Once again light winds led me to believe that there would be no race. Crew was on time but Charles was not well. He helped with launch but didn't sail. To fill out the crew I used the crew bank and Chris joined Janet and Paula. Light winds meant we had to motor off the dock. Peter was PRO and had us head out, way out: first to 'o' then a little over a mile due east of Gibraltar. The wind filled in nicely; more or less east and about 6 knots. Gibraltar was the windward mark.
Janet did a good job doing foredeck during our pregame hoist. Jack Rabbit showed up for it's first race of the season. Their jib was badly delaminated. A bit more work to get the boat race ready? We watched the 1st start fleet and decided to head over to the island. Lots of time as Peter did a general recall. We had a good start; Jack Rabbit didn't and tacked. We followed our plan and had good wind.
Unfortunately Jazz somehow was ahead. On our last upwind leg they were several boat lengths in front. I was annoyed by this, since by this time they should be well behind. Doing a match race with a slower boat is not my idea of a good race. Our outhaul was not trimmed properly and the rig may need to be tensioned. I tried to get over my annoyance on the last leg. Much better performance. We passed to windward and finished a minute ahead. If we had done all are windward legs like that one we would've had a first! Corrected time was very bad. Our third 2nd! I checked the AHMEN results and I could see that we have preformed well against Jazz so what is the problem? Analysis: tension and trim should be improved and I should stay focused on driving the boat.
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