Wednesday saw good wind conditions. Peter was once again the PRO. He delayed the third start so that a course change could be made. The thrid start is composed of slower boats. Our fleet has to do two circuits while the other two fleets do three. Very good plan actually since it gets everyone back to the 'barn' at about the same time.
For some reason I was somewhat irritable. Hard to describe but I wasn't as focused as I should be. At any rate we missed the start and I had to do a 360 in order to avoid hitting the pin. This didn't help my disposition. The wind was east so I headed towards Centre Island. Polaris was to windward and prevented me from tacking. We went almost to the layline. Jack Rabbit seemed to be confused about the course and headed further east, perhaps to Gilbraltor. We had a good rounding of the windward. The spinnaker hoist went well. Jack Rabbit didn't hoist their chute until we had almost caught up to them. We had to do a gybe to get around the mark and this was badly screwed up. This didn't help my disposition. We were now well behind so the 'gifts' from JR, e g not flying a chute, weren't going to be enough .
We did practise on Sat. (?). Yes, it payed off. David did a good job with the spinnaker sheets and as a result we had a better spinnaker run than Jack Rabbit. Our windward hoist was good. We lost it at the start and the first gybe. Our tacks were poor and this may be because I was too fast on the helm. Obviously getting distracted and losing focus cost us; we knew what to do but didn't do it. Actually that is easy to fix. We got another second and that leaves Jack Rabbit 4 vs. us 3 in our match ups.
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