Weds. Night Series 1 Race 3

This race was a blur to me, It was a puffy shifty night so I had my hands full trying to go fast. Anyway this is how I remember the race.

It started out as a breezy night, blowing 17kts or so from the West-North-West. The course started out by T and went up to a mobile mark in the anchorage.

We had yet another in my series of dog-meat starts; third row at best. We suffer under For Sail, Meannie and SinnFinn until a lane opens up, then we tack to the right. We take Kelly's stern, go almost all the way to the channel and tack back to starboard. We let Kelly cross us on port. We gained.

We hold starboard until almost the port tack layline. As the rest of the fleet is coming out of the left we're about mid-fleet, behind Meanine, the Olson 30 and For Sail. We round the leeward mark inside of Blue Meannie, who had trouble with the douse. Continue to the right, tack on a knock, which we carry almost all the way to the port tack layline. While we're on strb I can see we're wound inside of most of the fleet.

We round the weather mark in first. Can't get the pole up. Aaron free climbs up the mast to retrieve a missing topper twice. That was some feat of strength. By the time the chute is up and pulling, Jimmy has pulled ahead. We change to the 150% on the run.

We round the leeward mark inside Tango, and another A1 boat, just behind Jim. Bob starts telling me to be careful not to hit him. He meant For Sail, I had no idea that Jim's Genoa exploded and he was dead in the water. We pass him about 5 feet to weather.

After that it was just a matter of covering Jim to the finish.

Crew:

Bob
Vicky G
Eric O
Aaron
Pavel
Neil
Charlotte
me