Lake St. Clair Spring Double Handed Race

Mike agreed to do this regatta with me. Although put into a PHRF class Merlin with Rob Amsler and Pete did participate in the same class. We took the pin side of the line and apparently Rob had gotten a line wrapped around the prop shaft so he missed the count for the gun. Merlin immediately put up their small spinnaker on a 55 degree reach. We attempted to put up our large spinnaker with the sock on it put had problems with the top of it. Fortunately we were able to continue with our geneoa and because the mark was much closer to the shore than the location given in the program we managed to squeeze in ahead of Merlin. Following the mark we popped our small spinnaker and managed to stretch our lead over Merlin. The following mark R18 in the channel we rounded with a barge and were not able to go over to the Crescent Yacht Club until later in the leg. Merlin attempted to stay in the channel for the current even later but fell further behind. Result: 1st out of 8 boats.