The wind was from the south so we were able to sail off the dock. My thought was that there would be a counter offshore breeze and this would offset the predominate wind. This didn't happen and the wind from the south intensified. I also expected that the wind would shift west. It didn't happen; the wind was steady at around 20 knots bearing 225 throughout the race. Kim and a 'volunteer' from the crewbank manned the mark boat. The RC could set a windward leeward course.
The first start had a general recall. We were delayed by 20 minutes while the RC sorted things out. The wind was intense enough that we decided to drop the gennie on the first downwind leg. (This was a good move as we had good realtive performance. We crossed Polaris and Victory Dance.)
JR started with only a main sail and shortly after the start they decided to bail. They started so they would be scored as DNF and not DNS. Their skipper was suffering from a knee injury and they felt the rough seas would be too painful. OK so lets get a First!
During a gybe, the chute got fouled when the halyard got wrapped around the forestay. We couldn't get it untangled. We were well ahead. There was no need to worry about. The wind was from 225 so dead downwind was 45. I wanted to sail 0 and 90. We got confused with the gybe angle and sailed dead down wind ( i e very slowly ) on our approach to the finish.
We accomplished our goal: First. The first should come in handy when the results are finalized. Only one more race in the spring series.
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