line on starboard and tack on to port when we go to the pin. It didn't work. Sinn Fein was in my hole. I managed to find a spot at the boat, but we were in the third row. For Sail tacked off our hip on to port. We held starboard take for another couple of minutes going slow and eating gas. When we finally tacked off Jimmy was already a boat length ahead.

The right side was okay, the boats coming out of the left were doing much better. Boat speed seemed okay. We got stuck under Sinn Fein as they were going ballet near the weather mark. Slow slow slow.

It took us a little while to get the chute up, but once we got rolling we sailed much deeper than the boats to our left. The leeward mark was an adventure in sail handling, we rounded bare headed just behind Poppy.

Somehow we held our lane as the breeze shifted left. We held port tack until we sailed into a nice righty. We tacked on a few shifts and rounded the weather mark in better position: Slice, Factory Girl, For Sail and Blue Meanie were still ahead of us but we're gaining.

On the third beat we played the left side and passed Factory Girl. We over-stood the finish because the course as posted said to round M to starboard. We were far enough behind the leaders, so we had time to decide how were were going to finish. Everyone drove straight through the line, so did we. The boat was favored, over-standing cost us Magic.

Somehow we were 4th. Blue Meanie, who should have won, retired due to an incident at the leeward mark.

The crew was:

Bob -- on the bow
Vicky
Laura
Pavel
Eric O
Charlotte
me