There was very little wind but the RC still managed to have three starts. We (tonight: Charles, David, Emi, and myself) are in the fourth start. We tried to stay close to the line but was struggling to make the pin. The gennie back filled when the wind did a one eighty degree shift. We dropped it and manually moved the boom to the port side. The gennie was rehoisted and we tried to manually keep it formed. I figured that with 5 minutes we could make the last 50 feet. We were moving. All the crew was to leeward and I couldn't see a thing. I was very anxious to keep up boat speed (?) and avoid hitting the pin. The wind completely died (There was wind?). One, two, three blasts from the RC; and so ended our race.
We tried to tow a J 22 back but we ran out of fuel ourselves. Flak came to our rescue. One of my rules is to have reserve fuel. The local gas station is closed for repairs so I had deferred getting refuelled.
Last week we didn't go racing due to the storm but there was a race and this week we showed up but there was no wind!
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