Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Tue June 7 - S4G Day 2

Today we had 2 races in 15-18 knots. The first race we did not have a great start and then on the top reach the fairlead for the spinnaker barberhauler blew, so that was a bit messy. We finished the race but our downwind speed was not up to pace as a result. Between races we did some jury-rigging and that was good. The second race we had a second row start but tacked out and were doing quite well; rounding 20th at the windward mark. We lost boats on the reach and run and then picked some back up on the next windward. Unfortunately we capsized at the bottom of the last run and so got passed. A tiring and frustrating day. The wind trend was to the right, but the pin end of the starting line was biased. We were focussed on our gear instead of the wind and so we sailed the left side of the course each upwind leg. We managed to make it work for us, but could probably have done better if we could have evaluated the conditions more between races. There are 2 races scheduled tomorrow in similar breeze, hopefully we can put it together.

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