Series 1 Race 2

We won; what a night. There was a strange battle of the breeze that started out as a soft Southwesterly; then switched to an Easterly with twice the velocity. Slice said we had 19kts at the start. That sounds a little high. We easily carried the 155 genoa. The breeze softened to 14kts by the finish.

Photo: Jim Lyndon

It was impossible to know how to tune the rig. I left the shrouds tuned for what we thought of as light air (37/32) and added 4 turns to the headstay. It seemed like it was flopping around even in the lighter air.

I thought we would be way under tuned when the lefty filled, but that wasn't the case. Max outhaul, vang and backstay  seemed to keep the boat on her feet.

Before the start we noticed the line was skewed so far to port that we couldn't lay the pin on starboard. The tide was flooding; pushing boats below the line and causing a pile-up at the pin. Eric had us start above the line and let the current sweep us down.

We won the start. Tacked to port soon after the gun. That put us inside of Jim. We were faster and higher (so the crew tells me, I'm never allowed to look.) We round the weather mark first. Jibe about 40% down the leg. Jim worked right of us on the next beat. He caught a little shift that put him to the mark just ahead of us.

Set and Jibe, surf a few waves to the finish. We won by 20 seconds.

Crew

Ted
Tommy V
Muffy
Anna
Vin
Jerry N
Danny V
Eric L
Jerry O