Detroit Noods Day 3

Today was a disappointment as well as a day of triumph. We started the day with a tie with Hot Ticket for 3rd place at 20 points with Merlin and Capers tied for first at 15 points. We had a relatively good start being maybe 8 feet off the line a little bit ahead of most of the fleet. We stayed left early and then tacked under 5 boats on the layline. Unfortunately since we were not ahead enough we got rolled so we rounded the top mark in 4th right behind HT. We managed to round the lower mark in 3rd with HT though. HT did beat us to the top mark again but stayed on the left side on the downwind leg to get an inside overlap. Bob D. went to the starboard side of the boat to point out to HT that we did have an inside overlap. We came out gassing HT to windward where we went out to the layline and HT tacked for clear air. We did overstand the layline so even though we came in hot it gave HT maybe a quarter boat length to gas us from leward to win the race by half a boat length with HT finishing 1st and Carinthia 2nd. The HT people sailed a great regatta and they beat us on the course instead of the room. The crew work today was nearly flawless and I am very proud of them. If not for either of the mark touches yesterday we could of carried the whole regatta. Damm!

Result:
1 Merlin Rob Amsler 19.00 1 1 4 1 4 4 4
2 Hot Ticket Bob Kirkman 21.00 5 7 3 2 1 2 1
3 Capers Don Hudak 21.00 3 3 1 3 2 3 6
4 Carinthia Kern 22.00 2 2 2 6 7 1 2
5 Night Moves Mistele 34.00 6 4 7 4 3 5 5
6 JHawker Sandlin 44.00 8 5 8% 7 6 7 3
7 Ihnsanity Ihnen 45.00 4 6 6 8 8 6 7
8 Flyin' Irish Bresser 49.00 7 8 8 5 5 8 8