On the way out to the start, Wes practised doing foredeck.
Nic helmed while Kev did sheets
The line was somewhat skewed and there were a few boats over early. i anxiously watched to see that the individual recall flag was lowered. We were OK.
Kevin did sheets. The boat seemed to perform well. The wind was northwest. boats tended to stay on the north side. Harrier beat to the windward mark. They lead throughout the race.
On the downwind leg we stayed on starboard. About half down Kev pointed out that we were sailing by the lea. Very slow. We were lost especially to Harrier on this leg. Jazz seemed to have some problems with dousing at the leeward mark. We did good; tacks seemed to work well with helm trying to allow trimer just enough time to sheet in before the tack was complete.
On the second downwind we gybed onto to port. this went much better. (The key lesson here is that I need to questions things more; just because it seems we are doing OK doesn't mean we are.) The important thing was that we learned from the first downwind leg and adjusted accordingly to the second.
It felt good to have the boat well crewed. Harrier was first. and we failed to beat Jazz on corrected time. Still a fun race.
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