There was enough wind for us to sail off the dock. We had time to do a chute practise and for Allan to hail the crew about a personal matter (i.e. someone's birthday). When we got out to the start the winds had completely died. The crew discussed their travels/travel plans: Janet's English adventures, Chris is looking forward to a trip to Italy, and Paula will be going to Portugal to compete in a Yling event. I assumed we would be drifting until the RC decided enough was enough; but the wind finally filled in from the east, so we got ready to start. We did some tacks to get the crew back into sailing mode.
Our start was good. I decided to try to shut out Platypus and so we lingered just leeward of the start line. The course was the regular windward/leeward with gates. It was a short course because of the delayed start. We sailed with the old fleet: windward of Polaris, with Avra being behind (and therefore somewhat annoying). VD was well ahead as they had manged to stay clear of the other boats. They brought a chute (last week they didn't) which of course made for a better relative performance. In our fleet, Platypus retired, but Jazz somehow got well ahead. I assume that some of our boat to boat gamesmanship with the old fleet actually slowed us down relative to Jazz. We got a second 2nd.
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