The first leg a near fetch. The port side of the line was heavily favored. I was thinking that tacking on to starboard would give us a slow start so I tried squeezing in on port on the pin side. The net result was a bad start taking gas from Hot Ticket and Jayhawker. In order to get better air we made a short starboard tack. Fortunately by doing this we got more pressure and a slight lift to help us round the first mark in 3rd place. Also for some reason Hot Ticket tacked behind us and ended up overstanding the leg. The next downwind leg Merlin and Jayhawker went far right and we tried to go underneath both of them. Fortunately at the next mark Merlin gybed where we and Jayhawker kept going down towards the river. The current gave us enough of a boost to enable us to pass Merlin. The rest of the race we tried to pass Jayhawker to no avail. We managed to finish however only 6 seconds behind.
Result: 2nd out of 5 boats. Link:http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/re
Result: 2nd out of 5 boats. Link:http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/re
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