Wednesday race night started off with a splash. After the pre race sorting out on the foredeck, Janet was on the far side of the pulpit. The crew reacted well. No panic. We were the centre of attention with a circle of boats standing by. We manged to get Janet back on board with lots of time to change out of the wet clothes. (Update: apparently some skippers are admonishing their foredeck with : "Don't do a Janet!".)
The wind was from the south. Peter, the PRO, did his usual delay in starting the 2nd and 3rd divisions. We had a poor start; we were tucked in bad air behind Avra. JR went left as I planned to do. (I later learned that JR would've tacked sooner but were blocked by Avra.) We tacked even though we had to duck Foehn and Polaris. Near the windward mark layline JR tacked and crossed just in front of us. We opted to continue to layline and at the next crossing we were clear ahead. We had no problems with the spinacker hoist. JR took awhile to get its chute working. (I later leanred .had a noob on foredeck.) I used my favourite boats ahead as tacticians to direct me on my downwind course. We stayed on a hotter angle than JR and probably gained with light winds. On the second circuit we just covered JR.
We got a first, Windlight 2nd, and JR third.
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