Detroit Noods Day 1

The new Doyle D4 mainsail panels are still in New Zealand so we will be going with the old UK carbon main. If we do not get high winds we should be able to squeak by. Today started with winds at about 11 to 12 knots. We had 8 J120s including Capers from Lake Erie. We felt good about our upwind speed. We were able to at least pace with Merlin and in many cases do well against other boats. In the second race we did have port starboard incident with Hot Ticket and earlier a inside overlap disagreement at the leward mark. Fortunately we both decided to not take it to the room. In the last race we were leading at the last windward mark and decided to cover Merlin since they were leading the series. We managed to hold them and Hot Ticket at the finish but Capers did beat us by a boat length at the finish to take second. We are at present tied for first with Merlin with Capers only one point behind us. Most of the downwind legs we felt we were able to point lower and a little faster than capers. Thank goodness they had a North spinnaker. We had experienced the speed difference with other boats with North spinnakers down south so it did make the difference. We had problems with our furler but have fixed it at the dock.

Boat Name Skipper Sail     Dv Pts  1  2  3
Merlin         Amsler 15005 6.00      1 1 4 
Carinthia      Kern    25497 6.00      2 2 2 
Capers        Hudak 5455 7.00          3 3 1 
Ihnsanity      Ihnen   25329 16.00     4 6 6 
Hot Ticket Kirkman 25328 16.00    6 7 3 
Night Moves Mistele 25999 16.00   5 4 7
JHawker      Sandlin 50666  21.00   8 5 8% 
Flyin' Irish     Bresser  25363 23.00  7 8 8