Weds Night Series 2 Race 1

Craig set your clock ahead.

We waited at the dock for Craig until 5:50, it seemed like forever. Lucky for us the RC was late setting-up and postponed for 10 minutes. No harm done.

Another crocked race course. The wind was blowing from the SW at 10kts; tide running out hard. You had to be at the weather end. We tried a Mark May start (late and at the boat.) It might have worked, but we were fouled by Slice, lost the jib sheet with less than a minute go. I lost focus, and things went down hill from there. We started about 20 seconds late.

Tack to port as soon as possible. Tack back into a clear lane and ride some nice starboard tack lifts almost to the port layline. We round in 5th behind the Cow. Somehow their set is worse than ours, hard to believe since we didn't have the spin halyard attached, we almost roll them.

We had a decent run. Round behind but inside of Cow. We hold for a little while and then tack to the left. I don't remember much of this leg. It was puffy and squirrelly, so i just focused on boatspeed. Bob had us tack on three or four shifts. When I did manage to look around we were moving forward. We gained on the leaders for the rest of the race, but ran out of course. We finished 4th. It felt worse than that.

Crew

Jack B
Ben B (Ted went with Wolf who only had three.)
Chris
Laura
Bob
Craig
Eric
Charlotte
me