Thursday, 19 August 2010

Downwind

Very light wind day. We did our pre race spin hoist but this put us OCS (unless we got back to the start). Unlike some boats we managed to, just.

We rounded the pin on port and moved towards to committee boat. A port tack start. There was a bit of traffic as some boats were still trying to make their way back to the start.

We had a good upwind leg. We seemed to almost catch Flawed at the offset. However on the downwind they increased their lead. On our second upwind leg we rounded ahead of Windlight. Windlight went on their own course. Perhaps we should have stayed with them and covered. Windlight finished well ahead. I was very frustrated since I could not figure out what was our problem sailing downwind.

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