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Janet was back. After five weeks it was the regular Wednesday crew.

The wind was very light and variable. The RC set a course at 230 but the wind was very much STC. We had a poor start. For some reason I allowed port takers in. We were slow and behind all night. As we rounded the windward mark I could hear Posieden helpfully shout: "You are slow!",just in case I hadn't noticed.

On the second downwind leg there was a huge shift. Chris pointed out that Anthem had gybed immediately after rounding the mark. Good plan. After I made a quick scan of of the course, we gybed and were on a near beam reach. The wind continued to shift. We had to drop the chute and finish with the genoa.


I think basically it was a case of me not showing up mentally. Perhaps I was discouraged when we had such a great race last week and due to RC error it wasn't getting scored. Consciously I didn't think it had an impact but maybe it affected more than I realized.

Unfortunately for the crew; who were all very enthusiastic and patient in trying to deal with the light conditions. I even forgot to get a photo!